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Whtle House Pholooraph Richard M. Nixon and his White House chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman, aboard plane

Ex-President Is Accused resigned from office on Aug. 8, 1974. of Initiating Break-In Rich Anecdotal Material Btit Mr. Haldeman presents his own at the Watergate theories and suppositions .about aspects of the Watergate scandal: how the bur- glary happened to be committed, for ex- By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM ample, and how the cover-up came unrav- Special to The New York Tlms eled. Always, in these matters, he says WASHINGTON, Peb. 16—H.R. Halde- that he does not know the facts and can man, who was Richard M. Nixon's chief only make guesses, based on his position of staff and closest adviser during the as a White House insider. first four years of the Nixon Presidency, Even more interesting, perhaps, the contends that Mr.' Nixon himself "initiated book provides insights into the former the Watergate break-in,' participated in President's personality from the point of the cover-up from "day one" and may view of a man who describes himself have personally erased 18 1-2 minutes accurately as closer to Mr. Nixon "than of damaging dialogue from a critical anyone else professionally," and it in- Watergate tape. cludes rich, new anecdotal material about Mr. Haldeman, who is now in prison Richard M. Nixon, the man and the Presi- for his own role in the Watergate cover- dent. up, makes those charges in a book, "The In addition,.. Mr. Haldeman . vividly Ends of Power." characterizes some of his . former col- The book adds little substantive evi- leagues on, pie White House staff. He dence to tre reams of tapes, testimony, describes Henry A. Rishinger, the nation- documents ' and interviews that have al security adviser and Secretary of chronicled the activities of Mr. Nixon and his aides from the time of the Watergate Continued on Page Alfi, Column 5 break-in on June 17. 1872, until Mt. Nixon Continued Prom Page Al that paragraph, and none was revealed State, as "a brilliant, impulsive, witty in any previous testimony or document. gentleman" but also pompous, publicity- Re-election Seen as Key seeking and insecure. He calls Charles As for the Watergate cover-up. Mr. W, Colson, the special counsel, an "iron- Haldeman contends that Mr. Nixon par- man bully" and "the President's personal ticipated from the beginning because he hit man.' He attributes a viciously anti- wanted to avoid any personal connection Semitic quotation to Gen, Alexander M. with the break-in or other black mark Haig Jr., who succeeded Mr. Haldeman that might prevent his re-election in the as chief of staff and who is now Supreme fall of 1972. Commander of the Allied Forces in Eu- Mr. Nixon, in the Frost interviews, rope, And he pictures John W. Dean 3d, ascribed to himself a different motive. the White House counsel, and Jeb Stuart The former President said that he had Magruder, a campaign aide who was en- withheld the truth from the prosecutors snared in the Watergate scandal, as primarily to protec this own staff mem- young men who were out of their element bers and that he had agreed to pay young men who were ut of their element money to the Watergate burglars for hu- in the high councils in which they moved. manitarian reasons. Mr. Dean, Mr. Magruder and Mr. Colson In the end, Mr. Haldeman writes, "The have written books themselves since they cover-up collapsed because it was left office, and they portrayed Mr. Halde- doomed from the start." The book contin- man in an unfavorable light.. ues: Mr. Haldeman believes that the Water- "Morally and legally it was the wrong gate burglary resulted from the desire thing to do—so it should have failed. of Mr. Nixon and Mr. Colson to gain Tactically, too many people knew too revenge on Lawrence F. O'Brien, who was much. Too many foolish risks were taken. then chairman of the Democratic Nation- Too little judgment was used at every . al Committee. Mr. O'Brien was a fierce stage to evaluate the potential risks vs. partisan who had been attacking Republi- the gains. And when the crunch came,, cans daily in the spring and summer of too many people decided o tsave their 1972 for allegedly interfering in an anti- own skins at whatever cost to the Presi- trust case against the International Tele- dent nr anyone else." phone and Telegraph Corporation. He had Moreover, Mr. Haldeman declares, "The been a close assistant to John F. Kennedy four major power blocs in Washington and is now