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...week's end Nixon took to the road to sell his side of the transcript story to the public. His first stop was Phoenix, Ariz., where his audience of 13,000 at a Republican fund raiser was mostly friendly. But shouts of "Hail to the thief!" and rhythmic clapping from a handful of hecklers in the balcony rattled Nixon. His voice quavered, his hands tightly gripped the flower-bedecked lectern, and he occasionally mispronounced words. Still, cheers drowned out the boos when he said that he had furnished "all the relevant evidence" needed "to get Watergate behind us" and promised...
Apart from the evidence it provides about the President's critical conversations, the edited transcript furnishes a potpourri of marginalia that limn the style and character of the Nixon White House. A representative sampler...
...proud of his political shrewdness, the President as revealed in the transcript was frequently slow to grasp the full seriousness of the Watergate matter, and he gravely misread the public mood on several important points...
Contrary to the President's carefully nurtured image as a cool and dispassionate leader accustomed to tough going, the transcript reveals an indecisive man often dazed by a confusion of conflicting data...
...clients without high-speed facilities, U.P.I, also cleared one of its regular-speed wires; clacking away 3,500 words an hour, the transmission lasted from Wednesday morning until Saturday afternoon. Says U.P.I. Night Editor Jeff Grigsby: "We've heard that at least 25 newspapers intend to carry the transcript in its entirety...