Word: abplanalp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...magazine ran huge color pictures of it and its proud new occupant. Over the years, scores of such photographs appeared in newspapers and magazines. Alas, it all ended in scandal: Nixon had misled the press about what he had paid for the property, and in fact his friend Robert Abplanalp had provided more than a million dollars' so he could buy it; furthermore, Nixon used several millions of dollars worth of government money to increase security and make improvements. Better a Clintonesque, jerry- rigged vacation than that...