Watergate at 50: Pardons and Postscript

First, no one knew how to actually go about removing a president from office. Then, no one knew what to do when the president had left the office. In Episode 9 of the Watergate at 50 series, Shane and David are back to recount the tumultuous first few weeks of the new administration, one failed from the start by the one it had just succeeded.

An unelected Gerald Ford is suddenly thrust into the biggest job in the world and struggles with what to do with the lingering question of the legal ramifications for Richard Nixon. He settles on a "full, free and absolute pardon" of the former president, but that decision raises questions that the House Judiciary Committee calls on Ford to answer. Plus, Nixon struggles for answers in his own interview with a British journalist hanging onto his career, and the 37th president has to pave a new path post-White House that no one before him had ever gone down.

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Episode 1: A Man of Perceived Grievance

Episode 2: Lawyers, Guns and Money

Episode 3: A Third-Rate Burglary

Episode 4: A Simple Country Lawyer

Episode 5: Cox, Lies and Audiotape

Episode 6: Shaping the Story

Episode 7: What the Expletive Deleted is Impeachment?

Episode 8: Death Spiral

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