Backscratch Fever

Nixon's shill has died, and in the postumous love in, we can not lose sight of the fact that he pardoned Nixon, and signed off on the "truth" known as the Warren Commission, not to mention he was the replacement for that ethical paragon, Spiro Agnew, a choice made most likely because he would grant Nixon a pardon.

Really, if you think about it, Ford absolutely made Bush possible, by not holding Nixon accountable for his imperial tendencies, thus granting a kind of institutional permission.

I wouldn't say, necessarily, that there is some grand conspiracy here, but often times, the failure to consider the implications in favor of short term gain has disasterous consequences down the road.