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Nixon on Nixon: Tough Decisions Nixon on Nixon: Tough Decisions h7riPtect PFr,q "The leader has to whip them up. The team goes just as fast as the leader, as the quarterback and coach, and I am both." here. I have none here or in my bed- room. "I find to handle crises the most im- portant qualities one needs are balance, Require calm objectivity, an ability to act coolly." The President's hands had left his lap and, characteristically, he was now By Saul Kett "I've been blessed with a strong phy- beginning to gesture with both arms or Assedabed Press sical makeup, probably as a result of right fist pumping or one hand count- Dec. 20, shortly after 3 p.m., a rare inheritance. You know, I've never had ing off points on the fingers of the springlike day. A benign sun warmed a headache in my life and my stomach other, body tilting slightly right, left never bothers me. the gardens visible through the win- or forward. dows of glass one and a half inches "I believe in the battle, whether it's His mood seemed to be one of confi- thick, which were installed in Franklin the battle of a campaign or the battle dence and, as his points developed, Roosevelt's time. The Oval Office, in of this office, which is a continuing rising stimulation, perhaps even ex- this time, has a serene, unused tone, battle. It's always there wherever you hilaration. Aware that it has become like a city street on a Sunday morning. go. I, perhaps, carry it more than others an abject of parody, aides report, the The President wore a light blue suit, because that's my way." President now restrains himself from white shirt, blue 'tie and, as usual, a saying, "Let me make this perfectly small metal American flag in his lapel, "I've never before met a man who clear." But he still gives the impres- and blue and white cuff links bearing didn't even have a headache," said Dr. sion of a man who can't help saying it the presidential seaL He seated his Walter Tkach, the President's physic- viscerally, with subconscious body Eng- visitor and himself in the two chairs ian. His plc t u r e of the President's lish. with their backs to the fireplace. health at 80, after four bruising years He spoke of some of the "tough de- "Will you have something—toffee or in office and four more to go, appeared tea?" cisions" he has made, mentioning, the remarkable: movement into Cambodia and the de- His visitor hesitated. Weight: 173, precisely what it was rision May 8 to bomb North Vietnam "Oh, have something," Richard Nixon 20 years ago. Varies only by a pound or and mine Haiphong Harbor on the eve said, pressing a button, Black coffee two gained on weekends and dropped of his trip to Moscow. soon arrived. The President' folded his the following week. "People," he said, "probably think hands neatly in his lap and we began. the President was jumping up and "How do you feel in this job after None of the usual medical signs of four years?" tension. Blood pressure: 110-80. Pulse: down, barking orders, at those times. 72. Variance: only about five points, Actually, I have a reputation for being '•I've been fortunate. I haven't had to the coolest person in the room. In a miss a day because of illness. I thought even in times of intensity, said the doctor, and that includes the crLsia way I am—I have trained myself to be I that was some kind of a record but I that. The great decisions in this office find• that Truman beat it, except he over Cambodia, the trips to China and Russia. The doctor examines the Presi- require calm. didn't do it in an elected four-year "I could go up the wall watching TV term. So, I'm the first four-year Presi- dent once a week. Allergies: None. Takes no vitamins commentators. I don't. I get my news dent who hasn't missed a day in office. from the news summary the staff pre- providing I make it to January 20. See NIXON, A14, Col. 1 pares every day and it's great; it gives all sides. "I never watch TV commentators or the news shows when they are about me, That's because I don't want de- cisions influenced by personal emo- , NIXON, From Al tional reactions." or regular medication. Worst thing he's Between two gold couches, I could had in four years was a cold and sore see the President's big, very neat, oak throat, desk, "the Wilson desk." Long an ad- "My only concern is that he's work- mirer of Woodrow Wilson, he told an ing more and exercising less," said the interviewer in 1968: "I think he was doctor. "He's given up bowling. No our greatest President of this century golf. He used to run 400 strides in place . Wilson had the greatest vision of every morning. Now it's between 200 America's world role. But he wasn't and 400. practical enough. Take his 'open agree- "But aside from graying a little, he ments openly arrived at' That is not shows less change accelerated by his the way diplomacy is conducted. The office than most of his predecessors. Vietnamese war, for instance, will be He's probably one of the healthiest. settled in secret high-level negotia- Presidents we've ever had." tions!' Richard Nixon has used "the Wilson "It's important to live like a Spar- desk" for 12 years, ei g h t as Vice tan," the President was saying, "to President and four in the White House. have moderate eating and drinking But a few days before our talks, an habits. That's not to say I don't enjoy aide whispered to me: a good time. "It turns out that was not Woodrow Wilson's desk but was used by Henry "But the worst thing you can do in Wilson, who was Grant's Vice Presi- this job is to relax, to let up. dent. I'm not sure the President has "One must have physical and mental been told yet." discipline here. This office as presently furnished probably would drive Presi- "The major weakness of inexperi- dent Johnson up the wall. He liked things going on. He kept three TV sets the danger of not recognizing bluff in emcee' people," the President was say- is done 'in one of three places, where international negotiations. ing," is that, they take things personally, he thinks, studies papers, makes notes There were also Noel Busch's bio- especially in politics, and that can de- on the yellow legal pad and is either graphy of Theodore Roosevelt, whom stroy you . alone or working with only a few peo- President Nixon admires; "The Throne of Saturn," a novel by Allen Drury, "Years ago, when I was a young ple. These are his two-room suite in congressman, things got under my skim the Executive Office Building across and "Creed or Chaos?," a collection of Herblock the cartoonist got to me _ from the White theological essays and talks by Doro- But now when I walk into this office House, the Lincoln Sitting Room in the residence and thy L. Sayers, who is better known as 1 am cool and calm. I read the news Camp David, the presidential retreat a mystery writer. summary and get both sides. That's high and well isolated in the forests of According to the publisher's resume, important because there are so many the Drury book concerns this; emotional issues these days, such as the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, "The U.S. races to put the first man the war and busing and welfare. where the uninvited are discouraged by on the Planet Mars. There is a "But I never allow myself to get a double steel fence and United States maverick veteran astronaut who de- emotional. Now, there are congressmen Marines with sidearms. mands a place on the crew; a moody, and senators who cut me up; Fulbright, Explaining his increasing use of race-centered Negro doctor, whose re- for example. But when be comes here, Camp Daviu, greater than that of any fusal to cooperate jeopardizes the lives we're the best of friends, at least, I of his predecessors, the President told of his crew mates; a union leader who feel I am. reporters: tries to sabotage the flight for sinis- "Now, it's not true that I don't feel "I find that getting away from the eter political purposes; and, most of all, emotional or pay attention to what White House, from the Oval Office, a constant barrage of critical opposi- others feel. But the most important from that 100 yards that one walks tion from the nation's press, broad- thing I can do is to make decisions for every day from the President's bed- cast media and advantage-seeking the long run. room to the President's office or the politicians." "Vietnam, for example. Now, we're extra 50 yards across to the EOB, having a difficult time. Things don't getting away gives a sense of per- The President continued his dis- 1seem as bright as they did. So, we've iepective which is very, very useful. cussion of crisis-handling, a subject he had to continue the May B policy to "One constantly has the problem of has found compelling for years.
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