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Pierre Salinger:
Now he’s a novelist
By LEE MUELLER
NEW YORK - (NEA) -
Pierre Salinger has been
many things: Reporter,
speech writer, Senate inves
tigator, press secretary to
two American presidents and
U.S. senator from California.
He has written a book called,
“W it h Kennedy,” and a
splendid new novel, “On In
structions of My Govern
ment.”
At 46, he remains a na
tional figure. Some veteran
White House reporters have
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called him the best presiden
tial press secretary ever.
True, Salinger now lives in
London, but he’s not that
long gone. A short, stout fel
low with thick, dark brown
hair and an eight-inch cigar,
he should be easily identifi
able.
But it still happens.
The white-coated steward
in the St. Regis Hotel suite
rolled in the breakfast table,
a half-hour late. Leaning
heavily on a forced British
accent, he babbled evasive-
ly. “I say, Mr. Salinger,” he
said, happily. “I nearly for
got your name. Then I re
membered, Catcher-in-the-
Rye’.”
It is sort of a pun with
most people and Salinger al
ways manages a tight-lipped
smile.
“Even when 1 was at the
White House, people would
stop me in the street and tell
me how much they enjoyed
‘Catcher,’ ” he said. “I even
wrote J. D. Salinger about
it once and told him I re
ceived some of his mail and
that I’d done some research
and discovered we weren’t
relatives. He never wrote
back.”
Now, certain book critics
are wondering if the day
might come when people
stop J. D. Salinger on the
street and tell him how
much they enjoyed “On In
structions of My Govern
ment.”
“People keep saying how
surprised they are that the
book is as good as it is,”
Pierre Salinger said, finger
ing the corner of an amused
grin.
The novel is self-described
as a tense and dramatic
book about the awesome con
sequences of political expe
diency—a tale of, not only
what could happen, but what
is happening.
It is election year, 1976
(the Vietnam war was over
in 1972) and the cigar-smok
ing President of the United
States is in poll trouble. As
one of several image-boost
ing moves, the President is
advised to drop all aid to
the military junta in a myth
ical Latin-American country.
The step was justified on the
grounds that U.S. policy
must no longer seem to sup
port a dictatorship—especial
ly one that trades with Red
China.
But what is born out of
political desperation soon
transcends itself and the
President is confronted with
the reality that has been
faced only once before—by
JFK, oddly enough: The
threat of Communist (Red
Chinese) missiles installed
within immediate striking
range of the United States.
Drawing on his own exper
ience — especially tasting
the atmosphere in the White
House during the Cuban mis
sile crisis — Salinger has
written an engaging, be
lievable book, chock-full of
little-known and very real
facts about our government.
(Did you know that the
“hot line” between Russia
and the United States is not
a telephone at all, but two
teletype machines?)
The protaganist in the
novel is a U.S. ambassador
which, if one knows Salinger,
is not surprising.
“One weekend in Hyannis
Port, President Kennedy and
I were sitting around and I
mentioned that I didn't know
if I wanted to be press sec
retary during his second
term,” he recalls. “He
looked at me and asked,
‘Well, what do you want?’ ”
“ ‘Ambassador to France,’
I told him. He said, ‘O.K.’ ”
The year was 1962.
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Post writer denied
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By HELEN THOMAS
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
White House denied Judith
Martin of the Washington Post
press credentials Wednesday to
cover the marriage of Tricia
Nixon because Miss Martin
crashed the 1968 wedding
reception for the President’s
other daughter.
The Washington Post said it
would not assign any other
reporter to cover the Saturday
marriage of Miss Nixon to
Edward Finch Cox.
Miss Martin and another Post
reporter gained access to the
1968 reception after the wed
ding of Julie Nixon Eisenhower
in New York, even though the
affair was supposed to have
been off limits to the press.
Connie Stuart, staff director
for Mrs. Pat Nixon, made the
announcement that Miss Martin
would not be granted creden
tials.
Some 600 newspapers and
broadcast reporters, camermen
and technicians have been
accredited to cover the wedding
—2OO more than the invited
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are in the “pool” for the Rose
Garden wedding ceremony.
The 350-pound wedding cake,
already controversial because
some cooks said it couldn’t be
baked, suffered another setback
Wednesday when chef Maurice
Bonte broke the gazebo that
was to go on top of the cake. It
broke while Bonte, a pastry
chef for a swank New York
french restaurant, was packing
it and other confections.
Miss Nixon wanted the
gazebo, made of spun sugar
and filled with sugar cherry
blossoms, as the top piece on
the cake instead of the
traditional twide and groom
figures.
Age of Electricity
In 1831, Michael Faraday
moved a magnet through a
coil of copper wire and found
that an electric current was
produced in the wire. This
great discovery is the prin
ciple on which all electric
motors and dynamos are
built.
Apollo planners want money
By FRANK MACOMBER
Military-Aerospace Writer
Copley News Service
At one end of the huge federal
space agency building in Wash
ington, D.C., Apollo architects
are working toward the phase
out of manned lunar explora
tion with three more missions
by the end of 1972.
Down the hall, space plan
ners headed by Dr. Wernher
Von Braun are putting together
four future projects aimed at
carrying America’s space pro
gram into the late 19705.
The Apollo program already
has a price tag estimated be
tween $24 and $24.5 billion by
the end of next year.
Hie trick for National Aero
nautics and Space Administra
tion officials is to persuade the
White House and Congress that
it’s worth another estimated
sl3 to sls billion to embark on
the additional quartet of space
ventures in this decade.
Five years ago, at the height
of the Apollo preparations, it
would have been a breeze. To
day, with the Apollo achieve
ments an accomplished fact,
the glamor of adventure into
the unknown has lost some of
its glitter Consequently, fi
nancing of major new space
projects no longer is a foregone
conclusion.
The space agency has not
made public all its blueprints
for the 1970 s with dollar signs
attached. But a NASA resume
reached Sen. Carl T. Curtis, R-
Neb., ranking minority mem
ber of the Senate Space Com
mittee and long an advocate of
the nation’s space program. It
goes like this:
Space planners estimate at
from SBSO million to more than
$1 billion the cost of the so
called Grand Tour — un
manned spacecraft missions to
the outer planets in the late
19705.
NASA is seeking S3O million
in its budget for the fiscal year
beginning July 1 to launch the
Grand Tour. It envisions space
craft passes at possibly 27
planets or planetary satellites.
For the Viking program to
soft-land instrumented space
ships on Mars in about 1978,
NASA sets the cost at SBOO to
SBBO million. Os this, only SSO
million would go to build
boosters and the rest for space
craft equipped to flash back to
earth television pictures of the
red planet's barren, over-
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heated terrain.
NASA is asking for SIBB mil
lion in the upcoming fiscal year
to get the Viking project roll
ing.
Skylab, the next big project
after Apollo, is pegged at more
than $2.2 billion by space plan-
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ners. Beginning in 1973 it is to
send three teams of astronauts
into earth orbit aboard a space
station. The first three-man
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the other two for 56 days each,
to conduct scientific experi
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