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During a 1970 vacation in San Clemente, California, President Richard Nixon finished work on the budget and then took a helicopter to Bob Hope’s Toluca Lake estate for a round of golf and to thank Hope for signing up servicemen in Vietnam for educational benefits. Four years later, as Nixon battled the Watergate special prosecutor over releasing White House tapes, Hope wrote to Nixon’s assistant to clarify comments a newspaper had quoted. The president replied in this letter.