Eisenhower Agonistes David's Path: From Granddaddy Ike to Gorterdammerung—And Beyond

By Trudi McC. Osborne • Sample: The couple was asked where the White House He has taken two trau- the blame lay for the "predicament" matic leaves of it, and the months before (public horror at the tone of the the last leaveraking were transcripts) in which the President then "awful- They left , ike a coin struck with two profiles found himself. Julie replied, "You begin a pretty deep scar." according to his best friend, Brooks Harrington, a classmate at in the reign of a queen and her con- with a break-in—a third. or fourth-race ][... George Washington University law school. sort, Julie Nixon and David Eisen- burglary .. David replied, -The decision David so intimately saw and sensitively hower, since their marriage in 1968, have to release the capes was the President's, so recorded the torment and toll—perhaps been presented almost as one personality. if the transcripts create additional prob- not David and Julie were names as paired as lems. to that extent, the predicament is his yet perceived in its entirety—that polit- Ferdinand and Isabella, Samson and Deli- ical debacle wreaked on Mr. Nixon, he lah or Hansel and GreteL presently is ambivalent about a political fu- It was as if in some fairy tale, Prince ture for himself. He says, although he David, of fabled Lineage, had married the spent the last five and a half years training daughter of a reigning king and Jonah-like for politics, "I have lost my gut instinct for had been swallowed up. "We are ghosts. People see iF. .. But [ wouldn't rule it out." There is Then came reality and Watergate, and us on the street and start a strong suggestion that resilience and a when Julie launched her public defense of competitive nature will reassert them- her father, with David as usual by her side, 'We thought you died last selves, as did his temporarily mislaid iden- it was perceived that they did not speak August.' " tity. Any suggestion that he lost that is with the same voice and that they had very smilingly but firmly rejected by Brooks different styles. In the widely reported May Harrington. "David's identity may have got I I, 1974, press conference in the White lost publicly, but he kept a very good hold House rose garden, following the release of • Sample: David was asked, "Do... you on it privately. He always knew who he the excised tape transcripts, Julie, who has have any regrets that they fthe tapes) were was, and his grandfather's memory, which a wonderfully fluid way of turning ques- released?" He replied, "No. I felt they is almost a presence to him, was very much with him." tions into vehicles for rhetoric or points should be released all along." It was with him in his behavior through- that she wishes to make, emerged as some- Ac no point during Watergate did David thing of an old style politico. out the ordeal of Watergate, about which forsake his father-in-law, but neither did he now allows himself to speak, David, without rebutting her passionate he forsake his own principles or his own and to answers, gave different ones, addressed which he refers as GOtterdiimmerting. "I reasoning, and in this airing, his coin im- saw triumph and tragedy in an intimate himself to what had been asked and cried age oxidized, and he ceased to be just to reply. It was apparent, for all his loyalty, way. I'll never see is in that magnitude David of "David and Julie." He resumed a again." His humanitarian heritage was that he was doing his own thinking anal political heritage and cachet that is uni- with him at the denouement when, on that it did not necessarily agree with Julie's. quely his if he chooses not again to yield it. Friday, August 2, 1974, three days before Half the years of his life, since memory Tnadi the information was made public, he and McC Osborne is a Free lance writer. took hold, have been spent as a familiar of Julie with their newly acquired knowledge Scow from a aravordiesey fihr, dadrothe ham eh. kir Arid Arid with him Arnow grandfath • Eisenhower with Julie; the human father-indek amid with his &mous grandfather. the mulitarr mu: e r the President: Arid playing ha, frthrita sport canoes by Au. 4.94 of Mr. Nixon's involvement in the coverup "imposed ourselves" on him in the Lincoln lining room.

