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Secret Sessions. The euphoria of the chiefs extended over a mile-square area around Cairo's glass-walled Nile Hilton hotel. Each Arab nation got a half-floor to itself-24 double rooms, plus a three-room corner suite overlooking the Nile and the gardens of Gezira island. Even Nasser moved into the hotel. Egyptian army engineers broke through the walls of both the Hilton and the Arab League Headquarters building, 100 yards distant, and linked the two with a temporary esplanade carpeted in vivid green. Some 2,000 soldiers and police provided security, and traffic, forced to detour...
...time being, at least, this was not a time for overt politicking. The night of the assassination, Lyndon Johnson stepped uncertainly into the Oval Office of the President, then went to the three-room suite in the nearby Executive Office Building that he had used as Vice President. Across the street, he could see the lights beginning to go out in the White House...
...carved a message of his survival after his PT boat sank in World War II, a silver calendar noting the dates of his confrontation with Nikita Khrushchev over Soviet missiles in Cuba, photos of Jackie and the children. Johnson lingered only briefly, decided to work out of his three-room vice-presidential suite in the adjacent Executive Office Building...
...Club. One repository of the sweet life was the Quorum Club, located in a three-room suite at the Carroll Arms Hotel, just across the street from the new Senate Office Building. Elly is remembered as a hostess there...
...million, giving some ministries one-tenth of what they had demanded. He also put a $400-a-month ceiling on all government salaries-his own included-and slapped a 100% tax on income above $800 a month. To the ascetic Ben Bella, who lives in a dingy, three-room bachelor flat with a nephew who does all the cooking and cleaning, that seems perfectly reasonable. For those who think otherwise, he has a stern answer. "This," says Ben Bella, "is the price of independence...