The September 8, 1973 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 250 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 Monday, September 8, 2025, 308 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, in 56 days. You have lived for 19,301 days, or about 463,241 hours, or about 27,794,516 minutes, or about 1,667,670,960 seconds.
8th of September 1973 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on September 8, 1973
Other Papers Sell in St. Louis Strike
Date: 09 September 1973
Special to The New York Times
Comment on increasing difficulties of obtaining out-of-town newspapers by residents of St Louis, who are without any local papers as result of teamsters strike; teamsters represent workers in loading docks at Pulitzer Publishing Co which prints both St Louis Globe-Dispatch and St Louis Globe-Democrat; out-of-work newsmen have banded together to publish twice-wkly interim tabloid, St Louis Today, whose entire press run of 50,000 copies was sold out within hrs of going on sale on Sept 7
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The Press and the Courts; WASHINGTON
Date: 09 September 1973
By James Reston
James Reston
J Reston comment says press has been severely criticized lately for publishing news of probe; says charge is serious and criticism fair, but remedy is elusive; says it is obvious Agnew has been damaged; says main charge against press in general is not that it was too aggressive but that it was too timid or lenient or lazy; says there is difference between exposing dirty tricks of politics and revealing secrete of grand jury investigations and indictments; says thoughtful people in press are concerned about invading and corrupting secrecy of grand juries but are faced with hard reality that if even 1 newspaper or radio or TV station repts that Agnew is under criminal investigation in Baltimore, that rept is immediately put on wire services and on air within 1 hr and therefore is all over US; cartoon
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Klein Backs News Parleys
Date: 08 September 1973
Pres Nixon's former dir of communications H G Klein says Pres should hold more news confs; says truth 'apparently was not the hallmark of the Adm'
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Colson Reportedly Felt Out Hunt on'Nailing' Ellsberg; Conversation Transcribed ?? Resourceful Engineering'
Date: 08 September 1973
Transcript of phone call from former White House aide C W Colson to E H Hunt, which is now in possession of Sen Watergate com, shows that 1 day after Sup Ct gave go-ahead for publication of Pentagon papers in '71, Colson sounded out Hunt on 'nailing' D Ellsberg; indicates that Hunt replied affirmatively; Hunt was hired as White House consultant less than 1 wk later on Colson's recommendation and former Pres adviser J D Ehrlichman asked CIA to help Hunt; Hunt, 2 mos later, participated in break-in at office of Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr L J Fielding; Colson admits on Sept 6 that he had tape-recorded his conversation with Hunt and sent transcript to former White House chief of staff H R Haldeman; in memo to Haldeman on July 2, '71, said that 'the more I think about Hunt's background... the more I think it would be worth your time to meet him'; Colson says that what he and Haldeman had been talking about was possibility of hiring Hunt to come to White House staff 'to coordinate research on the Pentagon papers and serve as liason with the Hill'; repeats earlier denials that he had had any knowledge of plans for break-in at Fielding's office; says that Ehrlichman int Hunt on July 7 '71, same day on which Gen R E Cushman has testified that he recd call from Ehrlichman asking CIA to help Hunt in his work for White House; is expected to be questioned about his conversation with Hunt when he testifies before Watergate com later this mo
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Saigon Warns Newsmen On Dealings With Vietcong
Date: 08 September 1973
S Vietnamese officials, Sept 7, warn newsmen that wkly news conf with Vietcong will be stopped if there is any exch of materials with Vietcong officials; warning apparently stems from Saigon fears that a film of Communist troops taken in a Vietcong zone N of Saigon by a W Ger TV crew may be handed over to newsmen by Vietcong at the news conf
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Ehrlichman Pleads Not Guilty in '71 Ellsberg Break-In; He Says He Will Have No Comment Before Final Disposition of Case Attorney Objects Ehrlichman Enters Plea of Not Guilty
Date: 08 September 1973
Special to The New York Times
former Pres adviser J D Ehrlichman on Sept 7 pleads not guilty to charges of burglary, conspiracy and perjury in '71 break-in at office of D Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr L J Fielding; signs waiver of personal appearance at certain procedural hearings, indicating he will not be present on Sept 20, date set by Judge J G Kolts for pretrial hearings; Ehrlichman's atty J Ball tells reporters that his information so far indicates that Ehrlichman is not guilty of any crime; says he is eager to see grand jury transcript and implies that 1 of his 1st motions may be dismissal of indictment; 4-count indictment made public by Dist Atty's office cites testimony given by Ehrlichman before grand jury on July 8, '73 in which he indicated that he did not take part in plans for Ellsberg break-in; illus of Ehrlichman
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40 Million Newspaper Readers to Get Option to Study College Course in an Educational Experiment; Supplementary Materials
Date: 09 September 1973
Special to The New York Times
About 40 million newspaper readers in US, Switzerland, Germany, Holland and Canada will be given opportunity to take coll course with or without academic credit under novel experiment to be conducted by Univ of Calif (San Diego) and funded by Natl Endowment for Humanities; program has enlisted 220 newspapers to introduce humanities course, 'Amer and the Future of Man,' and to encourage readers to undertake more intensive study; total of 155 colls have agreed to accept and direct work of those seeking undergrad credit for their off-campus study; starting wk of Sept 30, papers will publish, on wkly basis, series of 20 lectures in which prominent scholars will discuss different aspects of subject; to obtain full course, reader must purchase $10 kit of supplementary materials; student desiring coll credit for work must enroll with extension div of coll offering program, pay course fee of $35 or $45 and attend 2 evening 'contact sessions' with instructor; midterm and final examinations will be given; topics of lectures noted
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Magazine Is Discontinued
Date: 09 September 1973
Burlington, Vt, Free Press repts on Sept 8 that its wkly magazine supplement Focus will be temporarily discontinued until end of current newsprint shortage
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No News Is Very Good News; Skylab
Date: 09 September 1973
LEE EDSON
Lee EDSON
rev of Skylab's scientific accomplishments cites its primary goals as proving that man can live and work for long periods in space in condition of weightlessness and that orbiting lab is capable of developing more special data per unit of time than any comparable lab on earth; astronauts have set major scientific goals in field of solar astronomy; have also photographed phenomena on earth
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Excerpts From Kissinger's Testimony to Senators; Explains Circumstances Asked to Submit Names
Date: 08 September 1973
Special to The New York Times
Dr H A Kissinger, who is seeking confirmation as Sec of State, on Sept 7 says that after his confirmation there will be new initiatives toward Latin Amer, 'but it might take longer to do much in Africa'
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