he first thing that must be realized about David Eisenhower is that, T like his grandfather, he is far brighter than he is given credit for being. Harrington, a scholastic competitor, calls him, "incredibly bright, a very talented dude.. . . This is the first semester he has really been able to give his attention to his studies. He was always in the top quarter of the class, but now he's really going to make some grades." David was cum laude at both Exeter and Amherst, then scholastically the leading prep school and college in the country. At Exeter he was among the top 20 in a class of 250. At Amherst he was "almost magna." He is thoughtful, persevering, and he is a statistical memory bank His conversation suffers from the speed of his mind. He tends to leapfrog certain facts necessary to comprehension, assuming equal familiarity, as does one esoterist talk- David joins fate in her Sourday Evening Posr office fwrween his hew classes. ing to another. It is conceivable that some school of the omissions are deliberate. Thus his grandfather, whose syntax was at once the "My identity is art issue of my life," he ac- Norman Mailer once threw an effective delight and despair of the White House knowledges, "I have to worry about what left at William Scranton, former governor press corps, sometimes may have utilized people will think—about not doing any- of Pennsylvania, by calling horn ''a young the intelligence for which he was undercre- thing to besmirch the name. To be seen in man who liked to please his elders." It dited. He confided to an associate, "If I an account of his growing up is the essence would be easy to say the same of David Ei- don't want to answer their questions, I just of that identity, burden or blessing. To he senhower and to label him square, but it is confuse them" seen in his behavior during Watergate and more precise to say he harks to a different David is politically sophisticated, but his in his private thoughts about it, is the drummer. It could hardly he otherwise. integrity is unquestioned. -I'm sure," says measure of the man, his way of thinking, He was reared largely by a hero from an- William Satire, former Nixon speech his judgments. other era, on precepts now rather faint in writer and New York Times columnist, "he couldn't be conned into saying one word he didn't believe." Neither is he afraid to speak an affection he feels, how- ever unpopular the view at the time He is nice_ "Nice," as he himself—snapping down fiercely and tenderly on the word— is wont to say of certain others: Dwight Oiapin and Gordon Strachan. ("They were only carrying out orders. I don't equate this with Nuremburg.1 David is more guarded than he used to be, but his nature and manner are open, and he is wholly without conceit. He is invariably genial, he has Ike's famous grin, and his sense of hu- mor beats Elliot Richardson's Brooks Harrington who knows David so well he can say, "It is difficult to tell where he begins and I quit and where I quit and he begins," further observes, "if you re- member two things about him you won't go far wrong, He is an Eisenhower. He is very conscious of his grandfather's mem- ory. The second thing is allegiance—and that is the right word for it—to his wife and her family, because it is her family," "I shouldn't think it would be easy being David Eisenhower," said a Washington macron at the time of Watergate It wasn't During a vials( ro Brook, Harringron's apartmenr, David ponders a juridical problem. easy being David Eisenhower before that. Photographed by Motthew Lewis

American life David was nor only the president of Columbia University. "I knew cur, they couldn't understand that I grandson but the only grandson of the 34th there was something important and unu- wanted to practice law over Sherman's President of the United States, who sual about him("Granddad won the War"), clothing store, and that would be my "doted" on him, who renamed Franklin and I remember Specifically my first visit thing." A boy who knew David both at St. Roosevelt's "Shangri-la "Camp David" to the White House in 1953. I remember Stephen's elementary school, in Northern for bun and took upon himself the fashion- the weather, which was bad, I even re- Virgins (where the youngsters believed the ing of the boy's character. member the upholstery and carpets on the Secret Service kept machine guns in the During Ike's Presidency, David's father, third fluor . . . It was dark and kind of locker room) and at Amherst college said, Colonel John Eisenhower, author and for- cold, but I knew I was in a real neat place "I always thought David would have been mer Ambassador to Belgium, was assistant . I was spoiled to death in that house. happier if he had been somebody else." to Ike's chief assistant, General Andrew The maids let me do anything." At Exeter, he was a formidable junior Goodpaster. Like the sons of most famous He had eight boyhood years of it being varsity baseball pitcher, but on a day be- men, John Eisenhower was dimmed by his Granddad's house. "There was a wall I fore he was to pitch an interschool game father's eminence, but "Dad aided me," ruined on the third floor where I used to and while fielding balls at practice, he says David. "more than anyone else in my throw a tennis ball. Then one day some turned unexpectedly and caught a line whole life. He warded off bad ideas and men came along to paint it for Kennedy— drive hard between the eyes.