Video: 'Ford Pardons Nixon - September 8, 1974'

(Sunday, September 8, 1974, 11:01 a.m. EDT; during the Watergate scandal) — U.S. President Gerald Ford granted former President Richard M, Nixon an unconditional pardon today for all federal crimes that he “committed or may have committed or taken part in” while in office, an act Ford said was intended to spare Nixon and the nation further punishment in the Watergate scandals.

Video: 'Television & the Presidency Part 10' (Sept. 8, 1974, at 1:27)