USC will get infamous White House Tapes
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — Former Pres. Richard
Nixon announced Sunday that he will donate materials
accumulated during his public career, including the so
called White House tapes, to a Presidential Library to be
established at the University of Southern California.
Tentative plans for the Richard Nixon Presidential
Library were reached over the weekend at a meeting
between Nixon and his wife Pat and several members of
the USC Board of Trustees at the Palm Springs estate of
Walter Annenberg, the former ambassador to Great Bri
tain.
A key section of the agreement provides that materi
als collected in the library will be available for public study
by scholars and other researchers. A statement released
by Nixon said the only restrictions on public availability
would be for “materials involving United States foreign
policy and national security."
The agreement is contingent on several factors,
among them a law that requires that all materials from the
Nixon Administration be retained in Washington. The
constitutionality of that legislation is now under challenge.
A spokesman for USC said plans for the library will pro
ceed on the assumption that all of the Nixon materials
eventually will be available.
Nixon’s statement said that if the law preventing the
transfer of the Presidential materials is declared invalid,
he will ask the Administrator of General Services to elimi
nate the provision of an agreement last year that the
White House tape recordings would be destroyed after
his death.
Nixon said he shares the view of other recent presi
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Nixon had IRS help
PHILADELPHIA (UPI)—Top Internal Revenue
Service officials ordered the removal of former
Pres. Richard M. Nixon’s name from agency in
dexes in 1973 to cover up for him, a former IRS
auditor charged Sunday.
In a copyrighted story in the Sunday Bulletin,
Ralph LaCross said that he participated in a pro
cess of “burning off’ Nixon’s name from mic
rofilmed indexes, making it impossible for anyone
within the IRS to locate Nixon’s tax returns.
The Bulletin said IRS officials admitted Nixon’s
name had been removed but said it was done for
security reasons in the wake of news leaks re
garding Nixon's taxes.
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dents that "the materials of the Constitutional office hol
der, although by tradition his own property and posses
sion, nevertheless are imbued with a public trust and
should be preserved and made publicly available under
terms consistent with the protection of the rights of
others.”
The library also would include papers and other mat
erials accumulated during Nixon’s career as a congress
man, senator and vice president.
USC officials said funds for the library would be
raised through private donations. After the library is built it
would be deeded to the U.S. government, which would
maintain and staff the facility. That is the same arrange
ment used for the Lyndon Johnson Presidential library at
the University of Texas.
The agreement noted that the Nixon library at the
USC campus near the downtown section might not have
room for a large amount of Presidential memorabilia. If
not, arrangements would be made for their public display
at another location. That might be Whittier College,
Nixon’s alma mater in his hometown, about 15 miles east
of USC.
Whittier College already owns several tape-recorded
interviews with Nixon acquaintances compiled in a spe
cial oral history project.
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