- It knocked was a buffer between me and my grandfa- and he wasn't even our guy." (David now him out, broke his nose and sent him to ther to whom I was not personally close I lives behind the Kennedy Center in a du- thehosp ita I for ram days.Fle continued toplay tended to think of them kind of as one plex apartment.) He was not quite 12 when baseball but didn't make the varsity. The "Grandfather was king of the clan, of he was dispossessed and—given the im- accident unsettled his nerve and, he says. course, the direct disciplinarian. There pressionability of childhood and his unique "when your nerve loses that fine edge, your were all these "dos" and "don'ts," these position—the extremity of his reactions game is damaged." Baseball is the abiding "do it this ways." I had to take him my re- seems to him natural rather than other- passion of his life. port cards. He paid me for A's and B's. I wise. He stuck Douglas MacArthur "I It was at Exeter too, that he formed an didn't get any C's. I had that through my Shall Return- notes behind mirrors and addiction for that "immensely intricate" whole childhood. When 1 was 5, 1 had to pictures. "1 thought my life was over. I computerized game, APBA baseball, that be on the golf tee every morning for les- thought nothing ever would be better than gave him such solace as he would get in the sons. (He has quit golf twice, but when he that. Leaving affected me so much I didn't last stages of Watergate. APBA is a board was 20, shot in the high seventies.) Then come back to Washington for five years, and card game of baseball strategy that ex- we graduated to horses, then to more seri. and 1 was living at Gettysburg only 70 ercises managerial skills. Aficionados of ous things. miles away." When he did come back in the pine say, "It's like a 40-hour-a-week. "Grandfather preached finding fulfill- job to play it well." On a recent February ment in work and stressed achievement afternoon. David and Julie drove to Lan- and caution—the Eisenhower caution• - caster. Pa., to pick up the newest issue of David speaks of that as a tangible and APBA cards rather than wait for them co plainly honors it. "Many things were . . . it was well into the be merchandized. drilled, but much was implicit. You Duke Dave's years at prep school were learned by dealing with him I learned that weekend before he (Nixon) "down years," he says, but hair still was you didn't ask for anything, you earned it could look any of the short, ries and jackets were worn and the "1 learned that justice was swift and war protest and social upheaval of the fin sure When 1 was nine and ten and living family in the face. They de decade was only a hint. Drugs were not at Gettysburg, I worked on the farm restored him by telling him to hit schools hard until '66 when he en- grooming horses and weeding for 25 cents they loved him—by tered Amherst. He said then, "Many of my an hour. One day after lunch, grandfather friends smoke pot, but I never have. Some- found me and another 'hand' playing hon- touching him and hugging thing in me just doesn't want to." Of that, eymoon bridge in the study. He fired me "amorphous movement . . the so-called on the spot.- David flashes the grin. "He him. Kissing him." student revolt," he says, "I think it was had to make up though because we had a misread . . . I think it was more cultural golf game that afternoon. than political ... The vociferous demands "He drilled it into me that life is to be of the '60s could not be satisfied by any po- lived in ordered progression. A mart went litical movement . . Young people even- to college, did his military service, got his 1965, after a summer trip to Mexico with a tually became aware of this . They were professional training, married and had school friend, they took a guided tour of coming into a society where by and large, children, in that order. He was wary of a the White House. talented people were going to succeed, and man who didn't go the whole route Except By then, David was at Exeter, the elite they feared the competition. As a result, for my early marriage, I've followed that New England prep school known to many they rejected societal values and chose to progression. I would have been afraid to in prototype through John Knowles' novel, define their own . They were really sub- cut corners. I would have felt unqualified, A Separate Peace. "It was a grind," says stituting one set of values for another, but though ever since I was 18 I've had offers David, "but a terrific education. I loved the new values were highly subjective—ac- for jobs and doing things that would have the elan of knowing we were the best. I malty kind of an escape from the reality of exhausted the reputation and the name" didn't think I was happy, but I was." competition." (In recent months, since Watergate, he has He was dubbed, "Duke Dave" (Julie still David went to Amherst, as he had gone had offers to work for a magazine and to calls him that). "It was a term of derision," to Exeter, at the urging of his father, who write a newspaper column. In 1973, he he says. "1 was an awkward kid-1 felt was set against his going to