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...Good evening, my fellow Americans. Before going over to the Shoreham Hotel to address the victory celebration. I wanted to take a moment to say a word to all of you in this very personal way, speaking from the Oval office." There was no crowd of supporters, no family or friends. Just the very personable President speaking to His people. It was just like the bombing speeches: the Presidential Seal, the absolute quiet of a television studio. I wondered if the whole thing had been prerecorded, football metaphors...
...shirted union men downed their boilermakers and joked with management representatives. With outsiders, though, they were quiet and cautious. "This is one time when steel negotiations are not going to be decided by the media," said U.S. Steel Chairman Edwin Gott. Even the location of the meetings (in the Shoreham North Hotel) was a carefully kept secret. Abel was registered in a large Shoreham North suite, his refrigerator stocked with tonic water, Danish pastries and sardines...
Never before in memory had so many notables with White House connections assembled under the same roof. Among the guests at the Women's National Press Club's 50th anniversary dinner at Washington's Shoreham Hotel: Mamie Doud Eisenhower, 73; Mrs. Charles S. Robb, 26, elder daughter of Lyndon Johnson; Teddy and Joan Kennedy; Mrs. James A. Hoisted, 64, only daughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Mrs. Richard T. Brigham (Peggy-Ann Hoover), 44, Herbert's granddaughter. Also Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 86, Theodore's daughter-and Pat Nixon, who showed up with husband and family...
...floor of some hotel to look into a window. I've seen guys chin themselves on transoms, drill holes in doors, even shove mirrors under a door." When Bouton was with the Yankees, he recalls how Mickey Mantle used to lead hunting parties to the roof of the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, B.C. "One of the first big thrills I had with the Yankees," he reports, "was joining about half the club on the roof of the Shoreham at 2:30 in the morning. I remember saying to myself: 'So this is the big leagues...
...most expensive and spectacular in the Nixon Administration." The Blounts are thinking of living at Watergate; so are Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher, who will be Chief of Protocol, and Nixon's longtime personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods. Also in northwest Washington will be the Romneys, at the Shoreham West apartments. George Romney's office is too close to permit his customary four-mile morning jog, but the new Secretary of HUD will probably lope off to work through Rock Creek Park as his chauffeur delivers lunch-a meat sandwich, a salad, a thermos of milk-to his desk...