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only has the nixon pardon ended president ford's honeymoon with the congress in general, could cause problems in the republican party. >> it did. the problems got worse. keep in mind just as we analyze this on the basics of history, incumbent presidents usually win. we are the current president, in white house, have a lot of advantages that random citizen running against them does not. president ford did not win re-election. he was the first incumbent president to lose since 1932. which was back during the great depression. many saw ford's pardon as simply continuing the republican party's terrible nixon crime problem rather than taking the chance to break with it. now, as a matter of justice, the pardon interfered with the process to hold nixon accountable. as a matter of politics, the pardon dragged down the republican party long after this pardon first came out as you can see on the screen in september 1974.