Harvard. "Dad was sounded out about running for awkward anyway. I was a kind of target, had hoped I'd 'find my way to West Congress) and that was the style of baiting in those Point.' "says David,"but he didn't want to Until he was five, David more or less led places." direct me to it . . ." Of the military David the life of an Army brat, though he re- Duke Dave loved Gettysburg and lived says, "I admire it . .. it's just... that I was members visiting his grandfather on Morn- for his summers there where he followed part of a different world. ingside Heights when the General was the easy pattern of small-town life. "At Ex- Continued on page 16 1 1 Ilsonhoreer, from page 11 At Amherst, David pledged AlphaDelta Phi. the moat ar- rogant house on the campus." according to another Amhmt Tan of that pentad. 11 always thought it wan untsival that David joined it," The Duke David taste for the throne nmm is not denied by his present friend. Brooks Har. rington, who says, "Deve likes it up there on the sky- line" David agreeably ton. firms it. Asked how the ad- vantages of belonging to Presidential family weighed against the drawbacks. he re- plied, —There really is no con- test_ The benefit, outweigh the disadvantages . . . Some• nines you weary of the trap- pings, the obligations, the sameness. the lack of privacy, but the price it trivial in ex- change for what the identity confers." In hit candor, it se6 dom seems to occur lo him thin he might be misunder. weal The only case of his getting into trouble occurred at Am- herst- At closing rime, about I a.m.. on a night of 'perfect packing snow," a bunch of Alpha Delo bombarded cm. comers leaving Bap's delica• tessen in resentment over the high-priced shop's having "abolished its bottomless cup of coffee," says David. "Pa- tronizing Rap's was like truss- ing a picket line." The police showed up and chased the bort back to their fraternity house, but no arrests were made. Once at Amherst, the police stopped David fur speeding. He bad to pay a S25 fine, and the story hit the metropolitan newspapers. It was Mamie Eisenhower who suggested that David, look up Julie Nixon at nearby Smith college, when he en- rolled in Amherst_ He did, and Julie took him over with the rapidity of Sir Francis Drake taking Cadiz David is not remembered as going with any other girl Persons unalterably sardonic, who viewed David as Granddad's boy, now viewed him as Jul- M's booty. He was chosen to he her escort at the Interne. none' Debutante Ball in '66. In '67, candidate Nixon, on a pre-primary swing through Oregon. and without the young touple's Foreknow- ledge, made public their en- gagement on the eve of the Lind. Bird Johnson-Chuck Robb wedding, thus preempt• leg national usencion. The sardonic's noted the heavy use of David to campaign For Nixon It MUSE be recalled Continued on "re 19 Iffeenhaustee, !turn page 36 granted , Neither of thou chit at the beginning of chat folks is 411.rhar to be domi- nated." He adds, 'They are campaign, Mr. Nixon's ma oC chances did nut look very _masons to have children. Oh. good (nor were his Eimn- Julie's just knocked out over hower endorsements the idea of having children. stereophonic]. Governor. They wan because Julie George Romney and Ronald doesn't Want to be a half-time PPPL SALE Rengsre nen well ahead of mother. She's mainly support- • SYLVAN'S 'ENERGY SAVING POOL is the smart Nissan. and brand new Sen. ing them now lby her job as pool boy of Inc ye& because It f04u2.05 electricrly cost by as me Charles Perry wag rust tar assistant managing editor of much as SO , You also San, money. because you use less behind. At Nixon rallies it the Saturday Evening Pmcr ...vale,' and less crem.cais David supported them when! wan adjudged that it eras • MONEY SAVING: the Permalon tough ale-duke more advantageous to cinch- he was in the Navy by his sal- finish ,s so agae and slain res4stahl it requires little yearly dam to present Ike's grandson ty and with the help of a di• main renalice than, "my daughter Julie," minishing trust fund. (David elm usually "poor told • few says, "I don't have to worry • LABOR SAVING: THE Sylvan AlatOMDLIC Clean- jukes and introduced David." about tuition, anti I have ing A Puri'? ,,c1 System keeps the water crystal clear and pure Pinally,the tandonists cracked, enough for maybe a couple of AUTOMATICALLY. 24 hours a Gay. is looked like an ...cheer of more years.") Healer ny. larTELECIVIC LASRS gifts when Julie impulsively -There were only three ■ CALL NOW and lel us Show you how easy II is loaned her rather as he mac men in my class at Amherst ro own a SvIrar. pool Long term hank Irnahe.ng. her in marriage to David Ei- who went into the military," senhower. says David. 1011 IINER POOIS $3476 For all that barbed fere- "My draft number was 30. 1 16 wile ma. x 29 1000 max. tie...nese, Julie and David are didn't won to bee ground s4476 devoted. 'They love each soldier in Vietnam so I seem IMIPOUR CONCRETE POOLS 15' tandems. c JO long max other and are gentle with each to Naval Officer Candidate other.' Lap Brooks Herring- SchouL I was lighting for my tork -"They compliment one life. We all were You mule it annther. They an e asurostin- or you didn't, and if you I rtst ream." didn't. it was out and into site Apart from Julie End David. Army ranks as a private.' He lindina each ocher in be a Said it W1S -WSW Suggested" buy sylvanthe pool with*ESP beautiful rhyme, their coming (by President Nixon/that any together in c...dlege scented to thing be done to Aunt him then classmates neural to the aside from active service point of inevitability. Recalls "Neither," he raid, did he one. 