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Heard Tapes. Haldeman had heard one tape in late April while still on the White House staff. Amazingly, he was allowed to take four other tapes in early July to a Maryland house where he was staying, after he had resigned and just before the existence of the secret recording system was revealed. Haldeman decided to listen to just one of the tapes, which he held for 48 hours...
Nixon is occupying the third floor presidential suite at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, the same suite used by the late President Lyndon B. Johnson during his illnesses in office...
...When Maryland started a $50,000-a-week lottery in late May, Baltimore's two afternoon papers, the Evening Sun and Hearst's News American, stood to benefit by printing winning numbers daily. Then the promotion-minded News American, which had a small lead in readership but lagged far behind the Sun in ad linage, came up with a shrewd gimmick. It began running daily lists of 51 "losers," numbers not drawn in the state lottery but for which the News offers cash consolation prizes ranging from $10 to $100. Sundays, the loser of the week gets...
Spending tax money for presidential retreats is nothing new-nor is it necessarily wrong. It is an ungenerous country that cannot let its President relax in comfort and safety. F.D.R., for instance, had a retreat called Shangri-La built in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains with $15,000 from the White House budget and with thousands of dollars more that were hidden in various departmental budgets. But that was public property and is now better known as Camp David. Other Presidents have had additions made to their private homes. Until the Nixon Administration, those outlays were made by the Defense...
...afternoon as a sandwich and salad man at the Union Oyster House, where he stayed for almost a month. He was even offered a promotion to assistant chef, but he had to attend another meeting of the reserve bank, and then he moved on to the garbage business in Maryland ($2.50 an hour). As he hauled away, he sometimes called out greetings to the local residents, but most of them ignored him. "There's enormous contempt for garbage men," Coleman remarks...