Letters, Jun. 25, 1973

Nixon and National Security

Sir / If Mr. Nixon is saving us from the "Commies" as Joe Bananas of Milwaukee believes [May 28], how does Bananas explain the gift of our precious grain to the U.S.S.R.? Mr. Nixon is taking the bread out of our mouths to feed "our enemy."

One fantasy follows another in this never-ending nightmare of Watergate.

(MRS.) STELLA J. ABLOW

Portola Valley, Calif.

Sir / President Nixon's recent admission that he authorized his staff to curb Watergate investigations for reasons of "national security" is the old red-herring tactic.

Political demagogues, Administration schemers and bureaucrat conspirators have been known to invoke "secret" reasons related...

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