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...authorized Williams' arrest, Slaton had told reporters that the case was too weak to warrant the move. Why the D.A. changed his mind was the source of much speculation. According to some reports, Slaton's hand had been forced at a meeting he attended at the mansion of Georgia Governor George Busbee two days before Williams' arrest. Sources in both Atlanta and Washington confirmed that such a gathering had taken place and that the possibility of replacing Slaton with a special prosecutor had been discussed. Slaton sidesteps the subject: "If I had attended a meeting...
After Elvis Presley died in August of 1977, there was in the media what could only be described as a massive breach of taste. There were five miles of crowds in Memphis. Tennessee, at Elvis's mansion, Graceland. In Nashville, when Elvis's father died, there were two miles of crowds. His father. His father didn't sing a note in his life. But he sired the King. He had proved that aristocracy could live, even in a place as retrograde as the Memphis of the 1950s...
...talking more about financial issues. Otherwise it was pure, consistent Koch, goading his listeners, giggling with malice ("heh, heh, heh"), shining among the crossed oars and dead dignitaries on the walls, as he shone everywhere else he went that day (in appearances at City Hall; Washington Square Park; Gracie Mansion, the official residence; at Shea; in Queens; at the Yale Club) moving right along, touting his achievements the way politicians do, but more openly, aggressively than most, the insistent nasal voice assuring all audiences equally that the city was in the very
...Mayor for Life"; a trophy from the Friars Club; sheet music of an old song called "How'm I Doin'?" (Koch seems curiously remote from these toys, as he does from the bizarre Pee Wee, a giant black-and-white wooden rabbit that sits in his bedroom in Gracie Mansion.) There is a sculpture of Romulus and Remus under the wolf, and a photo of the mayor on top of a camel in Egypt...
...visitors. They fully reinstated Ruffles and Flourishes and Hail to the Chief. They stationed a Marine in dress uniform at the entrance to the West Lobby, just to salute decoratively and open the door. They spent $736,000 (all privately donated) to refurbish the family living quarters of the mansion, which had become a little tacky. Nancy Reagan wears expensively elegant designer clothes ("American thoroughbred," Women's Wear Daily calls her look) and sets a handsome table of French dishes and the best California wines. Her Los Angeles hairdresser, Julius Bengtsson, flies in at least once a month...