Word: poole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lukash described the President as an unusually healthy 61-year-old. "I'm blessed with a patient who has an understanding of the importance of physical fitness. He'll make my job easy." Without a White House swimming pool (the former one was turned into a press room by Nixon) for his 40 daily laps, the President will have to find another form of exercise. Says Ford: "The Oval Office seems very confining. I'd have to go to Burning Tree for golf, or to Camp David. I won't have a Key Biscayne...
...members had been instructed to say nothing about the crisis, but some began to talk more openly about Nixon's resignation. "From any rational evaluation, it is bound to come," said a senior aide. Ford knew it too. That evening, he stood in his backyard looking at his swimming pool. "I really hate to leave this pool," he said wistfully...
...Monday, and returned to the White House reception to accept congratulations from his guests. Later, appearing in the White House press briefing room to introduce his new press secretary, J.F. terHorst, Ford noted that during the Nixon Administration the room had been built over the old White House swimming pool. He jokingly suggested that he might take steps to remedy that mistake. "You know my great interest in aquatic activities," he said. But, more seriously: "We will have, I trust, the kind of rapport and friendship we've had in the past...
...invisible," he jotted grumpily, "such exclusive addictions to dream, mystery, mysticism, symbolism and the undefined." Under the circumstances it seems ironically right that three-quarters of a century after he died of stomach cancer in Paris, Moreau should now be having his first American retrospective in that breeding pool of every psychic fad, Southern California. Composed of 88 oils, water-colors and drawings, it has been assembled by Art Historian Julius Kaplan for the Los Angeles County Museum...
...given any glimpse of Ford's political attitudes, and then it comes in the form of a separate box and provided with less than half the space devoted to his biography. Meanwhile, four pages of color photos depict Gerald Ford eating breakfast with his family, swimming in his pool, making a speech against the backdrop of a tremendous American flag, and relaxing with his wife...