Nixon keen to teach politics seminars

Press, 3 July 1978, Page 8

Nixon keen to teach politics seminars

Hyden (Kentucky)

Mr Richard Nixon would like to teach seminars on politics and the Presidency, according to friends. They said Mr Nixon, despite reports to the contrary, had no plans to re-enter politics or to seek an ambassadorship, but would like to teach at college-level seminars.

For the people in the heart of Kentucky’s Appalachian region, Mr Nixon might as well be a Presidential candidate again. They saw his appearance to dedicate an athletic complex in his name as a possible launching pad for 1980. “Nixon’s the man — 1980” was the slogan on the sign

carried by the spectators who watched his arrival at the local airport on Saturday. Politics or not, it was clear that in the aftermath of publishing his memoirs, Mr Nixon has been more visible and apparently has decided to foresake his virtual isolation of the four years. His other recent public appearances included attendance at the funeral of Senator Hubert Humphrey in Washington. He also went on a vacation to Key Biscayne, Florida, and New York, was host for a party for former Vietnam prisoners of war at his San Clemente estate, and attended a

recent baseball game at Anaheim, California. Crowds of fiercely loyal supporters, many sporting "I like Nixon” buttons, were on hand to greet the former President. The scenic, eastern Kentucky coalmining county of Hyden has been staunchly Republican and conservative since the American Civil War.

The purpose of his visit was to dedicate Hyden’s new Richard M. Nixon recreation centre.

At the airport, Mr Nixon gave himself a few pats on the back by claiming he had ended the Vietnam war, “brought Out boys home,” and had ended conscription.