Text of Nixon's Address to Nation --------- ------ -- ------- 1urn Inmate ~'tJad Expected to Be Killed' Mrs. Poindexter ... hold~ picture of Co,>pcr. 1-1" ~ B i 11 (Dorothy) Poin J ext e r , star o f the 19-0 Rose Festival Parade, on the .\lbina Flcat, suffered a double trage~y in Omaha \cb. resently. 11h·s. Poindexter, had h·ent ot Omaha to be ,,-i th her JT;otheJ·in Jaw \,·ho \\·as \'el:' ill, she arri\·ed on iuesda;., J...prll 1-:-, hent to her r..other ·in la\\S house, ~n~ found out that ~rs Hannah Poindexter, 8Ll ye:.ns old had died ~!onday. I Irs . Po indext er , brother . I r vin Cooper ''a s a nrisoner in the State Penitentiary at Lincoln, \eb . .she had recieved many letters from him, telling her that he would be killed, just as George Jackson. ~Irs. Poindexter was going to see him FriC.ay ,\pril 20. after half \vay recuperating from her ~o the~ -i n-Jaws death. Friday morning the phone r1.nc . it was the chaplain from the State l'enitentiar;r asking for her, Irvin Ccoper, her brother was stabbed that A.\1., with a hand made knife. while in a corridor on his wav to breakfast: He di~d en rcute to a hospital. a shakedown of · nrisoners revealed a knife on a man whc entered the prjson Thursday afternoon, sai~ Lancaster County :\tty. Panl Douglas. He was identified as Tho~as Ralls Jr. 24, white, of Lincoln, Nebraska. Rdlls was admitted to the prison after receiving a 10 year sentence for robbery. It was the fifth time he ~ad been in the complex. Cocper had been in prison since he was 19, for a $4.00 robbery. Mrs. Poindexter said that her brother was afraid. "He's been hTi'.::ing me for money and begging me to get a lawyer to help him she said". "I wanted to help him so bad. It's too late now". She said she visited her brother last lune and was told by her brother and another inmate that his life was in danger. She was told that the Warden and gaurds hated him. She was ,lso told that her brother was beaten and kicked Jown stairs. His teeth were rotting to the gums an cl they r efused to have t hem [ i xed . He ~,-a s g i \' en an additional 5 years for stabbing a guard which he said he didn't remember doing. He was also put in the hole for 6 months for a knife that was 'Found' on his bunk bed which he denied knowledge of. She wa told by an inmate that her brother \\as innocent of this but he couldn't afford to stool on the guilty one. She said she wrote Gov . .J.J. Exon, ·of Ncb. last year after learning of her brcthers [e~lYS and r c c e i v e d a 1 e t t e r in r e t u r n t e 11 i n g he r \H 1 t e t he Prison Officials. Mrs. Poindexter stated that it is very strange that a new prisoner is admitted dit·cctly to the prison proper without first being in quarantine anJ that a nc\v prisoner wou1d have access to a home made knife after only one night "in". to Page 4 The chronology of Watergate Turn to Page 2 THE NORTHWEST OLDEST NIGRO NIWSPAHI May 4 , 19 7 3 :\IYRETT . .J.. PE\TO\ \ls. ~!yretta Penton. chairlady of the :\!iss Black Oregon Pageant 1973, and :\!iss Black 01egon 19-2 Jo Ann Brunson, ~ill be presented in the feature race, Friday \lay 4 at Portland \IeadoKs. \!iss Black Oregon ''ill give the 1dnnillg JOcky a Cooler, the event Kill be around 8 p.n. Joe & John ~Iullen, is GranJ Opening sale at Old Store, 3933 \f Union ave. Grand opening Friday ~:30 of upcoming fashions, big fashions. ready for their big Blood's Men Fashion With a Funktion ! til 9pm. Big preview 25~ discount on many Her brcther complained of guards trippi_ng him down ~nJ other forms of abusement and he sa1d that if I cn1v knew what he was going through - I would get him. a L:wyer - His last words to her. Wednesday April 25, Mrs. Poindexter went back to the grave site, where she had only a few days ear1 icr morned for her mother-in-law. This time for her brother -- The graves of Mrs. Hannah Poindexter 84, and that of her Brother Irvin 37, is next to each o-.::her . . side by side.
2 Clarion Defender May 4, 1973 Curtain of secrecy lifting on bugging of WASHINGTON The mystery which shrouded the bugging of Democratic national headquarters in the Watergate complex has been tantalizingly slow in lifting, but now there are signs of wholesale disclosures. In the more than 10 months since five men were arrested in the early hours of a Saturday last June, many of the disclosures about the.affair have eome from investigative reporters. The five men and two others pleaded guilty or were convicted, but the trial left many questions unanswered. Now President Nixon has ordered a .new investigation, abandoning his previous insistence that no one in his administration was involved. There is talk of early new indictments by a federal grand jury. And a special Senate committee plans extensive public hearings. Here are chronological highlights of the affair: June 17-Five men were seized at gunpoint at 2 a.m. in the headquarters of the · Democratic National Committee along with cameras and electronic surveillance equipment. Police had been alerted by a security guard after file drawers had been opened and ceiling panels removed near the office of Lawrence F. O'Brien, committee chairman. Arrested and charged with second degree burglary were Bernard L. Barker, James W. McCord, Frank A. Sturgis, Eu genio L. Martinez and Virgilio R. Gonzalez. McCord was employed as security chief by the Republican National Committee and the Committee for the ReElection of the President. Barker had met in early June in Miami with E. Howard'Hunt, the CIA official in charge of the abortive invasion of Cuba in 1961. Hunt had been a consultant to Charles W. Colson, special consultant to President Nixon and other White House officials. June 19-John N. Mitchell, former attorney general and Nixon's campaign manager, said none of those involved in the raid were ~·~perating either on our behaH or with our consent." O'Brien called for a full FBI investigation. June 19-The Justice Department said the FBI would investigate. June 2Q-O'Brien told a news conference the raid was a "blatant act of political espionage" and announced the party was filing a $!-million civil lawsuit against the Committee for Re-Election of the President and the raiders charging invasion of privacy and vio!