'They had to assay ene- ever 'feel that combat in Viet- mies in common, no many nem was requited of me as, I people had x predatory esti- sometimes suarsem t subtly rude toward them." was required of President Their vulnerability wan Johnson's sonsin-law." mum acute at the last Says David graduated 17th in a David. "In '68 the war onus class of 230 at OCS. "I was didn't much ro Mr. Ninon, pretty proud of that.` lc is his but after a year. it wan pretty pattern, he says, "to adjust to much 'Nixon's War." In '69 the competition ff sniff, I Canthodie was being bombed work terribly hard an get up and student dernonstratinn toward the top. If is reit no was rampant Ser apart from stiff, I don't work so hard and tubers all his life, the Presi- crap about the some place." dents new son-in-law, was Asked why he never seem for further Set apart The brother fine position. he poreled as at tif tine of his best friends was a new thought and replied, killed in Vietnam. aid David "As competitive as 1 ant, found chat hie friend "just guess I'm afraid to try•fcrr lint couldn't edit to me any more, for fear f won't make is," Says tINIPOUR• CONCRETES VINYL LINED POOL3 and we drifted apart" David Brooks Harrington, "He hues Psmoylwnw Mega Aron. CwWww, Connwsest, W.grii(Vpry, C cherishes friendship and •p- to lose anytheng." pears. to be more evasive and Ensign Eisenhower was in- more sensitive CO wegestions telligence officer dewed the dun he has had to forfeit it 19.000-son goaded natoole SYLVAN POOLS than to any other innuendo ship USS Albany ... 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Md 301.622-5338 Pty frown in positions they have schizophrenic about site ICeloryl zoo taken, like to many persons whale thing. - what takes posture and be- Along with ocher junior of. "ASK ABOUT OUR come petrified in it ... They ficers, when the Albany went are not at all alike . . They into dry dock at the ebbtide of "BANK-A-POOL" FINANCE PLAN" will never take each other For the Vietnam War. David was PO demobtlired and returned to six-page later said to have away, out of view . . . Ii s enormous danger ahead if the cerned, I could mil that the WsshIngeon. It was Marti a weighed heavily in the condi. the best way to kill yourself at Family was unprepared for Nixon's had come to rely on of 1973, and at 1600 Peonsyl- date's Final decision to run. get wound up in a controversy this I think Mr. Nixon saw it diem a good deal by the end oltIt. Avenue he says, 'There "The question was whether or like that, to 1 tried to write too. I think we pretty much of the summer. It was evident was an odd sense of gloom nor to drag the family through sports that summer." shared the viewpoint. I tried over that last week when Ed and tension... It was hIce the another campaign," says There has been much spec- so ger this viewpoint to Julie's sort of had things m do and atmosphere during the secret David, '1 Assured him that ulation that David's enrol- attention. 1 told her that if it you know, he wasn't around, brentring of Cambodia but the family was ready for the merit in law school signaled happened, we were going to but evidently on business with no visible cause" plunge his ultimate decision to enter he around to pick up the somewhere doing things." "I am apolitical by nature," "From the moment I politics. Rather, he saw law pieces, 'How does that strike Asked outright if Cox had been in consultation or End David says, "1 am tlea poGunl started going out with Julie I school as a have, -it,e sports you?' Julie wasn't interested by buthright. (Brooks says he as parr of the family. It is column for the Philadelphia in where it was leading. She participated as all in the par- is Machiavellian. particularly this way with everyone in as- Bulletin/and law school tame was just concerned with her don process, David under. in foreign affairs.) I got sociation with the Nixon,- at just the right ann." he father. Toward the nod, they stood the question before is caught in the crossfire of poli- You become part of the team says. He supplements. "law is said she was the only credible was completed, but replied, tica "That dare, specifically, . . . I was politically intimate a basis for any iournalistic or Nixon—meaning people "Well, I don't know. I bon- an February 2, 1%8, when with them immediately. governmental work,' said didn't believe her but they be- esdy don't know." He veered Julia's father opened his ram- There was close exchange and always had . hard rime going lieved that she believed . . off en, "Here's an example, re- reign at Manchester. N. H., talk—nix personal conversa- out and promoting myself. A "Eddie's role (Edward Cox, member the talk that Mr. with the riposte, "You're V> tion. Personal conversation law degree does a lot of that the President's other son-in- Nixon gave Friday morning ing to have &Sassed Nixon to was almost beside the point for you... i thought going to law) in the exists is unwritten before he