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Nixon responding well to hospital treatment
By STEWART SLAVIN
LONG BEACH, Calif. (UPI)
— Former President Richard
Nixon “has responded well” to
treatment for his phlebitis
condition, but the search for its
cause continues, Nixon’s doctor
says.
Nixon passes the time in
Consumer
measure
is dead
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Legislation to create a consum
er protection agency has been
filibustered to death for this
session of Congress.
Backers of the idea pledged a
renewed and top priority effort
for next year after meeting
Tuesday and deciding they did
not have enough votes to seek
an unprecedented fifth attempt
to end a Senate filibuster
against the bill.
The fourth and final attempt
to break the filibuster fell short
last week by two votes, but
Senate Democratic leader Mike
Mansfield indicated then he
might allow another chance if
the backers could prove they
had switched one vote. They
couldn’t.
The House-passed legislation
would have established an
agency to lobby for the
consumer by intervening in
government decision-making
where prices, safety and other
issues were involved.
Sens. James B. Allen, D-Ala.,
and Sam Ervin Jr., D-N.C,
filibustered against it, claiming
the agency would clog govern
ment machinery and be costly
to business. The U.S. Chamber
of Commerce opposed it.
Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, El-
Conn., who is expected to
assume chairmanship of the
Senate Government Operations
Committee next year, said the
agency would be the “first
order of business —I am
confident that next year will
bring a new complexion to the
Senate and with it a new sense
of purpose toward protecting
the consumer.”
Another chief supporter, Sen.
Charles H. Percy, R-111., said
the failure to break the
filibuster “really represents a
failure of our legislative pro
cess, since a small minority
was able to utterly frustrate the
will of the majority of the
Senate and the Nation.”
Ralph Nader’s Public Citi
zens, Inc., which supported the
bill, said: “The automotive
industry, the Chamber of
Commerce and other corporate
interests and the White House
have used their enormous
resources to defeat by one vote
legislation to give consumers a
small voice in federal policy
making.”
Spruill
cites lack
of leaders
ATLANTA (UPI) — A lack of
leadership in Washington has
contributed to energy shortages
experienced by many parts of
the country, the acting director
of the Georgia Energy Office
charged Tuesday.
“We have not seen the
leadership needed to pass
effective legislation,” Director
L. C. Spruill said. “Instead, we
have seen impoundment of
funds, relaxation of our air
quality standards, and with
drawal of support of land use
legislation.”
He said national action on
such energy-related matters as
power plant siting, strip mining
and land use “would enable the
nation to plan for the future,
rather than leaving it in a
position of confronting prob
lems on an ad hoc basis.”
Testifying before the Federal
Energy Administration’s
“Project Independence”
hearings, Spruill said the
government “has simply lacked
the commitment to a quality
enviromnent, which, rather
than solving the energy crisis,
only compounds the problems
we already have.”
The FEA public hearings will
continue through Friday on the
Georgia Tech campus here.
Long Beach Memorial Hospital
with members of his family.
His meals are brought up from
his estate at San Clemente.
Nixon’s personal physician,
Dr. John Lungren, Tuesday
made his first report on the
former President’s condition,
which developed during his
Middle Eastern tour early this
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summer and has grown
progressively more serious.
“Former President Nixon is
now in the process of having a
series of special diagnostic
studies,” Lungren said in a
written report to newsmen.
“Anticoagulation therapy was
begun after Mr. Nixon’s arrival
at the hospital Monday, and so
far he has responded well.”
The anticoagulation therapy
is meant to dissolve the blood
clots that have formed in veins
of Nixon’s left leg, causing
painful swelling and raising the
danger they could be carried to
his heart, which can cause
death.
The diagnostic studies are
aimed at determining the cause
of the malady. Possible causes
range from constricted circula
tion to, in rare cases, cancer.
Lungren has already ruled out
a “traumatic” cause, such as a
blow or chemicals.
Lungren had said earlier that
he would meet with reporters
daily to explain Nixon’s condi-
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tion, if Nixon approved. Distri
bution of the written statement
Tuesday appeared to indicate
that Nixon disapproved of the
daily face-to-face meetings with
the press.
A bloc of 10 rooms on the
sixth floor of the hospital —the
largest on the West Coast —has
been set aside for Nixon, his
Griffin Daily News Wednesday, September 25,1974
family, his Secret Service
guards and as a “buffer zone”
to keep other patients out of the
area.
Nixon spent his first after
noon in the hospital talking
with his wife and his daughter,
Julie Eisenhower, who accom
panied him, and by telephone to
his other daughter, Patricia
Cox, according to Dianne
Sawyer, an assistant to Nixon
aide Ronald Ziegler.
More than 100 floral bouquets
for Nixon were received. At
Nixon’s orders, they were
distributed to patients in the
children’s wing, and to elderly
patients who had received no
visitors or gifts recently.