<Vion of civil rights. June 22-Nixon told a news conference the Watergate raid ''has nd place whatever ip our electoral process or in our governmental process ... The White House has had no involvement whatever in this particular incident." June 25-Martha Mitchell said in a telephone call to a reporter that she couldn't stand the life she had been leading since her husband resigned as attorney general to manage Nixon's campaign. She said she was leaving him because ~he could no longer stand "all those dirty things that go oQ." July !-Mitchell announced his res~gnation to "meet the one obligation which must come first: the happiness and weHare of my wife and daughter." Nixon named Clark McGregor to replace him. The FBI began a nationwide search for E. Howard Hunt Jr., the former White House consultant whose name and home telephone number were found in address books of two·of the five men arrested in the -raid. It was disclosed that Hunt had been a partner with Barker in several business ventures in Central America. July 7-Hunt, his whereabouts still unknown, sent word through his attorney that he would meet with federal authorities investigating the case. July 31-The Washington Pos.t reported that a $25,000 cashier's check apparently intended for Nixon's campaign had beeD deposited in April in a bank account o{ rlarker's. Aug. 15-0'Brien said he had learned that the Democrats' headquarters had been wiretapped for some time prior to the June 17 break-in. Aug. 26-The General Accounting Office referred to the Justice Department "apparent and possible" violations of federal law by the Committee for ReElection of the President, involving a $350,000 special fund. It cited failure to keep adequate records. Aug. 29-Nixon told a news conference at San Clemente, Calif., that presidential counsel John W. Dean III had "conducted a complete investigation of all leads which might involve present members of the White House staff or anybody in the government." He added: "I can say categorically that t~is investigation indicates that no .one ~n the White House staff, no one m thts administration; presently employed, was ipvolved in this very bizarre incident." Sept. !-Mitchell, in a sworn statement in the civil suit, was asked "Was there any discussion at which you were present or about-which you heard when you were campaign director concerning having any form of surveillance on the Democratic National Committee headquarters?" He replied "No, I can't imagine a less productive activity than that." .Sept. 11-The Democrats moved to raise the amount of damages froni $1 million to $3.2 million and to include as defendants Stans and three other campaign aides. Sept. 13-Clark McGregor announced that the committee for Re-Election of the President had filed a countersuit seeking $2.5· million damages from O'Brien, accusing him of using the court "as a forum in which to publicize accusations against innocent persons which would be libelous if published elsewhere." Stans filed a $5 million suit against O'Brien. Sept. 15-A federal grand jury indicted seven persons on charges of conspiring to break into Democratic headquarters. In· addition to the five arrested.in the raid, they included two former Nixon aides: G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt Jr. The indictment alleged burglary and possession of eavesdropping devices. Sept. 19-The seven men pleaded innocent and were released on bonds ranging from $10,000 to $50,000. Sept. 29-The Washington Post said Mitchell controlled a secret furid fluctuating from $350,000 to $700,000: used for gathering information about the Democrats. It named Stans as one of four other persons authorized to approve payments. A campaign committee spokesman said there was no truth to the story. Oct. 2-Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III defended the FBI investigation of the affair, denying that any political pressure was applied. Oct. 5-Nixon was asked at a news conference why his administration did not "make a clean breast about what you were trying to get done at the Watergate?" The President replied that decision had been made at a lower level, and that the FBI probe made its investigation of the Alger Hiss case look like "a Sunday School exercise." He said he would not comment further because the case was before the courts. AHred C. Baldwin III, a former FBI agent, said in an interview published by the Los Angeles Times that he had monitored telephone and other conversat~ons at Watergate for three weeks while employed by the GOP campaign committee, working from a room at a motor lodge across the street. Oct. 10-The Washington Post said the Watergate affair was part of a larger espionage and sabotage effort against the Democrats. Oct. 15-Time magazine said Los Angeles attorney Donald H. Segretti, previously named as a recruiter for an undercover spy operation against the Democrats, had been hired in September 1971, by Dwight Chapin, a deputy assistant to Nixon, and Gordon Strachan, a White · House staff assistant. The report said Segretti was paid more than $35,000 by Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney, out of funds kept in Maurice Stans's safe. The Washington Post q4oted California attorney Lawrence Young as saying Segretti had told him "Dwight Chapin was the person I reported to in Washington" and that he received spying assignments from Howard Hunt. Oct. 16-Press secretary Ziegler said the charges of espionage efforts involving White House aides were "hearsay, innuendo and guilt by association." Ziegler denied that Segretti ever worked for the White House. Oct. 25-Ziegler denied a Washington Post story which said H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff, was one of five persons authorized to approve payments from a secret fund used to finance political espionage. He said Haldeman never had access to such a fund and, in fact, such a fund never existed. pet. 26-Clark McGregor conceded there was a special Republican campaign fund controlled by top Nixon aides. He said the fund, amounting to as much as $350,000, had been disbursed for preliminary campaign t>lanning and, in one instance, to gather information on possible organized disruption of GOP rallies in New Hampshire. He denied that sabotage was involved or that Haldeman had any tie to the fund. Nov. 1-Bernard L. Barker, one of those indicted in the break-in, was found guilty in Miami of falsely notarizing a signature on a $25,000 check that had been traced to the Nixon campaign committee. He was given a 60-day suspended sentence. Dec. 8-Mrs. E. Howard Hunt was killed in a jetliner crash in