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This is basically a mutual get-acquainted session. Says Wilson: "We admire you so much?we both are dyed-in-the-wool Republicans." Strickler notes that he was at the Shoreham on election night...
Nixon sought out the safe waters of the Young Republicans meeting in the Shoreham Hotel. When they chanted in feverish ecstasy "Three more years!" the President held up three fingers and waved to them reassuringly. Some of them came by the White House later for a reception...
...Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., Satirists Mark Russell and David Frye have packed in crowds of Washingtonians, Republicans and Democrats alike. "CIA now stands for Caught In the Act," Russell tells his audience. Russell also is credited with having originated such often-heard quips as "impeachment with honor," "bail to the Chief," and "Nixon has a staff infection." "In the twelve years I've been at the Shoreham," says Russell, "I've never had anything like the past two months. The audiences love the whole spy thing, like McGovern picked up a grapefruit and heard a dial tone...
...beneath familiar furrowed brows. "Pat and I this day have adopted two Vietnamese orphans -one from North Viet Nam, one from South Viet Nam. In America, anything is possible." The sound is Richard Nixon, emanating from Impressionist David Frye, taking off the President to crowds at Washington's Shoreham Hotel, Nixon's election-night headquarters. Frye, hunching into his shoulders and flashing a V sign, continues: "My Administration has taken crime off the streets and put it into the White House, where I can watch it. Regarding Watergate, those men were wrong. Well, nobody is perfect. They made...
Driving to Washington's Shoreham Hotel, he found the ballroom awash with the faithful whose cheers of "Four more years" blended with the band's Hail to the Chief. Looking as relaxed as he ever has on a public occasion, Nixon observed contentedly: "I've never known a national election when I could go to bed earlier...