41 ,ro:ri be A p the authors. The in the Sfehr aterga n- defining • adrnin- 0976 daLwon their newspaper a zer istratiOn,""viewee:Mr. Nixon as The ecret,'* Prize and was generally credited irrational "and"' a threat to U.S. witpktarting the movement: that for esident Nixon from,Office. foreign policy, according to the Of` Nixonxon s book: uthors said they st4ek to 'final Days' they rule they used f their Yet it fell to Kissinger to offer cove aagof Watergate: at I t two the President emotional comfort sources for every statement fact. two nights before he resigned from New York office. re. They say that as the sandal Richard Nixon, shortly before grew and as the House of egepre- According to Woodward and he resigned apoPresident in 1974 sentatives moved closer to im..Beach- Bernstein, Kissinger entered the because of the Watergate scandal, ment, rtthe President started-' drink- tiny Lincoln sitting room of 'the was foiinetited with the idea of ing heavily. He frequently arrived White House, where Mr. Nixon suicide, andihe once complained, "I late for work, and he was dazed, the spent much of his last days in 'the don't have a pistol," it was reported book says. White House alone, and there yesterday. * Kissinger found him drinking. Mr. Nixon's son-in-law, ward In his last 'days in office, Mr. Cox, told a U.S. senator that one Nixon drank too much despite his night Mr. Nixon stayed late They talked and Mr. Nixon low tolerance of ;alcohol and was "walkifiV, the halls ... tallag to broke into tears. He asked the reportedly portrayt1 by Secretary picture*, of former Presrents," secretary of state to kneel with, iim , of State Henry` RipSinger as "our according to the book. 4 in prayer, the book says. meatball Presidej e".‘iWho acted. During Mr. Nixon's trdimphal The President prayed to God "like a Madman,' 'acCdtling to the for help, rest, love and peace. Vhien report. elft i9f. tour of Egypt in June, 1.974, the 3i authors say that he courted death Kissinger thought that the prayers Thel AS,Yrt ',Vta's published in by disregarding his bout w phle- had 'ended, the authors say, Mr. bitis, a blood clot disease!, nd by Nixon suddenly started pounding Back Page Col. 3 riding through crowded st ets in the floor with his fists while sob- an open car with Egypti Presi- bing 'uncontrollably and crying From Pagel., aloud; "What have I done? What V 4.. 4,14 4. 0,411 Mrtrt., dent Anwar Sadat. New' In its _next has happened?" two ewsweek is carrying His , Secret Service security chief w 'J to complai, "You The secretary of state found excer 4. s rom a soon-to-be pub- himself holding the President of lished cook by Bob.Woodward and can't pro esident who wants to lihnse the, United States, offering comfort Carl ,ernstein, the Washington ."‘ to him, the way a father might hold Post reporters credited with break- Kissinger is portrayed in the a son,,. the book says. ing the Watergate scandal.; ,The book is titled "The Final Days... ' book as i t aneyho loathed and The book goes on to say that feareerVab ''‘,DA--to his face wherinhe returned to his office, The book said that just priOr to was4ara tput he talked Kissinger told his aides, "It was the Mr. Nixon's resignation, then-White about hiiire behind, his back as most wrenching thing I have ever House Chief of staff Alexander' aig irrational, insecure and maniacal, gone filth in my life ..." He cut off eMr. Nixon's sleeping-This the book says. described) efPresident astithroken after the President complained to man. 'rti o: him, "you fellows, in your business KiSsinger, the book says, sur- (the Army), you have a wof- reptitiously recorded his telephone Kissinger d his handling problems like this. - conversations with the President , . body leaves a pistol in the taw- and grew so worried aboutethem account of what, happened,';he er I don't have a pistol." being revealed that he hadwapers received . a- ephonetekWTfrotri 'ill* based on the tapes sent tout of President, Woodward and 'Bern- Pats. Nixon, the former Washington for safekeeping; stein report. In it Mr. Nixo is Lady, 'also was reported to =h i e reported to have said, `'H y, sought solace in alcohol and to e During one call, the book says, please don't tell anyone I cr slipped down to the servant's q the President drunkenly reIaSted to that I was not strong." ers at night and returned to 'her Kissinger tee Vietnam militarY poli- cy of his friend C.G. (Bebe) Rebozo. The book says that at one point privatehedroom with glasses full of Mr. Nixon considered countetat- bourbi 'n. Kissinger told his aides abont the call, and for a while thereafter Haig tacking his "enemies" by leaking a singer—who, the book says, referred to Mr. Nixon as "our list of questionable wiretaps during priv ly detested Mr. Nixon--- drunken friend." the Kennedy-Johnson presidePtial kn • 'th him in prayer, according years — most of them reportettliy to t eport; and watched as tears During another call, the au- Woodward and Bernstein for the str • d down the President's face thors say, Kissinger mentioned the first time. The list included not only an slammed the floor with his number of American casualties in a Martin Luther King Jr., as has been fis hile asking, "What have I niajor battle in Vietnam. "Oh, widely known, but Lloyd NPrttlaii, do what has happened?" sGrewe 'em," the book quotes Mr. Pentagon correspondent for News:-. Nixon as saying. week; Hanson W. Baldwin. military e Final Days" is said to be affairs analyst for the New York ba on six months of research by Kissinger also regarded Mr. Times; Bernard Fall, '` late and and Bernstein with the Nixon as a dangerous anti-sernite French historian and authority on two. associates. It emerged and.1;acs quite upset by one Nixon Vietnam-, Robert Amory4ek ;, the fr interviews, memos, diaries' rema , "The Jewish cabal is out to former',1\141,man in the ° *In d,a, a published notes, involving get the authors said. close Men& twf John P. : ifnedY; al ew of the principles in the y reported that Mr. Nixon the law firm of Surrey and Karasik, on, erican President which had Dominisiwighr clientS; ' who foutfire*IThisrc:-, 4* orkhig ni various par* nf • 's gbVetriment the chief clerk of the House Agri- Mr. himself refused to and tried to stamp it out. culture Committee -- and Frank A. Capell, author of a 1964 Marilyn Monroe biography alleging a rela- tionship between her amillAbeg,t Kennedy. dith,3 d and Bernstein say 114li on was not the only me of his family suffering durin final days. Y say t4 Watergate sc i*Mt, the marriages ofis is ers. In a call to Senator Robert Griffin during .1411:'`)1►illtrees -last Ni=flNtjtvq, ce, scfgaftwokcogitildau Itd an. JUliel husk antlilitMe Eisenhower, favored resignation but that Trieia and Julie had closed their mindS to argument, according to the. book. "I can't talk to my wife," Cox said. "She is determined that her f4her shall ,hot resign.7 ' The authors also say that the Nixon marriage had become what, they term was a formalized, sepa- ffair since 69 0 for divor er er h' WkS defeated for the California gover- norship. Mr. Nixon is portrayed as a man than_ in his ind OV was o to resign by his staff,

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