Word: shoreham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside Room 832 of Washington's Shoreham Building the carpet had not yet been laid and workmen were still installing telephones. But even in the chaos of moving day, Room 832 was as busy as an anthill. Its mission was supposed to be a secret, but nearly everybody in Washington knew that staffers of the new Nixon Club were beaver-busy organizing a presidential campaign under the benign and smoothly efficient direction of the most successful Republican political cam paign manager in U.S. history-Leonard Hall of Oyster...
...insinuated -without any shred of evidence-that her hotel rooms were bugged. On a trip to Washington, she said, she was warned by the Post's White House Correspondent Bob Spivack that the FBI was probably recording their conversation in Spivack's car. Installed at the Shoreham Hotel, Dolly even changed rooms, inspected the garbage can ("I found some paper and wires which weren't hitched to anything"), and was not reassured when the apprehensive Spivack took his leave of her room with a farewell addressed to the FBI microphones, "Goodbye, everybody...
Priests passing through the lobby of Washington's Shoreham Hotel last week found themselves directed to the specially set-up bar (beer and soft drinks) by a sign advising: "Getting wild? You'll be tamed at the Lion's Den." Except for this convention-style japery, the eighth annual meeting of Roman Catholic mission-sending societies was occupied with sober reports, many of them dealing with a single mission area: Africa...
Last January, Neff continued, he also learned from aides in Case's Washington office that Case was favorably disposed toward the gas bill. He therefore went to the Shoreham Hotel, where he talked to Elmer Patman, an attorney for Superior Oil, and recommended the contribution to Case. Patman peeled off $2,500 from a "personal" fund, which he handled for Superior's President Howard Keck of Los Angeles. Later, Neff flew to South Dakota and turned 25 old $100 bills over to Kahler for delivery to the Senator's campaign fund...
Gold Service. That night the Nixons, official hosts in the absence of President and Mrs. Eisenhower, gave a state dinner for the Castillo Armases at Anderson House; two nights later, the Guatemalan guests responded with a banquet at the Shoreham Hotel, which got out its famed gold service for the occasion. On Mamie Eisenhower's telegraphed invitation, the Castillo Armases toured the White House-and nearly bumped into a group of touring Russian housing experts...