On this day in 1974, President Gerald R. Ford pardoned former President Richard M. Nixon of any crimes he may have committed, thus ending any trust the American public may have had in the office of the presidency of the United States. On that infamous occasion, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson wrote: Well... this is going to be difficult. That sold-out knucklehead refugee from a 1969 ‘Mister Clean’ TV commercial has just done what only the most cynical and paranoid kind of malcontent ever connected with national politics would have dared to predict...If I followed my better instincts right now, I would put this typewriter in the Volvo and drive to the home of the nearest politician -- any politician -- and hurl the god-damned machine through his front window ... flush the bugger out with an act of lunatic violence then soak him down with mace and run him naked down Main Street in Aspen with a bell around his neck and black lumps all over his body from the jolts of a high powered “Ball Buster” cattle prod. But old age has either mellowed me or broken my spirit to the point where I will probably not do that -- at least not today, because that blundering dupe in the White House has just plunged me into a deep and vicious hole.
Posted on: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 17:04:50 +0000