Word: cay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even for a high-living heir who has spent fortunes on blondes (he has married and divorced two of them), villas, Alpine ski resorts and hunting retreats. He also owns a 124-ft. yacht and a Grumman Gulfstream jet, which whisk him to his favorite playgrounds at the Lyford Cay Club in the Bahamas, the ski slopes at Snowbird, Utah, and the big-game preserves of Kenya and Alaska...
Furthermore, Nixon has displayed an unfortunate propensity to rely on his creditors' personal hospitality. He often commandeers Rebozo's Key Biscayne home for the use of Secret Servicemen at the Florida White House, and he visits Grand Cay, Abplanalp's private island in the Caribbean, so frequently that he has been provided with personal quarters there...
...characterizes the presidency of Richard Nixon these days so much as the sense of perpetual motion. He moves from the Oval Office in the White House to his hideaway across the street to the deck of the yacht Sequoia on the Potomac, from Washington to Key Biscayne to Grand Cay in the Bahamas, from the Camp David mountaintop to the beaches of San Clemente...
...communications equipment. Among the other expenses: $621.50 for an ice maker used by Government employees and $2,000 for a study of beach erosion. Security expenses elsewhere included $16,000 for a Secret Service command post and $168,000 for military equipment on Grand Cay, the island in the Bahamas owned by Industrialist Robert Abplanalp and frequently used as a retreat by the President...
...relaxed, informal yacht trips, says Abplanalp, the men rarely talk politics, but the cruises offer Nixon a chance to swap fishing and sports stories with his friends. Since Nixon took office, Abplanalp's two-story, eight-bed room house on Grand Cay has been refurbished and enlarged. The President uses the master suite while there and often works during the early morning hours in the attached private study. Besides fishing, Nixon rides around the 125-acre island on a golf cart, and swims in the shark-filled waters-always, of course, under close watch by Secret Service agents...