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Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Univ.
Chicago, Ill.
Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon enabled healing in America? Where is the evidence of such healing now? More Americans are as far apart politically as they ever were before. The people who should have been washed out of government in a Nixon trial have been in control of it the past six years. Since the early 1990s, elements of the GOP have used wedge politics to drive Americans farther apart. There's been no healing. Lauding Ford masks the reality of the divisions within our country.
Steven Wolf
Juneau, Alaska
When Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon on Sept. 8, 1974, Nixon had been a senator, vice president and president. His guilt, or lack thereof, will never be proved. At the same time, there were thousands of men, lacking advantages of high office, who faced the choice of going to jail or fleeing to Canada in order to live with their consciences regarding Vietnam. Pardoning Nixon, while not these young men, was the big mistake Ford made.
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