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DIED. CHARLES ("Bebe") REBOZO, 85, Florida banker and controversial confidant of Richard Nixon; in Miami. Rebozo, who lent Nixon money to buy his San Clemente, Calif., home, also accepted $100,000 in cash in 1970 from Howard Hughes for a private campaign fund for Nixon. He said he returned the money, and no charges were filed...
...election in 1962. In the clownish 5 o'clock shadow of the first Nixon-Kennedy television debate. In the "I am not a crook" protest. Lighting fires in the White House fireplace in the middle of summer. Kneeling with Henry Kissinger in prayer. Phone calls to Woody Hayes. Bebe Rebozo. Robert Abplanalp. Comic names, madcap circumstances. The man who exalted the "Enemies List," vowing not to hate his haters, waving bravely from the chopper door, then flying back to California toward a town with a name that sounds like clemency...
...some ways affairs show a human quality to these people. So I guess you have to ask yourself whether you'd prefer Franklin Roosevelt with Lucy Mercer and John Kennedy with his various women to Richard Nixon in his striped pajamas talking to Bebe Rebozo...
...Drosnin explains it. Hughes first hired Democratic Party official Larry O'Brien to be one of his Washington operatives. Later Hughes made a secret $100,000 donation to Nixon through his confidante. Bebe Rebozo Put simply, he paranoid Nixon--afraid that O'Brien would reveal the Nixon-Hughes connection - arranged for burglars to read the Democratic Party's Watergate headquarters and find dirt on O'Brien which could be used to keep him silent...
According to Drosnin, it was the facts about $100,000 of Hughes money in Bebe Rebozo's safe-deposit box that set off the Watergate break-in. "I want to hire Bob Kennedy's entire organization," wrote Hughes to Maheu shortly after hearing that the Senator was dead. Maheu managed to get the lobbying services < of Lawrence O'Brien, Kennedy's campaign manager and later Democratic Party chairman. Because of O'Brien's connection with Hughes, Drosnin argues, Nixon feared disclosure of the cash in his friend's bank and ordered the plumbers into O'Brien's Watergate office...