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...goodbye to John Mitchell, Rose Mary Woods, the California Angels and Bill Garcia? Richard and Pat Nixon, moving eastward into a Manhattan condominium, did it with two poolside margarita, taco, guacamole and fruit kebab parties at La Casa Pacifica. Former Attorney General Mitchell, marking his 66th birthday, was guest of honor at the first, a reunion to which 250 old hands of the Nixon Administration were invited. "John Mitchell has friends and he stands beside them," said the ex-President of the man who went to jail for obstructing justice in the Watergate investigations. The second party featured...
...help out local Republican candidates, Richard and Pat Nixon threw a $250-a-person fund-raising party at La Casa Pacifica, which brought in about $100,000. Nixon reminisced about his memories of Orange County-the time he proposed to Pat at Dana Point and the days when he practiced law at La Habra. One of the most exuberant guests was John Wayne. Greeting the Missus with a bow and a kiss on the hand, the Duke said, "It's great to see Pat up and around and looking happy." As for her husband, the Duke enthused...
...attention. A year ago he sat for the David Frost television interviews. Last winter he went to Hubert Humphrey's funeral. He and Pat flew to New York and the Bahamas, making small banter with photographers at stops along the way. They threw a party back at Casa Pacifica for some 300 returned Viet Nam P.O.W.s. Nixon also gave a party to celebrate the publication of his memoirs. Despite the $19.95 price and the many early (somewhat gloating) predictions of failure, the book has been riding for weeks now in the middle ranges of the bestseller lists...
...Price last saw Richard Nixon at the beginning of November, when the former speechwriter took a two-week-long furlough from the institute to work with the former president on the memoirs once again at La Casa Pacifica, the Nixons' San Clemente estate. In contrasting the Nixon of three weeks ago with the Nixon of the White House years, Price says Nixon's outlook is more mellowed, more reflective...
...signs of renewed contacts, however, Nixon still appears to lead the life of a voluntary exile. The former president continues to refuse all requests for interviews by the press, even from old media friends, Price says. Nixon also remains aloof from the San Clemente community that surrounds La Casa Pacifica. "He just doesn't go down to the corner drug store," Price adds...