Week in Review : MAJOR EVENTS, IMAGES AND PEOPLE IN ORANGE COUNTY NEWS. : MISCELLANY / NEWSMAKERS AND MILESTONES

There he was again, Richard M. Nixon, back in Orange County, where he lived while he was President.

Now 73, he was raising money for a fellow Republican and old associate, Bruce Herschensohn, who was Nixon’s speech writer from 1972 to 1974. Herschensohn is running in California for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.

Nixon’s appearance gave the fund-raiser at a Newport Beach developer’s house enough glitter to bring in $200,000 at $1,000 per person. Herschensohn said he was “just delighted.”

Nixon, however, tiptoed around giving Herschensohn an endorsement. Asked by reporters what he thought of Herschensohn as a candidate, Nixon said:

“I feel that he is particularly well qualified in an area I am, which is in foreign policy. I don’t mean to suggest that he agrees with everything that I stand for in foreign policy, although his views are very close to mine in many respects. But he is an expert in that area. And I think--I don’t mean to suggest that others are not experts--but I know he is. And I think that when you are electing a senator, as distinguished from a congressman, the most important issue by far is foreign policy. In that area, he is very well qualified.”