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Ar23-4NDEPNPENT (AMI PRESS-TELEGRAM (PM)f un Ktn. nw, wr Nixon ends day 'silence i dramatic9 Fishbait says most of memoir hearsay but true -i FISHBAIT MILLER Common Knowledge" -tfWMpMf- Eleanor Roosevelt made the key decision that gave the vice presidency to Harry Truman. Without waking up the president, the first lady gave the word that FDR Had changed his mind. (James F. Byrnes was first choice) and wanted Harry Truman," Miller relates.

When FDR found out what his wife had done, he almost had a stroke then and there. ATLANTA (AP) William Jl. Fishbait Miller says most of the tales in bis book about the seamy line of Washington are hearsay. But be stands by $hem anyway. Miller, who moved to Atlanta after he was ousted from his job as doorkeeper of House in 1974, said-in an 'interview with the Atlanta Journal that the material in his book comes from back-corridor tales.

trol over the programs, Zelnick said, adding: Nixon will see the fin-1 ished product when he turns on the TV set -on May 4. Zelnick, 36, covered the, Watergate coverup trials, for National Public Radio. -The other researchers are James Reston an In-: structor at the University of North Carolina, ana Phil Stanford, a Washing ton freelance writer. They assembled four briefing books of 100 pages each for Frost that Zelnick, describes as essays on. the Nixon administra-; The second program on May 12 will deal with big-; power relations, the SALT-talks, dentente, the 1973 Middle East war, and Henry Kissinger.

The third, May 19, will' be on Vietnam, the dissent against the war, the poli- tics of polarization. In part 4, on May 25, will discuss his last days in the White Watergate and all crimes during his 5-year presidency foreclosed any subsequent prosecution. He was subpoenaed in late 1974 to the cover-up trial of his top lieutenants, but that opportunity to obtain Nixons testimony under oath went by because he was ill at the Zelnick, supervising a three-man team of researchers for -the Frost interviews, said Watergate was saved for last in the 11 non-consecutive days of interviews at a private home near Nixons own San Clemente residence. A very rigorous inter-. rogation on alleged abuse areas could conceivably have affected our relationship in other areas, he Not having seen Mr.

Nixon questioned about Watergate since the late WASHINGTON Iff) -Richatd Nixon's public silence on Watergate will end next Wednesday, after exactly 1,000 days. In the first of four taped interviews-for-pay, Nixon the citizen willccept questions that-Nixon the present turned away. What revelations result from the 90-minute program is known only to its participants and they will say only that it's exceedingly dramatic. Interviewer David Frost, who reportedly raid Nixon $600,000 says. I believe viewers will feel this confrontation tests the Nixon accounting of Watergate the way, -and with tiie intensity, that it should be tested.

Nixon last referred to Watergate in public on Aug. 8, 1974, when he announced his resignation. By accident or design, the interval adds to 1,001) days. Frost, a personality on, British and American tele- vision, shuffled the four programs around to begin with Watergate, We decided to put the Watergate show first be- cause its extremery dramatic and its sary to have the air cleared on Watergate to consider important and less controversial aspects of his presidency, says C. Robert Zelnick, a member of Frosts staff, From the beginning, we regarded as one of our missions to ask questions that might have been asked had not President pardoned him a month after he left office." Nixon resigned saying that Watergate had cost him the support of Congress and that to fight for my.

personal vindication would absorb all his time. The pardon for any Fishbait," have been published for the first, run and his publisher expects to print 25.000 more on the basis of early sales. In the book. Miller' claims that President Nixon grabbed him by the throat and choked him, right in the Capitol, in 1974. He says the incident occurred on Nixon's final visit to Congress.

According to Miller, Nixon asked him- how his voice was and, when Miller replied that it was 'all right, the president grabbed me by the throat. Miller said he had thought at the time, That poor guy really got rid of little hostility at my pense. The book also claims interview 1973 to early 1974 period, we simply had no way of knowing what he was prepared to say or how he would respond to that sort of questioning. He said the Watergate, ortion will be as amatic an hour and a half of television as any-, thing I have ever seen on the screen. Failing to sell the interviews to the three national networks.

Frost assembled what he calls an overnight network of 138 individual stations. National sponsors will pay $125,000 a minute for commercials six each show. The individual stations will have another six. minutes of each program to sell locally. Nixon was told the subject matter in advance of each taping, but got no preview of the actual questions.

He had no con Mote te M. IB to Birr, HE SAID, this kind of thing was common knowledge." For 24 ydbrs, the Missis-sippian was a Capitol Hill fixture in his job as doorkeeper. He announced presidents, statesmen and celebrities to the House of Representatives- with the familiar Mistah Speq- kah!" His career ended when he was ousted from his doorkeeper's job by a -Democratic caucus vote Miller said 10,000 copies of his gossipy memoir. Swindler linked to S. Korean KaicM.VfW Sen WASHINGTON -Anthony "Tino De Ange-.

lis. the New Jersey salad oil swindler, received a loan of at least $225,000 in 1975 to get started in die pork marketing business from Tongsun Park, the mysterious Korean millionaire under investigation by the Justice Department, sources close to Park said Wednesday, A friend of Park, whose alleged influence peddling on Capitol Hill has been under investigation since early 1975, said that Park mly made the loan at the urging of former Rep. Cornelius Gallagher, The loan reportedly has not been paid rack. PARK reportedly fled to London after the Justice Department began investigating him. De Angelis, 60, of Noth Bergen, N.J., was released from prison in 1972 after serving Vk years of a 20-year sefr tence for one of the biggest frauds in history the sale in the early 1960s of 1.8-billion pounds of salad oil that turned out to be nonexistent De Angelis firm.

Allied Crude Vegetable Oil and Refining which had been grossing up to $300 million yearly, collapsed in 1963, taking with it a major brokerage firm and a subsidiary of American. -Express and setting off worldwide financial-shockwaves. Mow recently, De Angelis, who still owes millions of dollars in-' back taxes, bar been operating out of a North Bergen slaughterhouse, Rex Pork Inc. i Park apparently was unaware of De Angelis background when Gallagher suggested that Park help De Angelis. A FRIEND of Park said that Gallagher urged Park to make several trips to the De Angelis operation in North Bergen.

Park's friend said that he was at first excited" with De Angelis request to expand the for the loan a operation by buying more hogs, but checked with meat industry sources and the U.S. Agriculture De-artment, then urged ark to drop it I said it was a bad risk, the friend recalled. But he said Park went ahead with the loan at the insistence of Gallagher. Parks friend said that Park and Gallagher reportedly had other business ventures, including a Florida coin eompany. Gallagher was said to be Park's regular guest at the Waldorf Astoria when in New York.

It was not dear whether Gallagher received any eommissioa for arranging the loan. Neitiwr De Angelis nor Gallagher was available for comment Sat It In 11 to may co lakewood ULrwood and dei amo 1 .1.