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Mild Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain High 80 Low upper liOs iMa and details On Page 2A) 374 -999 Ia-- Have Your Observer Delivered At Home Make That Call Today ler Foremost Newspaper Of The Carolinas Saturday Temperatures a a 67 12 flon 75 a a 70 a am 70 2 75 a pin 75 10 am 74 4 pm 75 10 72 89th 136 SUNDAY AUGUST 11 1974 166 Pages Prce 35 Cents 4 MP The Men Who Forced Richard Nixon's Resignation FRED BUZHARDT: With St Clair he politely told Nixon they could not defend him if the tapes weren't released Some say they actually submitted their resignations JAMES ST CLAM: He was shocked and hurt by the revelation on the tapes because he had unwittingly deceived the courts and the House Judiciary Committee ALEXANDER HAIG: "He knew what had to be done" said a GOP source "for the country and the President and he guided it He was a tower of strength" rli tte 1 rdilblEglalltrESIA "SW Amthki 4:4: i 1 1 )t toor L40101 4flo' 81 l'''' lb I A a 1 i 1 4 11" ::41 1 1 Alt i 14 I 1 S1 310W 0 4' SA 1 t' re The Inside Story Of Nixon's Last 10 Days obedience to court orders listened for the first time to the tapes What he heard left no doubt in his mind His client Richard Nixon had withheld from him direct evidence that he had helped begin the cover-up of the Watergate burglary six days after it had firmly that they and the entire legal staff were about to quit But they would remain they said if the President released three transcripts of his taped conversations on June 23 1972 with Haldeman It was those conversations only days after the Watergate break-in that made it clear Nixon approved a cover-up and that he had lied many times afterward to the nation about his early knowledge A member of St Clair's staff recalls that they were puzzled and filled with a sense of foreboding but didn't know exactly what was going on All they knew was that St Clair waited while Haig talked privately and almost constantly to Nixon that day On Thursday as toe House set the date for its impeachment debate and Senate leaders began work on trial rules White House spokesmen were restrained and seemed drained of their usual optimism Deputy press secretary Gerald Warren By SAUL FRIEDMAN Observer Washington Bureau Copyright 1974 Knight Newspapers Inc WASHINGTON In the end it was a determined group of the President's own men who put him on the road to resignation with the threat of a mass walkout The crucial moment came last Monday morning when White House chief of staff Alexander Haig and presidential lawyers James St Mar and Fred Buzhardt told Richard Nixon gently but morning in the Oval Office understood with the possible exception of Richard Nixon was that the release of those tapes probably meant an end to his presidency The events that led up to and followed from that quiet confrontation were pieced together by Knight Newspapers from conversations with ranking members of Congress White House officials and others in the Executive Branch who kept in close touch with the last days of the 37th presidency The final act of the drama began on Wednesday July 31 when St Clair in ST CLAIR shocked at the revelation and hurt because he had unwittingly deceived the courts and the House Judiciary Committee went to llaig with what he learned WILAT THE men who gathered that See HAIG Page 11A Col 1 Ford 1: eadies Plea For Unity ational Healing tertir 044f' es 42 taj A itl4A11)4A: t-4A0 elw04: 0- FAr vz4e 0'19 141Z67-254 pe1's-bt'7 kt VI1 1 i ni'' 'L' frk' 73 I i sP'''' 1140110 iziS tk 9 1 441- 4 4-: 5---itt "o'' 41 4A Ii- ') jk r)---t 4-- v- 1:: -ki 4'''''4S''''''e 10i 'Po'r 'ik 'i- 44 2'' 4r qiiiii f'''' '''i 40e1'7k14'1W '1'y 9t4 4 04k k'-''IP7-' 019 AA4 'ttlt ''1-C1 i 1ttil Ni 4 '4' '4 1 'N-'f 7-41i2i'lf- ft7- i-: A li'l 'N tr- vii': '141'i'' it t' "4' ''A'''''W 7 kr40kk4firt4441'0: kx i'4 A' klt'i vi- 1--- 114 0 :1 4: v-f- i-k- 501i1 4 li '-1v It rite- 4 i' algtk 1- 11t t114t4 '-olt1" 174cm7 14 -Id' '7 71! 