commissioner of the National were waiting in the wings to take the ' Basketball Association. fullest advantage of the sword that was ' Mr. Haldeman describes how the White being so surprisingly handed to them. House became aware that, while a lawyer The press, the bureaucracy, the Congress in private practice, Mr. O'Brien had rep- and the intelligence community, all had resented the late Howard R. Hughes. their own reasons for seeing that the Then, Mr. Haldeman writes: sword was wielded most effectively." "Which leads me to my own theory Reasons for the Collapse of who initiated the Watergate break-in. Richard Nixon himself caused those bur- The "Watergate disaster," Mr. Halde- glars to break into O'Brien's office." man writes, was not the result of "the Mr. Nixon did so, .accordIng to Mr. failure of the White House staff system." Haldeman, by instructing Mr. Colson to Rather, he says, it was the result of Mr. "get the goods" on any illicit relationship Nixon's trying to work outside regular between Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Hughes. channels and keeping people like Mr. Those instructions, Mr. Haldeman asserts, Haldeman in the dark. led inexorably to the burglary. One of the remaining mysteries about the Watergate case is how IS 1-2 minutes The staff of the Senate Watergate com- of a conversation between Mr. Nixon and mittee pursued a similar line of reasoning Mr. Haldeman three days after the bur- at great length and was never able to glary happened to be erased from the prove it. tape that was delivered to the prosecu- Mr. Colson, in a television interview tors under subpoena. Days of testimony this morning, described the Haldeman from men and women who were then theory as "false." on the White House staff and expert wit- "It just didn't happen that way," he nesses failed to resolve what was said said. in the conversation or who erased it. In his interviews with David Frost last Mr. Haldeman has answers to both year, Mr. Nixon also denied any responsi- those questions, although he is careful bility for the burglary, to point out that his answers are little Today, there was no direct response more than hypothesis. from Mr. Nixon, who is living at San As for what was said in the conversa- Clemente, Calif. The only comment on tion, the book contains the following pas- the Haldeman assertions came through sage: a Mr. Nixon's aide, Col. Jack Brennan. "Since the discovery of that gap, I've "Formtr President Nixon's memoirs will racked my brain trying to remember be published in May," he said. what was said. Reconstructing Key Conversation Mr. Haldeman also concludes that "the "Now, looking back, taking all the new break-in effort collapsed because the evidence of what was really going on Democratic Party was ready for it. They that week, I wonder if one of my conver- knew it was going to happen, and let sations with Nixon about Colson didn't it. And the C.I.A. monitored the burglars take place June 20. With that thought throughout. Finally, the break-in was in mind, I've reconstructed the way the probably sabotaged." conversation might have gone. The author offers, these as theories and NIXON: On that D.N.C. break-in, have provides little evidence to substantiate i•nu heard that anyone in the White Hou"e is involved? HALDEMAN: No one. NIXON: Well, I'm worried about Col- son. HALDEMAN: Why? NIXON: The F.B.I.'s starting their in- vestigation, and I know one thing, I can't stand an F.B.I. interrogation of Colson. Colson can talk about the President if

he cracks. You know 1 was an Colson's tail for months to nail Larry O'Brien on the Hughes deal. Colson told me he was contends that Mr. Nixon personally ord- going to get the information I wanted ered that a wiretap be placed on the one way or the other. And that was telephone of Joseph Kraft, the columnist. O'Brien's office they were bugging, was- With that effort, Mr. Haldeman writes, n't it? And who's behind it? Colson's boy, "Unintentionally and unknowingly an im- Hunt. portant precedent for Watergate had end indent been established: the use of private Whiet Mr. Haldeman goes on to say that he House personnel for wiretapping." believes Mr. Nixon tried to erase the con- He asserts ' that wiretaps on other versation. But Nixon was the least dex- newsmen and staff members of the Na- terous man I have ever known: Clumsy tional Security Council resulted from Mr. would be too elegant a word to describe Kissinger's "rage" over leaks of classified his mechanical attitude," Mr. Haldeman information. Mr. Haldeman concedes, writes. "So