W. Weldon said "What bothers me the most is that the President's wife at that time was leading the effort to uncover the President and what he had done. And now we have a situation where the President has gone far beyond, far, far beyond the coverup of a third-rate burglary. Tampering with a Federal witness is a felony. To lay out the possibility of a pardon, while there is a person who is incarcerated because she will not respond to a request by a legitimate judge and special prosecutor in this country, is a felonious act. I am not a lawyer but that is what it is. I have asked people. It is an outrage that this country should not allow to happen. In my mind this action makes Richard Nixon look like a Sunday school teacher in comparison in terms of what has occurred this week." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordSeptember 27, 1996

What bothers me the most is that the President's wife at that time was leading the effort to uncover the President and what he had done. And now we have a situation where the President has gone far beyond, far, far beyond the coverup of a third-rate burglary. Tampering with a Federal witness is a felony. To lay out the possibility of a pardon, while there is a person who is incarcerated because she will not respond to a request by a legitimate judge and special prosecutor in this country, is a felonious act. I am not a lawyer but that is what it is. I have asked people. It is an outrage that this country should not allow to happen. In my mind this action makes Richard Nixon look like a Sunday school teacher in comparison in terms of what has occurred this week.

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W. Weldon

Republican · Pennsylvania

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Editor's note · Context

Addressing the implications of presidential actions related to a special prosecutor investigation.

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