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...faith in the political system. As Los Angeles Bureau Chief Richard Duncan reported: "Candidates are human and frail, and none will save our country singlehanded, but they are generally a clear measure more thoughtful, able and honest than the professionally apathetic citizen who refuses to vote for the 'lesser evil...
...Insurance. There was another, lesser, but still bothersome problem that faced Nixon, according to Ziegler: the ailing former President has no medical insurance. As Chief Executive, Nixon chose not to enroll in the Government's health-insurance plan, which could have been transferred to a private insurer when he left office. He could have used a military hospital, but Lungren apparently insisted on admitting his patient to Long Beach Memorial, probably because it contains the elaborate technical equipment that Nixon's case might require. The rate for Nixon's room was $90 a day until...
...crusades are always vulnerable to political pressures, a point underscored when the Nixon White House prodded the Justice Department to permit ITT to keep Hartford Fire Insurance Co. despite the Administration's initial, loudly voiced opposition to conglomerate mergers. ITT did agree in 1971 to sell off some lesser firms, but it has still not disposed of its 52% interest in Avis, Inc.; last week the Justice Department moved to appoint a trustee to force divestiture of the car-rental firm...
...Rather, whose acerbic press-conference quizzing of Nixon outraged the former President's defenders, and his lesser-known colleague, Gary Paul Gates, make a brisk and balanced case for their assertion. Nixon, they write, had an obsessive fear of a political threat from the liberal Ted Kennedy. The President attempted to blunt this threat with his own flock of political moderates: Arthur Burns and Pat Moynihan in the White House, former Governors George Romney, Wally Hickel and John Volpe, as well as Robert Finch, in the Cabinet. But Kennedy's accident in July 1969 eliminated Nixon...
...faces numerous technical problems, among them the possible absence of Richard Nixon; defense lawyers are sure to argue that the former President is vital to their case. Neal must also persuade jurors that Nixon's pardon is no reason to let his former aides go free. The two lesser defendants, former Assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian and C.R.P. Attorney Kenneth Parkinson, will probably claim that they had limited roles and a lack of knowledge about what was really going on. John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman and John Enrlich-man appear to be in much weaker positions, especially if their attorneys...