MRS NIXON ON TAPES
(N.Z Press Assn—Copyright) NEW YORK, May 20. President Nixon’s wife has revealed to a friend of 30 years standing that she strongly disapproves of her husband’s release of his transcripts of tapes relating to the Watergate case, “People Magazine” reports.
The magazine says that Mrs Patricia Nixon told Helene Drown, an ex-school teacher she has known for more than 30 years, that the tapes could be compared with “private love letters” that are intended for “one person alone.” The magazine also quotes Mrs Nixon about the news media’s handling of the case "It’s right out of the Merchant of Venice, they’re after the last pound of flesh.”
To relieve her tension, the magazine reports, Mrs Nixon joked with her friend about how the late Presidents Lyndon Johnson, with his Texas twang; and John F. Kennedy, with his Boston accent, might have sounded erupting into their favourite “deleted expletives” on the tapes.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33539, 21 May 1974, Page 13
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