I believed that Nixon had however, that "Nixon was 100 percent started trying to erase the tapes himself, behind the wiretaps. And I was, too." but realized it would take him 10 years Mr. Kissinger has repeatedly denied in fits and starts." that he ordered wiretaps and has placed However, on second thought, Mr. the blame on Mr. Nixon. Haldeman recalls that in a conversation General Haig, the allied commander in after he resigned Mr. Nixon referred to Europe, who was Mr. Nixon's chief of the gap in the tape as "Rose's 18 staff during his last year as President, minutes," a possible indication that Mr. is the only principal member of the White Nixon believed that his secretary, Rose House staff who is still in high office. Mary Woods, had erased the tape. According to Mr. Haldeman, he and 'Now, I'm confused," Mr. Haldeman General Haig talked on the telephone in writes. late 1973, and General Haig warned Mr. When he was asked in the Frost inter- Haldeman that "they have an uncanny views whether he had erased the tape. intelligence operation in the Jewish com- Mr. Nixon replied, "I never touched it." munity that is out to get you." He said that he had no idea how the Mr. Haldeman says that he dismissed part of the tape was destroyed. the suggestion. General Haig was said One of the most arresting parts of the to be away from his office and could book does not appear in the excerpts not be reached today for comment. in The Times. It is a chapter in which Mr. Haldeman discusses Mr. Nixon's per- Perhaps as a footnote to the Watergate sonality. affair, Mr. Haldeman offers another "I see Nixon as a multifaceted quartz theory that is substantiated only by rath- crystal." Mr. Haldeman writes. Some er thin circumstantial evidence. He de- facets bright and shining, others dark and clares that Fred Fielding, who was Mr. mysterious. And all of them constantly Dean's staff assistant at the White House, changing as the external light rays strike was the secret source whom Bob Wood- the crystal. Some of them very deep and ward and Carl Bernstein, in the book and movie, "All the President's Men," impenetrable. others completely on the termed "Deep Throat." ' surface. Some smooth and polished, others crude, rough and sharp." Mr. Fielding, in a telephone conversa- That metaphor, the author says, leaves tion today, called that assertion "fantasy room not only for such strong character- and nonsense." istics as intelligence, analytical ability and courage but also for what Mr. Halde- man characterizes as "the coldly calcu- lating, devious. craftily manipulative side" of the former President. A Pointed Assessment Mr. Haldeman recalls: "I saw both greatness and meanness in Nixon in such bewildering combination that, years later, peering out of a hotel window at the White House which I had been forced to leave, I muttered out loud: `Nixon was the weirdest man ever to live in the White House.'t" Elsewhere in the book, Mr, Haldeman Haldeman Book Says Soviet Asked U. S. In '69 to Join Nuclear Attack on China

Ex-Aide Asserts Nixon ! `The Ends of Power' Refused—Kissinger and Two pages of excerpts from Rogers Deny Account H. R. Haldeman's book begin

By HEDRICK SMITH on page A17. Special to-The New York Timm WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—H. R. Halde- man, the White House chief of staff open the suspended Warsaw talks with under President Nixon, writes that the Chinese and planted an uncoded military Soviet Union made several overtures 'to message about the dangers of fallout to the United States in 1969 proposing a lapin and Siberia that might be posed joint nuclear attack on China's atomic by a. Soviet nuclear attack on China. facilities but that Mr. Nixon turned them The United States Is known to have down, been concerned In late 1969 about a Sovi- The account, drawn froim Mr. Halde- et buildup along the Chinese frontier and man's book, "The Ends of Power," pub- about various hints that Moscow was lished today by Time Books, was considering a pre-emptive nuclear strike promptly disputed by William P. Rogers, against Chinese nuclear facilities at Lop then Secretary of State, and by Henry Nor in the Sinkiang region. A. Kissinger, who was Mr. Nixon's na- tional security adviser at the time. But many American officials, including "That is not true," Mr. Kissinger said Secretary Rogers, were skeptical that in a television interview. "I do not recall Moscow was really contemplating an at- any such event and I wouldn't have for- tack. Rather, Mr. Rogers recalled today, gotten It." Mr. Rogers .agreed. "I have Moscow appeared to be eggaging in mili- no recollection of that," he told The New tary posturing to induce the Chinese tc York Times. "There just wasn't any such make political concessions. Moreover, the thing." Haldeman account ignores previous American efforts to reopen the Warsaw Release Date Was Broken talks and to arrange an high-level mission The Times is publishing excerpts from to Peking. Mr. Haldeman's book in its Friday issue. On other foreign policy matters, Mr. Originally the excerpts were to be printed Haldeman made these assertions: in five installments, starting on Monday, lilt was. the discovery- of soccer fields, but The Times rescheduled them after in Cuba that tipped off the Americans other news 'organizations broke the that the Soviet Union was secretly build- release date and the book's publication ing a submarine base at Cienfuegos, date was moved up. Cuba, in violation of an understanding Mr. Haldeman, in one of his chief dis- reached in 1962 after the Cuban missile closures, contends that that Mr. Kissinger crisis. 'Those soccer fields could mean was so alarmed by the buildup of Soviet war," he quotes Mr. Kissinger as having forces along the Chinese border in late said. "Cubans play baseball. Russians 1969 that, on Dec. 10, he volunteered play soccer." the prediction to Mr. Haldeman that there qMr. Kissinger, known as "the hawk was "a very strong probability that the of hawks" among the White House staff, Russians would attack China by April is said to have urged the controversial 15." On other occasions, he quoted Mr. Continued on Page Ale, Column 3 Kissinger as having said that he saw "a 60 percent chance" of a Soviet strike against China, Book's, Release Stirs Debate In an effort to warn Moscow of a pos- . The circumstances surrounding the sible confrontation with the United States premature release of parts of H. R. Hal- in case of an attack on China, Mr. Hattie- deman's book-raised a host of journal- man says, the Americans moved to •re- istic and legal questions. Page A16. Haldeman Book Says Soviet Asked U.S. in 1969 to Join Attack on China

Continued From Page Al man, who was the President's domestic adviser, collected "nude photos of various bombing of Hanoi on Christmas 1972, though he conveyed the impression to starlets that Henry had dated" and then columnists like James Reston of The sent them to Mr. Kissinger in White Times that he had split with Mr. Nixon House envelopes along with bogus Presi- over the issue by opposing it. dential memos making "'bizarre de- 9The refusal of Mr. Rogers to step mands' for certain types of action." down as Secretary of State at the end of Mr. Nixon' s first term deprived Ken- Mr, Kissinger became a problem in the neth Rush, a career diplomat, of the job 1972 election campaign, Mr. Haldeman and forced the President to turn to Mr. says, because he sometimes upstaged Kissinger, who did not want what he con- President Nixon by shaking hands with sidered a less powerful post. With the the crowds. When told to leave the hand- Watergate scandal building up, Mr. shaking to the President, Mr. Kissinger Haldeman says, the President "knew shot back with a smile, "You're just jeal- Henry was his most precious asset with ous, Herr Haldeman." the press, the Congress and the public" Desk Tray Placed on Documents and he insisted that the national security On visits to Mr. Haldeman's office, Mr. adviser also serve as Secretary of State. Kissinger "tried to read everything of in- 41President Nixon conceived "the Mad- terest on my desk," the author says, add- man Theory," a strategem to convince ing that an aide would tease Mr. Kissing- the Vietnamese that "he would do any- er by purposely setting a luncheon tray thing to Will the war and his finger was on documents he was trying to read fur- on the nuclear button" and they should tively. therefore make concessions. The theory At another point, Mr. Haldeman ac- collapsed because Hanoi did not yield. cuses Mr. Kissinger of posing as a liberal Nixon's Initiative on China Affirmed outside the White House when he was Most of Mr. Haldeman's account sup- seen as hard-liner by insiders. "In the ports what was already known, such as White Houe by day we knew Henry his assertion that Mr. Nixon took the Kissinger as 'the hawk of hawks,'" he lead in opening up American relations writes. "But in the evenings, a magical transformation took place. Touching with China while Mr. Kissinger was ini- tially "a reluctant passenger." The author glasses at a party with his liberal friends, is