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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...
...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...
...restaurant, Abplanalp went up to shake Nixon's hand and said that he thought Nixon had been "robbed" in the 1960 election. The two struck up a friendship, and Nixon started going on vacation retreats to Abplanalp's private island in the Bahamas, Grand Cay. Nixon's law firm also began to represent Abplanalp's business, Precision Valve Corp., in its dealings overseas...
...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...
...three-day energy conference sponsored by Time Inc. in April at Lyford Cay in Nassau (for list of participants see box page 48), top executives of U.S. energy companies offered suggestions for alleviating the shortages. Their strategy through 1985 would be to increase the domestic output of oil and natural gas, and to build new energy facilities (power plants, refineries, pipelines). But the bill for this expansion, according to experts at the conference, would be at least $500 billion, too high for industry to pay without fed eral help. The energy companies want the Government to allow the market place...