Word: compassioner
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Motivated primarily by genuine compassion for Nixon, Ford took a superficial look at the other factors?the legal ramifications, the political impact, the public reaction?and failed to think them through. Buoyed by his Honeymoon reception and seeking a Trumanesque reputation for decisiveness, he acted immediately and impulsively on his...
President Ford, invoking the name of God five times, might have thought that he was on solid theological ground in pronouncing a "full, free and absolute pardon" for former President Nixon. Ford had shown compassion and mercy, and few virtues win higher praise in sacred or contemporary theological writings. "What...
Some deeply resent that the decision was couched in the language of religion at all. "Whether or not it was explicitly stated between the two men," says the Rev. L. Harold DeWolf, retired dean of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., "this was a political payoff. Raking in so much...
There are other small towns and islands where life is as intense and personal as on the Vineyard, and the delightful, dangerous sensation of security in uniqueness is not unique to the Island. There are closed circles everywhere, whose members govern more with mercy than justice, and not out of...
PERHAPS A RESTORATION of insular compassion in American life is possible. If Vietnamese were recognized as people, just plain folks, bombing them would have been harder. The same generosity that produced the Nixon pardon might be extended to less well-known criminals. Blacks entering Boston schools might be recognized as...