Chicago. Her handbag contained $10,000 in $100 bills. Hunt said the money was intended for a business investment. Jan. 8-The trial of the seven Watergate defendants began. Jan. lQ-The chief prosecutor, Asst. U.S. Atty. Earl J. Silbert, said the government would show the incident was part of a well-financed espionage campaign against the Democrats. He said the campaign committee kept few if any records of a $235,000 fund, and the prosecution could account for only $50,000. Jan. 11-Howard Hunt pleaded guilty to all six charges against him and was freed on $100,000 bail pending sentencing. Jan. 11-Tlte Justice Department charged the Committee for Re-Election of the President with eight criminal violations of election financing law in failing .to record and report $31,000 that it had allegedly given Liddy. Jan. 15-Four more defendants pleaded guilty: Bernard L. Barker, Frank A. Sturgis. Eugenio Martinez and Virgilio R. Gonzalez. All denied that pressure had been put on them by higher-ups, or money offered them, to plead guilty. Jan. 29-The White House confirmed that Dwight Chapin was leaving as Nixon's appointments secretary, but said it was his own decision and not linked to any political espionage activity. Jan. 30-G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord were convicted by a jury of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping. Feb. 2-Judge John J. Sirica said at a bail hearing he was not satisfied that all the facts had been produced at the trial. He set bond for Liddy and McCord at $100,000 each. Feb. 7-The Senate voted 70 to 0 toestablish a seven-man special committee to conduct an investigation. Feb. 28-L. Patrick Gray, at a hearing on his nomination to be FBI director, acknowledged that extensive records of the break-in investigation had been made available to the White House. He said John W. Dean III, a presidential counsel conducting a separate inquiry, "asked him to give us what we had to date." He said Dean ordered Hunt's office safe emptied three days after Hunt was arrested for the Watergate break-in, and the papers were not turned over to the FBI until a week later. March 2-Nixon told a news conference he considered it improper for him to comment on the Watergate case while it was in the courts. He noted that Dean's investigation had indicated that no one on the White House staff had any knowledge of the affair. He said he would not permit his counsel, •Dean, to testify before Congress, but that information would be supplied to committees. March 12-In a policy statement on executive privilege, Nixon said members and former members of his personal staff would normally refuse to testify formally before committees of Congress. March 13-The Senate Judiciary Committee invited Dean to testify at its hearings on Gray's nomination. Dean wrote back the next day that he would not appear, but he offered to accept and reply to written questions. March 15-Nixon reaffirmed his stand against an appearance by Dean saying lie felt it his duty to defend the separation of powers. He said .. he 'would welcome a court test if the Senate wished to press the issue. March 18-Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., DN.C., chairman of the Watergate investigating committee, said he would seek the arrest of anyone, including White House aides, who refused to testify. March 2Q-Gray told the Judiciary Committee he was under new orders from Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst not to discuss the Watergate case at hearings on his nomination. The administration also overruled Gray's offer to open the FBI's Watergate files to any senator who asked to examine them. March 22-Gray testified that Dean probably lied to FBI agents investigating the case. March 23-Five Watergate defendants were sentenced provisionally to maximum sentences-35 years for Hunt and 40 years each for Barker, Sturgis, Martinez and Gonzalez. All had pleaded guilty. Liddy was sentenced to from six years, eight months to 20 years. Judge Sirica recommended that they cooperate fully with the grand jury and the Senate investigato~. Bank records showed that Bc.rker deposited Ute check April20, along with'A.K · Mr f~ur : checks totaling $89,000 from a "' ' • lawyer in Mexico. On April 24 he withPress Secretary, give me some ·answers!~ 'If 1 knew aaaout the Watergate Caper, what am I doing in the White House?' drew $25,000 in the form of a check drawn to himseH. When Barker and the four other men were arrested authorities found they had ·53 $100 bills, traced through serial numbers to Barker's bank account. Aug. 8-Maurice Stans, in charge· of finances for Nixon's campaign, denied tbat money intended for the campaign had helped to finance the Watergate break-in. Stans reportedly told investigators the $25,000 check had been exebanged by G. Gordon Liddy, finance counsel, for $25,000 in cash which was deposited in the campaign treU.ury. . · . . Ancl If I dlcln't know a ... v.lll aHalr•••• '•• What am I doing In the White Kouse?'
May 4, 197 3 Clarion Defender 3 Hatfield on Nixon Demo offices Brooke Believes Nixon ~as Aware Of Watergate Ratd WASHINGTON The . h I g y campaign from the Pres1dent. believed Nixon did not have C ron 0 0 Sen. Edward W. Brooke, but he added it was "difflcult ·'any specific knowledge" of R-Mass., says he finds it "in- for me to understand that they plans to bug the Democratic conce1vable" that President could." headquarters last June. Mark 0 . Hatfield. R-Ore.• accused the Nixon administratioll Sunday of "arrogantly and blithely" ignoring laws in both the Watergate case and in U.S. bombing of Cambodia. Nixon's political subordinates WEICKER DISAGREES "I have complete faith in the He said that revelations in the Watergate case erode public confidence in how much the federal government sticks to the nation's laws. would not have told him about However. another Reoubli- fact. tha ~ the revelations came plans to raid the Democrats' can senator, Lowell P.