xilyy, at 62 •• Virtual Exile, Hard. Tunes ib(By Leroy fb F. Aarons from a 29-hour, seven-day watch to an friends and associates who have access, Weehiniton Poet Staff Writer , eight-hour ,weekday service. to him report that he is still struggling- SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Jan, 9 — Also departing will be President back from the emotional and physical Five months to the day after resigning Nixon's closest personal aide, Ronald nadir of October, when he nearly_died from the world's most powerful office, L. Zeigler, the loyal former press sec- from complications of his chronic former President Richard M. Nixon retary, who is to leave in February to phlebitis _condition_ He is still weak,' quietly celebrated his 62d birthday and thin, these individuals report, and begin a six-month tour for W. Colston his blood pressure fluctuates erratidal= today in virtual exile on his 26-acre Lee, Inc., one of the nation's largest IY. But, they add, he appears to be °lit compound. lecture promoters. Marine Lt. Col. of danger and gaining slowly. - ' • Around him, the last trappings of Jack Brennan, Nixon's chief of staff, Last Friday, two days afters the Vets power were being dismantled in an- is to return to Marine headquarters diet in the Watergate trial, Nixon for ticipation of the Feb. 9 end of the six- in Washington and then to the Naval the first time since his illness Vei month transition period provided by War College. tured out of La Casa Pacifica to_ rice law for ex-Presidents. Within the next Nixon will be left with a small staff adjoining Coast ,Guard base, wheie month, he will lose his free postage Of .secretaries and Secret Service se- his federally maintained offices are privileges, his White House-provided curity officers, a far cry from the mas- located. Now, dressed casually -in switchboard and the two military per- sive technical and personnel machine sweater 'and sport shirt, he des: the sonnel who man it, and the Coast that kept the Western White House trip almost daily, walking 'the few, Guard detail protecting the entrance functioning. '- to La Casa Patific.a—already reduced As for the former President, the few See NIXON 46, Col. '

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NIXON, From Al 4 of his Middle Eastern trip last June. and made the 'Iron Curtain' speech," Reportedly, he enjoyed the film, but said Rabbi Korff. "With the prestige hundred yards and spending two or said it didn't do justice to the size he enjoyed overseas Mr. Nixon }could three hours in his office. • and enthusiasm of the crowds that certainly mike a contribution." He has begun pieliminaly work on greeted him, From scattered reports, it appears. The former President has been read- his memoirs with Dr. Frank Gannon, ing much about Sir Winston Churchill a writer and scholar who worked for that some of Nixon's fondest moments these days. Gannon, the aide helping him in the White House. He still tires 'are spent recalling his impact on for- eign affairs and the high regard in with the memoirs, helped Randolph quickly, friends say, and has not Churchill write a biography of his fa- 1/4 which he is held overseas. During a ther, the British prime minister during plunged in with his typical discipline. visit this week by Rabbi Baruch Korff, World War II. • The holidays were a high point in one of his star chest supporters, Nix- The rabbi, who spent several hours the Nixon routine. Daughters Tricia on displayed dozens of letters and with Nixon over a two-day period, de- and Julie and their husbands were telegrams with geta,voll and birthday scribed his emotional state as ranging here. A 10-foot tree, decorated by Mrs. wishes from foreign leaders. (Chou between "sadness over the course of Nixon stood in the living room of the En-lal sent a get-well telegram in Oc- events and hopeful for the future." main house. The family received short tober, expressing "sincere wishes for On the topic of Watergate, Nixon visits from actress Elizabeth Taylor your early recovery."). - . •spoke again of "errors of • judgment" and singer Frank Sinatra, who came Said Rabbi Korff: "When he held and' being "too yielding to subordin- by helicopter on different days to the out some of the birthday greetings, ates," said Korff, but the rabbi steer- Coast Guard base. his face, from a sad look, was suddenly ed away from what he considered the Sinatra later sent down a print of lit up. It was a great lift." delicate areas of Watergate whenever MGM's compilation of its musical The rabbi, who organized the Na- Nixon alluded to them.' movie history, "That's Entertainment," tional Committee for Fairness to 'the Korff and others report that 'Nixon which the family watched a few days Presidency and the Nixon Justice is burdened by a sense of mistreat- before Christmas. The former President Fund, added that one of the former ment from both Congress and the displayed a detailed knowledge of President's repeated 'hopes is to play Ford administration. These friends the stars of the past, calling out their a role, perhaps as a lecturer in the claim that in addition to legislation names as the appeared on the screen, United States and overseas, as an in- passed by Congress tying up the form- even when others in the family were dependent adviser in the field of for- er President's official papers, Nixon stumped as to their identities. eign affairs. has been unable to obtain personal On that same evening, the daugh- "When Churchill was replaced by mail, cartoons and other memorabila ters surprised him with a travelogue Atlee he made his way to •America left at the White House. Exile Amid Hard Times

Korff said: "All his and Mrs. Nixon's personal effects, his personal records, his memorabilia from his entire ca- reer, his cartoon collections, his ele- phant and gavel collections and even his personal pin are being kept from him." In addition, the former President is reportedly troubled by financial problems. The phasing out of the transition support services (the Gene- ral Services Administration is cutting down froin nine to three full-time maintenance personnel requires Nixon to assume extensive costs out of a staff and services budget of only S45,000 between now and the end of the fiscal year. "They are going to have some real problems starting Feb. 9," said War- ren Kane, clerk of the Senate Ap- propriations subcommittee that over- sees the transition. Kane toured the San Clemente facilities this week, where trailer-style offices are being torn out and telephone lines discon- nected. The Coast Guard force, which used to spend time planting flowers and sprucing up the grounds, has been cut in half to its normal complement Associated Press of 10. ' Ann Christie and Rabbi Korff show cake with 62 'candles for Nixon.