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Nixon is sure he’ll be found
By HELEN THOMAS
UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI) - In a
gamble against impeachment,
President Nixon today is giving
the House Judiciary Committee
and the nation a look at his
private conversations within the
Oval Office —1,200 pages of
edited transcripts —which he
says will embarrass him but
clear him.
Nixon announced the unprece
dented decision in a televised
address to the nation Monday
night but refused to comply
with the impeachment panel’s
subpoena for the 42 actual
Watergate tapes.
He said the transcripts “if
read with a fair open mind”
will prove him innocent of any
wrongdoing in the Watergate
break-in and cover-up and show
“the President has nothing to
hide in this matter.”
He disclosed for the first time
that he “considered long and
hard” meeting Watergate co
conspirator E. Howard Hunt’s
demand for blackmail pay
ments to protect a “national
security” matter but rejected it
as wrong.
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Two Allowed to Listen
The President said he would
allow committee chairman,
Peter W. Rodino Jr., D-N.J.
and Rep. Edward Hutchinson of
Michigan, the senior Republi
can member to listen to the
actual tapes to verify the
accuracy of the transcripts. But
independent checks to see if the
tapes themselves had been
tampered with apparently
would not be permitted under
his proposal.
Democrats contacted on the
Judiciary Committee found the
President’s proposal unaccepta
ble. Rodino said before Nixon
spoke that “we will accept
nothing less” than the tapes
themselves. He had no com
ment on the speech itself.
Hutchinson and other Repub
licans on the Committee found
the compromise satisfactory,
particularly since they feel the
panel could not enforce its
subpoena anyway.
In his 35-minute address in
the Oval Office, Nixon declared
again that he has no intention
of resigning and appealed to
Congress against putting “the
nation through a wrenching
ordeal” of an impeachment
proceedings.
Attacks Chief Accuser
Sitting at his desk, flanked by
the American flag and the
presidential flag, Nixon deliv
ered his most volatile attack on
his chief Watergate accuser
John W. Dean 111, his former
counsel.
Dean said in sworn Senate
testimony that he believed
Nixon was “fully aware” of the
cover-up at a meeting they held
on Sept. 15, 1972, when the
original seven Watergate de
fendants were indicted. But the
President said the transcripts
“show clearly” he did not learn
of White House involvement in
hush money payments until
Dean told him on March 21,
1972.
Speaking with a stack of blue
leather bound transcripts near
by, Nixon said: “I realize these
transcripts will provide grist
for many sensational stories in
the press. Parts will seem to be
contradictory with one another,
and parts will be in conflict
Hitchcock will not retire
By JAMES R. KING
NEW YORK (UPI) — For 50
years, Alfred Hitchcock has
been scaring film audiences
with thrillers like “Dial M for
Murder” and “Psycho.” But
has he ever been frightened
himself watching a movie?
“Never,” scoffed the 74-year-
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WASHINGTON — President Nixon said he will turn over
1,200 pages of edited transcripts about the Watergate
scandal to the House Judiciary Committee that he said
with some of the testimony
given in the Senate Watergate
committee hearings. ’ ’
He said “everything that is
relevant is included, . . •
blemishes and a11,.. .the rough
as well as the smooth; the
strategy sessions, the explora
tion of alternatives, the weigh
ing of human and political
costs.”
“Never before in the history
of the presidency have records
that are so private been made
so public,” he declared.
He is Frankly Concerned
He added that he was “quite
frankly concerned about the
political implications” which
represented a “devastating
blow to the administration” and
old film maker who was
honored by the Film Society of
Lincoln Center Monday night.
He gave the same answer when
asked when he planned to
retire, adding, “What for?”
To play golf?
“I’d rather play at movies,”
said Hitchcock, who has direct
ed or produced more than 50
films beginning with the silent
movie “Number Thirteen” in
1922 to his most recent films
“Topaz” in 1969 and “Frenzy”
in 1972. He and screenwriter
Ernest Lehman, who wrote the
script of “North by Northwest”
(1959) are currently working on
a new movie, but Hitchcock
declined to discuss it, saying it
was “embryonic at the mo
ment.”
Only one of his films, “The
Trouble with Harry,” was a
comedy, but a subtle vein of
comedy runs through all his
films, even the scariest.
“In many senses, even a film
like ‘Psycho,’ which is a horror
film, has to be done tongue-in
cheek,” Hitchcock said. When
asked if his movies had any big
message, he pressed his rotund
chin against his chest and
paused, pursing his lips.
