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Haig, the White House chief of staff, instructed Presidential Aide Steve Bull to stop recording the precise times of Nixon's movements. The yacht Sequoia became Nixon's favorite refuge as his prospects blackened; his enemies could be left behind as he headed down the Potomac. Perhaps that is why the President was so enraged when he found the hated newsmen and photographers waiting at the Anacostia River dock when he drove up and when he sailed back in. "Get the goddam press out of here," he would say. He wondered out loud to David Eisenhower whether...
...important battle for the environmental movement. There are strong arguments against turning this valley into a bustling resort. Visitors protest that its beauty is unique and should be preserved in an increasingly developed Sierra Nevada. A resort in the valley could also have an adverse impact on nearby Sequoia National Park, which virtually surrounds Mineral King. For example, development could force wildlife out of the valley into the park. A prime candidate for such an exodus is the Mineral King deer herd, which now winters where Disney plans a parking lot, migrates along the planned route of a cog railway...
THOSE FIGHTING the Mineral King plan are concentrating on legal and legislative remedies. Previous experience in the U.S. Congress offers little encouragement; legislation adding Mineral King to Sequoia National Park, where it should have been all along, has been consistently introduced and ignored. This year three identical bills in the House have attracted over 65 cosponsors, but supporters have been unable to get subcommittee hearings in the House or any sympathy from the two Democratic Senators from California, Alan Cranston and John V. Tunney...
...clustered around the President at the close of his remarks, one onlooker jokingly suggested that Ford economize by firing Kennerly and hiring Susan. "That wouldn't save much," she shot back between pictures. "I don't come cheap." Her reputation thus defended, she boarded the presidential yacht Sequoia the following night to photograph the first floating Cabinet meeting on record. "That was longer than Gone With the Wind," remarked Actress Joanne Woodward following a film tribute to her and Husband Paul Newman in Manhattan last week. The program, which featured clips from 27 movies by Woodward and Newman...
According to Bruce Kilgore, chief architect of the Park Service's new policy, one of the parks in which natural fires would have done the most good is one where fires have been rigorously controlled: California's Sequoia National Park. There, if natural fires had been allowed to sweep through the area's firs while they were young, the trees would have burned without involving the great redwoods. But now the fir forest has grown so tall that the tops of the firs reach the Sequoias' lowest branches. Should a fire sweep through the firs...