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Next day President Nixon helicoptered to Camp David, joined by his family and his friend Bebe Rebozo. Richard Nixon was there as the last week of his presidency began, and the events he had set in motion swept him through four fateful days of irresistible outside pressure, internal anguish and ultimate decision...
...could be initiated by writing anonymous letters to the IRS. Acree followed such a procedure himself, according to Caulfield, in 1971 when the White House wanted a tax investigation made of Newsday Editor Robert Greene, who had written a series of articles exposing some financial dealings of C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, Nixon's closest friend. Greene was audited by New York State tax authorities after New York and IRS officials had exchanged information...
...committee failed in what had been a primary purpose of the Rebozo investigation: to establish a definite link between Rebozo's expenditures on the President's behalf and the $100,000 campaign contribution from Billionaire Howard Hughes. The report alleges but does not prove that, contrary to Rebozo's sworn testimony, he did not leave the Hughes contribution intact in a safe-deposit box for three years before returning it to a Hughes representative in June 1973. As previously reported, the President's former lawyer, Herbert Kalmbach, told the committee that Rebozo had told him that...
Special Account. The report contains some fascinating details about Rebozo's role as a part-time political fund raiser. In February 1969, according to a White House memorandum, Nixon asked Rebozo to solicit Billionaire J. Paul Getty in London for "major" campaign contributions-only a few months after he had completed his victorious campaign for the presidency. Getty subsequently contributed $125,000 to the 1972 Republican campaign. In early 1969, Rebozo established a special account in his Key Biscayne bank to pay for what he described as "Administration-connected costs"; this was the account from which the "earring" funds...
...special report on Rebozo and his friends was but one part of the complete report that the Senate Watergate committee issued. Within this exhaustive document, based on the testimony and other evidence, are 35 suggestions for governmental reform...