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...same ailment that President Nixon suffered from during his Middle East trip. An inflammation of a vein, it can be fatal if a blood clot breaks loose and travels to the lungs or brain...
...President's physician, Dr. Walter Tkach, underscored the importance that Nixon had attached to his foreign trips, and the determined - even incautious - way in which he had declined to delay them. Contrary to previous White House reports, said Tkach last week, the blood clot loose in the President's left leg "could have killed him." Tkach, who has been criticized for allowing the President to travel while suffering from phlebitis, had urged Nixon to go into a hospital in Salzburg, Austria, during the early stages of his first trip. The President refused, saying that he had an "obligation...
...sake but also to bolster his image as the indispensable President, the man best qualified to handle foreign affairs. Success now at the summit was so important to Nixon that he did not delay his trip despite the dangers to his health posed by the blood clot in his left leg. Yet as he bargained with the Soviets, the President could not show any sign of political weakness by seeming to give up too much and thereby anger the conservative Senators who would be his strongest defenders if the impeachment proceedings come to trial...
...pain had disappeared-Press Secretary Ron Ziegler said that Nixon likened it to that of a deep bruise-the President nonetheless had to elevate the leg on his plane and in the privacy of his quarters on the ground. While phlebitis can be dangerous, even fatal if the clot moves to the lungs or brain, aides insisted that Nixon's case was well under control...
Died. Murray M. Chotiner, 64, longtime adviser to Richard Nixon; of a blood clot resulting from an auto accident; in Washington, B.C. Alternately good-natured and blunt, Chotiner was a sharp Los Angeles criminal lawyer and a cunning, bare-knuckled politician who first met Nixon during the 1946 congressional campaign and advised him to depict his opponent, Jerry Voorhis, as an ally of Communism. Chotiner planned a similar strategy for Nixon's 1950 Senate race against Helen Gahagan Douglas. Chotiner advised Nixon at the time of his famous "Checkers" speech in 1952, but their relationship was temporarily dissolved...