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...began when the President decided to greet well-wishers after his televised news conference at Disney World. Watched by two pool reporters-William J. Eaton of the Chicago Daily News and Matthew Cooney of Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.-Nixon came to a man and a young boy in the airport crowd. As Eaton and Cooney later told it, Nixon asked the man whether he was the boy's "mother or grandmother." Apparently puzzled, the man replied, "Neither." Peering for a closer look, the President replied, "Of course not," and gave what Eaton and Cooney described as "a light slap...
...Eaton, however, mentioned the "slap" to Wall Street Journal Reporter Fred L. Zimmerman and demonstrated it as a stinging blow to the cheek. Zimmerman later checked details with Cooney...
...rumors of the incident spread Cooney and Eaton were persuaded by colleagues the next day to write up a supplemental account. They prefaced it with the disclaimer that they still thought the event "insignificant." But recalling Eaton's demonstration, Zimmerman filed a story to the Journal for the issue of Monday, Nov. 19, saying that Nixon had "soundly slapped" the man's face. In a story for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, James Deakin quoted from the pool account but added a detail that he had personally learned from Cooney and Eaton: "Reporters heard...
...involved in the incident was finally located: Air Force Master Sergeant Edward Kleizo, 50, who, immediately after the event, had told Eaton "the President slapped me." But he gave CBS a slightly different version two days afterward. What Nixon had actually asked, Kleizo recalled, was "something like, 'Are you the boy's grandmother or grandfather?' "-a more understandable slip of the tongue than the total confusion of gender reported originally. "Then," Kleizo continued, "he looked back and tapped me affectionately on the cheek, sort of like putting shaving lotion...
THURSDAY: Thanksgiving Day Parades. Gimbels, Hudson's, Macy's, Eaton's, et al. The traditional Captain Kangaroo and Miss America look at American commercialism rampant. CH. 4. 7. 9 a.m. Color. 3 hrs. Live...