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...traced by tax authorities. Thus he could contribute to his favored candidates more than the $3,000 tax-free limit that prevailed until 1972. As the Watergate investigations later disclosed, Hughes in 1970 sent President Nixon $100,000 in hundred-dollar bills, which were given to Charles ("Bebe") Rebozo in two installments in manila envelopes. There has been speculation that the purpose of the Watergate break-in and bugging was to discover how much the Democratic National Committee knew of that secret gift, but federal investigators have been unable to establish the credence of that suspicion...
...narrative focuses on how he and the other top advisers, aided and abetted by speechwriters and lawyers, handled the special prosecuters, the House Judiciary Committee, Judge Sirica, and the press. The Congressional leadership, Kissinger, the Nixon family, and, yes, Bebe Rebozo, all have their parts, but since the book is mostly written from the perspective of the inner circle they are treated most often as "problems." As it turns out, no one--not even Haig--knew from one minute to the next what to do. Nixon, with his boundless capacity for self-delusion, was in no position to direct...
...conversation between the two. After such conversations, Kissinger would come out of his office, find out which of his secretaries had been listening, then ask: "Wasn't that the worst thing you ever heard in your life?" Once the eavesdroppers heard Nixon drunkenly pass along his friend Bebe Rebozo's advice on the Viet Nam War; another time they heard Nixon say of American servicemen killed or wounded in one major battle: "Oh, screw 'em." The secretaries also heard Nixon make what they considered "nasty references about the inferior intelligence of blacks...
Nixon's pal Bebe Rebozo even sent a private jet to New York to pick up Mor row and fly him to Key Biscayne for a discussion with Haig and others. The idea was to ease Ziegler into a position at the U.S. Information Agency. Like so many other desperate plans that were considered in the dying days of Nixon's presidency, it came to nothing...
Watergate is the one story I have covered which resulted in some answers, Hersh said, although many loose ends remain, such as Nixon's financial dealings with Rebozo. He said he believes the Watergate case resulted ultimately in Nixon's resignation only because of Nixon's arrogance in not destroying the White House tapes