Word: bebe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Drosnin, it was the facts about $100,000 of Hughes money in Bebe Rebozo's safe-deposit box that set off the Watergate break-in. "I want to hire Bob Kennedy's entire organization," wrote Hughes to Maheu shortly after hearing that the Senator was dead. Maheu managed to get the lobbying services < of Lawrence O'Brien, Kennedy's campaign manager and later Democratic Party chairman. Because of O'Brien's connection with Hughes, Drosnin argues, Nixon feared disclosure of the cash in his friend's bank and ordered the plumbers into O'Brien's Watergate office...
...helped by pop-novel techniques that cheapen his journalistic efforts: "But now aboard Air Force One, the President was gripped by a darker thought. The terrible fear that O'Brien knew --that he had somehow learned from his hidden masters all about the secret Hughes cash in Bebe's little...
...13th-floor office near Wall Street, and from 7:30 on, he works the phones like a hungry stockbroker, making and receiving perhaps 40 calls by noon. He calls strategically placed colleagues in the Reagan Administration, though not the President. He calls old friends, like Florida Banker Bebe Rebozo, and even old foes, like former Senator George McGovern. Then he limousines to lunch and more politicking at some high-powered mid-Manhattan watering hole, often the "21" Club or Le Cirque, with such figures as Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig...
During Nixon's final torment I often reflected on an event in the summer of 1970. On a Saturday afternoon the White House switchboard operator reached me at the hotel in Laguna Beach, Calif., that served as the press center. Would I like to drive with the President and Bebe Rebozo, his old friend, to Los Angeles? We could have dinner at Chasen's restaurant...
...surprising, then, that Ehrlichman has to fill his pages with mere gossip from the Nixon years, items which he seems to think are "inside information." Do you know that Bebe Rebozo was "Nixon's source of undemanding mental relaxation"? Do you know that "Pat Nixon grew in her role as First Lady"? Do you know that Tricia Nixon once stuck Ehrlichman with the tab for lunch"? Do you care? And when Ehrlichman's narrative does occasionally touch on an illuminating point--like when he mentions that Nixon and Colson attempted to coerce network television executives to procure more favorable coverage...