Why would they need an ID to buy booze? I frankly haven't been carded to buy Alcohol in years except when I travel to Elk Grove Village, because they had a mandatory ID rule. So I just avoid shopping in EGV.
And here you have the problem with voter ID laws. They won't be enforced universally. They will be enforced in the poor minority neighborhoods while we all know Mrs. O'Leary from down the block.
Was he, though?
On August 9, 1974, plagued by the Watergate scandal and the threat of impeachment, Richard Nixon resigned from the highest office in the United States, the only President to do so in the history of the country. Just a few days before he stepped down, a Gallup poll had shown Nixon's approval...
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Seems to public largely forgave Nixon after a certain point.
Frankly, I think that he gets a bad rap. He did a lot more good (Normalizing relations with China, ending Vietnam, establishing OSHA) than he did evil (Watergate). I don't think history will have the same judgement of Trump.
Here's the thing. Ford set a very bad precedent. We've seen Presidents abuse the pardon power since then to cover their own scandals. Bush-41 pardoned the Iran-Contra figures, Clinton pardoned everyone caught up in Ken Starr's investigations, Bush-43 commuted Scooter Libby's sentence, and Trump brought abuse of the Pardon to a whole new level, essentially promising people pardons to keep their mouths shut.