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...When we arrived 15 years ago, we were refugees and wanted to stay as such," says Manolo Reboso (no kin to Richard Nixon's good friend Bebe Rebozo). "We were thinking of returning to Cuba immediately." Reboso fought at the Bay of Pigs and later returned to Miami to work as an architect. "The Cuban community," he says, "is now looking for a political voice," and Reboso is proof that it is finding one. Last November he won a seat on the city commission and was promptly named to a one-year term as vice mayor...
That makes his total worth $1,283,256, compared with $980,400 in 1969. Against his assets, Nixon lists $518,038 in mortgages and trust deed notes for the real estate properties, plus $100 for payroll taxes withheld for the Social Security deductions of Nixon's personal valet, Manolo Sanchez. Since the presidency provides for most of his needs, Nixon in theory should be able to save a good portion of his $200,000 salary plus $50,000 expense allowance. His only other source of income while in the White House is the interest earned by his savings accounts...
...they were more or less certain of Powell, there obviously remained some question about the final ticket that the President would present. Some time between midnight and 8 a.m., Nixon tape-recorded a draft of the TV speech he was to deliver. He gave the tape to his valet, Manolo Sanchez, who took it to Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods. She typed one copy and returned it to Nixon. The President spent much of Thursday alone in his sanctum in the Executive Office Building next door to the White House, working on the single existing copy of his speech...
...Sanchezes are registered Republicans in San Clemente, their official home. Manolo fishes off the rocks below the Western White House. In Key Biscayne, he does his angling from the kitchen window: "I tie on a little piece of white string and I can tell if I have a bite. The President never goes fishing, but when we walk the beach he will ask me about it. He never mentions his problems. He have too many things on his mind. It is only way to escape...
Life with the President has its rough moments too. When Nixon took his famous early-morning excursion to the Lincoln Memorial to talk to demonstrators at the time of the Cambodian invasion, Manolo was rousted out of bed to accompany him. When a fire Manolo started in the living-room fireplace at San Clemente accidentally burned out of control, damaging a wall and sending the President fleeing in his pajamas to an adjoining cottage, angry White House aides approached him for an explanation. Manolo had a humorous answer: "I promise not to smoke pot in the basement any more...