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...Senate Watergate committee finally published its report on the case. To Nixon, the most damaging part was an account of how his closest friend, C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, had probably used about $50,000 in campaign contributions-some of them carefully laundered to conceal the source-to pay for diamond earrings for the President's wife and other personal luxuries...
...which he excels. Beyond the catcalls of Congress, beyond the Investigators and the hostile press, he is sovereign. His flying White House is self-sufficient. The American diplomatic, military and commercial presence all over the world forms a system of arteries that pump in services, advice and even encouragement. (Bebe Rebozo was "in the neighborhood" when Nixon arrived in Brussels and so hopped up from Spain for a few minutes' chat with his friend.) The President's meetings are small and confidential. His right to stay above and beyond the masses is absolute...
...Valet and maid of the Nixon family; Bebe Rebozo...
When he decided to fire Archibald Cox, almost nothing made Richard Nixon angrier than the special prosecutor's investigation of the $100,000 Nixon campaign gift from Howard Hughes to Charles ("Bebe") Rebozo, the President's close friend. That matter, Nixon firmly declared, was off limits. But the matter did not die with the departure of Cox. It was pursued by a dogged, four-man team of investigators from the Senate Watergate committee under the direction of Terry Lenzner, 34, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York City and a onetime member of the Berrigan brothers...
...backed by a second witness or by other evidence. As a result, "a man can be convicted merely on the oath of another man," says Boston Defense Lawyer Paul T. Smith. "That's tragic. For instance [Presidential Lawyer Herbert] Kalmbach has tes tified in direct contradiction to [Bebe] Rebozo on the disposition of that $100,000 Hughes donation. One of them is lying. Basically, the prosecutor can simply decide which one to prosecute...