May 1975 - Cambodia seizes the American ship Mayaguez. Ford sends in the Navy, Marines and Air Force. The ship is retaken and the crew of 39 is rescued, although 41 American service members are killed ...

He was adopted by his mother’s second husband, Gerald Ford, and his name was legally ... September 16, 1974 – Announces conditional amnesty for Vietnam War draft evaders and deserters.

Preemptive pardons, like the ones Joe Biden issued in his final hours as president, have been used by Donald Trump, Jimmy ...

Other American presidents have faced the delicate challenge of bidding farewell with grace after serving only one term in the ...

The act of clemency puts Trump behind Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman in the ranking for most pardons issued during a ...

The U.S. Constitution gives presidents the power to grant pardons and commutations for federal crimes. This unique, unchecked ...

Presidents have pardon power -- that's in the Constitution, columnist Ron Faucheux notes. But there are some steps to take ...

Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon is now not ... Andrew Johnson pardoned all Southerners who had been involved in the Civil War in 1868. Jimmy Carter pardoned every Vietnam War draft dodger on his ...

It was bipartisanship that gave us the Vietnam War and the Iraq War ... But I found it hard not to tear up on Thursday morning during Gerald Ford’s eulogy of Jimmy Carter, a posthumous tribute ...

Character, my grandfather once instructed me, often doesn't reveal itself in triumph. Most people, he said, will do the right thing when things are going their way, and doing the right thing won't ...

President Gerald Ford’s pardon of predecessor Richard ... President Jimmy Carter granted amnesty to Vietnam War draft evaders – keeping a promise he made during his campaign.