often more revealing about the inter- the belligerent Kissinger would suddenly play of personalities than about the se- become a dove." quence of events. The author credits Mr. Kissinger with The Haldeman account provides a por- devising the strategy of deterring a Sovi- trait of Mr. Kissinger as witty, charming, et attack against China by trying to reo- insecure, inconsistent, nosy, brilliant, pen the Chinese-American talks in War- egotistical, and the butt of pranks played saw in a gesture designed to let Moscow , by other White House staff members know that "a Soviet nuclear strike might who, like Mr, Nixon, "secretly got a kick being the Russians into confrontation out of Henry's love life." with the United States." According to the account, John Ehrlich- This venture produced "high comedy," according to Mr. Haldeman. When Am- bassador Wafter J. Stoessel Jr., acting on instructions, sought to approach Lei Yang, Peking's charge d'affaire,s at a Warsaw social function, the Chinese, taken aback, walked out and Mr. Stoessel had to chase after him down the stairs. Prime Minister Chou En-lai was said to have told Mr. Kissinger later, "If you want our diplomats to have heart attacks, approach them at partieS and propose serious talks." Mr. Haldeman's account implies that the opening in Warsaw led to Peking's invitation to Mr. Nixon to visit China. Other accounts by high-level Nixon Ad- ministration officials have said that Fred i. m.o. American feelers to China had gone on President Nixon, says H. R. Halde- long before and the President's visit was developed through Pakistani intermedi- man, imposed a rigid self-disci- aries. pline to shield him from mistakes. 'And when it burst," he observes, "the effects were devastating." Alb C 1 Ifaldeman's Book Released Early regiStry, Miss Collins said, "I have no cent/bent." Then she added: "I will go to :After Summary Appears in Print rey.arFave . . . I will never reveal how I got it. It's nobody's business." When a 'Fier reporter suggested that it might be other it a'' By CAREY WINFREY people's business if a law had been In publishing a front page article sum- bipleen, she said, "No violation of the ratrIzing and quoting from H. R. Heide- lepr'occurred." mffirs book "The Ends of Power" yester- alprry Rosenfeld, assistant managing rian'The Washington Post broke the offi- s ' ;.1 can tell you that we did not get tie] publication date, caused the publish- rrnation about the Haldeman book Moto- release the book and the pre- bock from Newsweek." puhlication syndicator to release clients A spokesman far Newsweek said "We from embargo arrangement: ..d raised dweI,Itnow where they got it." a tteat of jurnallstic, legal and ethical Some journalists applauded the Post's quaastIons. dedlslon to undercut its sister publication lilliee book, which was published by es an act of journalistic independence, Tiates Books, a subsidiary of The New viltile• others questioned the propriety of Ysali:'Ilmes Company„ under tight eecu- +/legating agreements. rilr arrangements, was scheduled For iaSydney Gruson, executive vice presi- pillcation March 10. Prepublication dellefor affiliated operations, at The New riglktp had been sold to some 30 news- York.•Times Company, said, ''We're dis- papers in the United States, including appointed that The Post decided to pub- TherNew York Times (at rates from $5,- lish:since we had an agreement in which 00iirtie $25,000 epednding on circulation confidentiality was involved with a cram- and other factors). The agreement al- paroo.affiliated with The Post, namely lowed the papers to print about 10,000 titiVillweek." Mr. Gruson added that he words in five excerpted installments be- am; ':not taken with the journalistic en- ginaltrig next Monday. terprise" of The Post "If they had been Prepublication rights had also been Ole to buy it," he said, referring to the scitei_ehroad and to Newsweek magazine • 'et,:rhe Washington Star, a regular ( et); a,reported $125,000), which is owned -tes syndication client, had pre-empted b • he Washington Past Company and ie.;Washington competitor, ''I'm sure w "c11: planned to publish 30,000 words Vie/ would have waited quite contetnted- the book in two installments be- 13, Wong with everybody else." tig with next Monday's issue. Neither Katharine Graham publisher of Syndicate Released Clients TOFFWashIngton Post, nor Benjamin Brad- lei,l',:executive editor of the newspaper .13fest.erday The New York Times Syn- alstild., be reached yesterday. But Mr. dication Sales Corporation, another sub- Rettenfeld said "there was absolutely no sidiary, released its clients from the catilact with Newsweek, no association *ligation not to print the material until whatsoever with our story. I don't know ay. The New York Times, a client Whether The Washington Post tried to gle corporation, made the decision to Ire the book but, as for the implications Llee entire series of excerpts, some *Tut our journalistic integrity, we think 0 words, in today's editions. A num- WX:was a first-class news story. f other client newspapers said they a0aurice C. Greenbaum, of Greenbaum. to do likewise. Ff and Ernst, a firm whose clients ./..