Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cotton Point is ideal for the privacy-loving Nixons. Shielded from the road by a stand of eucalyptus trees, the five-acre estate offers both solitude and convenience. A newly built private road links it to the adjacent San Mateo Point Coast Guard station, where communications facilities and private buildings have been set up to accommodate the staff members who will accompany him to summer quarters. The station's ball field has been converted into a helicopter pad. Only a ten-minute chopper flight separates Nixon from El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, where Air Force...
...house itself has undergone considerable renovation since the Nixons bought it in July for $340,000. The somber interior has been brightened and refurnished with provincial pieces by Mrs. Nixon. The tennis court has been replaced by a 22-by-44-ft. swimming pool. Security has been guaranteed by 1,500 ft. of new fencing and several observation posts constructed in the same tile-roofed style as the villa's main buildings. Spotlights have been installed on the bluff to illuminate the ocean at night. Even the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., whose line runs along the base...
These precautions may not, however, prevent the President's vacation from being interrupted. A number of antiwar groups plan to open a "fall offensive" for peace with land and sea demonstrations at the summer White House next week. And Nixon may well be witness to one of the least violent protests ever planned when a group of "Women Against War Toys" marches to the beach below his clifftop castle to construct an edifice of their own: a sand castle for peace...
...whom Richard Nixon defeated is a professor these days, and he tends to grade the world around him. Last week TIME asked Hubert Humphrey to appraise Nixon's performance as President. He gave Nixon a B in international affairs, but in domestic matters, Humphrey said the President is "in real danger of winding up with a failing grade." Other Humphrey observations...
...Arms and the ABM: I don't think Mr. Nixon's policies on arms talks are in solid form yet. I'm opposed to the deployment of ABMs. It could pollute the atmosphere as far as arms negotiations are concerned. But the most important issue is MIRV, because it's offensive, not defensive, weaponry. ABM is chasing rabbits when the tiger-MIRV-is on the loose...