WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
federal government says it has
spent nearly $2 million improv-
ing President Nixon’s homes in
Florida and California, all of it
relating to ‘‘security.”

The White House also dis-
closed that businessman Robert
H. Abplanalp, who helped the
President buy his San Clemen-
te, Calif., retreat, has been
getting some money back in the
form of rent associated with
Nixon’s~ Key Biscayné, Fila.,
place.

A month ago the White House
had listed $39,000 in federal
funds for improving the West-
ern White House at San
Clemente since Nixon bought it
in 1969.

Last week, after a further
search of record, it raised this
figure to $460,302.

On Thursday, General Ser-
vices Administration (GSA),
the government's housekeeping
agency, said a_ still more
extensive audit put the total
federal expenditure at San
Clemente at $703,367 over four
fiscal years beginning July 1,
1969. This included only the
residence there, not the White
House office space.

GSA listed for the first time
the federal expenditure for
improvements, equipment, Op-
eration and maintenance at the

White House complex at Key
 Biscayne, including both resi-
dence and office space—
$1,180,522, spread over five
fiscal years beginning July 1,
1968.

Included in the Key Biscayne
figure was $161,463 for renting
two houses in the complex for
the Secret Service and White
House communications staff.

The White House said all of
the taxpayers’ money spent in
San Clemente and Key Bis-
cayne was for security-related
improvements and that all
work was done at the request of
the Secret Service, not the
President.
 
WASHINGTON. UPI - The federal
~government—says—it—has~spent-nearly-
$2 million improving President Nixon's
homes in Florida and California, all of
it relating to «security.»

The White House also disclosed that
businessman Robert H. Abplanalp, who
helped the President buy his San Cle-
mente, Calif,, retreat, has been getting
Some money back in the form of rent
associated with Nixons Key Biscayne,
Fla,, place.

A moath ago the White House had
listed $39,000 in federal funds for
improving the.Western White House
at San Clemente since Nixon baught

aa See
 —Ht-in-1960,

Last week, after a. further search
of record, -it raised this figure to
$460,302,

On Thursday, General Services ad-
ministration GSA, the government's
housekeeping agency, said a still more
‘wextensive. audit put .the.totalfedaral
expenditure at San Clemente at $703,-
367 over four fiscal years beginning
July 1, 1969, ‘This included only the re-
Sidence there, not the White House
office space, °

GSA listed for the first time the
federal expenditure for improve-
ments, equipment, operation and main-
tenance at the White House complex
at Key: Biscayne, including both resi-

 

dence and offlcé space - $1,180,522,
spread over five fiscal years begin-
ning July 1, 1968,

Included” in the Key Biscayne figure
was $161,463 for renting two houses in
the complex for the Secret Service and
White House communications staff.

The White House sald one of these
houses is owned by Abplanalp and the
other is owned in the name of Edwin
H, Underwood, trustee for the Indiana
National Bank, Indianapolis,

The White House said all of the tax-
payers’ money spent in San Clemente
and Key Biscayne was for security re-
lated improvements and that all work
was done at the request of the Secret
Service, not the President,

. THE GSA data showed items such as
$53,644 in fiscal year 1970 for interior
security and communications at San
Clemente, It also included $3,303 in
fiscal 1970 for golf carts for the Se-
eret Service patrol at Key Biscayne,
- ‘Two years later there appears ano-
ther item of $5,230 for. three Secret
Service golf carts there.
 