It Is Indeed A Great House
July 14, 2007 at 8:01 am
We note in the post below that it’s George McGovern’s 85th birthday. In the interest of equal time coverage of the 1972 presidential election, we should also note (courtesy an alert and loyal Extreme Mortman reader) the realtor’s private link to the sale of Richard Nixon’s house when he was VP. Click here.
Got $4.5 million? Maybe Haldeman does. But it would be wrong.
richard said,
July 14, 2007 @ 10:02 am
Haldeman dead.
Lee Annis said,
July 14, 2007 @ 9:41 pm
Somewhere I read that that house originally went for less than $30,000 in the 1950s.
One cute tale about that neighborhood in the 1950s comes from Charles Fontenay’s biography of Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. Kefauver and Nixon were friendly enough neighbors, living just around the corner from each other even though they opposed each other for Vice President in 1956 and their daughters and cocker spaniels (Checkers and Jojo) even played together. Once Checkers showed up pregnant, Nixon started promising pups to friends. One was Mrs. Karl Mundt, the wife of the South Dakota Republican, and he teased Mrs. Mundt by asking if she’d keep the dog if the father was “Jojo” Kefauver. She would, said Mrs. Mundt, and she would rename him “Coalition.” Kefauver got wind of the gift-to-be and was rock solid in defense of his boy’s honor. “So far as we can learn,” said Kefauver, “Jojo hasn’t visited the Nixons in many months.”
Elroy Jetson (not Fabio) said,
July 14, 2007 @ 10:26 pm
How about G. Gordon Liddy?
Lowfat Leroy said,
July 15, 2007 @ 3:11 am
I thought the official residence of the Vice President was on the grounds of the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. The article speaks of Nixon when he was a Senator, not VP.
Timothy773 said,
July 15, 2007 @ 4:19 am
The residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory was purchased by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller as his private residence. He donated it as the official VP residence and VP Mondale (January, 1977) was the first VP to live there after the donation. Prior to that, the VP had to fend for himself for living arrangements.
dick said,
July 15, 2007 @ 3:08 pm
What a gorgeous home and grounds!! Now they would have it all fenced off and guarded but it was nice that the Nixons and the Kefauvers could be friendly then. Times have really changed since my younger days - and I do remember when Truman stopped by my home town on his whistle stop train tour in the 1948 election campaign. We went from church to the train station to see him even though my parents and most of those in that area were rock-ribbed Midwestern republicans and still are (as am I).