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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (477725)	10/18/2003 12:00:35 AM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769667

Something to it but not much. briefcases full of cash Twice he ordered Maheu to Washington with briefcases containing $1 million in cash. The money was to secure presidential promises to end nuclear testing in Southern Nevada. Maheu said that on each trip, once to see President Lyndon Johnson and once to see President Richard Nixon, he dutifully carried the briefcases but never unlocked them, never held out what obviously would have been illegal bribes. This early opposition on the part of Greenspun and Hughes to nuclear experiments set the stage for the Sun's leading involvement with this issue after Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, was selected by Congress in 1987 to become the nation's sole dump for nuclear waste. The Sun has taken an uncompromising editorial stand opposing Yucca Mountain and the Sun's reporting on the issue has earned numerous awards. Although Greenspun and Hughes often agreed on issues and engaged in business dealings, relations between the two were often tense, especially during the Watergate scandal that ultimately led to Nixon's resignation. In 1969 and 1970, years when Hughes was seeking federal approval for airline acquisitions, two $50,000 packages were delivered by a Hughes representative to Charles G. "Bebe" Rebozo, confidante of President Nixon. An October 1973 Washington Post editorial noted: "Robert A. Maheu, Mr. Hughes' former chief of staff in Nevada, has testified under oath that Mr. Rebozo had been 'chosen by Mr. Nixon' to receive the money that had been 'earmarked' for the president. "Mr. Rebozo has told investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee that the money was intended as a campaign contribution. He also says that he kept it in safety deposit boxes in Florida for a number of years." Sun Editor Brian Greenspun recalled that his late father attended a Richard Nixon press conference in San Clemente, Calif., and asked if Hughes' $100,000 was used to furnish Nixon's home in San Clemente. "The next day, Nixon's attorney, Herb Kalmbach, was in my father's office to tell him the money was not used to furnish Nixon's home in San Clemente, but went instead to Rebozo's house in Key Biscayne, Fla.," Brian Greenspun said. "Rebozo called the press out to his home to show them the $100,000 was still there. He opened his safe and pulled out wrapped bunches of bills." Brian Greenspun said, however, that Rebozo wound up with egg on his face when Hank noticed that the name on the bill wrappers was that of a Las Vegas bank that was known by another name when Rebozo got the money three years earlier.