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Unaddressed letter from Alice Widener RE: Concerns. 3 pgs. [Subject: Personal] [Letter], 6/1/1973
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Richard Nixon Presidential Library
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6/1/1973
Personal
Letter
Unaddressed letter from Alice Widener RE:
Concerns. 3pgs.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Page 1 of 1
DOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL RECORD [NIXON PROJECT]
DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT
NUMBER
TYPE
SUBJECT/TITLE OR CORRESPONDENTS
DATE
RESTRICTION
N-1
memo
alice widener, re: concern
6/73
ective]
Com.
[Doc 64]
for your personally
C attached to cover withdrawal
sheet # 63
FILE GROUP TITLE
BOX NUMBER
PPF
19
FOLDER TITLE
W
RESTRICTION CODES
A. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.
E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
B. National security classified information.
financial information.
C. Pending or approved claim that release would violate an individual's
F. Release would disclose investigatory information compiled for law
rights.
enforcement purposes.
D. Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy
G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.
or a libel of a living person,
H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
NA FORM 1421 (4-85)
Presidential Materials Review Board
Review on Contested Documents
Collection: President's Personal Files
Box Number:
19
Folder:
W
Document
Disposition
64
Return Private/Personal
Alice Widener
"A windy night - a rainy tomorrow. 11
I have a real concern for you personally and thex it goes without say ng
for the President.
In the long run the truth always comes out and let me say this. If people
have made any mistakes - they are humanbeings - that is why we worship
God. I will never write anything that is negative -- I will write only
constructive things - good weather - fair weather and rough weather
over the years.
There is a blood lust in the air now. I wrote a piece trying to caution
people because texx where would bex we be after the kill? First of all,
Xxx I wrote, let us keep our hearts high.
Off the record: You need - you have to have personally to you - you have
to have someone XX who thinks about you. I sincerely do. Let me tell you
something. In a strange way I have a tremendous foreboding of trouble in
this life. I have done a great deal of reading - I know history - XXXXXXXXXXXX
We have never lost our war; debased its currency and maintained its government
The President did the best he could to keep the loss of the war honorable.
He did the best he cxxudix could with what he found when he became President.
Its armed forces castrated NEX nuclear weapons depex depleted. and the
country bankrupt.
My own view was that in the first State of the Union message - or a White
House format - in no way was he responsible for the state of the country. If
he had said "Look we WKXX went busted. I have nothing to offer you but
blood, sweat and tears. "
Had that been done - thi is what I found when I got a real look at the books.
People can take the worst news if you give it to them. Only what I have
feared terribly - is not this sordid affair of pepxxx people bandying around
his name.
We are not going to convince the whole world that gold is no good. You
are 1209XX not going to tell the world that it is speculators doing this - every NEXX
person in Europe has some gold.
You can't have a prejudice against reality. No one trusts paper currency.
People don't trust paper currency. It is only as good as what backs it up.
They don't trust it anywhere in any country. They want to put into gakdxxx
gold after years of experience a significant
amount of money that they don't want to 1 ose.
(2)
Only a fool Xx buys gold to make money but they buy gold to save money.
This is xxxxxxxx going to effect him more than anything else.
George Shultz - cannot advise the President to just sit this out This can
hurt the President more than this scandal. They insisted on domestizing
gold - now they have made gold the only money of value.
Floating currency and what a great thing it is -- Shears - Indiana 275, 000 cuts :
cuts steel - 68 weeks XX in France to make it.
He
was
out
of
his
mind - he said what am I going to do.
What I feel is thatxitxisxwxcsexx it is worse news than the other.
We have to brace ourselves for the holocaust. They
are head-hunting now. When it is over -- it is - those of us who come
out unscathed by any impugning of our character -- we are still going to
have a country and we must have it be a good one.
Woman to woman -- first God - human beings are not perfect - then our
country because if we don't have a country we have no place - than our
family and then our careers.
Down the list and to me it seems he kept Hoover out of the goodness of his
heart.
We are in for adversity -- the going is doing to be rough beyond belief - and
every character who puts his career first is going to be talking.
The liberals and leftists who were defeated at the polls are trying to come
back up by killing the Presixx President.
You are an individual humanbeing - you have a right to live this life. You
have lived your life in a marvelous way.
Hold the focet fort and pray, - if they force it and go in
for a kill.
When you go to Europe you see all the beautiful clean
KKXXXXXX cities. I saw my doctor and he saixxxx said I was fit as a fiddle - because
it was so beautiful in Europe and it is SO ugly and dirty here in New York. He
looked at me and he said I love Europe and beauty. It is beautiful and it is
there because a few people studied and after every mess and held their
ground. He said we need you -
I looked at him and said you are right a few people held the ground.
(3)
If the storm keeps swirling -- if they overthrow the government -- we
have to have a government. Whether it would be a left or right it would
be a disaster - it won't be the same thing.
Other countries have been through this - unless they have been enslaved
by military somehow they survive -- we are NNKX in a thing like this in
this country.
You just be the Rock of Gibraltor.
Just ask his strength outside ourselves -- we are in for worse than
blood, sweat and tears - humilitation, hurt, etc
Anytime if you need a shoulder to cry on I am here -- Don't put such
a strain on yourself -- it is always the ones you trust XXX who let you
down.
Area Code 212 535 4830
June, 1973