Tuesday, November 05, 2002

The President [Richard Nixon] seemed removed from reality. While in Florida, he asked Bebe Rebozo's woman friend and future wife, Jane Lucke, to do some sewing for him. Then he held an odd little ceremony. "In plane on way back," Haldeman recorded in his diary, "P had me up ... then Ehrlichman ... and Kissinger and said the three of us had borne the brunt these past few weeks and we deserved an award like the Purple Heart, so he had devised a new award, the Blue Heart, for those who were true blue. Then he gave us each a blue cloth heart made by Jane Lucke, and said the honor was to be kept very confidential."

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