BACKGROUND NOISE: Essentially all neurosurgeons are spine surgeons. Our initiation into spine surgery begins at the very start of our residency, is at the very core of what we do throughout training, and remains the most common thing we do through our careers. It's been like that for most of a century.
When President Carter granted amnesty to draft evaders he was using his judicial power.
Nixon revealed much later that he would not grant amnesty to the Watergate Seven because, if he did so, Nixon would have been pressured to provide amnesty for Vietnam draft dodgers and this would have gratified his liberal elite opponents.