Gerald Ford Legacy is Nothing to be Proud Of

by Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Beyond Chron (reposted)

Thu, Dec 28, 2006 10:40AM

While the nation's mainstream media is busy publishing gushing tributes to recently deceased former President Gerald Ford, it's important to point out that his legacy leaves nothing to be proud of. He pardoned of one of the nation's worst criminals, his predecessor and former boss Richard Nixon.

Nixon is of course best known for his coverup of the 1972 Republican break-in of Democratic National headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. But his criminal career included much worse deeds, such as the bombing of Cambodia, which led to the ascent of the Khmer Rouge regime that slaughtered millions. Nixon also authorized the CIA to remove democratically elected Chilean President Salvador Allende, whose Socialist administration was nationalizing the country's resources, such as copper mines owned by U.S. companies. Allende's assassination in 1973 led to the deaths of millions of Chileans under the regime of his right-wing military successor Augusto Pinochet.

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