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...Nixon considered the alternatives, there were signs of growing tension in the White House. He held frequent marathon meetings with his closest advisers on Watergate. On four occasions, he escaped from the pressures by cruising on the Potomac River aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia. Such cruises in the past have signaled presidential anxiety, and his inner turmoil was shared by his top aides. They seemed confused and uneasy, fearful that no satisfactory way could be found to avoid a confrontation with Congress and anxious about the effect of such a showdown on the U.S. public...
Sierra Gothic. The mountaineer-geologist Clarence King found in the Sierras elaborate analogies to the Gothic −an organic interchange between nature and art. On the other hand, a group of Americans spent five days in 1853 cutting down a 3,000-year-old sequoia, 302 ft. high and 96 ft. in circumference. They polished the stump into a dance floor and hollowed out the fallen trunk to make a bowling alley. The sacred and profane commingled, usually at the expense of the sacred...
Nothing characterizes the presidency of Richard Nixon these days so much as the sense of perpetual motion. He moves from the Oval Office in the White House to his hideaway across the street to the deck of the yacht Sequoia on the Potomac, from Washington to Key Biscayne to Grand Cay in the Bahamas, from the Camp David mountaintop to the beaches of San Clemente...
...mulling over his line of attack. On Aug. 7 Nixon awoke at 2 a.m., took a notebook from his bedside table and wrote a six-page outline of the main points he wanted to make. That evening he sailed on the Potomac for two hours aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia with his favorite speechwriter, Raymond Price. The following day he asked his chief of staff, Alexander Haig, to poll the White House senior staff and others for their thoughts on what he should say and how he should say it. Suggestions ranged, as one staff member later described it, from...
...Nixon statement was hammered together, in an atmosphere of increasing urgency, over a week's time. The first strategy discussions were held on the presidential yacht Sequoia as Nixon, his new Chief of Staff General Alexander Haig Jr. and Press Secretary Ronald