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...scandal may well spread and engulf others. Liz is not alone in turning talkative. Federal investigators are expected to explore reports that she and other women working on jobs over which Hays held power took part in "orgies" at a hideaway in the Capitol-assigned to Speaker Carl Albert and known as "the Board of Education" -and in suburban apartments. Various Congressmen, staff members and Capitol Hill police reportedly attended...
...Vegas, Hughes found the ideal money machine from which he drew funds for political contributions. It was the Silver Slipper casino, a gaudy gambling house located opposite Hughes' Desert Inn hideaway, which he leased for $4.5 million. From the Silver Slipper till, Hughes in 1970 withdrew at least $1 million for his personal projects. The money was in small-denomination, old bills, which could not be traced by tax authorities. Thus he could contribute to his favored candidates more than the $3,000 tax-free limit that prevailed until 1972. As the Watergate investigations later disclosed, Hughes...
According to reports from those familiar with the book, The Final Days is an extraordinarily detailed portrait of the collapse of the former President. Woodward and Bernstein state that Nixon took to drinking in the afternoon in his little hideaway in the Executive Office Building. His appointments became fewer and his office hours more erratic as his control of Government slipped away. There were days when he did not come over from the mansion until noon. Once, almost at the end, he was heard saying "Goodbye" to the portraits of his predecessors on the White House walls. He cried...
Patty said that she had been convinced that the authorities were out to kill her, a belief reinforced, she claimed, when Los Angeles police stormed an S.L.A. hideaway in the famous fiery Shootout that she watched on television. She recalled how the announcers pointed out that she was thought to be in the house that was being blasted with more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition. To strengthen the point, Bailey played the color films of the gun battle before turning his witness over to Browning...
Kennedy's movements on the night before he was nominated as the 1960 Democratic presidential candidate caught him climbing over a backyard fence near his suburban Los Angeles hideaway. Kennedy shouted that he was going off "to meet my father." Reporters have since learned that the stealthy visit was more likely to the nearby home of a former diplomat's wife he had known for some time...