· Wei- as a real shock to the PresiWatergate headquarters. cker Jr., Conn., disagreed with dent,'' Weicker sa1d in a CBS of Watergate The Republican senator's remarks came Sunday as Wh1te House sources indicated Nixon would announce - perhaps within a few days' time - the resignations of a number of his key staffers who have been caught up by the Watergate affair. Brooke. Weicker, a member of radio mterview in New York. the Senate Select Committee Brooke was interv1ewed on .. At the same time... said Hatfield. "the Constitution is flaunted by military actions taken in Southeast Asia. Such arrogance by the administration cannot be tolerated... investigating the affair, said he NRC's "Meet the Press." James W. McCord, another of those convicted, said in a letter to Sirica that others had escaped in the Watergate raid, alleged perjury occurred during the trial and said political pressure was brought on him and the others to plead guilty and remain silent. The Los Angeles Times said that McCord, in a private session with chief counsel Samuel Dash of the Senate committee, had ,said Dean and Jeb Stuart Magruder, former deputy director of the re-election committee, had prior knowledge of the Watergate spying operation. A federal grand jury probing the political espionage tangle scheduled another session in the process of buildmg a case that could lead soon to the indictments of a· half-dozen or more persons on charges of obstructing justice. Women Smoking More Than Men "For over 50 days, our B52s have rained bombs upon the villages and hamlets of Cambodia while the administration blitherly ignores constitutional restrains and congressional laws. ·· Magruder, now with the Commerce Department, denied any prior ~owledge; Ziegler denied "any prior knowledge on the part of Mr. Dean with the Watergate affair." March 28-Congressional sources reported that McCord-also said, on a hearsay basis, that Mitchell was another who had _prior knowledge of the Watergate conspiracy. Mitchell denounced the report as scandalous. March 27-29-A number of Republicans in Congress urged White House cooperation in resolving the co~ troversy, including testimony by Dean. March 30-A source close to the Senate NIXON WARNED The Washington Post said. that "highly reliable sources in the executive branch" reported that President was warned as early as last December by members ·of his own staff that Presidential aides were deeply involved in case. The sources said Nixon was told on several occasions that fonner Attorney General John M. Mitche11 and White House counsel John W. Dean III probably were deeply involved in both the Watergate affair and its coverup. SAN FRANCISCO Former U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry, the official who labeled cigarettes as dangerous to health, predicted that women smokers will soon outnumber men with the habit. Dr. Terry said men giving up the smoking habit outnumber women by three to one with women more likely to back· slide, possibly, he said because they tend to gain weight after quitting. He predicted at a news conference the smoking population would be predominrantly fe. ma1e within five years. investigation reported McCord had said N1xon responded by saying presidential aide H.R. Haldeman had to "Give me some evidence." one Despite medical warnings that smoking can cause can· cer, heart disease and circula· tion problems, Terry said "more youngsters are starting smoking younger and are smoking more." be aware of the Watergate operation. source said, according to The April 3-Judge Sirica sentenced Liddy Post. Nixon reportedly pointed to an additional maximum 18 months in out that Dean and Mitchell had jail for refusing to obey an order to denied any involvement. testify about Watergate to a grand jury "This is particularly true after being granted immunity from Brooke said that Nixon's among girls. We're concerned prosecution. a 1de s "conceivably" could about this - about the lack, April4-The Senate investigating panel have concealed the espionage apparently of a convincing apsaid that "as of this time it has received proach to the young." no evidence of any nature" linking White Terry, here for a series of House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman to American Cancer Society political espionage. Sen. Lowell P. Nz·xon meetings, said that in a fourWeicker Jr., R-Conn., had said Halde- year period up to 1972, smokman must have kno~ of the conspiracy, ing among boys ages 112-17 inand u~ged that he res1gn. . . creased slightly from 111.5 to . April 5-Gray asked that hi!' nomma- lU per cent. smoking among ti?n to be IM:rman~nt FBI director be I h t girls in the same age group, Wlthd~awn; NlXondldS?- . 11tpeac men • jumped from 6.2 to 11.' per Apnl 11-The Washington Post satd , . McCord had confirmed that he testified cent, he said. to the grand jury he was told that transcripts of wiretapped Democratic conversations were · hand-carried to Mitchell. April 1:7-Nixon, without disclosing details, said there have been "major developments" pointing toward the truth in the Watergate affair. He said he would suspend immediately any federal employe indicted. In a statement read to newsmen, he·said any White House aides summoned to testify would do so, while reserving the right to invoke executive privilege on some specific questions. Ziegler said this statement rendered "inoperative" all the President's previous statements about the case. April 18-The Washington Post said Magruder had told federal prosecutors that Mitchell and Dean approved and helped plan the Watergate bugging. The story was attributed to sources at the campaign committee and the White House which declined comment. April 19-Mitchell called the report nonsense and said "this gets a little sillier as it goes along." Dean issued a statement saying he would not be made the scapegoat. Ziegler, whose office Dean had bypassed, said Nixon was looking for the truth, not scapegoats. Kleindienst said he had withdrawn from the investigation because it has turned up information about personal friends and associates. Court papers were filed saying an unidentified. low-level employe of the Nixon campaign had been ordered to pick up eight cartons of records from the White House complex one day after the breakin. A lawyer said they included plans to bug the Watergate. Sources close to the Senate investigation said Justice Department sources told them indictments are expected shortly against Magruder, Dean, Mitchell and five others. April 20-Mitchell testified before the grand jury for about three hours. Afterward, he said he had heard discussion of wiretapping plans in the 1972 campaign but had given them ''absolute, final disapproval. · I NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. - Sen. Barry M. Goldwater said last night that he would "expect impeachment proceedings" if it