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...room undergoing a normal recovery period. It was an uneventful procedure." Then, six hours after the operation, intensive bleeding, perhaps behind the abdominal cavity, sent Nixon into sudden vascular shock. For three hours doctors battled to restore his vital signs to normal. Said shaken Nixon Aide Ron Ziegler the next day: "We almost lost President Nixon yesterday...
...Insurance. There was another, lesser, but still bothersome problem that faced Nixon, according to Ziegler: the ailing former President has no medical insurance. As Chief Executive, Nixon chose not to enroll in the Government's health-insurance plan, which could have been transferred to a private insurer when he left office. He could have used a military hospital, but Lungren apparently insisted on admitting his patient to Long Beach Memorial, probably because it contains the elaborate technical equipment that Nixon's case might require. The rate for Nixon's room was $90 a day until...
...addition, there was the imponderable of the ex-President's mental attitude. Ron Ziegler was compelled to reassure a questioner that Nixon's will to live was as strong as ever, but by most accounts, Nixon has often been depressed since he left the White House. Some doctors believe that Nixon's illness could be caused by his mental set (TIME, Sept. 23), and many physicians feel that there is a link between a patient's recovery in a situation like Nixon's and the patient's mood. Indeed, unless surgery is imperative...
...Ronald Ziegler conducted a noninformative press conference: every word on Nixon's hospitalization, down to what he was eating (hospital fare, except for some wheat germ from San Clemente), had to be approved by the patient. His physician, Dr. John Lungren, seemed to delight in being obscure and evasive. After announcing that a blood clot had been discovered in Nixon's right lung, Lungren said that the ex-President's condition was "potentially dangerous but not critical at this time." But he flatly refused to speculate on how long the recuperation would take...
Barely a month ago, journalists were vigorously applauding President Ford for naming Jerald F. terHorst, respected Washington bureau chief of the Detroit News, as White House press secretary. To reporters who had wearied of slugging it out with the obdurate Ronald Ziegler, the terHorst appointment marked what seemed like the beginning of a new era of presidential accessibility and candor. Ford and terHorst promised a "completely open" White House, and the press generally responded by making the new President's first heady weeks in office one of the warmest such interludes on record...