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Vietnam War Draft Evaders Pardon

Jimmy Carter's 1977 pardon of hundreds of thousands of Vietnam War draft evaders.

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Jan 29, 2026
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Which U.S. presidents issued the largest single‑event or mass clemency proclamations in history, and why?

Two kinds of have produced the largest single‑event or mass actions in U.S. history: categorical proclamations that covered hundreds of thousands (or thousands) at once, and end‑of‑term multi‑case pac...

Feb 4, 2026

Which well‑documented Americans fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft and later returned?

A small number of named ‑era draft resisters who went to are documented as having later returned to , but most reporting emphasizes aggregate patterns (many returned after ’s ) rather than a long rost...