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...Hersh also told the receptive audience that former President Gerald R. Ford's pardon of Nixon was part of a "commitment" the two had agreed upon before Nixon resigned...
Former President Richard M. Nixon's move to open relations with China was a ploy to continue an immoral war in Vietnam, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh told a crowd of about 150 last night at the Kennedy School forum...
Among a series of accusations and revelations largely drawn form a book on the Nixon White House that he will release next fall. Hersh disclosed that Nixon traveled to China without any commitment from Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung that the two men would meet-a move Hersh said the former President made to draw voters' attention from the Vietnam...
...Does anyone here believe that he [Nixon] didn't have a commitment? I'm here to tell you that he had a commitment; the alternative would have been to impose a military government." Hersh said, though he later labeled the statement an opinion in response to a question from the audience...
...Nixon was sometimes drunk in the evenings and unable to deal with urgent matters. Hersh quotes former NSC aide Roger Morris: "There were many times when a cable would come in late and Henry would say, 'There's no sense waking him up-he'd be incoherent...