The NY Times editorial board criticized Pres Ford's pardon of Nixon, stating: the pardon as “a profoundly unwise, divisive and unjust act” that in a stroke had destroyed the new president’s “credibility as a man of judgment, candor and competence.”
Ford has since been given the Profile in Courage Award for the decision, which Senator Edward Kennedy, a onetime critic, described as essential to the restoration of national unity.

NY Times is wrong once again...