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...Regarding Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post's bequeathing as a presidential hideaway [Nov. 13] her estate, Mar-A-Lago, to the U.S. Government, I have a suggestion. Why not permit everybody who lives in a slum or a trailer park or sleeps in relatives Hide-a-Beds during the year to spend a weekend at Mar-A-Lago...
...page of warmed-over scandal, it's tempting to dismiss the Congress Project report as a bloated Washington gossip column. Opening with a page of come-ons--"READ ALL ABOUT IT! What the 'Games Congressmen Play' are--from 'politics of deference' to congressional love and marriage to the secret hideaway offices of the Capitol rulers"--the report exudes sensationalism. The authors rehash the escapades of John Dowdy. Adam Clayton and that "malign genius" Thomas Dodd: they compare companies sending funds through campaign committees to "crooks lugging baskets of dirty money to be washed through legitimate business." Frequently witty--"The ideal...
...personal style of the man in the White House - Richard Nixon's Key Biscayne and San Clemente, Lyndon Johnson's ranch. In years to come, the presidential style of leisure may be considerably grander. Last week Nixon signed a bill accepting an official new winter hideaway for the Presidents. It is Cereal Heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post's 110-room, $7,000,000 Mar-A-Lago, in Palm Beach, a kind of Moorish Xanadu built on 17 acres of hard coral between the Atlantic ocean front and Lake Worth...
...Hanoi to consult with his government while Kissinger flew to Saigon for nearly six hours of talks with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. At least some approach toward a settlement was obviously being explored. At week's end Kissinger returned to Camp David, Nixon's mountain hideaway in Maryland, to report the results of his meetings...
...gave up and began to court Humphrey. The Senate was working late on end-the-war amendments, on which each vote could prove decisive, when McGovern talked to Majority Leader Mike Mansfield about a mildly embarrassing problem: since he did not rate high in Senate seniority, McGovern enjoyed no hideaway where he could talk secretly with prospective candidates. Mansfield slipped McGovern his key ring; the candidate could use Mansfield's plush room just off the Senate chamber...