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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...
...last broadside: a 350-page staff report alleging, among other things, that leftover campaign funds had been used by President Nixon's good friend C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo to pay for various major improvements to the Nixon properties at Key Biscayne and for a pair of platinum-set diamond earrings that the President gave to Pat in 1972 for her 60th birthday...
...MARTIN DIAMOND, U.S. political scientist (Northern Illinois University): In the last 200 years, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and James Madison. Lincoln proved that the highest grace can be attained by a person of ordinary origins. Churchill showed that a person from the aristocracy who excelled in all ways could become a servant of democracy. Madison, a 126-lb. weakling with no charisma, framed perhaps the most incredible document of our time: the U.S. Constitution. Until Madison, no famous or thoughtful person-from Socrates to Montesquieu, from Plato to Hobbes-had ever endorsed democracy...
...protocol office found itself suffering from an embarrassment of riches. Since Columnist Maxene Cheshire disclosed in May that there were discrepancies in the reporting of gifts received by Pat Nixon and her daughters, jewel boxes all over official Washington have been emptied. Among those hurriedly delivering diamonds, rubies and emeralds to the gifts office were Betty Fulbright, wife of Senator J. William, whose Foreign Relations Committee drafted the 1966 law that does not permit officials or their families to accept gifts worth more than $50. The greatest surprise came when Hubert Humphrey turned in a 7.9 carat diamond estimated...
...public functions, was eventually smuggled onto St. Helena in 1818 and substituted for the exiled Napoleon as a British prisoner. According to Wheeler, Robeaud soon died of arsenic poisoning. The real Napoleon secretly sailed to Rio de Janeiro and eventually returned to Europe, where he lived as a diamond merchant in Verona...