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Article II, Section 2. paragraph 1 of the US Constitution allows the President to grant pardons for crimes against the US Government, not involving impeachment. Incoming President Gerald R. Ford pardoned Richard Nixon on 8 August 1974, the day before Nixon's resignation on 9 August 1974.

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