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...agreement, and the Nixon Administration sought to produce an acceptable formula. Then, at the urging of federal mediators and a newly formed citizens committee, talks began. They featured an interesting extra ingredient. In the middle of one session, Dr. McCord was summoned to take a telephone call from White House Aide Harry Dent, former Republican chairman of South Carolina. The details of the message were secret, but an agreement was soon reached...
...next day, in the course of episodic conversations during a five-hour White House visit, Finch found himself losing the argument over Knowles. Finally the President gave his old friend and longtime political partner the word: Knowles was not worth the bitter fight. Finch issued a statement in which he loyally-if not convincingly-took "full responsibility for the delay of this appointment...
...another venture in person-to-person diplomacy. Last week he flew to Canada to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the St. Lawrence Seaway with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and the only real question was where he would go next. The answer: Nearly everywhere. Late this month, the White House announced, Nixon will begin an approximately eleven-day trip around the world that will take him to five Asian countries and the Eastern European state of Rumania -marking the first time that a U.S. President has visited a Communist country since F.D.R. conferred with Stalin and Churchill at Yalta...
Like his earlier trip abroad, the newest expedition will be primarily a fact-finding effort. The chief concern, of course, will be Viet Nam (which he is not scheduled to visit) and the shape of post-war Asia. The President, said a White House official, "wants to begin to lay the foundation for a post-Viet Nam South Asia policy. He has had a long-standing concern for the region and is convinced that the U.S. must remain a Pacific power. In the long term, the concern is for a lasting Asian peace in which we are not dragged into...
...same time, the White House insists, the President has no intention of making the visit to Rumania seem like an anti-Soviet gesture. "Eastern Europe, after all," says one man close to the President, "is central to the issue of East-West peace." In fact, if there is any likelihood of detente with Russia, with the upcoming disarmament talks as a first step, Nixon's next major mission may well be to Moscow...