Question

What was one factor that led to Gerald Ford’s pardoning of Richard Nixon?

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Ford believed that pardoning Nixon would help the divided nation begin to heal.

Explanation:

This could been seen in his reference to the justifiying his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of Burdick v. United States.

It is a 1915 U.S. Supreme Court decision that suggested that a pardon carries an imputation of guilt and that its acceptance carries a confession of guilt. Since the watergate scandal has so much divided the country, he tried to end the story by pardoning the person upon which the crime revolves around