European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 d the stars and stripes sunday november 18, 1973 credibility. Has always been your Short suit by . Apple or. Washington not when Rob Ert Packwood a 41-year-old, first term Republican senator from Oregon went to the White House to talk to president Nixon about the watergate Case he was thoroughly prepared. Packwood a convivial yet intensely serious Man took with him an outline for a six or seven minute statement. He had thought it through carefully. A supporter of Nixon in the earlier stages of the vietnamese War and on the anti ballistic missile but an opponent on Nixon s supreme court nominations and the supersonic transport he had come to View watergate As a Symbol of rot in american Public life and he waited months to Tell the president Why. Related stories on Page 7. With 10 other Republican senators he was ushered thursday night into the White House solarium newly christened the California room. After a drink and a few social amenities he and his colleagues sat in an Oval around the president who relaxed in an Over stuffed chair. Four White House aides including Nixon press Secretary Ronald l. Ziegler were also there. Others preceded him. But Packwood s statement was the most comprehensive one according to presidential aides during the whole series of congressional meetings. Packwood said All of us or. Presi Dent whether we re in politics or not have weaknesses. For some it s drinking. For others it s gambling. For still others it s women. None of these weaknesses applies to you. I your weakness is credibility. This has always been your Short suit with the news Media and the general  according to eyewitnesses the presi Dent took that remark and the equally Frank ones that followed with equanimity obviously concentrating obviously thinking and serious but neither grave nor piqued. Packwood suggested that watergate had created a two fold program for Nixon one with the Congress the other with the Public. The president s congressional difficulties he went on arose from neglect he described the congressional re publicans As never consulted never heard never heeded and from the firing of Archibald Cox the special watergate prosecutor. Most members of Congress Packwood said believe rightly or wrongly that Nixon broke his word by that act. Congress has come to expect that Many people who testify before it lie he said. It s an entirely different mat Ter however when one person gives his word to another. That is a Bond which those of us in politics Revere highly. Those who breach that Bond suffer an incalculable loss of  bridging the congressional chasm Packwood argued would be relatively easy. Simple communication he said to Gether with a bit of political ego Mas Sage would Correct much of the difficulty. In an unusually candid remark he told the president that most of us will succumb to attention the old slap on the Back. The problem with the Public Packwood said is that they no longer believe you. They no longer Trust the integrity of the  the senator then seized upon a re Mark that the president had made ear Lier to Republican sen. Robert Stafford of Vermont. Nixon had told the new englander that he would most certainly not resign when he had not even been convicted of a crime. For too Long said Packwood this administration has Given the Public the impression that its Standard of conduct was not that it must be above suspicion but that it must merely be above criminal guilt. Or. President that is not an adequate Standard of conduct for those who have been accorded the privilege of governing this  As an example the senator cited the indictments of former Commerce Secretary Maurice stans and former atty. Gen. John m. Mitchell. If they Are cleared he predicted there will be great trumpeting from this administration that the court system has vindicated them and revived their credibility and inferentially  if stans and Mitchell Are acquitted it simply Means that there was not presented evidence beyond a reasonable doubt to convince reasonable jurors of their criminal guilt. It does not mean they were innocent of wrongdoing Packwood said. Packwood s advice for dealing with the credibility Gap was simple. He recommended two specific Steps disclose everything the tapes confidential notes everything Bear ing on the scandal. There can t be a missing tape accidentally disposed of by a janitor. There can t be a memo uncovered by an inquiring  hold an open ended no time limit news conference with Only six or seven reporters Packwood re communed three by name including Dan rather of the Columbia broadcasting system. I recommend this first the senator said because you Are Good at an adversary proceeding and second be cause the Public must be convinced that you have opened yourself up to your harshest  in conclusion Packwood told the president that watergate has destroyed your ability to inspire and Lead this country and would have destroyed his ability to govern As Well if the United states had a parliamentary system. He said that he expected neither impeachment or resignation so that Nixon was left to your own devices to restore your  when Packwood concluded sen. Wil Liam Scott r-va., a conservative urged the president to have some friends on any interview program. But Nixon said no. He said he thought Packwood