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Vo elf 4 4 ifts 4( '1 -e-iii rct 47' 4 1 16-r'r A 71' 'a Ii44 The Charlotte Motor Speedway Was Turned Into A Tent City Friday And Saturday the luckier rock music fans had protection front elements AP photo President Chats With Kissinger prior to Saturday Cabinet meeting a 0 17 isMa Thousands Jam Rock Fest "He wants this to be an open and candid administration" terlIorst said "lie will try to set an example in his personal conduct and he wants his cabinet to be aware of that" San Clemente's Residents 'V ery Private' hospital slowed to a trickle But there were rumors that police were planning mass ar rests as the huge crowd left the stadium after midnight and worries that such arrests might spark more violence THE THEME of Ford's address to a joint session of Congress Monday night will be that this is a time for "unity and drawing together and healing" terHorst said along US 29 as far as five miles from the concert The Highway Patrol set up an information center in a 'mobile unit at the speedway to assist drivers vshoe cars were towed away After the violence of the gate crashing the crowd settled into a calmer friendlier mood by earl afternoon and the stream of persons going to the Observer St al Writers Mark Ethridge Ill Johnny Greene Allen Cowan a Mike Schwartz filed reports from the Speedway and Cabarrus Memorial Hospital while other reporters developed sidelights by telephone The story was written by Observer Staff Writer Henry Eichel The speech is set for 9 pm and will be nationally BUT MOST police officials discounted the rumors SB1 Director Charles Dunn said Saturday night his agents might The largest crowd ever seen for a rock concert in the Carolinas approximately 150000 persons swarmed over the Charlotte Motor Speedway Saturday tearing down fences consuming rivers of beer smoking pounds of marijuana and listening to hours of continuous welling music Two gate crashing incidents one Friday night and the other early Saturday morning before the 12-hour concert began at 11 am left perhaps 300 persons injured and two security-guard dogs trampled to death But most of those injuries were minor many of them were dogbites Only six or seven persons showed up at Cabarrus Memorial hospital to be treated for head cuts sustained from thrown rocks bottles and cans Ford told the cabinet during its 45-minute meeting Saturday morning that the new Administration must not waste its opportunity to draw the country together after the divisions ef recent months try to arrest some persons they had observed dealing heavily in drugs inside the speedway but foresaw no concerted effort to arrest large numbers Billed as the "August Jam" rock concert it had by noon become something else an "event" a "happening" The fans many plowing themselves under with alcohol and drugs were ready for anything It was a bizarre conglomeration of people inside and outside the gates Drawn by the music the ambience and the prospect of a weekend on drugs many fans seemed united by a spirit of self-indulgence gone wild Others were there simply to enjoy the music of acts like the Allman Brothers the Marshall Tucker Band and the Ozark Mountain Dare Devils Movement through the thick crowd was nearly impossible as people clustered around their multi-colored tett city on the pavement of the speedway's 400-yard home stretch From Observer Wire Reports SAN CLEMENTE Calif Richard Nixon's first full day as a private citizen since his fall from the nation's highest office was veiled in privacy Saturday behind the guarded walls of his oceanside villa The former president drove a golf cart from the adjoining Coast Guard station into the grounds of the Spanish style estate Friday and literally dropped out of sight The only hint of activity came early Saturday when a swimming pool maintenance man entered the complex indicating the leisurely nature of Nixon's immediate schedule Appointments secretary Stephen Bull said the small personal staff that flew here from Washington would "remain as long as we are wanted or needed" but gave no clue to Nixon's plans 1 The President said he and each agency head should get involved in the unity campaign Speaking for the Cabinet Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said he and his