Day of Pentecost

I was awake early this morning and went to the 8 o'clock at Emmanuel.   Afterwards I joined them at the discussion group/adult Sunday school, which has grown to quite a big crowd now.

In the afternoon there was a baby shower at Emmanuel, and I took along this baby blanket I have been working on for the past two weeks or so.


This day in history..............8th September 1974

In what was said to be a controversial action President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard-I-am-not-a-crook-Nixon for any crimes he may have committed, or participated in, while in office.  Ford later defended this action before the House Judiciary Committee, explaining that he wanted to end the national divisions created by the Watergate Scandal.

 

The pardon was widely condemned at the time but decades later, the John F Kennedy Library Foundation presented its 2001 Profile in Courage Award to Gerald Ford for his 1974 pardon of Nixon.   In pardoning Nixon, said the Foundation, Ford placed his love of country ahead of his own political future and brought needed closure to the divisive Watergate affair.

 

Ford left politics after losing the 1976 presidential election to Democrat Jimmy Carter and died on December 26, 2006, at the age of 93.

1960

Penguin Books in Britain is charged with obscenity for trying to publish the D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterly's Lover.    I remember that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    there were headlines, it was splashed across the television news. Am feeling really, really, tired.....................going to turn in.