Nixon back in party politics

Press, 29 August 1978, Page 9

Nixon back in party politics

Jnzpa San Clemente (California) The disgraced American i President. Richard Nixon, held a fund-raising reception lat his home at the week-end | for Orange County Republicans, the former President’s ifirst tentative step back into party politics. I An estimated 500 Republicans paid $250 each to I attend the party on the sunny lawns and around the pool at the oceanside estate: where Mr Nixon has been in isolation most of the time since he resigned in August,! 1974, under the threat of im-: peachment over Watergate. No members of the news; media were admitted to the reception. Orange County, south of Los Angeles, has long been a Republican stronghold and: particularly that of the conservative wing of the party. After Mr Nixon resigned, I local Republican women volunteered to help handle the I I vast amount of mail that I flowed into Casa Pacifica, i the Nixon residence. Since his TV interviews; | with David Frost and publi-i cation of his memoirs, Mr I I Nixon has been increasingly I moving back into public ’ appearances including his; (July speech at Hyden. Ken-: I'tucky, a Nixon stronghold , where he opened a school I gymnasium, named after him.