Fed: Frank Packer supports Nixon during Vietnam War

AAP General News (Australia)
12-01-2005
Fed: Frank Packer supports Nixon during Vietnam War

It's been revealed .. KERRY PACKER's father offered US president RICHARD NIXON unlimited
use of his media empire .. after the Americans resumed bombing of Vietnam at the end of
1972.

Fairfax newspapers say a document unearthed from the NIXON archives shows that Sir
FRANK PACKER sent representatives to express his unqualified support for the president
in January 1973.

A letter from NIXON's communications officer says Sir FRANK was disturbed at new prime
minister GOUGH WHITLAM's comments .. and wanted the president to know they weren't reflective
of the majority of Australians' feelings towards the US.





The letter is among papers unearthed in the presidential libraries by STEPHEN STOCKWELL
.. associate professor in journalism at Queensland's Griffith University.

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