ORLANDO, Fla. -- President Nixon, responding to more than an hour of questioning by newspaper editors, declared Saturday night, that "I'm no crook" and he would prove it by publishing evidence of his innocence in the wide-ranging Watergate scandal.
In a nervous but self-assured defense of his conduct before national television cameras and 400 Associated Press managing editors in a hotel ballroom at Disney World, Nixon said:
"I want the facts out because the facts will prove that the President is telling the truth."
Nixon flew to the 27,000-acre entertainment resort from his home in Key Biscayne and submitted to an hour and six minutes of questions by members of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association, the subjects ranging from the Watergate tapes to his personal finances, the energy crisis, the new special Watergate prosecutor and the acknowledged bugging of his brother, Donald.
During the news conference, Nixon said:
