I've read that Ford consciously stayed away from the details of the White House defense.Depends also on what Ford knew and how he knew it. . . .
Ford had been defending Nixon in public statements. About a week before the resignation, Nixon's chief-of-staff Al Haig called Ford and basically said, you know that part where you've been saying the president didn't know, well, that may not entirely be true.
And I think that's the closest Ford came to knowing things ahead of time.
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