September 8

1974 was not a good year for Richard Nixon. Well, the beginning wasn’t all that bad but the bit in the middle was a bit dodgy and I’m reasonably certain he would have much preferred to be anywhere other than in the hot seat in Washington. It seems that he spent most of his time getting kicked around by those upstarts in Congress and the ingrates across the nation who seemed to have nothing better to do than annoy Nixon by pestering him about little things like his rewriting the constitution and operating above the law. How could anyone expect the man to do his job if he was going to be called on the carpet every time he forgot that there really is a Bill of Rights? That silly boy really should not have let things like the indictments and trials and all that sort of rubbish because on the 8th of September in 1974 newly minted President Gerald Ford granted Nixon a pardon for all crimes that he may have committed during his reign as President. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that the 9th of September was probably Miller time for Tricky Dick.