{"id":7150,"date":"2026-09-08T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7150"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:53:23","slug":"president-gerald-ford-pardoned-richard-nixon-in-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7150","title":{"rendered":"President Gerald Ford Pardoned Richard Nixon in 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13059\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13059\" class=\"wp-image-13059\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Gerald-Ford.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"143\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerald Ford<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10578\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10578\" class=\"wp-image-10578\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Richard-Nixon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"199\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Nixon<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon in 1974. <\/strong>Nixon had resigned on August 9, 1974, to avoid impeachment. Gerald Ford became president that day. He decided to pardon Nixon to bring calm and unity to the country. Some experts believe those goals were not accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon in 1974. Nixon had resigned on August 9, 1974, to avoid impeachment. Gerald Ford became president that day. He decided to pardon Nixon to bring calm and unity to the country. Some experts believe those goals were not accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5286,1075,1493,334,5840],"class_list":["post-7150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5286","tag-gerald-ford","tag-nixon-pardon","tag-richard-nixon","tag-september-8","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7150"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29700,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions\/29700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}