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...overruled the Civil Aeronautics Board and allowed Eastern Air Lines to acquire Caribair, a financially troubled airline based in Puerto Rico. At the time, Nelson owned no Eastern stock, but his brother Laurance is currently the airline's largest individual stockholder (with 1.75%). Laurance had sent Nixon a telegram urging him to permit the merger...
...sympathy goes out to Photographer Kent Henderson of the Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram, who was sworn at by Richard Nixon. Being assigned to photograph a President can be hazardous to your health and wealth. I know. I was fired by Nixon and his cronies for wearing a plaid jacket [during the swearing-in at Nixon's second Inauguration]. At least Henderson still has his job. I would rather have been "cussed out" than...
...security does not mean sanguinity. Valerie is still making her federal and local protests. "When Nixon fired Cox," she remembers, "I fired off a beauty of a telegram, and when Ford pardoned Nixon, I sat up half the night composing a wire about how ashamed he made me feel to be an American. The White House knows...
...cigar and wearing an authentic-looking paunch, Actor Richard Burton has been rehearsing for his Hallmark Hall of Fame role as Sir Winston Churchill, which will be televised in November. A devoted Churchill fan, Burton owns a pair of Winnie's cuff links and has a framed telegram from him on his wall. In the past year alone, he has read a score of books and articles on his idol. Burton's assessment: "He was the best actor of our times -playing himself, of course...
...longtime friend and former communications director, Herb Klein, to offer a good-humored apology for the unflattering references in the transcripts of June 23,1972, to Klein's not having "his head screwed on." After President Ford's address to Congress, Nixon sent him a congratulatory telegram. The next day Ford called to thank Nixon, and the two talked for 15 minutes...