Bob Woodward keeps spinning the Ford pardon By Eric Boehlert Created...the 1970s White House scandal, Woodward remains particularly influential regarding all...of "straight talk" and "directness"? Woodward, though, seems determined to polish...war in Iraq. Y'think?) Woodward has also become comfortable sitting...Nixon. For some reason, though, Woodward uniformly ignores the inconsistencies when...

...quoted someone who said : Namely, that by granting Nixon a full pardon and thereby avoiding a lengthy Watergate criminal trial, Ford had done the nation an enormous favor. And for that, Ford should be celebrated. What if Clinton has spared the nation the OJ trial by pre-pardoning him without any investigation. Would that be a favour to the nation?...