ribozo was a high school graduate, whose first job was an airline steward. nixon was a loner, but he knew he needed company. pat nixon said he was a sponge, he could entertain him, stay silent, mix martinis, grill steaks. in fact, as you said, they would sit together for literally hours. john dean tells me about sitting in the boat, and the secret service agent peers in, and they re just staring at the sea for literally hours. but where it goes wrong, b.b. was loyal to a fault. and he couldn t say no when nixon was president. when nixon asked him to raise illegal campaign funds, that was his great failing. he accepts this $100,000 bribe from howard hughes, and i think that leads to watergate and ultimately i think his
unconcealed belligerent of time these two guys spend together and how it had tongues wagging again but, among members of polite society. it definitely did, it went everywhere from what was going on, were they gay lovers? it wasn t proven. what intrigued me about nixon s first friend is how different they were in personality. he was dark, brooding, intellectual, and he was a high school graduate whose first job was an airline stewart. it just worked. nixon was a loner but he had the self awareness to know that he needed company. and bibi was the perfect companion, never challenged him, he was a sponge. he could entertain him when he wanted to entertain him. stay silent. mixed martinis, grill steaks. in fact they would sit together