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Ford says he didn’t tell it all
By HELEN THOMAS
UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Ford told a group of
Republican gubernatorial candi
dates at the White House
Friday that he has not yet
revealed all the reasons for his
decision to pardon former
President Richard Nixon.
Nixon’s leg
gets worse
By ROBERTA GOOTMAN
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.
(UPI) — Richard Nixon’s leg
ailment has worsened and he is
suffering from -severe physical
strain and fatigue,” his doctors
said Friday. The former
president refused to go into a
hospital and stayed at his
oceanside estate, Casa Pacifica.
The first new medical infor
mation on Nixon’s phlebitis
condition was released Friday
by Air Force Maj. Gen. Walter
Tkach, Nixon’s former White
House physician, who flew here
from Washington.
“There is a new veinous clot
in the former President’s upper
left leg,” Tkach said in a
statement. “The leg is swollen
and painful. The clot from the
earlier phlebitis, which is still
present, causes the former
president periodic pain.”
Nixon returned to his tightly
guarded compound with his
wife Pat late Thursday after a
five-day stay at the equally
secluded Palm Desert estate of
Walter Annenberg, U.S. ambas
sador to Great Britain.
Sources said Nixon remained
uncomfortable and restless, but
the new inflamation in his leg
was reported slightly improved.
Tkach was joined in his
medical examination of Nixon
by Dr. John Lundgren, a Long
Beach, Calif., internist, who
examined the former president
in Palm Springs Tuesday.
“I have found the former
president to be suffering from
Maddox asks
75 cents each
from supporters
ATLANTA (UPI) - Lt. Gov.
Lester Maddox, appealing to the
people who befriended him at
the polls, says he will need
about 75 cents from each of
them to wipe out a $325,000
campaign debt.
Maddox also asked his sup
porters Friday to cease a write
in campaign for governor.
“When a person has been
through the primaries, such an
effort would be doomed to total
failure, and could cloud up the
general election.”
Maddox also refused again to
endorse a candidate in the gub
ernatorial race.
“My entire time is going to be
spent serving in the office of
lieutenant governor and, of
Firefighters
control blaze
KEY WEST, Fla. (UPI) —
Coast Guard firefighters say
they have controlled the blaze
that rampaged through six
floors of the luxury liner
Cunard Ambassador.
The Coast Guard cutter
Diligence remained nearby,
watching the smoldering re
mains of the fire that gutted
the ship’s mid-section. They
planned to continue dousing the
flames today.
A spokesman said two com
mercial tugboats were also on
the scene 72 miles west
southwest of Key West and
towing operations might begin
early today.
Coast Guard crews fought
Friday to extinguish the two
day-old fire and also relieve a
seven-degree list caused by
water used in fighting the
blaze.
By mid-afternoon Friday,
they had succeeded in reducing
the list to port from seven to
five degrees.
The fire aboard the 486-foot
liner started from a ruptured
fuel line in the engine room
Following a meeting in the
Oval Office, Tennessee Gov.
Winfield Dunn said Ford told
the group “he might be able to
explain, in the not too distant
future,” about the pardon issue.
Dunn said Ford did not
elaborate on his remarks, but
others indicated Ford said he
was “privy to some information
severe physical strain and
physical fatigue,” Tkach said,
“But he is mentally alert and
has been working in his office
or at home each day.”
The physician said “serious
consideration” had been given
to putting Nixon in a hospital,
but it was ruled out “based on
former President Nixon’s wi
shes.”
He said Nixon would continue
to receive medication and be
under doctors’ care with a
weekly evaluation of his condi
tion made by both Lundgren
and Tkach.
Nixon’s physical and emotion
al well being was believed to
have played a major part in
President Ford’s decision to
grant the former president an
unconditonal pardon.
First hand information about
Nixon nearly has been impossi
ble to obtain from inside his
tightly guarded compound over
looking the Pacific.
The only recent reports have
come from his two sons-in-law,
David Eisenhower and Edward
Cox, who gave a number of
interviews, and Nixon’s doctors.
Former White House Press
Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler has
refused to issue any state
ments.
Nixon’s arrival back at Casa
Pacifica was confirmed by Ann
Greer, Ziegler’s secretary. She
said Ziegler has not issued any
statements because he was a
“transition officer,” not a press
officer.
course, trying to do something
about the financial disaster we
incurred because of the cam
paign,” he said. “I don’t
see any condition right now that
I could support either candidate
Democrat (George Busbee or
Republican Ronnie Thompson)
but I do not rule out this pos
sibility.”
Maddox said some creditors
are pressing him. He said he
owes $240,000 in loans and SBO,-
000-$85,000 in advertising bills.
“If we could get 75 cents, aver
age, out of the voters, we could
retire this debt,” he said. Ac
tual!, if only Maddox voters
respond, he will still be about
$47 000 short based on the num
ber of votes he received.
early Thursday as the ship
sailed with its 309-member, all-
British crew for New Orleans.
The ship had left Miami
Wednesday to pick up passen
gers at New Orleans for the
first of a winter round of
weekly cruises to Mexico.
Originally, Capt. Robert How
ard ordered 256 crewmembers
to abandon ship, but by
nightfall Thursday everyone
was ordered off the vessel after
the power generators gave way.
By Friday morning, the
multimillion dollar ocean vessel
had drifted 33 miles from
where the fire originally was
discovered, adding to the
difficulty of ferrying men and
supplies to the burning vessel.
Crewmembers who were
taken to Port Everglades
aboard the Navy tanker Tal
lulah arrived carrying little
more than the clothes they
wore.
Among the crew were enter
tainers and gambling casino
operators under contract for
the pleasure cruises.
that he might make public but
also might never make public.”
Ford and his advisers appar
ently realize they have lost
ground in promising an ad
ministration that would be
candid and honest to the public.
Deputy Press Secretary John
W. Hushen told reporters
Friday they could expect a
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presidential news conference
next week —perhaps Monday or
Tuesday.
The White House appeared to
be aware the public was
looking for more of an
explanation than Ford gave
after granting his surprise
unconditional pardon to Nixon
last Sunday.
Ford’s chief political adviser,
Dean Burch, referred to still
secret information that he said
Ford might reveal soon.
Earlier Friday, Hushen told
reporters the “nation’s health”
was more important that
Nixon’s health in guiding
Ford’s decision to pardon the
former president.
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Hours after he said that,
Nixon’s doctors in San Clemen
te, Calif, reported that He had
developed a new blood clot in
his left leg and was under
“physical strain.”
Ford was spending the
weekend in Washington concen
trating on foreign affairs.
He scheduled a meeting of
Griffin Daily News Saturday, September 14,1974
the National Security Council at
10 a.m. today and arranged to
meet with Stanley Resor, a U.S.
arms negotiator, in the after
noon.
In the evening the President
and his wife arranged to attend
a performance of the Morman
Tabernacle Choir at the Kenne
dy Center. Ford had a busy
week ahead with a planned
luncheon appearance Monday
before the GOP National
Committee.
On Tuesday, he was expected
to send to Congress his
recommendations for major
budget slashes to bring down
the overall spending total to
S3OO billion in fiscal 1975.
In between, Ford was expect
ed to sandwich in a round of
golf.
He flies to New York
Wednesday to address the
opening of the -fall session of
the U.N. General Assembly.
Ford and his wife also spent
two hours Friday at a private
party for Dave Kennerly, the
official White House photogra
pher.