„ffe%asweek magazine released its entire Include publishers and authors, said that eitterpt late yesterday afternoon and what constitutes "fair use" in quoted ma- TliaiWas Lipscomb. president of Times terial from a copyrighted work is de- books, said copies of the book would be cided on a case-by-case basis. "You can- shipped to booksellers today. not quantify a possible violation by look- ,qhTehluartstderay editions, The Pthoest saiii! ing at the 'lumber of words alone that are quoted in an article," Mr, Greenbaum Made available" to the paper but siesta itd of say how. It also said that the !The book that became "The Ends of "repprt was written by staff writer Power" had its genesis in a proposal by 4 es Johnson from information sup- Mr. Haldeman to write a newspaper col- by writer Nancy Collins." twpaaon foreign policy. In rejecting the ss Collins, a reporter for the news- posal a little more than a year ago es Style section, said yesterday, "I ,New York Times Syndicate passed it not of course tell how or from whom to Mr, Lipscomb at Times Books. I obtained the material." ''-'1V1r. Lipscomb began talking to Mr. Hal- ,jerk at the Sheraton Motor Inn in ctepa.n by telephone about "other ideas Stranton, Pa., a motel near the plant tfcat,seemed more interesting." At the wilere the book was printed, skid that arneone registered under the name of "Nancy Collins" had checked out yes- tieday morning. -"Aisked about her name on the motel time Mr. Haldeman was working on a book about Mr. Nixon's accomplishments as President, an idea, Mr. Lipscomb sug- gested, whose time had not yet come. "Before we could consider Nixon's ac- complishments," Mr. Lipscomb recalled telling Mr. Haldeman, "we should have better evidence and better information on what happened at Watergate from the perspective of the Oval Office." In January 1977, Mr. Lipscomb fletw to Los Angeles with Joseph DiMona, an ago, it had been rewritten in whole or author he felt would work well with Mr. part some five separate times. Haldeman. According to Mr. Malone, Mr. Even before the manuscript was com- Haldeman "stonewalled us there for five pleted, Clifton Daniel, Washington bureau days." The two men returned to New chief for The New York Times during the York with reels7 of tape from their con- Watergate period who retired from the versations and the conviction that the paper last September, was engaged to book would never be horn. excerpt the manuscript for sale by the David Frost's televised interviews with syndication service (Newsweek did its the former President. changed that con- own excerpting). viction and apparently also changed Mr. Seymour Toping, managing editor of Haldeman's feelings about his former The New York Times, said that the syndi- boss. "We rushed out there," Mr. DiMona cation rights were acquired not by the recalled, "and there he was with a 40- newspaper nor its news service, but by page letter that began: 'Dear Mr. Presi- an affiliate of the New York Times Com- dent, My dismay, disappointment and pany as distinct from the newspaper," surprise at the presentation and rep- which sold the rightes "to about 30 news- resentations in the first Frost interview papers including The New York Times. could not have beeh greater.'" We examined the book and we determ- Mr. DiMona persuaded Mr. Haldeman ined that there was a certain amount of not to send the letter. Instead he worked news material." with Mr. Haldeman' for about two'weeks Mr. Topping added that the newspaper filling reel upon reel of audio tape with had plans underway to challenge, cor- all-day interviews. roborate and put into perspective many Tapes Supplemented Memory of Mr. Haldeman's allegations. Some of The bulk of the material—the tran- that independently gathered material ap- pears in today's issues of the paper, scripts ran to five reams of paper—was Asked about allegations that some of collected in three two-week sessions, two the revelations in the