Word: florida
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during crucial moments of the campaign, the President-elect sought complete privacy. On Florida's Key Biscayne for much of the week, Nixon considered the most important of some 3,000 federal posts he must fill-jobs ranging in rank and responsibility from chauffeur to the twelve Cabinet jobs. Nixon will not announce any appointments until late next week at the earliest, but speculation was inevitably growing about the makeup of his Administration's top echelon...
...parents in 1912. He worked as a chauffeur, airline steward and gas-station operator after finishing high school. At the end of World War II, he went into the coin-laundry business, then a finance company, finally into real estate. He is now president of the Fisher Corp., a Florida development firm in which Nixon holds shares valued at $400,000-double the amount he initially invested...
Richard Nixon will also have at least one crony with whom he can feel completely comfortable when the pressures of office grow too great. Charles Gregory ("Bebe") Rebozo, however, is not exactly a court jester. He is a Florida real estate millionaire who evidently made his fortune by bringing to bear the very sort of methodical perseverance that won the presidency for Nixon. Commenting on a certain steady, plodding quality in Rebozo, one unfriendly observer says: "He is just like Nixon. That's why they're such great friends...
Rebozo owns a one-story, $100,000 house next to Nixon's rented Key Biscayne hideaway in Florida. He undoubtedly enjoys a unique relationship with the President-elect. In the midst of Nixon's labors over Cabinet appointments, the two have set off on Rebozo's $18,000 houseboat for cruises off Key Biscayne. "When we go boating," Rebozo said, "we do some fishing, some swimming and a lot of sunbathing. We work too. Dick takes his briefcase and I take mine...
...that might suggest self-promotion at Nixon's expense, always refuses to discuss politics. A reporter recently suggested a White House appointment and Rebozo snorted: "We've never even discussed it, and I don't expect to." His friendship with Nixon goes back to 1951, when Florida's Senator George Smathers asked Rebozo to entertain Nixon, a fellow freshman, at Key Biscayne. Rebozo took him fishing and remembers, "We just hit it off." The friendship developed, as did Nixon's habit of flying to Florida for the sun. On election night in 1960, Rebozo...