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Once | express concern to Bebe that word might get out about my “affairs” in Key Biscayne. “These girls,” | pointed out, “are likely to brag about going to bed with a United States senator.” “They’ re professionals,” Bebe reassured me. “It’ s just like your lawyer-client privilege. Stop worrying.” kok * One evening in 1949, while | was still serving in Congress, | received an anonymous call at my home. A male voice said three words, “Watch Jeane Dixon," and hung up the telephone. A week later, the psychic Jeane Dixon held a press conference. One of the reporters asked her to predict my future. She drew a blank, however, explaining that she needed time to meditate. | believe that in show business parlance this is known as_ “milking the audience.” Finally she said it: “I predict that one day Richard Nixon will become president of the United States.” | could only conclude that the higher source from which she had received her intelligence was not necessarily supernatural. When | lost the presidential election to John F. Kennedy in 1960, Jeane Dixon continued to predict that | would be president. “Destiny,” she said, “cannot be denied.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015098