was right because you Don t win any games hitting soft  protest against causeway Egypt rejects Israel s Mutual pullback Call hero at fire Elias Gonzales a 19-year-old Kitchen worker caught four babies dropped safely to him by terror stricken mothers As flames streaked through the second and third floors of the Stratford apart ments in los Angeles. Another resident of the apartments said the mothers did t know what to do. Then they heard him shouting and dropped their babies to  the mothers jumped too and All four survived. A photo suspect booked in . Blaze los Angeles a police said Early saturday they had arrested and booked an 18-year-old transient for investigation of murder in Friday s apartment House fire that killed 24 persons. Watch commander sgt. Ronald Craven of the Rampart station identified the Man in custody As Michael Altenburg. He said Altenburg had been arrested near the Campus of the University of California at los Angeles. The Man had been booked 11 hours be fore his arrest was revealed. Cairo up Egypt saturday officially rejected an israeli proposal for Mili tary disengagement under which All egyptian forces would pull Back to the West Bank of the canal and israeli troops would withdraw to the East Bank. Government spokesman Ahmed Anis told newsmen mrs. Golda Meir knows full Well this proposal is rejected out  Anis accused Israel of a very serious violation of the week old cease fire stabilization agreement by constructing a causeway carrying water pipes across the Suez canal. The charge came As Egypt and Israel continued to Exchange War prisoners re Lief supplies kept rolling into the City of Suez and the red Cross evacuated More wounded civilians from the israeli encircled port. These Field developments along with control of the Cairo Suez Road by the United nations emergency Force Kune were in accordance with the terms of the american authored cease fire stabilization agreement signed last sunday. A . Spokesman told newsmen the implementation of the four Points of the agreement which started nov. 14, is proceeding  Anis said mrs. Meir s disengagement proposal first made during her visit to Washington and repeated in her latest speeches was intended for Domestic israeli consumption. When she makes such statements she has in mind the forthcoming general elections in Israel Anis said. This was the first Public rejection of the proposal which egyptian officials privately dismissed As ludicrous when mrs. Meir first mentioned it. Egyptian forces hold two Bridgehead on the East Bank of the Suez canal one in the Northern sector and the other East of Suez stretching at Points As deep As 10 Miles into the Peninsula. On the West Bank of the canal the israelis hold a chunk of egyptian territory stretching in a semicircle from a Point South of Ismail a to Ahabiya on the Gulf of Suez just South of Suez City government sources said the egyptian idea of disengagement would be an israeli pullback from the West Bank into Sinai. Egypt had complained to the United nations about the israeli construction of a causeway across the canal at de Versoi at the Northern tip of the great bitter Lake 12 Miles South of Ismail a. A Kunef report to the Security Council said the causeway consists of Large con Crete pipes permitting the flow of water and hard surf  Anis said this constitutes a major change in the engineering Structure of the  asked to comment on remarks by presi Dent Nixon in Washington Friday about the possibility of an easing of Arab Oil restrictions As a result of diplomatic Progress to Ward a Middle East settlement Anis said the Arab position on Oil cutbacks remains unchanged. A red Cross spokesman said Egypt sat urday repatriated 20 israeli War prisoners bringing the total number of israelis sent Home in the last three Days to 74. He said it was hoped Israel would Send to Egypt about 1,670 egyptian War prisoners. On thursday and Friday the spokesman said 1,368 egyptian prisoners came Home. As of now Anis said All wounded prison ers have been exchanged 400 egyptians and 45 israelis. From now on All exchanges involve Able bodied men he said. Anis said the red Cross hoped to evac Accident victim identified Wuerzburg Germany army army officials have identified the Lith army Cav regt Soldier who died Here Fri Day following a traffic Accident nov. 15 As pvt. Bruce p. Krueger 21, of he and he troop 2nd so bad Kissinger. Krueger died of injuries he suffered when the army 5-ton wrecker in which he was Riding overturned on a curve near bad Kissinger and pinned him underneath. Krueger is survived by his parents or. And mrs. Hugh e. Krueger of Menominee Mich. Uate about 400 egyptian wounded from Suez City saturday. This is the second group to be evacuated from the City since the operation started Friday when 305 civilian wounded were brought to Cairo by ambulances the spokesman said. Temperatures l h33 40 Albany 24 63 Albuquerque 36 69 Amarillo 42 55 Asheville 48 60 Atlanta 47 66 Atlantic City 52 73 Austin 43 58 Baltimore 38 54 Billings 44 60 Birmingham 22 28 Bismarck 46 50 Boise 39 57 Boston 66 85 Brownsville 29 32 Buffalo 28 31 Burlington 32 53 Casper l h 32 60 Kansas City 40 69 Las vegas 39 62 Little Rock 51 63 los Angeles 40 50 Louisville 41 61 Memphis 68 81 Miami Beach 36 70 Midland 30 39 Milwaukee 25 34 . 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