For the Record

Ringing out the old, some sidelights: The three network shows canceled to make room for President Nixon’s resignation address to the nation August 8 were: “The Taste of Ashes” (NBC), “The Nature of Evil” (ABC), “The Last Man” (CBS). . . . The New York Times used its very largest headline “Moon” type—one inch high—to announce Nixon’s resignation. It was first (and last) used when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped into the lunar dust five years ago. . . . Wall Street Journal reports that Gen. Alexander Haig “blew his top” when he found out eager beaver communications people had taped his confidential briefing to White House staffers the Monday that the June 23 tapes were released. . . . Sally Quinn story in Washington Post (August 10) reports that when Nixon, en route to the helicopter that was to take him away, commented to White House press corps, “Well, here I go,” one reporter in the crowd whispered: “Oh God. He really does think we did it to him.” Some reporters, says Miss Quinn, were close to tears. . . . But the cynics wouldn’t be downed. When one portly reporter, rushing from news event to news event, was asked why he was so lathered up, he replied, with dignity: “Hounding a President out of town is hard work.” . . . Street vendors outside the White House gates were right up to the minute Friday morning with “Nixon’s a Good Loser” pins. . . And Bantam Books, which had planned to issue an impeachment procedures book the week of August 12, came out that same week with a 484-pager, The End of a Presidency, and a New Beginning. . . . A Newsweek poll right after the events showed 79 per cent of the people backed the resignation; 55 per cent were against any criminal prosecution of the President. A Harris poll, a week earlier, showed 74 per cent of the people believed Nixon knew of the coverup all along. . . . And, in case you’ve been wondering, the only eight other Presidents not to finish out their terms were: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy, assassinated; Harrison, Taylor, Harding, FDR, who died in office.

Jones, Montreal Star Rothco

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Ringing out the old, some sidelights: The three network shows canceled to make room for President Nixon’s resignation address to the nation August 8 were: “The Taste of Ashes” (NBC), “The Nature of Evil” (ABC), “The Last Man” (CBS). . . . The New York Times used its very largest headline “Moon” type—one inch high—to announce Nixon’s resignation. It was first (and last) used when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped into the lunar dust five years ago. . . . Wall Street Journal reports that Gen. Alexander Haig “blew his top” when he found out eager beaver communications people had taped his confidential briefing to White House staffers the Monday that the June 23 tapes were released. . . . Sally Quinn story in Washington Post (August 10) reports that when Nixon, en route to the helicopter that was to take him away, commented to White House press corps, “Well, here I go,” one reporter in the crowd whispered: “Oh God. He really does think we did it to him.” Some reporters, says Miss Quinn, were close to tears. . . . But the cynics wouldn’t be downed. When one portly reporter, rushing from news event to news event, was asked why he was so lathered up, he replied, with dignity: “Hounding a President out of town is hard work.” . . . Street vendors outside the White House gates were right up to the minute Friday morning with “Nixon’s a Good Loser” pins. . . And Bantam Books, which had planned to issue an impeachment procedures book the week of August 12, came out that same week with a 484-pager, The End of a Presidency, and a New Beginning. . . . A Newsweek poll right after the events showed 79 per cent of the people backed the resignation; 55 per cent were against any criminal prosecution of the President. A Harris poll, a week earlier, showed 74 per cent of the people believed Nixon knew of the coverup all along. . . . And, in case you’ve been wondering, the only eight other Presidents not to finish out their terms were: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy, assassinated; Harrison, Taylor, Harding, FDR, who died in office.

Jones, Montreal Star Rothco