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...Price last saw Richard Nixon at the beginning of November, when the former speechwriter took a two-week-long furlough from the institute to work with the former president on the memoirs once again at La Casa Pacifica, the Nixons' San Clemente estate. In contrasting the Nixon of three weeks ago with the Nixon of the White House years, Price says Nixon's outlook is more mellowed, more reflective...
...these signs of renewed contacts, however, Nixon still appears to lead the life of a voluntary exile. The former president continues to refuse all requests for interviews by the press, even from old media friends, Price says. Nixon also remains aloof from the San Clemente community that surrounds La Casa Pacifica. "He just doesn't go down to the corner drug store," Price adds...
Located on Brattle St. underneath the Truc complex, the Club Casablanca (or the Casa-B, as the regulars call it), is the place to go to meet the kind of people your parents sent you here to meet. Not surprisingly, the drinks are fairly expensive, but they're good and there's often good jazz. Watch out for the alligators...
...steel bridge over the narrow Mundaca River, a funnel for retreating Basque troops. But why incendiaries against a stone bridge? And why so massive a raid against so small a target? The Renteria Bridge, in any case, was never touched. Nor were the sacred oak and the adjoining Casa de Juntas (assembly hall) of the Basques, nor an important small-arms factory on the outskirts of town...
...time we had drunk liquor en casa was on the Fourth of July. On Independence Day we toasted the United States with a bottle of the local brew. Each member of the family hugged me in congratulations for "my day." Then Papa and I solemnly consumed the revered--and apparently much-feared--beverage in front of a television screen on which appeared successively, shots of an unidentified parade, people milling in Central Park, and finally, Nelson Rockefeller greeting the people in his own correct, methodical Spanish, testifying to the greatness of two great peoples on this great...