WASHINGTON (UPI: —
The federal government
says it has spent nearly $2
million improving Presi-
dent Nixon's homes in
Florida and California, al-
most all of it relating to
“security.” The expenses
ranged from fire sprin-
kKlers'ta gulf carts for the
Seeret Service.

The White House also
disclosed that business-
,man Robert H. Abplanalp,
who helped the President
buy his San Clemente re-
treat, has been getting
some moncy hack in the
form of rent associated
with Nixon's Key Bis-
eayne place.

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

LAST WEEK, after a
further search of record,
it raised this fugure to
$460,300.

On Thursday, General
Services Administration,
the government's house-
keeping agency, said a
still more extensive audit
put the total federal
expenditure at San Cle-
‘mente at $703,367 over
four fiscal years begi:

 
 ning July 1, 1969. This in-
cluded only the residence
there, not the White
House office space.

GSA listed for the first
time the federal expendi-
ture for impravements,
equipment, operation and
maintenance at ihe White
Complex at Key Biscayne,
including both residence
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 Se-
eret Service and White
House communications
staff. The total did not in-
clude an estimated $400,-
000 helicopter landing pad
built by the Army Corps
of Engineers.

The White House said
one of the two houses is
owned by Abplanalp and
the other is owned in the
name of Edwin H. Un
derwood, trustee for the
Indiana National Bank
Indianapolis.

The White House saic
all of the taxpayers
money spent in San Cle
mente and Key Bis
cayne was for security

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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 expenses
ranged from fire sprinklers to golf carts
for the Secret Service.

The White House also disclosed 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 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.

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

On Thursday, General Services
Administration (GSA), the government's
housekeeping agency, said a still more
extensive audit put the total federal ex-
penditure 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, equip-
ment, operation and maintenance at the
White House complex at Key Biscayne,
including both residence and office
space-— $1,180,522. -pread over five fiscal
years beginning July ', 1968

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

The White House said 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-related
improvements and that all work was done
at the request of the Secret Service, not the
President.
 