The Critic

President and Mrs. Nixon flew to New York one evening last week to visit the newly wed Tricia and Eddie Cox and sample some of the bride's home cooking (broiled lobster and stuffed potatoes). Then the four took in a performance of No, No, Nanette. After the show, a television reporter asked the President if he would like to see more such musicals.

The President's reply was a minor classic in his manner of laying a bed of hot coals in his path and then dancing across it. "My wife and I of course like musical comedy," he began. "We like the theater also. I don't mean by that that they should always be old musicals. But I think this musical that they call escapist--I don't look at it that way. I think that after a long day, most of us need a lift in the evening. I don't mean by that that sometimes I don't want to go to see a very serious play or something of that sort." Perhaps Nixon's minutely elaborate, even Oriental effort to avoid giving displeasure was rehearsal for his trip to Peking.

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