Word: rugs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other business deductions claimed by Nixon but questioned by the committee ranged from $22.50 for cleaning a rug in Pat's bathroom at San Clemente to $432.84 to repair the estate's ice machine to $3,331.56 for depreciation of a $4,816.84 table that he bought for the Cabinet Room in the White House. Among the other disallowed items were $5,391.43 spent from the White House guest fund on food, beverages, decorations and unspecified rentals for a masked ball given by Tricia in 1969, and $23,576 spent from the fund to feed the First Family...
...nurse, but not that of a doctor." Most Americans live by equality of category and are content to move with it-the going wage scale, the union member's seniority, the soldier's promotion in rank and the civil servant's slow rise to a rug, a water carafe and a secretary...
...statuettes and busts of Herschensohn's heroes: Nixon (several), Lincoln (two), Churchill, Washington, Moshe Dayan, Beethoven and a miniature Mt. Rushmore. If he can, Herschensohn takes his delegations first to the Cabinet Room. The moment is profound, rising to fortissimo on Nixon's blue and gold oval rug with the woven Presidential Seal...
However, since stock in Hearst corporations is privately held, such figures are often unreliable. The Hearst family disputed many of the S.L.A.'s claims, even the minor ones; the imperial rug collection, a family member noted, consisted of a single 4-ft. by 8-ft. piece...
NEARLY EVERYTHING in the exhibition has a shimmering insubstantiality to it. A pale orange silk prayer rug with silver and green blossoms, which may have belonged to the Shah himself, looks as if it would have crumbled to dust if he had ever knelt on it. Though they are lethal weapons, his damascened swords and daggers are inlaid with golden flowers and lines of flowing script. The astrolabe looks more like an extravagantly ingenious toy than a working navigation instrument. Even the coins of Isfahan look too pretty to spend...