colleagues welcomed the opportunity to continue in service "We wish to express our unflagging support and total loyalty- to you" Kissinger told Ford After the Cabinet meeting the President met for 30 'minutes with the National Security Council for a brief review of world problems Ford then turned his attention to the task of reshaping the administrative structure he inherited from Nixon into one more in keeping with his style of operations DRUG DEALE were hawking their wares openly and the sight and smell of mar ijuana was everywhere but there were few arrests "We couldn't make an arrest" Cabarrus County Sheriff Roberts said with a shrug ''Everytime you would hundreds of them would have "NO ONE is talking about the long term stuff yet" Bull said "We're not even trying to figure out the answers yet We'll try to figure out the questions first" The telephone at the former Western White House office rang a busy signal throughout the morning which was grey and overcast along the Southern California Pacific coast When one call did get through a former assistant press secretary Diane Sawyer said: "We are very private people today" I Qs 'tc A 14 4 elt0- ti '04 A I 'F-- io -fi (''" '''slt 14 1-'- -tlicANTy tow -447 'ok-01Vt 74 7 f-: A 2 c-7 3:4 -'''te3) I verni4:" 0 -454 1 i -f 0" 1 F'-f ---i 1 ::4 ''N NN': V' et V- '1 :4: I ''1 I i 4 l' i ktaii 's '7 11 li f' I s'l 'I 1 3 A A A A A come at you We just can't do it We're not equipped to do it" By Saturday night 100 persons had been treated at the Cabarrus hospital about half of them for drug overdoses and the others for cuts suffered from stepping barefoot on broken glass Five persons were admitted to the hospital two severe drug cases two from an auto accident and a young woman who was pregnant Her baby was stillborn Many of the drug overdose victims were released from the emergency room still barely able to walk "Their big concern was to get out there (the sipeedway) in time for the music to start regardless of their condition" said hospital administrator Robert Wall One young man was naked when he came into the hospital He said he had been robbed of 1250 and his clothes SEVERAL hundred of the rock fans who shelled out $15 for their tickets to the concert will have to ante up another $20 to $40 in order to retrieve their towed-away cars Wrecker services in Cabarrus and Ntecklenburg counties reported towing perhaps 700 cars that were parked illegally See TOE NIXON 10A 1 so JAMMED with humanity was the grassy infield that a rumor apparently unfounded spread at dusk Saturday that two persons had died but the crush of bodies was so great that no one could get them out What seemed like a million empty beer cans rattled constantly beneath t'le endlessly moving throng near the stage A naked man 'prat-red down the steps walked jauntily along the outside fence and On The Inside See SPEEDWAY 12A 1 More On The Transition A wood of national unity and reconciliation is ill the air Page 10A GOP leaders are asked to submit recommendations for a new vice president Page IDA President Ford's first full day as chirf executive began with a breakfast of melon and English muffins Page 10A one fall of Richard Nixon is an ancient epic retold in the brutal poetry of ntodern life Page IR Ford's future and Nixon's past two editorials Page 28 7E 2411 3-6C 8-32C 8C 228 258 11-15A 1-12D 26-278 18A 1-20G 23B 1-18E Ann Landers Book Reviews Business Classified Death Notices Editorials Garden Obituaries Sports Theaters Travel TV Week N'iewpoint Women HE SPENT most of the afternoon mceting with his "transition team" four close advisers who are assigned to study the existing Whi'e House staff structure and its relationships with the rest of the government and recommend changes and imorovments Donald Rumsfeld former litiois Congressman Nixon White House aide and most re Today's Chuckle If you're going to borrow borrow from a pessimist he never expects to get it back anyway Observr Photo by STEVE PERILLE Rock Fan Is Helped To Rescue Truck outside Cabarrus Memorial Hospital See PRESIDENT 10A 6 I a 0 mrommxmatipmpmoloomoroormoblawymvortm 000111PowiyelOPftPelMtrg tionmostworsci.