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PUBLISHED 12-28-2006 If history has not yet vindicated Gerald Ford, it will. It must.                              The nation’s oldest living president died peacefully Tuesday, in contrast to the controversy that continually marked his too-short term of only 29 months. Today, the word “decent” falls from everyone’s lips about the 38th and “accidental” — appointed — president.   Yet when he was denied a term in his own right in 1976 by Jimmy Carter, Ford was maligned for his pardon of President Richard Nixon in the wake of Nixon’s Watergate-forced resignation. That act by Ford to bring an end to “our long national nightmare” infuriated millions of Americans who sought harsh punishment for Nixon, including prison. Had Ford not issued the pardon, however, the bitterness dividing the country...
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