Word: valets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief usher-the title is left over from the days when the job consisted of "ushering" visitors in to see the President-West was in a unique position to observe his First Ladies. If no man is a hero to his valet, no lady can remain unknown to the man who controls the management, the personnel and the purse strings of her household. West's efforts to keep a diary were short-lived, but he has an observant eye and an astonishing memory for detail. Eleanor Roosevelt, he recalls, was "never once alone in the same room with...
...loving, in an official way. When the prisoners of war from Korea were released in 1953, they were greeted by an intimidating battery of officers, psychiatrists and reporters; this time the prisoners were to be protected. Each was assigned his own escort, a sort of aide-de-camp, counselor, valet and buddy. Many of the escorts were personal friends of the captives, the others were selected by service, age, rank and background to match their P.O.W.s as closely as possible...
That makes his total worth $1,283,256, compared with $980,400 in 1969. Against his assets, Nixon lists $518,038 in mortgages and trust deed notes for the real estate properties, plus $100 for payroll taxes withheld for the Social Security deductions of Nixon's personal valet, Manolo Sanchez. Since the presidency provides for most of his needs, Nixon in theory should be able to save a good portion of his $200,000 salary plus $50,000 expense allowance. His only other source of income while in the White House is the interest earned by his savings accounts...
...otherwise the plot revealed in court last week was a familiar one to readers of D.H. Lawrence. On trial in the Old Bailey was a handsome Irishman named Maurice O'Regan, 33, charged with forging three checks to a total of $34,400. Maurice had been butler, chauffeur, valet, handyman and cook to Sir Francis Henry Grenville Peek, 56, fourth baronet of Rousdon. But with raven-haired, Jamaica-born Lady Caroline Peek, 37, the testimony revealed, Maurice's services had gone considerably further...
RICHARD NIXON'S valet brought him his dry cereal, fruit juice and coffee every morning in the dining room of the Kremlin apartment, a vaulted chamber where the czars once walked. He consumed his modest breakfast quickly and moved on into a paneled study for his early briefings and last-minute musing. The study always had the clean, swept look of Nixon. His pipe was cradled in a clean ashtray. The papers he needed were lined up. His two briefcases were set in exact positions beside the desk. There were two cans of Garfinckel's pipe mixture...