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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. 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Page 5 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.