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Until he reaps such a cash bonanza, Nixon will probably remain in a financial bind. To help alleviate that, he has been considering selling his San Clemente property, which he once vowed would be presented to the U.S. public as a gift after his death and that of his wife. Daughters Julie and Tricia are reportedly urging their parents to return East, while Old Friend Bebe Rebozo has apparently suggested that the Nixons live near him on their Key Biscayne, Fla., property. The ex-President seems torn, because he also wants to be near research facilities for his long period...
...Like President Truman and President Lincoln before him, I found on my desk, where the buck stops, the urgent problem of how to bind up the nation's wounds. And I intend to do that...
...said that his thinking had been shaped in part by the views of his children and those of former Defense Secretary and Close Friend Melvin Laird, who had unsuccessfully tried to get Nixon to modify his hard-line stance. More over, Ford had concluded that his pledge to bind up the nation's wounds required a new approach. He explained: "You can't talk about healing unless you're going to use it in the broadest context." His choice of audience was equally deliberate. Said Ford: "I thought that the right audience would be an audience that...
Early on, Ford called in his staff -what there is of it-for a bull session. "I really want to bind up the wounds," he said. "If I'm going to do that, then I've got to reach those kids who dodged the draft or deserted. I'm not for unlimited amnesty. Deserters can't go home scot free when the kid next door might have been killed in Viet Nam. Can't we fashion some way to let them earn their way back?" The effects of this pronouncement, formalized in Ford...
...bind, caught in the middle: a Southerner at Harvard, and a Harvard student in the South. But I was at least forced out of my blind exclusion of Harvard and acceptance of everything I thought the South had, and I began the process of trying to figure out some way to combine the two. I began to see that people from New York weren't all alike--they became, in fact, my best friends--and that a lot of what they criticized about the South was true...