: Jimmy Carter issued a blanket pardon ...
Yes. I received one, but the pardon was conditional and was mostly to repatriate the US kids who fled to Canada to avoid the draft. As I recall, the condition was the pardon could be earned if the draft-dodger would give two years free community service.
The Justice Department told me that since I had never fled the US and had already performed the community service I was immediately entitled to the pardon.
Farkel