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...said Richard Nixon last week as both he and the U.S. Congress dug in for a long and fierce struggle over whether the President should be removed from office. At the White House, Nixon told Conservative Columnist James J. Kilpatrick in a rare interview that after "long thought," he had resolved not to resign "under any circumstances...
That also was the report of Conservative Columnist James J. Kilpatrick, who had been invited into the Oval Office a few hours before for an exclusive hour-and-20-minute interview, the first of its kind for more than a year. Kilpatrick looked at the long Nixon fingers for tremors of the kind Kilpatrick sometimes gets himself...
Nixon was up on Kilpatrick. One recent column suggested Nixon was innocent of criminal acts. But after a more thorough reading of the transcripts, Kilpatrick wrote another column deploring the White House squalor. When the writer hit the President with a question about the tapes, Nixon said, "I suppose that is some of that amorality you were talking about yesterday...
...Once Kilpatrick mentioned Julie, who had faced a crowd of reporters in defense of her father. Nixon raised both arms, doubled his fists and then, after a few seconds of poignant silence, said one word: "Julie." It was as if she were a part of what keeps him going...
Eager to talk about his presidency, Richard Nixon last week took the unusual step of inviting Columnist James J. Kilpatrick of the Washington Star-News Syndicate to drop by the Oval Office. A Virginia conservative with a waspish wit, Kilpatrick has supported Nixon for years, although he did admit to feeling "shame, embarrassment, disgust, chagrin" after reading the full text of the White House tapes. The interview turned into a rambling, often self-serving monologue that lasted 80 minutes. The President's main points...