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...used to make the point that he would be the first Black athlete to become financially independent, and that he would never make a spectacle of himself the way Joe Louis did in the 1950s. Somewhere along the line he forgot that promise, and tonight the gods will make their brother...
...interview with Nancy Reagan. He helped arrange the interview as a favor to Chizuko Takase, the wife of his longtime Japanese business associate, Tamotsu Takase. But he says the honorarium was unexpected. Allen insists he intended to turn the payment over to the Treasury Department but simply forgot. When $1,000 in cash was discovered in his safe last September, the FBI was called in and an investigation begun...
...Executive Office Building; he now says that he accepted the money to avoid offending his visitors, since he believed it was common practice for Japanese journalists to pay honorariums for interviews. Allen also insisted that he intended to turn over the money to the Treasury Department but simply forgot. A few weeks after the interview, he moved out of that office and into the White House, leaving the safe behind...
These books are full of silly superlatives, but here is one they forgot: not since 390 B.C., when the sacred geese warned that invading Gauls were climbing to the top of the Capitol, had Rome heard so much cackling as it did over the Taylor-Burton affair. Taylor worked and played with Burton during the day, then came home to Fisher at night, all in full view of paparazzi. One day, Fisher recounts, "she brought Burton to the villa. Burton immediately went into some kind of act. He turned to Elizabeth and growled, 'Who do you love?' Terrified...
Unfortunately, Allen says, he forgot all about the money. In September the safe was cleaned out, and someone told the FBI of the cash. The Justice Department is investigating the matter; because Allen is a high federal official, the Attorney General may have to appoint a special prosecutor if doubts about his conduct persist. Allen stepped down from Reagan's staff for a week last fall amid reports that he had misused his connections in the Nixon White House. Will the President stick by him this time? "I can't comment on that while it is under review...