Nation: KEEPING UP THE PRESIDENTIAL PAYMENTS

For all the power and perquisites of the U.S. presidency, some of the problems of ordinary citizens necessarily follow a man into the White House. Like living within one's income, and keeping up the payments on the mortgage.

The latter can be troublesome, particularly when the President is Richard Nixon, for whom the White House is not entirely a home. He is, by his own testimony, a "saltwater man," and in a relatively short span of time has picked up two seaside abodes in Florida, another in California, as well as retaining his leasehold...

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