is shown that President Nixon knew or llad been "dish o n e s t" about t h e Watergate bugging case. · But the Arlzon a Republican senator, the 1964 G 0 P candidate f o r President, emphasized h e d i d not believe Nixon "has withh e 1 d anything." H• said he did n o t believe the President h a d SENATOR GOLDWATER prior knowledge. He made his remarks at a news conference at Southeast Massachusetts University. "If it's been shown that the Pres· ident did know about it (Watergate)," Goldwater told a news conference, "then it's done real damage. And if it goes that far, I would expect impeachment proceedings." Asked to clarify his remarks, Goldwater continued: "I'd have to know more about it than I know now. The impeachment of a President is just not something that's done willy-nilly. "If it was shown that the President has been .at all dishonest about this, then I think the impeachment would certainly come. Whether ·I would vote for it or not, I couldn't aay." "I don't thin·~ the President has withheld anything," he repeated. Asked if the President did not have prior knowledge but instead covered up reports of wrongdoing, Goldwater said, "I think that coverup is worse than prior knowledge." Wallace Honors Black POW EUFAULA, ALi\. - Gov. George C. Wallace, who once vowed tomaintain "segregation forever" in Alabama welcomed a black former prisoner of war home and appointed him an honorary lieutenant colonel in the Ala:bama National Guard. "We are going to realize the American dream of peace and prosperity for all Americans, regardless of who they are," Wallace told Army Staff Sgt. Thomas J. Davis,. 25. The g9bvernor made DaVis an honorary guard lieutenant colonel, telling him, "As far as I'm ooncerned you are a colonel. God Bless you." Kennedy Calls for Tax Change WASHIINGTON - Sen. Edward Kennedy, M'ass., called for a "w.holesale" change in the nation's tat laws and an end to the loopholes enjoyed only by the wealthy few. But Kennedy rejected proposals to close all loopholes, geneta.ting an estimated $77 billion in revenue, because "probably the vast major·ity goes fur benefits and a('tivities that should be encouraged by any standard." Instead. Kennedy told the House Ways and Means Committee, tax reform should roncentrate ·on the "loopholes, incentives. shelters. and safe harbors for the few who have the wealth and expert advice to profit from such provisions." HEW Enforcing Desegregation WASIDNGTON- A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to postpone deadline for beginning federal legal action t() bar U.S. fun98 from school districts in 17 states deemed to be making ~ufficient progress in desegregation. The refusal of eight appeals judges to delay the timetable means that the Department of .. :Health, Education and Welfare must send notices of compliance hearings to li16 elementary and secondary school distriets and ask 85 other school systems to explain their racial statistics. Roosevelt Seeks Reconciliation NEW YORK -Elliott Roosevelt said he would welcome rE>roncihation with Ius brothers and sisters who havE> criticized him for pUblishing details of their parents. Franklin and Eleanor Roo~ 'Celt. EWott in an article published in the LadiE-s Hom~ .Tournai described an affair between the late presidt'll't and his ~cret~ry. The other Roosevelt children denied the story and said they "disassociated" themselves with their brother. 'I Never Stopped:' Dr. Barnard OAPE TOWN, SO. AFR. - Dr. Christian Barnard, who per· formed the first heart transplant, said South African doctors were prepared to let terminal cardiac patients die rather than refer them to surgeons for heart transplant QPerations. My team has never stopped doing ~eart transplants," Barnard tnld newsmen. "The reaS()n why we have not done one for six months is that we Jitve not had a patient. If we do have the patient, doctors do mot mform us when a po-;sible donor is available." Death Penalty Could Be Upheld W\ASHJINGTON -· Congress has been told by an administration spokesman that President Nixon's proposal to restore the dealth ·penalty under certain rircumstances st<~nds an "excellent" chance of being upheld bv the SupremE' Court. Robert G. Dixon, an ass1stant attorney general. outlined the death penalty ·proposal in an appearanre before the Senate Criminal La·ws subcomtmttee. He explained the death penalty would only apply in cases of treaS()n. sarbota!'(P. espionage and murder. Dixon argued the proposal. whiC'h Nixon made in his crime message to Congress, represents "sound Je,gisl<ttive penal policy" <tnd would "stand an excellent rhanre of twing sustained by the Supreme Court." Nevada Has 'No Fault' Divorce CARlSON OITY , -;?' Tile. Nevad-a Senate approved, 13-7 a bill providing for "no fault" rtivorr!'. Sen. Carl Dodge, said the biH removes the arrusatory grounds ''where you have to manufacture a case. The nf>w way would be much more satisfactory." The bill proVJdes thP only grounds for di-vorce would be insanity, separation for more than one year and incompatibility. Phone Cost (;oing Up OL YIMPI:A, WASH. - The dime phone call iS about to go the wa.y of the nickel cigar. ThE' Washington State Public Utilities Comnussion agreed that Pacific Northwest Bell could charge 15 Mnts for pay telephone calls instead of the current 10 cents. The hike was included m a general rate increase for the phone com· pany. Tel-Med A New Medical Aid SA!N DIEGO - A telephone servic-e to give callers ba~c education on medical problems has been started in San Diego County. Called Tel-Med. thE' system provides free tapes Information concerning medical anrt related problems. Residents merely call the :tuplber, ask fQr a specific ·tape and listen to carefully selected information on the subject. General topics concern childrel), women, cancer, drug abuse, cigarettes, tooth care, alcohol abuse and heart disease. 