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...most iconic presidential photographs are both profoundly personal and indelibly historic. They belong, all at once, to the subject, the photographer and the public. Think of JFK stooped, exhausted over his desk in the Oval Office during the Cuban Missile Crisis, or of a disgraced Richard Nixon waving, both hands raised, boarding the plane that final day. Did Democrats capitalize on images of Nixon's impeachment? Of course. Did Republicans publicly question Kennedy's maturity and ability to handle the Soviet threat? Absolutely...
Have two sisters ever been closer than Tricia and Julie Nixon? Tied by bonds of family, forged by political fires, they endured as daughters of the only American President to resign; they smile or wave or cry together in a thousand pictures, standing by their father and each other. Each was maid of honor for the other. Tricia, 56, says she trusted her sister so much that when Julie was writing her highly praised book about their mother, Tricia turned over her diary. That closeness has been strained this spring, as a battle over how to spend a $19 million...
...remained all in the family had Rebozo--the chicken plucker and Pan Am steward who made a fortune in South Florida real estate--not left 65% of his $27 million estate to the library, with the proviso that it be used "in accordance with the specific directions of Julie Nixon Eisenhower [and] Tricia N. Cox." The lawsuit, which was filed at Julie's and Taylor's insistence, was necessary, says their attorney, Bob Landon, because until the sisters can agree on how Bebe's money is to be spent, it stays tied up in probate. Landon says Tricia is using...
...poor Richard Nixon library--literally. Because the National Archives by court order still controls Nixon's papers, it is a stepchild among presidential libraries, the only one among the 12 that has to cobble together its $2 million operating budget each year (the others each get $5.5 million in federal funds annually). Although the Nixon library holds 200 seminars and ceremonies a year, Tricia's lawyer says it has become a "theme park," with its peddling of Nixon-and-Elvis T shirts and its use for proms, bar mitzvahs and weddings. "Impress your guests," one ad says, "by serving...
...clear Tricia thinks there's been a breakthrough and that compromise is suddenly possible. They already agree on one goal. "I spoke to former President Gerald Ford on April 23," Julie says, "and once the Bebe money is dispersed, he'll make it his personal crusade to get the Nixon library into the federal system." On Friday Julie was changing her schedule around to be at Tricia's side for a literacy event whose host was First Lady Laura Bush on Monday evening in New York. "That will do more than anything I can say to put this behind...