Word: blech
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...White House has admitted that the President's financial advisers differ on this point. Coopers & Lybrand, the firm called in recently to audit NIXon's accounts, figured that he had a capital gain of $117,370. But Nixon followed the counsel of his usual tax accountant, Arthur Blech, who reckoned that there was no gain. Blech made some admittedly arbitrary valuations of the 5.9 acres of property and the grand house that Nixon retained. On the basis of those valuations, Blech concluded that Nixon originally had paid as much for the remaining land as he later sold...