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Former President Richard "Nixon deputy press
secretary , Gerald L. Warren.
By Maxine Kubicek
Former President Richard Nixon's deputy press secre
tary said Tuesday that his relationship with the former
President "is much better now than it was in the White
House."
Gerald L. Warren, now managing editor of the San
Diego Union, said Nixon had a "rather severe way of
dealing with his staff .and a preference for working only
with the top staff members.
Warren, a Hastings native and a 1952 NU graduate,
was at the UNL School of Journalism Monday and
Tuesday as part of its editors-in-residence program. He
will speak again at 3:30 p jti. today in the Avery Auditor
ium. Although their White House relationsliip was "bus
inesslike," Warren said in a Daily Nebraskan interview tha
he has seen the former President frequently since Nixon's
resignation.
"He (Nixon) has been sequestered, almost in exile in
San Clemente, Warren said. "1 told him I would see him
just as a friend until he wanted to speak on record."
The numerous accounts written about the Watergate
break-in and subsequent proceedings do not tell the full
story of Watergate, Warren said, and only those people
directly involved know exactly what happened,
"We will have to wait for a time when these people will
not feel compelled to write a self-serving book," he said.
Warren predicted that, if written, books by Nixon, H. R.
Haldeman and Alexander Haig would "help put all the
pieces together." f
Nixon's book is expected to be completed next year,
Warren said, adding that he thought Nixon's forthcoming
book would be "truthful." ,
Warren said that as Nixon's deputy press secretary, he
often had to compromise between releasing the complete
truth and allowing the President "necessary leeway" in
reaching a decision.
"My basic underlying journalistic ethic is the desire to
seek Xt :r-C he said. "I had to apply that to my work
with President Nixon. I felt that if I could continue my
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search for the truth and provide the truth as much as
possible, then I wasn't compromising my ethics." "
The atmosphere of "jugular journalism" and rushing
to print with only half a story appeared shortly after
Watergate, Warren said, adding that "Watergate was a
personal tragedy between the President, the press and the
courts. .
"In that personal tragedy, Nixon had to respond any
way he wanted to, and I was a conduit of what the Pre
sident wanted to respond with on the various daily
charges.
"I felt that it was up to me to keep that conduit open,
regardless of the quality of the information that was
flowing through it."
Warren said most of the guidance he received on the
Watergate break-in came from John Dean and that "if
there were lies and coverups, I felt Dean was part of it."
At the time no one knew to what extent Dean was in
volved, he said.
In a Mond?y question and answer session at the Jour-"
nalism School, Warren said he thought it was possible
Nixon had talked to pictures of former Presidents in his
last days in the White House.
Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein alleged in their book, The Final Days, that
Nixon drank heavily and talked to ths pictures shortly
before he resigned. -
But Warren said he did not subscribe to the "bonkers
theory" that Nixon lost control of his senses.
All presidents felt attached to predecessors, Warren
said, adding that he could understand Nixon talking to
himself because of the pressure he was under.
The greatest difficulty the former press secretary en
countered at the White House was understanding how the
government works and working for something other than
a newspaper, he said.
Relations between the national press corps and the
local press when the President traveled presented a real
problem, he said, adding that the Washington press which
travels with the President "takes on all the trappings of a
part of the royal family'."
"If the President said anything of importance, he said
it to the national press corps," Warren added.
He said he still is trying to "sort out things in my own
mind" and expects to write a book about his Washington
experience.
"If I knew who Deep Throat' was, I would have
written a book about it long ago," he said. "My account
of the story will be specifically about Nixon and the
press, telling the humorous side of things in those dark
days-and there were humorous things."
Learning methods
subject of course
Teaching students ways to learn is the objective of a
proposed UNL class which will be presented for approval
Thursday to the Arts and Sciences Curriculum Com
mittee, said Eugene Trani, NU assistant vice president for
academic affairs.
The Learning Analysis Course was developed, by K.
Patricia Cross as part of her spring 1976 study of the
academic focus at UNL, he said..
Cross was assistant NU vice president for academic
affairs and coordinator of instructional programs for a
year, ending this year. She is no longer at NU.
The course is designed to expose students to all
instructing methods Trani said. It will be taught in five
three-week segments by five faculty members.
Royce Ronning, an educational psychology professor,
would teach the introduction on the psychology of learn
ing, Trani said. The other units would be taught by Doug
Amedeo, geography, Dan Bernstein, psychology, Roger
Welsch, English, and Ron Smith, business administration.
According to Trani, Amedeo would teach using the
experimental method or learning by experience, Bernstein
would use the self-pace method, Wei sen would teach by
lecturea vid field trips, and Smith would use games and
simulation.
The course already is offered at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha, Trani said, but has been delayed at
UNL because the Arts and Sciences Curriculum Com
mittee wanted to know who would teach it before it was
approved. He said the proposal was given to the
committee last year.
The Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee will do
the proposed class on academic content, course dupli
cation and the resources available to teach it, said
Raymond Haggh, curriculum committee chairman.
If approved, the course will be offered in fdl 1977,
Trani said, although it is too late to include it in the
course description catalog. Posters and newsletters w21 in
form students of the course, he said.
Deadline Friday
Nearly eight weeks of school have passed, and the
deadline for changing classes to passfail or to a grade also
is slipping away.
Faculty Senate policy allows changing registration to
or from passfail anytime during the first eight weeks by
Hlbg a dropadd form. No signatures are required and no
fees are charged.
Friday is the last day to make the change.
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Faculty Senate tables parity issue
The UNL Faculty Senate Tuesday voted to table dis
cussion concerning Senate President Henry Baumgarten's
recommendation to eliminate ISOOJDOQ from the NU
budget for parity financing for the University of Nebraska
at Omaha (UNO).
Baumgarten said he made his recommendation after
studying the conclusions of the NU president's ad hoc
committee on inter camp us equity, which made the budget
recommendation.
The Senate voted to invite Interim NU President
Ronald Roskens to the Senate's April meeting to hear his
comments on Baumgarten's study.
There's no indication as to what his (Roskea's)
position is," Baumgarten said.
If the senate immediately disapproved the ad hoccorn
mittee's recommendatioa for parity financing at UNO, it
might hurt UNL's chances of getting money from the
Nebraska Legislature, saki Edgar Kelley, Teachers College
senator.
It's nonsensical," Business College Sen, Thomas
Balkes said. "Regents approve the budget. If we're asking
for a change in budget, let's ask the regents."
There is no substance in the ad hoc report," Baum
garten saM, It's as phoney as a $3 biX The data
employed doesn't prove anything. They're (the ad hoc
committee) assuming that UNL and UNO are comparable
institutions. Fm not trying to prove whether one is under
funded, I just want the investigation to be done right."
A supplement to the salary study report was presented
by Roy Arnold, chairman of the UNL Food Science
and Technology Dept. It showed the relative salary parity
levels in seven colleges at UNL for 1975-76 and 1976-77.
It also compared salaries of professors in Big 8 schools.
UNL placed eighth in salaries for full professors, seventh
in salaries for associate professors and seventh in salaries
for assistant professors.
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