Shortly after President Ford pardoned Richard Nixon a year ago, he agreed to give him practical control over 42 million documents and 888 reels of secretly recorded conversations from the Nixon presidency. Ford was widely criticized for what seemed extreme kindness toward the man who had elevated him. But last week Ford's Justice Department did its best to take back that gift. In a 100-page brief approved by Attorney General Edward Levi and White House Counsel Philip Buchen, the Administration defended the right of Congress to nullify that Nixon-Ford agreement on the tapes and papers.
The brief opposed Nixon's argument, now being...
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