left:" Hr Asked Ed lock around again." Julie was . . My relationship with law school would dear the air and largely unknown. From to come up with a passage rel- to be present, bin her flight Mr. Nixon was always more March of '74 on, he was very ating to Teddy Roosevelt from was fogged as, and David business than personal. He On the contrary. in the ju- much at the family's disposal. a biography he'd once read drove her to the rally. He was didn't attempt to make per- ridical atmosphere David in- He had the maturity to help that made an impression on seen, and "there was a huddle sonal conversation even to me sandy "caught onto, the dy- and he was always available no hint He wanted Ed to kind of ro decide on the import" of until Watergate couldn't be namic cif the Watergate sirua. them, right through to going put it together for him. So Ed did. You probably remember his appearance or non-appear- died." Mel-- that Watergate had to to California after the reigns. MK. in 34 Item. Hie enthu- David's "we" is • GOP we, be resolved and in the govern- tion ... that last week he was that morning Ed stepped up siasms are wholehearted (He was never a part of the ad- ment's favor if they were to called in, like over the week. —he was carrying the book, Prior ones had been Egyptian ministration-The Bobby Ken- govern effectively .. By the end, then he tame hick in the and Mr. Nixon rend from ir_ history, German history and nedy law prohibited it, but end of 75 or the firer of 74, it middle of the week, and he Little things like that I know Naval Intelligence. Now. poi' for a while he was on the looked increasingly hard for just seemed to he doing things of. "Watergate," says David, itus napersesied them. "I taint) 'Here we were," he the administration to come for Mr. Nixon and kind of wanted to learn everything says, "having a good IMIC, out of it well, to survive evert having business around ... "was a legal issue from time about politics . . . apply it, embarked on a high adven- "I thought I could see he was sort of x srabiliaing zero . . . The President was live it." Within weeks after ture, then everything blew where it was irretrievably presence, and it was nice to losing on the evidence. I see Julia and David became en- up." The Eisenhower caution heading, and where every. have him there. As far as no question about it I think gaged, he wrote Mt. Nixon . inserted itself. "1 tried to nay body would get hurt l saw Trish and Eddie are con- that's why he resigned . He A Special Value SOLID from our MAHOGANY (Save 15% Victorian Gallery MARBLE TOP to 26% on TABLE Perfect for to many room. in year home, our soukl mehearsory oe. lawn care* essional table to topped We think PROFESSIONAL TURF CORPORATION'S lawn care system Is better then LAWN-A-MAT, LAWNKIFFO, with richly grained im- LAWN DOCTOR, NATIONAL TURF SERVICE, and sus- ported Italian marble. 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Queen as a way to avoid ad. could we know?' Julie too in- I think he waisted reactions. dressing the issueof Papal Su- dicated Ignorance of what the He always wonted Exactions. premacy, implicit in the An intlitting June 25. 1972. Maybe he wanted us m ex- of Succession. Brooks Har- capes would reveal. In Febru- press horror_ 1 didn't . . . You rington says "David under- ary of 1974 she said "If (my rarely inter ad with Mr. stands the requirements of hoherl is involved in Water- Nixon except Id confirm. Ht power and has a particular in• gate and has been tying to the makes up his mind solely by sight into the Presidency, but American people he should hinteelf on personal things he didn't condone Watergate. resign because then he would . Influence was a msnar of Ile nook a position. He drew a be guilty isf a cover-up. Bur he confirming him or of failing line between politics and peo- said he was not involved." ro resist a proposition. ple and kept it drawn. He sus- At law school, association - "He hits the meat fantastic pended judgment." with others was not a happy memory I have ever encoun- thing According to Brooks, tered Often he'd be sitting "I came so terms with is," "David is not a standoffish there seeming to pay no mere David says, "on the basis of guy, evert a little bit. There lion so she conversation going demeanor evidence." He de- might be 100 conversations tan around him Then weeks fines that as "the power of the going on in the halls. David Liter, he would come out wish jury to decide that the crime would walk up to so one of . precise quote of something does or does not warrant the the Unit groups discussing that had been said punishment . . a jury can things, and they'd shot up, overlook elements of law. "Fifteen years from now just stop talking, The people Watergate is going to look Criminal justice is very dia. who were his friends never pretty small, and there will be criminatory and intentionally mentioned Watergate That other grounds on which to so . . . Justice is not blind. was on the one hand, and on judge the administration . . What is the worst thing that she other was hostility and could have happened to Mr. but someone's ox was goingro distrust—even from some pro- get gored to check the unbri- Nixon? What he got. fessors David kind of with- dled expansion of executive "Watergate was a corrup- drew into a circle—of