The May 23, 1973 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♊. It was the 142 day of the year. President of the United States was Richard M. Nixon.
If you were born on this day, you are 52 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, May 23, 2025, 143 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, May 23, 2026, in 221 days. You have lived for 19,136 days, or about 459,283 hours, or about 27,557,025 minutes, or about 1,653,421,500 seconds.
Date: 24 May 1973
By ROBERT REINHOLD
Robert REINHOLD
Eighteen Chinese journalists who are visiting US on 4-wk tour sponsored by ASNE visit Boston, Mass, area on May 23; journalist Yao Wei comments
Date: 23 May 1973
Pentagon indicates on May 21 that it does not want Amer reporters making regular visits to air bases in Thailand where aircraft and crewmen who bomb Cambodia are stationed
Date: 23 May 1973
ABC pres E H Rule says ABC is expanding its activities in investigative area as result of Watergate scandal and role investigative reptg played in uncovering it, speech prepared for May 23 delivery, Los Angeles; recalls that Watergate story broke at time when newsmen were being pilloried for 'shabby journalism' and 'ideological plugola' by Adm critics
Date: 23 May 1973
By ANTHONY RIPLEYSpecial to The New York Times
Sen Judiciary Com on May 22, in unexpected move, apparently in response to actions by Dr D Ellsberg, reopens its hearings on confirmation of E L Richardson as Atty Gen and questions him closely about his contacts with White House and figures close to Watergate scandal; Richardson illus
Date: 24 May 1973
Special to The New York Times
Y Horn, publisher of Athens News, Greece, is picked up by police on May 23 to serve 6 1/2 mos in jail for printing 'misleading' headline about US Vice Pres Agnew's visit to Greece in Oct '71
Date: 23 May 1973
G Donovan, chmn of J G Bennett Memorial Corp, announces on May 22 that corp will award scholarship grants totaling $110,000 for children of NY newspaper employes that will enable 80 students to continue to study at coll and for 33 others to enter coll
Date: 24 May 1973
By MARTIN TOLCHINSpecial to The New York Times
Sen Buckley says May 23 that responsibility for Watergate is focused in Washington and power is focused in White House, reception for 38 released Vietnam war prisoners; says 'Watergate shows us the dangers that are inherent when you concentrated as much power as Cong has concentrated in Pres'; says it is important to begin to 'dismantle Fed responsibility...and return authority to local areas'; says there are such things as security imperatives and if there is a leak, source of leak must be found; ; illus
Date: 24 May 1973
By William Safire
William Safire
W Safire comment notes Pres Nixon's confessions--of error, not guilt-in his Watergate statement; says confessions include: admission that bureaucratic civil war took place in '70 pitting FBI against foreign intelligence agencies on issue of whether to resume authority, ended in '66, permitting US agents to burglarize for natl security reasons; Pres asserted he told Asst Atty Gen Petersen to 'confine his investigation to Watergate and stay out of natl security matters'; Pres said he instructed H R Haldeman and J D Ehrlichman to ensure that investigation of break-in not expose either unrelated covert CIA operation; said 'it is clear that unethical, as well as illegal, activities took place in course of '72 campaign'; Safire says statement raises more questions than it answers; says Nixon put it out to enable Haldeman, Ehrlichman, CIA Deputy Dir Walters and E Krogh Jr to testify truthfully without seeming disloyal to Pres; says it tries to separate dirty pol, which is unconscionable, from dirty, but more conscionable, business of stretching or breaking laws in behalf of natl security; says most important, statement focuses attention on dilemma that drew Nixon Adm into supersnoop business in 1st place
Date: 23 May 1973
By Albin Krebs
Albin Krebs
Natl Acad of TV Arts and Sciences Emmy awards for news and documentary shows presented on May 22; CBS wins 7 Emmys for its programs and 12 for its correspondents; NBC wins in 4 program categories and picks up awards for 2 of its cinematographers and 12 film editors; ABC receives Emmys for 2 programs and 2 correspondents; programs seen via Public Broadcasting Service win 2 Emmys; awards listed
Date: 24 May 1973
Wins Deadline dub award
Date: 24 May 1973
Soviet press agency Tass publishes May 23 short summary of Pres Nixon's May 22 statement on Watergate case; gives prominence to Nixon's denial that he knew nothing of bugging plans; Soviet press, apparently unwilling to embarrass Nixon in wks before Brezhnev travels to US, has kept its coverage of scandal to minimum