Word: nixon
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...summer retreats of past Presidents have provided a setting where they could show themselves off in this light. John F. Kennedy went to Hyannis Port and sailed in all weathers; at his ranch in Texas (the Texas White House, as it was known), Lyndon Johnson hunted deer; Richard Nixon spent weeks every summer at his large house by the Pacific in San Clemente (or the Western White House, as it was known) indulging in Californian luxuriance; Ronald Reagan visited his ranch in California faithfully each August, where he rode and cleared brush and chopped wood; in Kennebunkport, George Bush raced...
...himself. Not every summer White House would work for each President, but each gave the President a useful background outside Washington against which to set himself on a regular basis. Are there any more appealing images of Kennedy than those of him sailing, his hair tousled? At San Clemente, Nixon reminded the country that he was a poor boy who had made good and -- lest his native state forget it in the 1972 election -- that he was a Californian. Ronald Reagan -- code name "Rawhide" -- could not possibly have reinforced his image as a mythic cowboy any better than by riding...
...Clinton should be careful. In 1969, when Richard Nixon bought La Casa Pacifica at San Clemente, LIFE magazine ran huge color pictures of it and its proud new occupant. Over the years, scores of such photographs appeared in newspapers and magazines. Alas, it all ended in scandal: Nixon had misled the press about what he had paid for the property, and in fact his friend Robert Abplanalp had provided more than a million dollars' so he could buy it; furthermore, Nixon used several millions of dollars worth of government money to increase security and make improvements. Better a Clintonesque, jerry...
...RICHARD NIXON...
Apart from instructing juries on the prosecutor's evil ways, Bennett has two passions: fly-fishing in Montana, where he has a house on the Yellowstone River, and poker, which he plays with such friends as Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Justice Antonin Scalia and former Nixon adviser Leonard Garment. While others talk about politics, Bennett concentrates on the cards. He does not like to lose. Yet he is well aware of what he's best at. A fishing buddy remembers a Bennett attempt at gratitude. "You helped me so much," said Bennett, "I wish there was something...