one-- authority, and it turned out to tion of spirit— of the things me All those quotes you reed he iturs. aturudes seised we promised in '69, but it about friends saying this or didn't make Mr. Nixon a cor- from the early feeling that that. They were all me many of the manifestations of rupt man, a bad iron. I knew "When the excised 'apes Watergate were not unusual_ he was a good man who were released on April 29th. to law concern about how meant well for the country. we were studying for May ex- much longer our poiirical sys- It crushed him when he ams. David curie to class tem could stand it_ Watergate was told he was dis- three mornings miming red. honest. I always identified was consuming Washington eyed and tired. He was stay• strongly with him It while the people Washington was ing up all night reading the was supposed to serve were tetra them a headline to me. I transcripts As first he was in- saw the face being forgotten. of the Imperial clined so say, where some- "I always felt Mr. Nixon Presidency, end it wsan't im- thing was unclear, That was within the bounds of le- perial at ati"Davicrs rationale could be reed this way or dui of demesne,' evidence fades gal defense. He might have way,' but by the time he had survived impeachment, but perceptibly, however, when is read the transcript three after the rapes, he couldn't comes to Tom Chutes Hu- tunes, he had drawn the only ston, that " have turned the Presidency proponent of un- possible conclusion." David limited police power," around Watergate hasn't as Wit says only, "I reached the point Liam Satire calls him in his affected my respect for him in where I just didn't want to book, Before the Fail, who au- any way. There were cover. think about it." thored the Presidentially ap- ups before Mr. Nixon, and As the chase got hotter," proved plan -which for five covering up will continue- It says Brooks. "when they re- day, institutionalized bur- was the trine of the transcripts ally had Mr. Nixon treed, glary as a tool of law that finished him, that and Julie stopped reading. and enforcement. " As he con- taxes," Dend says. "A lot of David read less than he ever demns Huston. David wryly people could countenance the had I'd go over shoe school, concedes. "Nobody co trop, the cape gap, etc., is cnnsist• tell him briefly whin I'd heard cm, including roe . . . Carr but they couldn't countenance on TV, and then we wouldn't the tone of the tapes. did0 is is cosier to disapprove talk about it anymore. We'd of the Huston Plan than to "I decided right at the first just play The Dame (APBA disapprove of Haldetnen—be- that is wasn't going to affect baseball)." ['MUIR I knew Heideman. The my affections for the family. I • The young Eiserthowcrs better you know a had great anxiety about them situation. were very much around the the greyer its going to be. I I had great anxiety about White House in this period. see facts . . Julie. I underestimated them His (one is and David speaks of the fever- haunted, "I see faces, and it all. I underestimated Julie ish IA-minute afteralinner She is the roughest (read mass affects the charges. walks he rook and remarks readientl person I have ever that sometimes still, as hr pas- met in my life" "When things progressed ses a given place as a remem- In the very beginning, to the point that it was felt bered time, the torment of David managed to compart- necessary to release the tapes that period washes over him mentalize his Watergate CLIC- 'to prove there was no crimi. Like a WBVE. He says his most LORI.n separate persons and milky in she Oval Office,' I painful recollection is the std. principles. He clung to this was for is: says David, fering of Mr. Nixon. with the tenacity of a Sir casing he was unaware of any David was enrolled in sum- Thomas More, chat Man for real risk of criminality. "In mer school. whirls was .7 run All Seasons, who (sot-peel fact, I did not know. Mr. through August 24 On Friday, upon opposition so Henry Nixon didn't discuss it with August 2. he was in an eve. VIII', divorce of his Catholic us or with anyone else. How ring class that rail from 5:50

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to 7:4n when a call For Mr. Ei- University of Oklahoma. He more interested in living for senhower came over the loud- spent three years in the Ma- personal goals and satisfac- speaker system. "T gathered rines and has worked for vari- tions than (or politics. He up my books and left," says ous Democratic political fig- might do something in base- David. (He was not to return ure, including former Senator ball . . . It would give him until the fall semester Fred Harris (D-Okla. lBrooks management experience." ;He started ) That Friday was the says, -My father's a farmer. also has long aspired to politi- day. David says, when he I've worked cattle, and I cal journalism.) l'hu summer learned of Mr. Nixon's partici- know how to talk working he will clerk in the same law pation in the cover-up. He collar." Pleasurably sounding firm, Berry at Gipson, in doesn't say how he learned the Populist note, he still is which Brooks decks. only that Julie "particularly unable to make it sound as if David knows that his wanted me home for dinner played on a kazoo.. He and grandfather had Presidential that night—the night we