WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
federal government said Thurs-
day it has spent nearly $2
mulion on President Nixon's
homes in Key Biscayne, Fla.,
and San Clemente. Calif.

The General Services Ad-
ministration (GSA), the federal
housekeeping agency, said
$1,180,522.54 was spent on
Improvement and maintenance
at the Key Biscayne compound
and $703.367.20 was spent for the
San Clemente estate. The San
Clemente figure was revised
upward from a little over
$400.000 and the Key Biscayne
total was the first of its kind.

The GSA released the figures
from official audits it took
following varying reports of the
eost to the government for
additions and improvements.

A White House spokesman
Said all of the money spent was
for security or security-related
items.

The spokesman said none of
the work done on either the

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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 Clemente, Calif., retreat,has
been getting some money back in the form of rent
associated with Nixon’s Key Biscayne, Fla., place. A
month ago the White House had listed $39,000 in federal
funds for improving the Western White House at San
Clemente since Nixon bought it in 1969.
 