Word: mansion
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Presidents sometimes seem to resemble their houses. The great head and strong jaw of Franklin Roosevelt fitted in with his stately Hudson River mansion at Hyde Park. Lyndon Johnson, weathered and slit-eyed, sometimes looked as if he came with the clapboards of his boyhood home in Johnson City, Texas. Reagan's home seems tall and open like...
...word bipartisan appeared seven times in the President's State of the Union address last week, but the decision to stress a new spirit of cooperation apparently did not reach the White House guards. When Tip O'Neill appeared at the Executive mansion on the day of the speech for a conference with the President, the gatekeepers would not let him in. The rotund, white-maned Speaker of the House had to fish around for some identification. O'Neill handled the unintentional rebuff amiably enough, but once he got inside, his Irish was up over an entirely...
...with three children, Deukmejian is unabashedly square in his habits and style. Weekends, he commutes to his family home in Long Beach. During the week he stays in a Sacramento apartment, eating frozen dinners and pizzas many nights. (He was prevented from moving into the lavish Governor's mansion built by Reagan when the Democrats voted not to provide funds for the Xanadu...
...years before his half-billion-dollar windfall. Now he complains that "going public was probably the worst thing that happened to me. My private life became my public life. It's like living in a fishbowl." Paulson is building a 10,000-sq.-ft. replica of an antebellum mansion near Savannah that has 2,000 sq. ft. of porches, two man-made lakes, a nine-hole golf course, a tennis court, a boat dock and a landing pad for his five-passenger Bell JetRanger III helicopter. He uses the helicopter to make short hops for business trips...
King, 36, his wife Tabitha and three children divide their time between a 23-room Bangor mansion and a summer place in the foothills of the White Mountains. His houses bear a few traces of his ghoulish trade - like a collection of two dozen grotesque masks, many of them sent by fans...