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...Anyone finding surcease of sorrow within the context of Mr. Nixon's news conference is one who, in my opinion, desires only to feel better and be calmed, preferring to ignore Nixon's clever political sem-anticisms by which he avoids any clear answers to questions addressed...
...schoolday habit: the herd march into the pews for an afternoon of fidgeting or perhaps nervously inventing sins, waiting for one's turn in the dark confessional and the familiar-if not quite inevitable-"three Our Fathers; three Hail Marys." Sometimes the occasion happened to coincide with real sorrow, and even when it did not, the voice behind the screen was usually kind. But for too many, too often, confessing became just a routine...
...flowers to Mrs. Kim and was told by police he could no longer visit them. An obliging officer, however, delivered the flowers and brought back a note scribbled in English: "I'm sorry to let you know we're confined at home. My heart is filled with sorrow. Please pray for my husband's safety again...
...doctor, I have faced this decision and, in the darkness of night, with hope for the patient lost, have been at the hospital with sorrow in my heart. Speaking meager words of comfort to an anxious family, I have put my arm around a mother, wife or husband as they sobbed on my shoulder, and then "pulled the plug." It is not easy. It also is not easy to awaken in the morning to find the newspapers rasping away at heartless, moneygrubbing doctors...
Privately, Nixon expressed sorrow for the "personal tragedies" of the people involved in Watergate-who, as one high Administration official put it, were "decent, highly principled men motivated by a misguided sense of loyalty" -but there was no sign that he considered the affair especially troublesome. At a black-tie dinner for Emperor Haile Selassie, a laughing, joking Nixon confided to his dinner companion, Mrs. Rogers Morton, wife of the Secretary of the Interior, that he believed history would regard Watergate as inconsequential in comparison with his accomplishments in foreign policy. Late in the week he flew to Norfolk...