“Samuel Goldwyn, God rest
his soul, once said, ‘Messages
are for Western Union.’”
Hitchcock views movie mak
ing a unique form of the art of
entertainment, completely dif
ferent from live theater or
written fiction.
“Don’t read much fiction,” he
said. “Good literature does not
necessarily make good films.”
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he expressed fear that “hostile
elements” in Congress and the
media would exploit them.
Nixon said he was aware that
many people assumed that
since he had refused to release
the tapes he was guilty of
wrongdoing.
“Many people assumed that
the tapes must incriminate the
President or that otherwise he
wouldn’t insist on their priva
cy,” Nixon said. But he insisted
he was fighting to maintain a
principle of confidentiality
maintained by every president
since George Washington.
He said he was now willing to
violate this principle to clear
the air, to give the impeach
ment inquiry facts, and to “put
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NEW YORK — Alfred Hitchcock, 74, master of suspense
movies and television thrillers, escorts one of his stars,
Princess Grace of Monaco, to Lincoln Center for gala in
honor of his 50 years as a director. Program consisted
mainly of film clips of highlights of some of Hitchcock’s
more than 50 films. (UPI)
He said often the best fictional
literature doesn’t have strong
enough plots for his style of
film-making.
“The idea for ‘North by
Northwest’ came from two lines
given me by a New York critic.
Nothing more. It did not come
from a book.”
He said the movie might have
later made a good book, “But
how would you put into a book
would clear him of any involvement and will “tell it all.”
Nixon is shown with the transcripts in the background in
his office shortly after his nationwide address. (UPI)
Watergate behind us.”
Nixon’s gesture to release the
transcripts came on the first
anniversary of his first major
Watergate address to the
nation.
Threat Described
The President appeared to be
the most concerned about the
March 21 tape which was
turned over to the Committee
by a federal grand jury. He
described a threat by Hunt to
“blackmail the White House”
unless given $120,000 for legal
fees and family support.
He said that national securi
ty, not Watergate was threat
ened to be exposed and “I
considered long and hard
whether it might in fact be
the last shot of the picture, the
sexiest of all?”
North by Northwest ends with
Cary Grant hopping into a
berth on a train with Eva
Marie Saint as the train
disappears into a tunnel —or,
as Hitchcock puts it: —“The
phallic train entering the
tunnel. I thought when I did
that, I couldn’t be more
explicit.”
Just one thing
MOSCOW (UPI) — Zubeida
Sheidayeva completed 100 years
of work in a rug factory
Monday and said the only thing
that bothered her about old age
was remembering the names of
her great-grandchildren.
The Tass news agency said
the 114-year-old Mrs. Sheidaye
va celebrated 100 years at the
Kuba rug factory in the Soviet
republic of Azerbaijan by
completing another day’s work
on her latest carpet. Tass
conceded that unlike her youth,
she now works at home.
better to let the payments go
forward at least temporarily.”
At another point, he said, he
several times suggested that
Candidates
list crime
as top issue
ATLANTA (UPI) — Ten can
didates for lieutenant governor
told the Georgia County Com
missioners Association Monday
that the big issues in the
upcoming campaign will be
Georgia’s spiraling crime rate
and the need for tax revision to
increase revenues.
The nine Democrats and one
Republican were split, however,
on how to raise the needed cap
ital for city and county govern
ments. Most said they favored
either a local option sales or in
come tax as a means of rolling
back property taxes.
“I don’t believe we should
take an adament stand on how
we should find new revenues,”
said Zell Miller of Norcross.
“We should say that we need
it but keep an open mind on
how we should accomplish it.”
Six of the candidates said
they favored four - year terms
for state senators.
Republican John Savage of
Atlanta said he advocated abol
isling the lieutenant governor’s
office as a means of “more re
sponsive government.” All the
Democrats disagreed with him,
saying they wanted to strength
en the office. Bill Laite of
Macon branded Savage’s sug
gestion as “hypocrisy.”
The candidates were adament
on the subject of law and order.
J. B. Stoner of Marietta said
it was “a shame our capital
city is a jungle” and called for
the state to appoint a police
commissioner to handle the
problem.
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meeting Hunt’s demand might
be necessary.
Nixon, who has often com
pared his Watergate troubles
with Abraham Lincoln’s bur
dens, summed up his philoso
phy by quoting the Civil War
President:
“I do the very best I know
how —the very best I can; and
I mean to keep doing so until
the end. If the end brings me
out all right, what is said
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