he had a home in rancho mirage, california. just, what happened? i remember the last interview with ford in his little house in rancho mirage right off of the golf course. said he pardoned nixon. he said you keep asking that question is that i don't think you answered. and then he said your right. i have not answered it fully. i'll tell you what happened. i haven't even told betty. and so he goes through and said let me take you to the moment. i've been president 30 days. it was awful. so much distress. no one would believe anything. all the news is what news is what is going news is that it's quite happy to nixon. so the cold war was sawed, the economy was in trouble, prosecutors sent him a letter saying nixon as a private citizen will be investigated because he's been indicted, and that day. we're going to have two or three more years of watergate. i will never forget him saying we needed to move beyond nixon. so i preempted the process can allocate him came to me and offered to deal a week before. >> the chief of staff. >> of mixing. the senate

i went to see ford many times at his homes in colorado, rancho mirage, and california. what happened? i remembered the last interview with ford, in his little house in rancho mirage, right off the golf course. i said, why did you pardon nixon? he said, you keep asking. i said, i don't think you have answered fully. he said, you are right. i have not answered it fully. i will tell you what happened. i have not even told betty. so he goes through, he says, let me take you to the moment. i have been president for 30 days. my god, it was awful. there was so much distress. no one would believe anything. all the news was about, what is going to happen to nixon? the cold war was on, the economy was in trouble. the special prosecutor had sent a letter saying, nixon is a private citizen and he will be investigated. he will be indicted, convicted, maybe you will go to jail. so there will be two or three more years of watergate. i will never forget him saying, i needed my own presidency. we had to move beyond nixon. so, i preempted the process. and then l haig came to me and offer

he had a home in colorado, a main home in rancho mirage in california. well, what happened? and i remember the last interview with ford in his little house in rancho mirage right off a golf course. i just said, why did you pardon nixon? he said, you keep asking that question. i said, well, i don't think you've answered it fully. and then he said, you're right, i have not answered it fully. i'll tell you what happened. i haven't even told betty. and so he goes through and he said, let me take you to the moment. i've been president 30 days. my god, it was awful. there was so much distrust. no one would believe anything. all the news was about what's going to happen to nixon. the cold war was on. the economy was in trouble. the special prosecutor had sent him a letter saying nixon is a private citizen, is going to be investigated because of the tapes, no doubt indicted, convicted, will maybe go to jail. so ford said, we're going to have two or three more years of watergate. i will never forget him saying i needed my own presidency. we had to move beyond nixon. so i pre-empted t