Mrs. Edward Vowe, • ls Bitterness•

ALDeR 0 ANOR, Leonard Firestone, presi- Wash., Jan. 1 (UPI)—Mrs. dent of the foundation, said Edward Nixon, sister-in-law in Los Angeles Monday of the President, says it's that Edward Nixon had re- "tough" to be left home viewed six possible sites alone with the couple's two across the country and had children while her husband recommended that a final is "off being paid to do noth- selection be made from ing." among three locations in Or- Mrs. Nixon's remarks ange County, Calif., where were made Monday when re- the President began his po- porters attempted to inter- litical career. view 'her husband at the Prior to the 1968 election, family's suburban Edward Nixon held a staff home about consultant fees supervisory position with he was paid in connection Pacific Northwest Bell Tele- with the proposed Nixon li- phone Co. After the elec- brary. tion, he was offered a fed- She said her husband was eral position in Alaska but not at home. he said he turned it down to "I don't want any public- avoid charges of nepotism. ity," she told reporters. Currently, he is a Republi- "While he's off being paid to can state committeeman for do nothing, I'm here alone. Snohomish County and is a "I'm trying to teach partner in the Seattle Kings, school and I've got two kids. a group hoping to obtain a And let me tell you, it's National Football League tough. franchise for Seattle. "I could tell you what he When she answered the did, but I'm not going to." door Monday, Mrs. Nixon Payment of $21,000 was was holding a hammer. She made to Edward Nixon to told reporters she felt "like find out where the Nixon taking this thing and knock- family would like the library ing down our newspaper de- to be located, according to a livery boxes so I won't have report made public by the to read some of the things Foundation they write." in California. She said she was "sick Edward Nixon, a trustee and tired" of newspaper re- of the foundation, was paid ports about the President's $1,500 per month for 14 family. She described the months beginning in Decem- story about her husband's ber, 1970, to find a location consultant's fees as "an in- for the library. vasion of our privacy."