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POL_Curry_Pardons.appHeader = "White House reprieves";
POL_Curry_Pardons.appDeck = "Notable presidential pardons and anmesties";
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POL_Curry_Pardons[i-1].body = "1795: George Washington grants amnesty to most of the rebels who took part in the Whiskey Rebellion against a federal excise tax on liquor.";

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POL_Curry_Pardons[i-1].body = "1902: Theodore Roosevelt (pictured) proclaims amnesty for followers of Filipino independence leader Emilio Aguinaldo.";

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POL_Curry_Pardons[i-1].body = "1971: Richard Nixon gives a pardon to former Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa (pictured) on the condition that he never again participates in union activities.";

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POL_Curry_Pardons[i-1].body = "1974: Gerald Ford pardons his presidential predecessor, Richard Nixon, for crimes he may have committed as part of the cover-up of the 1972 burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex. ";

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POL_Curry_Pardons[i-1].body = "1977: Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders.";

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POL_Curry_Pardons[i-1].body = "1989: Ronald Reagan pardons New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for illegal campaign contributions he made to Richard Nixon’s 1972 presidential campaign.";

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POL_Curry_Pardons[i-1].body = "1992: George H.W. Bush pardons former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger (pictured), former national security adviser Robert \"Bud\" McFarlane, and other former government officials for their roles in the Iran-Contra affair.";

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POL_Curry_Pardons[i-1].body = "2001: Bill Clinton issues a pardon to fugitive commodities traders Marc Rich (pictured) and Pincus Green. Rich’s ex-wife, Denise Rich, was a large donor to Democratic candidates, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and to the Clinton library in Little Rock, Ark.";

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