the ladies in the press, some of the men as well, criticize mrs. nixon cruelly. this hurt her ear it should not have, but it did. she should have considered the source. they said, why did she not make speeches? it shows she does not have a mind of her own. she knows you do not have two voice is out of the white house. she had ideas she expressed privately. another thing that shows, the critics, what they would not understand or appreciate at all, she was self-assured and self- confident. she did not have such a big ego that she had to go out and prove she had a career in her own right. what was important to her was the career of her husband. >> we hear a lot of criticism by the former president that much of pat nixon's perception problems were non-friendly media. >> that is not surprising. that is how he viewed his own