#pardon

Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon. ↗

— Barbara Olson

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Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot. ↗

— Elihu Root

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