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Nixon secluded himself in Aspen Cabin, his favorite, rustic four-bedroom retreat, and summoned five aides: St. Clair, Haig, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler and Speechwriters Raymond Price and Patrick Buchanan. Arriving in the afternoon, they worked on the release of the confessional transcripts. Assembled in Laurel, the camp's main dining lodge, the distraught aides were diverted by larger worries. St. Clair and Buchanan saw the President's position as doomed and suggested that he must consider resigning. Haig and Ziegler shuttled between the two buildings, expressing these concerns. "I wish you hadn't said that," Nixon...
...with many people who visited me backstage that this was only because most of them had been unfamiliar with the term. What they had not realized was that here in America they had seen some of the greatest pantomimists of the century--Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy...those superb artists who created in the silent movie era, without benefit of the spoken word, a whole world of human prototypes in humorous, pathetic, tragic or hilarious situations in life--with which their audiences identified themselves...
...butterflies to untameable lions to dance-hall girls, in white-face, wearing a striped pullover and culotte, and a worse-for-wear opera hat topped with a red flower. But basically he and the Little Tramp--like the great Jean-Louis Barrault's Baptiste, and Keaton's Sailor and Laurel's Sad One--are blood brothers...
...least of his problems will be renegotiation with the U.S. of the Laurel-Langley Treaty, which is due to expire July 3. It allows Philippine sugar and other exports to enter the U.S. duty free. U.S. officials believe that Marcos will try to use the two big American military enclaves, Clark Air Force Base and Subic Bay naval base, as leverage in his negotiation of a new trade agreement-a linkage the U.S. does not accept...
...PHILIPPINEU.S. RELATIONS: The old special economic relationship [based on the Laurel-Langley Treaty] will terminate on July 3. Both governments agree there has to be a completely new understanding. The new terms should reflect self-reliance, economic development and security so we can develop economically without begging or relying on special privileges...