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Originally Posted by bradclark1
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Originally Posted by P_Funk
When Ford let Nixon off that was the end of integrity on the White House. It wasn't that Nixon did some bad stuff. It was that after he was caught he got let off the hook.
The really bad part is that the American people just go with it. Its times like these that I really dig the French. As weird and snooty as they are, if the government does something they don't want they riot til they get what they want.
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Ford said he had to think a lot about it and what he did, he did for the country not for Nixon. Ford cut his own throat and he knew he did but he did what he thought was right. The country had been through enough. Got to respect that. There isn't a politician alive today with that kind of courage. |
That's courageous? Take the most corrupt president in history and spare the country from facing the fact that its head of state was a criminal? If a nation cannot or will not face the realities of that fact then thats a pretty weak culture to be head honcho of world politics.
I don't buy that excuse. I think what would have been courageous would be to have let the man fall. Every nation has to face its pitfalls. Its a betrayal of the principles of society to say that a criminal president wont be allowed to go to trial. That just underscores how untrue those ideals are.