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Apparently we'll be referring to Richard Nixon -- the nation's only President to resign in disgrace -- as "Tricky Dick" for another reason. In the newly released biography Nixon's Darkest Secrets veteran Washington reporter Don Fulsom alleges the 37th President who served from 1969 to 1972 "may have had an affair with his best friend and confidant, a Mafia‑connected Florida wheeler-dealer named Charles 'Bebe' Rebozo who was even more crooked than Nixon" as reported by Tom Leonard for the Daily Mail: Bebe Rebozo was a short, swarthy, good-looking Cuban-American businessman with a history of failed relationships with women and close...

When Richard Nixon's long time friend Charles "Bebe" Rebozo passed away in 1998 he left 65% of his estate to the Nixon Library in his will, provided all expenditures be approved by Tricia Nixon Cox, Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Robert Abplanalp, another Nixon friend. Rebozo, whose name is Spanish for "the clown died, send me another", left over $20 million to the library. According to USA Today the trust gave the library foundation $781,000 in 1999, but a disagreement between the sisters has left deciding how to spend the remaining money up to a court or mediator. Eisenhower and the...