Word: rebozo
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...final Senate Watergate committee report, the long arguments before the Supreme Court-would further numb the minds of many Watergate-weary Americans. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler dismissed the Judiciary Committee transcripts as part of "a hyped-up public relations campaign," and the Watergate committee allegations about the Rebozo fund as "warmed-over baloney...
...committee bequeathed the continuing investigation to a host of other legislative and judicial bodies. But before it expired, it issued one last broadside: a 350-page staff report alleging, among other things, that leftover campaign funds had been used by President Nixon's good friend C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo to pay for various major improvements to the Nixon properties at Key Biscayne and for a pair of platinum-set diamond earrings that the President gave to Pat in 1972 for her 60th birthday...
After paying tribute to his colleagues and to the committee staff, Ervin was presented with a 10-lb. sausage by Committee Counsel Samuel Dash, in recognition of White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler's denunciation of the committee's special report on Rebozo as "warmed-over baloney." Then Sam Ervin delivered a short speech, quoting right and left from his favorite writings, and it was over...
...committee's special report on Bebe Rebozo's expenditures was not particularly important for the amounts of money involved. Compared with the abuses of power already documented in the Watergate affair, for example, the allegation that Rebozo spent $4,562.38 in leftover campaign funds for earrings for Pat Nixon would not ordinarily have been of much consequence. But it was perceived as a vivid symbol, calling immediately to mind a much younger Richard Nixon who bragged on television that his wife wore only a "respectable Republican cloth coat." Strategically, the allegation was also important to investigators because...
...report alleges that the $4,562.38 portion of the $5,650 spent on the earrings was originally derived from campaign funds and that Bebe Rebozo attempted to disguise the money's source by transferring it in and out of four separate Florida bank accounts. The $4,562.38, the report charges, was part of $6,000 that Rebozo withdrew on April 15, 1969, from the Florida Nixon for President Committee account in the Key Biscayne Bank and Trust Company -which he heads-and immediately deposited in a trust account in the name of his lawyer, Thomas H. Wakefield...