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    "ocrText": "Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nContested Materials Collection\nFolder List\nBox Number\nFolder Number\nDocument Date\nNo Date\nSubject\nDocument Type\nDocument Description\n50\n22\n6/1/1973\nPersonal\nLetter\nUnaddressed letter from Alice Widener RE:\nConcerns. 3pgs.\nThursday, May 24, 2012\nPage 1 of 1\nDOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL RECORD [NIXON PROJECT]\nDOCUMENT\nDOCUMENT\nNUMBER\nTYPE\nSUBJECT/TITLE OR CORRESPONDENTS\nDATE\nRESTRICTION\nN-1\nmemo\nalice widener, re: concern\n6/73\nective]\nCom.\n[Doc 64]\nfor your personally\nC attached to cover withdrawal\nsheet # 63\nFILE GROUP TITLE\nBOX NUMBER\nPPF\n19\nFOLDER TITLE\nW\nRESTRICTION CODES\nA. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.\nE. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or\nB. National security classified information.\nfinancial information.\nC. Pending or approved claim that release would violate an individual's\nF. Release would disclose investigatory information compiled for law\nrights.\nenforcement purposes.\nD. Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy\nG. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.\nor a libel of a living person,\nH. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.\nNATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION\nNA FORM 1421 (4-85)\nPresidential Materials Review Board\nReview on Contested Documents\nCollection: President's Personal Files\nBox Number:\n19\nFolder:\nW\nDocument\nDisposition\n64\nReturn Private/Personal\nAlice Widener\n\"A windy night - a rainy tomorrow. 11\nI have a real concern for you personally and thex it goes without say ng\nfor the President.\nIn the long run the truth always comes out and let me say this. If people\nhave made any mistakes - they are humanbeings - that is why we worship\nGod. I will never write anything that is negative -- I will write only\nconstructive things - good weather - fair weather and rough weather\nover the years.\nThere is a blood lust in the air now. I wrote a piece trying to caution\npeople because texx where would bex we be after the kill? First of all,\nXxx I wrote, let us keep our hearts high.\nOff the record: You need - you have to have personally to you - you have\nto have someone XX who thinks about you. I sincerely do. Let me tell you\nsomething. In a strange way I have a tremendous foreboding of trouble in\nthis life. I have done a great deal of reading - I know history - XXXXXXXXXXXX\nWe have never lost our war; debased its currency and maintained its government\nThe President did the best he could to keep the loss of the war honorable.\nHe did the best he cxxudix could with what he found when he became President.\nIts armed forces castrated NEX nuclear weapons depex depleted. and the\ncountry bankrupt.\nMy own view was that in the first State of the Union message - or a White\nHouse format - in no way was he responsible for the state of the country. If\nhe had said \"Look we WKXX went busted. I have nothing to offer you but\nblood, sweat and tears. \"\nHad that been done - thi is what I found when I got a real look at the books.\nPeople can take the worst news if you give it to them. Only what I have\nfeared terribly - is not this sordid affair of pepxxx people bandying around\nhis name.\nWe are not going to convince the whole world that gold is no good. You\nare 1209XX not going to tell the world that it is speculators doing this - every NEXX\nperson in Europe has some gold.\nYou can't have a prejudice against reality. No one trusts paper currency.\nPeople don't trust paper currency. It is only as good as what backs it up.\nThey don't trust it anywhere in any country. They want to put into gakdxxx\ngold after years of experience a significant\namount of money that they don't want to 1 ose.\n(2)\nOnly a fool Xx buys gold to make money but they buy gold to save money.\nThis is xxxxxxxx going to effect him more than anything else.\nGeorge Shultz - cannot advise the President to just sit this out This can\nhurt the President more than this scandal. They insisted on domestizing\ngold - now they have made gold the only money of value.\nFloating currency and what a great thing it is -- Shears - Indiana 275, 000 cuts :\ncuts steel - 68 weeks XX in France to make it.\nHe\nwas\nout\nof\nhis\nmind - he said what am I going to do.\nWhat I feel is thatxitxisxwxcsexx it is worse news than the other.\nWe have to brace ourselves for the holocaust. They\nare head-hunting now. When it is over -- it is - those of us who come\nout unscathed by any impugning of our character -- we are still going to\nhave a country and we must have it be a good one.\nWoman to woman -- first God - human beings are not perfect - then our\ncountry because if we don't have a country we have no place - than our\nfamily and then our careers.\nDown the list and to me it seems he kept Hoover out of the goodness of his\nheart.\nWe are in for adversity -- the going is doing to be rough beyond belief - and\nevery character who puts his career first is going to be talking.\nThe liberals and leftists who were defeated at the polls are trying to come\nback up by killing the Presixx President.\nYou are an individual humanbeing - you have a right to live this life. You\nhave lived your life in a marvelous way.\nHold the focet fort and pray, - if they force it and go in\nfor a kill.\nWhen you go to Europe you see all the beautiful clean\nKKXXXXXX cities. I saw my doctor and he saixxxx said I was fit as a fiddle - because\nit was so beautiful in Europe and it is SO ugly and dirty here in New York. He\nlooked at me and he said I love Europe and beauty. It is beautiful and it is\nthere because a few people studied and after every mess and held their\nground. He said we need you -\nI looked at him and said you are right a few people held the ground.\n(3)\nIf the storm keeps swirling -- if they overthrow the government -- we\nhave to have a government. Whether it would be a left or right it would\nbe a disaster - it won't be the same thing.\nOther countries have been through this - unless they have been enslaved\nby military somehow they survive -- we are NNKX in a thing like this in\nthis country.\nYou just be the Rock of Gibraltor.\nJust ask his strength outside ourselves -- we are in for worse than\nblood, sweat and tears - humilitation, hurt, etc\nAnytime if you need a shoulder to cry on I am here -- Don't put such\na strain on yourself -- it is always the ones you trust XXX who let you\ndown.\nArea Code 212 535 4830\nJune, 1973"
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