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... Full text of Nixon's address WASffiNGTON - (AP) - Here is the text of President Nixon's nationally broadcast address last night: I w.ant to talk to you tonight f·rom my heart on a subject of deep concern to every American. In recent months, members of my administration and officials of the Committee for the Re-election of the Presi- .dent - including some of my closest friends and mo~t trusted aides - have been charged with involvement m what has come to be known as the Watergate affair. These include charges of illegal activity during the preceding 1972 Presidential election and charges that responsible officials participated in efforts to cover up that illeegal activity. The inevitable result or these charges has been to raise serious questions about the integrity of the White House itself. Tonight I wish to address those questions. Last June 17, while I was in Florida trying to get a few days' rest after my visit to Moscow, I first .learned from news reports of the Watergate break-in. I was appalled at this senseless, illegal action, and I was shocked to learn that employes of the re-election committee were apparently among those guilty. I immediately ordered an investigation by appropriate government authorities. On September 15, as you will recall, indictments were brought against seven defendants in the case. Stories discounted at first As the investigations went forward, I repeatedly asked those conducting the investigation whether there was any reason to believe that members of my administrati-:.n were · in any way involved. I received repeated assurances that there were not. Because of these continuing reassurances - because I believed the reports I was gettlng, because I had faith in the persons from whom I was getting them - ·I discounted the stories in the press that appeard to implicate members of my administration or other officials of the campaign committee. Until March of this year, I remained convinced that the denials were true and that the charges of involvement by members of the White House staff were false. The comments I made during this periU4, and the comments made by my press secretary on my behalf, were based on the information provided to us at the time we made those comments. However, new information then came to me which persuaded me that there was a real possibility that some of these charges were true, and suggesting further that there had been an effort to conceal the facts· both from the public, from you and from me. As a result, on March 21, I personally assumed the responsibility for coordinating intensive new inquiries into the matter, and I personally ordered those conducting the investigations to get all the facts and to report them directly to me, right here in this office. I again ordered that all persons in the government or at the re-election committee should cooperate fully with ·the F. B. I., the prosecutors and thf] grand jury. I also ordered that anyone who refused to cooperate in telling the truth would be asked to resi8Jl from government service. And, with ground rules adopted that would preserve the basic constitutional separation of powers between the Congress and the presidency, I directed that' members of the White HOtlSe staff should appear and testify voluntarily under oath before the Senate committee investigating Watergate. •rruth should be fully brought out' I was detennined that we should get to the bottom of the matter, and that the truth should be fully brought out-no matter who was involved. At the same time, I was detennined not to take precipitous action, and to avoid, if at all possible, any action that would appear to reflect on innocent people. I wanted to be fair. But I knew that in the final analysis, the integrity of this office - public faith in the integriy of this office - would have to take priority over all personal considerations. Today, in one of the most difficult decisions of my presidency, I accepted the resignations of two of my closest associates in the White House - Bob Haldeman, John Ehrlichman - two of the finest public servants it has been my privilege to know. I want to express that in accepting these resignations, I mean to leave no implication whatever of personal wrongdoing on their part, and I leave no implication tonight of implication on the part of others who have been charged in this matter. But in matters as sensitive as guarding the integrity of our democratic process, it is essential not oaly that rigorous lega) and ethical standards be observed, but also that the public, you have total confidence that they are both being observed and enforced by those in authority and particularly by the President of the United States. They agreed with me that this move was necessary in order o restore that confidence. Because Attorney General Kleindienst - thQugh a distinguished public servant, my personal friend for 20 years, with no personal involvement whatever in this matter - has. been a close personal and professional associate of some of those who are involved in this case, he and I both felt that it was also necessary to name a new attorney general. The counsel to the President, John Dean, has also resigned. As the new attorney general, I have today named Elliot Richardson, a man of unimpeachable integrity ~d .rigorously high principle. I have directed him to do every thing necessary to insure that the' Department of Justice has the confidence and trust of every law-abiding person in tbls country. Special prosecutor if needed I have given him absolute authority to make all decisions bearing upon the prosecution of the Watergate case and related matters. I have instructed him that if he should consider it approp~ate, he has the authority to name a special supervising prosecutor for matters arising out of the case. Whatever may apj>ear to have been the case before - whatever improper activitae& may yet be discovered in connection with this whole sordid affair - I want the American people, I want you to know beyond the shadow of a doubt that during my terms as President, justice will be pursued fairly, fully and impartially, no matter who is involved. This office is a sacred trust and I am determined to be worthy of that trust. Looking back at the history of this case, two questions arise: How could it have happened? Who i s to blame? Political commentators have correctly observed that during my 27 years in politics I have always previously' insisted on nmning my own campaigns for office. But 1972 presented a very dift't:rent situation. On both domestic and foreign policy, 1972 was a year of crucially important decisions, of intense negotiations, of vital new directions, particularly in working toward the goal which has been my overriding concern throughout by political career - the goal of bringing peace to America and peace to the world. That is why I decided, as the ·1972 campaign approached, that the presidency should