Nation: NIXON'S FIRST QUARTER
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Nixon loves the presidency. They all do, despite their protests and the myths of burdens and miseries ("I'm going to give this damned job to Nixon," stormed Kennedy one night. He never did.). He likes the protection and the power, and he glories now in the appurtenances like Air Force One, which can whisk him half a world away in half a day and keep him in the comfortable presidential cocoon. So far so good, but the work is just beginning. This week he will announce his programs on tax reform and possibly on crime control, and a lot of people won't like either. Lyndon Johnson with all his troubles insisted to the bitter end that nobody in this torn land really wanted to see his President do badly. That is still profoundly true, and it is Nixon's greatest strength and hope.
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