Commentaire "Ford's Pardon, 1974"

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Nothing more sharply divides Americans than politics. The whole but young political history of the United States has ever been convicted of vibrant positions and fierce oppositions.

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[...] Thus, Ford's pardoning extract creates more than a single contrast. It enforces to consider the Watergate scandal as a real public trauma given its many orientations nd approaches. By citing "the interests of America first" when Nixon finally abandoned his mid-term presidency, which has been then repeated in Ford's pardoning speech, he highly compromised his words, and beyond the political trust, involving indirectly another and controversial aspect which is to discuss the real American interests. We need to mention here that Nixon's resignation speech also referred to "process of healing that is so desperately needed in America" while unconvincingly quoting Roosevelt's words on the idea of being "the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"(Nixon's resignation speech, August 1974). [...]

[...] "The Watergate has gone into the national memory bank" admitted Mr Moos, Senate member in 1974. As a result, it not only led to a crisis of confidence toward the institutions but it has also arisen for the first time, the question of democracy representation and authorized some deep in look and some reshaping attempts of the long-established American proceedings and generated some immediate cleaning effects have been observed on the United States' political process as well as definitive suspicion with a call for an "open Presidency" as claimed for by the Senate's No Robert Griffin, of Michigan. [...]

[...] This will help us to analyze the American politics' specificities which will authorize us to enlarge to the impact of this scandal onto the whole American perceptions. The presidency of Richard Nixon has been short but intense. The thirty-seventh President's five-year term has proved to be unique, not by its engagements which have globally continued the American domestic and foreign policies authorizing him some "liberal conservative" etiquette but by the unprecedented "tragedy" which has plunged the country into great distress. [...]

[...] It then says that the two are separated but also that the executive could illegitimately overpass not only the opinion of people, represented and protected by the legislative but also the power of law. In another way, it perfectly represents how public opinion may influence the politics in the United States. This tragedy also drove the American authorities into some unprecedented abstraction. This issue also perfectly stands for the ever-lasting complicated, correlated and competitive powers of the two political institutional pillars. [...]

[...] It depicts one of the most significant moment in the whole American history as the population is to recall that laws in America overpass a President's personal power. The call for impeachment unveils the public true concern about its governance and far about fairness and honesty. The photograph pictures here more than a dated political scandal, it embodies people's rejection of a corrupted society. If the specific Nixon's case has reached the level of symbol, it is not only by its strength but because it has also revealed most of America's inner mechanism, not only in politics. [...]