come first and politics 11econd. To the maximum extent possible, therefore, I sought to delegate campaign operations, and to remove the day-to-day campaign decisions from the ?resident's office and from the White House. I also, as you recall, severely limited the number of my own campaign appearances. Who, the1;1, is to blame for what liappened in this case? For specific criminal actions by specific individuals, those who committed those actions must, of course, bear the liability and pay the penalty. For the fact that alleged improper actions took place within the White House or within my campaign organization, the easiest course would be for me to blame those to who I delegated the responsibility to run the campaign. But that would be a cowardly thing to do. I will not place the blame on subordinates - on people whose zeal exceeded their judgment, and who may have done wrong in a cause they deeply believed to be right. In any organization, the man at the top must bear the responsibility. That responsibility, therefore, belongs here, in this office. I accept it. And I pledge to you tonight, from this office, that I will do everything in my power to ensure that the guilty are brought to justice and that such abuses are purged from our political processes in the years to come, long after I have left this office. •system brought facts to light' Some people, quite properly appalled at the abuses that occurred, will say that the Watergate demonstrates the bankruptcy of the American political system. I believe precisely the opposite is true. Watergate represented a series of illegal acts and bad judgments by a number of individuals. It was the system that has brought the facts to light and that will bring those guilty to justice - a system that in this case has included a determined grand jury, honest prosecutors, a courageous judge, John Sirica, and a vigorous free press. It is essential now that we place our faith in that system - and especially in the judicial system. It is essential that we let that process go forward, respecting those safeguards that are established to protect the innocent as well as to convince the guilty. It is essential that in reacting to the excesses of others, we not fall into excesses ourselves. It is also e:JSential that we not be so distracted by events such as this that we neglect the vital work before us, before this nation, before America, at a time of critical importance to America and the world. Since March, when I first learned that the Watergate affair might in fact be far more serious than I had been led to believe, it has claimed far too much of my own time and attention. Whatever may now transpire in the case - whatever the actions of the grand jury, whatever the outcome of any eventual trials - I must now tum my full attention once aga:in to the larg~r duties of this office. I owe it to this great office that I hold, and I owe it to you - to our country. I know that as attorney general, Elliot Richardson will be both fair and fearless in pursuing this case wherever it leads. I am confident that with him in charge, justice will be done. Other 'wort< that cannot wait' There is vital work to be dune toward our goal of a lasting structure of peace in the world - work that cannot wait. Work that I must do. Tomorrow, for example, Chancellor Brandt of West Germany will visit the White House for talks that are a vital element of "The Year of Europe," as 1973 has been called. We are already preparing for the next Soviet-American summit meeting, later this year. . _ This is also a year in which we are seekmg to negotiate a mutual and balanced reduction of armed forces m Europe, which will reduce our defense budget and allow us to have funds for other purposes at homP so desperately ' needed. It is the year when the United States and Soviet negotiators will seek to work out the second and C\'en more important round of our talks on limiting nuclear arms, and of reducmg the danger of a nuclear war that would destroy civilization as we know it. It is a year in which we co~front the difficult tasks of maintaining pean' in Southeast Asia, and in the potentially explosive Middle East. There is also vital work to be done right here in America - to insure prosperity, and· that means. a g~od job ,for everyone who wants to ~ork; to control mfl_attOn that I know worries every houseWJfe, everyone who tnes to balance a family budget in America; to set in motion new and better ways of ensuring progress toward a better life for all Americans. . When I think of this office - of what it means - . T think of all the things that I want to accomplish for tlus nation-of all the things l want to accomplish for you. Goals for second term On Christmas Eve, during my terrible personal ·ordea.l of the renewed bombing of North Vietnam, which after _12 years of war finally helped to bring America peace With honor I sat down just before midnight. I wrote out some ol my g~als for my second term as President. Let me read them to you. "To make it possible for our children, and for our children's children, to live in a world of peace. "To make this country be more than ever a land of opportunity-of equal opportunity, full opportunity for ev· ery American. "To provide jobs for all who can work, and generous help for all who cannot. . . . . "To establish a climate of decency, and CIVIlity, m which each person respects the feelings and the diginity and the God-given rights of his neighbor. "To make this a land in which each person can dare to dream, can live in his dream-not in fear, but in hopeproud of his community, proud of his country, proud of what America has meant to himself and to the world." These are great goals. I believe we can, we must, work for them. We can achieve them. But we cannot achieve these goals unless we dedicate ourselves to another goal. 