Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

The former president who became embroiled in scandal during Watergate, was issued a pre-emptive pardon by President Gerald Ford despite never being charged ... that Nixon committed or may have ...

The US president’s power to pardon is both one of the most absolute and misunderstood provisions of the Constitution. Rooted in the “prerogative of mercy” of English kings dating back to the seventh ...

It was St. Patrick's Day in 1976, and President Gerald ... Ford kept him on as a military aide, then hired him as his chief of staff when he lost the 1976 presidential election to Jimmy Carter ...

Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford on Air Force One in 1981. Now, honesty and truth-telling were synonymous with the name Jimmy Carter. Those traits were instilled in him by his loving parents ...

Once bitter political rivals, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford later became close friends. The two presidents would promise each other to deliver a eulogy at the other’s funeral. Carter fulfilled ...

Gerald Ford. “By fate of a brief season, Jimmy Carter and I were rivals,” Ford said in his eulogy, which was read by his son Steven. “But for the many wonderful years that followed ...

This was certainly true for Leslie Lynch King Jr. Of course, by the time he started his freshman year at Michigan in 1931, he had changed his name to Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. in honor of his ...