and his wife, Carol, a Navy ambitions for him, but he found out." He adds that "she name, see the Eisenhower& says, -He spoke of it only to had some indication" that al. two Of three times a week. others, never to me . . . No temoon . "That evening Mr. "Julie doesn't quite know one rationally runs for Prat- Nino preferred to be alone, what to make of me, but as dent _ . . I don't think any- but we learned that he was ac- couples we do very good body goes into politics for the cessible_ We got up our cour- Brooks knew David only fun of it. They go to be at the age and went to him . . We slightly in 1973 when the inci- center of event./ They go be- kind of imposed ourselves on dent occurred that made them CAUSe that's where things are hins." friends- He and David and an- happening, that's the place to Brooks tells more He says, other law student, named be. I have lost the imperils TO "That afternoon Mr. Nixon John Foley. all ex-service- practice law in a small town in gave Julie the transcrIpt of the men, were accustomed to sit- order to become a Congress- June 23 rapes to rent She ting together in the hack of a man then a Senator to finally called David out of clan, say- crowded classmom On this ger a sack at the Presidency ing the President wanted him day, David entered late and I view politics now with a to read it When he had, they had to take a chair directly in kind of fatalism. No one is in- went up to Mr. Nixon in the front of the glass entrance dispensable I really don't Lincoln sitting room. It's a doors. Behind bins there ap- think about it much tight small mom," says Brooks. 'in peared and positioned him- now.' Figuratively, he seems the Soothes, comer of the self. "a kind of flaky goy M a to have received another base- White Howe. Mr. Nixon was fernlike overcoat," whom the ball -a'political one— herd sitting before a fire in the fire- other two boys heal rocked between the eyes. Once. and when they erne in, hanging around earlier in the Though pet-tenth disen- he couldn't look them in the day. As David too became chanted with politics he is OM face . I understand it was aware of the presence behind disillusioned. Asked what well into the weekend before him. Brooke and John the deepest scars of Watergate he could look any of the fam- pointed the stranger out to a were, he turned the question ily in the face . . They re- girl dannutee. She said, "He's- into an affirmation. "look at stored him by telling him they been around all day asking for how it helped me I learned loved him—by touching him David Eisenhower." from it. Think of all I would and hugging him. Kissing "John and I were out of our have missed in the way of ed- him. David said he didn't see sews like that," says Brooks ucation. be there when it's how Mr. Nixon could have "The spook began to run . . . over. It was beneficial. rot withstood the physical pre. We've both been shot at, and even a step farther along" core much longer—that it was I'm a karate type I wouldn't Probably a good deal of rime emitting he had been able to have minded knocking his will have to pass, but it seems withstand it that long Nix had off. We caught him, and unlikely that his appetite for on's really tough, tough as an the first words he said were politics—or perhaps his sense old boot, hot his whole world 'Are you Secret Service?' . . . of destiny—will not revive. it had crumpled down..." The Eisenhower name hadn't could almost be predicted been mentioned. I made him that if it somehow became give me identification. He "expected of him" to aspire to rooks Harrington is • was a radical student leader at high office, he would do what vastly interesting the University of Baltimore was expected Byoung man for many who'd been picked up twice In this instant. however, be reasons, not the least of for carrying a concealed says, "It is so good to be out of which o that he is being al- weapon." David took the two the White House, to be able lowed to speak--or trot pre- young men back to the White to watch the news and feel as vented from speaking--for House to meet the President, free and as critical as we want David in a fashion that David and their friendship began. to be. It's nice to have the past can not find it in himself to over with. We ere ghosts. Peo, speak. Perhaps one or both of ple see us on vice street and them has seen the need to f, as it did, Watergate start: 'We thought you died slowly, imperceptibly free caused David Eisen- last August ' Now we can re. David from the trace that I hower immense pain, it lax and lead normal lives." held him prisoner during released him to become his Some way the thought does Watergate. own man. Brooks says, "If not Kern to sir well "But you Harrington, 6-foot.2, at- someone asks David if he'd can't be relaxed all your life... tractive, isinhoritetive, a Cath- Site to he President and he My pm nightmare is that I'll olic convert, once politically replies, 'no way,' he's rife be- wake up at 45 with nothing ambitious, always anciologi- ing prmumptuen You must accomplished There is in- cally concerned, a charismatic remember that the Presidency centive now, tremendous in- one-time activist, is from is an everyday thing to hint centive Maybe even some- Texas by way of Yale and the Right now, I think David is thing to be proved_ ." ■