Intended mainly as a vehicle for rehabilitating draft evaders after the Vietnam War, the Presidential Clemency Board (“PCB”) was largely an orphan of the Ford presidency. Created in the wake of the Nixon pardon as an unpopular compromise between those . . .

Editorial reaction to Gerald R. Ford--from his nomination as Vice President to the pardon of Richard Nixon--was examined to determine how major newspapers perceived Ford and whether their perceptions were affected by the Watergate scandals and related . . .