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Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- and untroubled for the Nixon Administration as possible and not dissipate their initial energies carping and criticizing at impulsive things that he might be doing in the last days. Personally, I had enormous respect for this posture that he took. I think
- . Nixon's taking the publicity advantage of the thing, doing the talking to the moon, in terms of the old fable in Aesop about the wren jumping off the back of the eagle. I remember two or three things about the Sputnik episode that have always stuck in my