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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!paladin.american.edu!auvm!DOES1.BITNET!U7636JI
  3. Message-ID: <POLITICS%92122909044263@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.politics
  5. Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:06:14 EST
  6. Sender:       Forum for the Discussion of Politics <POLITICS@UCF1VM.BITNET>
  7. Comments:     Converted from PROFS to RFC822 format by PUMP V2.2
  8. From:         James Sheldon <U7636JI@DOES1.BITNET>
  9. Subject:      well, pardon me!
  10. In-Reply-To:  note of 12/28/92 20:49
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  13. The Sunday Washington Post was full of commentary on the pardons, mostly negati
  14. ve.  One pundit ascribed it to Bush's trying to curry favor with the conservati
  15. ves of the GOP.  An interesting legal point is the pardons potentially increase
  16. Bush's vulnerability as Weinberger et al cannot plead the Fifth Amendment in re
  17. fusing to answer questions now that they're pardoned.
  18. Uncle Ernie
  19.