Gerald ford suffered terrible political damage when he: a. continued nixon's economic policies. b. vetoed the war powers act. c. sent americans back into vietnam. d. failed to achieve peace in the middle east. e. pardoned nixon.

Ford's pardon of the disgraced former president Richard M. Nixon was a political blow from which his presidency never recovered. Ford narrowly lost the 1976 Presidential Election to Jimmy Carter, and polls revealed that many of those who cast their votes against him cited the pardon as their primary reason for doing so.