book were mime. in California and one in Washington. In curate, Mr. Lipscomb said, "A book pub addition to Mr. Haldeman's memory, the Usher's function is different from a news- pair relied on a complete set of the Nixon paper publisher's. We rite not under ob- tapes, which had been supplied to Mr. ligation to check on the accuracy of every Haldeman as a defendant in the cover-up claim or or opinion by an author. Our trial, and on notes and diaries not locked lob is to provide a forum. We do not up when Mr. Haldeman resigned from the choose liars but then everyone from Tal White House. leyrand to Kissinger has been accused Leonard Schwartz, vice president for of telling less than the truth.'' marketing at Times Books, said that ex- But Stewart W, Richardson, editor in traordinary precautions had been taken. chief of Doubleday & Company, expressed to prevent any leak of the manuscript. a different viewpoint, "We believe a Mr. Schwartz said that the company publisher has an obligation to check out had had the type for manuscript set on the accuracy of certain controversial non three Linotype machines that were kept fiction works. Our procedure is to send under constant watch by security guards., the book out for an objective reading by When the printing plant was shut for an independent authority in the field." two days, all 4,000 pounds of metal type Doubleday was the publisher of was brought to the publisher's Park Ave- "Roots," a book whose credibility was nue offices and locked up. The book was also called in question by some journal- given no name at the printing plant, only istic accounts. a number, and two trusted employees proofread it. The advertising concern that was hired to promote- the book was not given a copy. All copies used in sales of the book were numbered, hand-carried to pros- pective clients and returned to a locked safe. There were unconfirmed reports yes- terday afternoon that four copies were discovered missing at the Scranton, Pa. printing plant_ A contract was not signed until shortly before Mr. Haldeman began serving a one- to four-year sentence at the Federal correction facility at Lompac, Calif., in late June. By November, Mr, DiMona had a first draft, which he took to Mr. Halde- man for extensive devisions. By the time the book was completed only a few weeks 'Mrs. Haldeman Regards Nixon ,t! RY As Worse Off Than Husband `so Joanne Haldeman says that neither at San Clemente are inescapable. ,„s,1;te nor her husband have ever heard There are all kinds of prisons. I'll a single ward from former President take Lompoc." , ,or Mrs. Richard M. Nixon concerning Mrs. Haldeman also said that she Haldeman's conviction and im- disagreed with her husband's asking elitisonment following the Watergate Mr. Nixon for a pardon. "I felt we ficandal. had to stand on our record and let Mr. Nixon has telephoned "a few the people judge," she was quoted as times" since his former aide's down- saying in the magazine article. "And fall, Mrs. Haldeman said in the March to me, it would have been very un- issue of the Ladies Horne Journal. comfortable to live with a pardon.' ?Once he wished them a happy anni- Mrs, Haldeman continued: "As far ,dy,ersary, the other times he wanted as Watergate goes, I certainly don't oz,lo check facts he needed for the book admire the President's actions. How- he is writing, she said. But she added ' ever, I—and I mean this with tre- tJhat there has never Men a word of mendous sincerity—I think that what troipathy from the Nixons for the happened to Bob, to John Ehrlichman Haldemans' fate. and to John Mitchell has been very Sam,. of her friends find this "ap- hard on Richard Nixon. I feel that it Wicalling," Mrs. Haldeman said, but she has affected him emotionally. It's aVded that she does not because shp just that he's not able to espies§ 4q-elicves that Mr, Nixon is worse off these feelings openly. What to say— s:than her husband, who is completing 'Gee, I'm sorry? his sentence at Lompoc Federal a%Prison. "Often people wonder why I'm not bitter, but I'm not, Bob served a n ..:'There are Tines at Lompoc Prison cause, and, if he could turn back the wthat Bob cannot step across until he clock, he would consider it a privilege Is released," she said, "but the walls to serve again." hr. .11 v/ I td{kr). A rKI Ll41, r &Ian U ddl ir, 151 /d

Charles Colson appearing yesterday on ABC-TV's "Good Morning,Associated America." Press He rejected H. Ft. Haldeman's assertions that he was President Nixon's "hit man" and that he "encouraged the dark impulses in Nixon's mind."