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Thursday, September 26,1974
University Daily Kansan
Blood clot moves to Nixon's lung
From the Associated Press
LONG BEACH calf.A potentially dangerous, dime-sized blood clot has been discovered in Richard M. Nixon's right hand. It was John C. Lungen, announced yesterday.
The former President took the news "as he normally takes anything else--it's another problem," the doctor said. Nixon "was a hell of a will to live," Nelson wrote.
"There is a very good chance of recovery, but it will take some time," he said.
The clot lodged in the lung after breaking off from a vein in Nixon's left leg, where it had been created by chronic phlebitis, Lungren said. He described it as a "potentially dangerous situation, but not critical at this time."
Asked if the gelatin-like clot could endanger Nixon's life, Lungren said only that the present risk is that a larger clot could form in the lung.
The doctor added, "His mood is remarkable considering what he's going to do."
Lungren didn't say how likely it was for another clot to form, and it was unclear whether Nixon ever had a second clot in his leg.
"I hate to be lying here with this thing in venen," Laugret paraphrased Nixon as a "great sin."
No surgery is contemplated, he said, but Nixon is continuing anticagulant treatment to dissolve the clot and to prevent a new one from forming. He will remain banded through next week. If the drugs are effective, the clot probably will go away.
But a knowledgeable Washington, D.C., doctor said, "Even though this clot doesn't seem to be severe, it doesn't mean it couldn't get worse. If a chunk of another
clot broke off and got to the lungs . . . that might be it."
If Nixon's condition worsened, doctors also might consider surgery, including emergency surgery in a severe case to enter the lung and remove a clot. Other surgical treatments include tying off certain blood vessels to prevent clots from reaching the lungs.
Nixon has no chest pain, but the lung clot is contributing to the extreme fatigue of the patient.
Llangren made his announcement at Memorial Hospital Medical Center of Long Beach, where Nixon, 61, has been hospitalized since Monday for extensive treatment and tests. He was originally scheduled to stay only seven days.
There was no indication from Lungren
whether the clot could keep Nixon from
integrate cover trial. It begins next Tuesday.
The former President has been subpoenaed as a witness by both defendant John Ehrlichman and prosecutor Leon Jaworski. Jaworski has asked U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas McGregor an independent medical team to determine if Nixon can试ify or give a deposition.
Press Secretary Ron Nessen said the chief White House physician, William Lukas, talked with Langren by telephone and played a report to Ford at midafternoon.
Nessen said that Ford "expressed pleasure that there was no imminent danger and that the former President is feeling reasonably well."
In response to a question, Nessen said he
Bar resignation accepted
no of plans for Ford to visit Nixon in the long Beach hospital. The President will be in San Francisco next Wednesday for a speaking appearance.
Lungen said that the clot, which moved through blood vessels to the middle of the right lung, was found through tests Tuesday conducted by a specialist in nuclear medicine. Lungen said he didn't know why the clot broke off or when it occurred.
From the Associated Press
Lungen is unclear about the possibility of a second lung clot, saying only, "The primary risk is the breaking off of a larger wound and the damage to the lung and a real danger."
SAN FRANCISCO-The California Supreme Court yesterday accepted former President Richard M. Nixon's resignation from the state bar.
The brief court order, signed by Chief Justice Donald Wright, said:
"The Sept. 16, 1974, voluntary resignation of Richard M. Nixon as a member of the State Bar of California occurred without the knowledge or prior proceedings in his disciplinary matter pending against him
before the state bar, should he again seek to become a member thereof."
The California bar, which had been considering disciplinary action against Nixon for his Watergate role, had first recommended that the court reject Nixon's order to withdraw from the bar. It reversed itself after Nixon wrote a second resignation letter.
This means that if Nixon seeks to become a member of the state bar again, any disciplinary matter pending against him could be reinstituted.
It was thought that Lungen was referring to a breaking off of the second clot in Nixon's leg, but a hospital spokesman said the doctor told him that Nixon may not have had a stroke. But that hospital diagnostic tests had ruled out the possibility of a second clot's existence.
The state bar had voted to recommend to the Supreme Court that it reject a State law.
Nixon has had trouble with his leg and phlebitis for many years. The existence of a lung clot now, a condition his doctors have feared in recent months, indicates the circulatory aliment will continue to plague him.
"He's going to be bothered with this the rest of his life," one doctor said.
Nixon is occupying a room on the hospital's sixth floor, with another room set aside for Secret Service agents. Eight other patients are housed in equipped of patients to act as a security buffer.
FLIGHTS ARE FILLING FAST
Rocky ends testimony
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON-Nelson A. Rockefeller completed three days of testimony before the Senate Rules and Administration Committee yesterday, and a key member said the panel would vote overwhelmingly to recommend Rockefeller's confirmation as vice president.
But Majority Whip Robert C. Byrd, D-W. Va., said he was disappointed that Rockefeller declined to state flatly that he would never invoke the doctrine of executive privilege should he succeed to the presidency.
Chairman Howard W. Cannon, D-Nev., said it would be premature to predict Rockefeller's approval.
In the House Peter W. Rodino Jr., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said an audit of Rockefeller's taxes being prepared by the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation wouldn't be completed until the third week of October.
This would mean action to confirm or reject the nomination would be put off until after the November elections.
Rockefeller said he declined, but he gave no further details.
In his testimony yesterday, Rockefeller disclosed that former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, sometime after his resignation, asked Rockefeller for help "to sponsor or finance payments in advance on a book."
He also said that former White House domestic adviser John D. Kasich asked for contributions for his defense in the Watergate coverup trial.
"From a human point of view I'm embarrassed to say that I did not answer the letters," Rockeefler said. "these things are very sad."
Much of the questioning centered on Rockefeller's views of how to restore the troubled economy.
Asked to comment on rumors that Kissinger may leave the government, Rockefeller said, "I just cannot believe we would be shortsighted."
Rockefeller said he thought President Gerald R. Ford and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger had recognized that inflation would be almost impossible to control if oil producing nations continued to raise their prices.