'No whitewash at White House' We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White Rouse. We must reform our political process-ridding it not only of the violations of the law, but ~!so of t~e ugly mo,b violence and other inexcusable campaign tactics that ha\e been to~ often practiced and too readily accepted in the past-including those that may have been a response by one side to the excesses or expected excesses of the other side. Two wrongs do no.t make a right. I have been in public life for more than a quarter of a century. Like any other calling, politics bas good_ ~pi~, and bad people. And let me tell you, the great maJO~ty m politics, in the Congress, in the federal governme~t, m the state government, are good people. I know that It c~ be very easy, under the intensive pressures of a camp~tgn, for even well-intentioned people to fall into shady tacticsto rationalize this on the grounds that what is at stake is of such importance to the nation that the end justifies the means. And both of our great parties have been guilty of such tactics in the past. In recent years, however, the campaign excesses that have occurred ·on all sides have provided a· sobering demonstration of how far this false doctrine can take us. The lesson is clear: America, in its political campaigns, must not again fall into the _trap of letting the end, however great that end is, justify the means. I urge the leaders of both political parties, I urge citizens, all of you, everywhere, to join in working toward. a new set of standards, new rules and procedures - to ensure that future elections will be as nearly free of such abuses as they possibly can be made. This is my goal. I ask you to join in making it America's goal. '1 ,461 days-no more, no less' When I was inaugurated f(Jf a second term this past January 20, I gave each member of mY cabi~et and each member of my senior White House staff a special four-year calendar, with each day marked to show the number of days remaining to the administration. In the inscription on each calendar, I wrote th~se words: "The .presidential term which begins today consists of 1 461 days - no more, no less. Each can be a day of stre~gthening and renewal for AI!Ierica: ea~h can ad,d depth and dimension to the Amencan expenence. If we strive together, if we make the most of the challenge and the opportunity that these days offer us, they can sta~d out as great days for America, and great moments m the history of the world." I looked at my own calendar this morning up at Camp David as I was working on this speech. It showed exactly 1,361 days remaining in my term. I want these to b~ the best days in America's history, because I love Amenca. T deeply believe that America is the hope of the world, and. I know that irt. the quality and wisdom of the leadership America gives lies the only hope for millions of people all over the world, that they can live their lives in peace and freedom. We must be worthy of that hopt, in every sense of the word. Tonight, I ask for your prayers to help ~e in everything that I do throughout the days of my presidency to be worthy of their hopes and of yours. God bless America and God bless each and everyone of you. 'Just Co11tirtue To Give Me Hell ...
Clarion Defender 5 Here's One Way to Fight City Hall By /Jmwlrl .fmrsmr ,\,). Timr.< .'ir,.,.;,.,. Camdt>n, N .. f. THIS BLIGHTED CITY on thE' Delaware Ri\·er. the bat:k door ~o Philadelphia. has received an infusion of flamboyance and imagination that has left residents blinking. The new-found flair comes in the person of Major Coxson, a transplanted Philadelphian with a flashing smile who says he can tum run-down Camden .into a model cit;.•. Last vear the 43-vear-old Pntl'cpreneur "wanted to buy land and build a multimillion-dollar housing project here, but was rebuffed by City Hall. So he decided to take over City Hall and announced his candidacy for mayor. * * * FOR A campaign kickoff ret:ently, he rented the biggest nightclub in the area, the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, brought in the Supremes and the Temptations for ente1·tainment. and dispensed full-course steak dinners to 2300 people. He plans an encore at the Latin later this month as a "victory party," he said in an inten·iew at the Camden "White House." The party will be before the election, he said, because after the election he will be too busy correcting Camden's multitude of shortcomings to have time for fun. * * * CAMDEN, a city of 102,000, \Viii . vote for its mayor on May 8. Nine candidates are in the nonpartisan races. A runoff between the top two will be held June 12 if no one has a majority the first time around. Coxson is accustomed to succPss. The evidence includes his 11 RollsRoyces, Lincoln Continentals, Jaguars and other specially built cars loaded to the SL~n roofs with cobr televisions, phones, red leather, charcoal mouton carpeting, bulletproof glass and price tags up to $72,000. Even his two Volkswagens have Rolis-Royce ·grilles. His driveway in Cherry Hill winds for blocks through his four acres of woods before it reaches his swimming pool and whirlpool. The Coxsons moved to Cherry Hill a few years ago. * * * T 0 GIVE himself a Camden residence in time to run for mayor, Coxson bought a rundown house on once-elegant Cooper Street, spent $55,000 on redecorating, painted the house white, set it off with an Astroturf lawn and printed cards calling it the White House. He keeps enough Geoffrey Beene suits in the third-floor penthouse so he doesn't have to go to Cherry Hill to change for campaign coffee klatches. Callers at the White House find the diminutive candidate in his gold-carpeted office, behind a de3k big enough to all but obscure him if he ever forgot the wide-brimmed Stetson he wears indoors as well as out. * * * C OXSON SAID his family moved from his hometown of Uniontown, Pa., to Philadelphia so he and his brothers, Hosea and Israel. would not have to follow his fat her into ! he coal mines. While a teen-ager, Coxson started md operated shoeshine stands and car washes, He put the profits into used-!'ar lots, a new-ear agen!'~' , a ea1·-leasing business and other enterprises. His worst brush with the la\v, rrsulting in seve1·a1 months of residen•·e in the federal penitl'nt iary in Lewisburg, "·as for failun· to repa~; bank loans on l'a1·s lw sold. Ilr sa vs ht' did this in retaliation \\'lwn his ri·anchisp was re\·okC'd al't('l' thl' manufal't un't·'s region a I represPnt at i\·e ka mect he was black. His prison I'C'!'ord appears to be no handicap in Camd(·n. one of the cl'imf' capitals of the countt·y. N OW TH~ T ~~ h~s every~hi~g he wants m hte, Coxson says, he \Yould like to devote his time to putting Camden, Cherry Hill's neighbor, back on its feet. He says the city's plight is so bad that "if the devil offered to come to help, they should send him a ticket." "I'm no priest," he says, "but I'm not the devil either. 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