Ричард Никсонның серігі – Бебе Ребозоның өмірі мен қызметі

American businessman

Charles Gregory "Bebe" (pronounced BEEbee) Rebozo (November 17, 1912 – May 8, 1998) was an American Florida based banker and businessman who was a friend and confidant of President Richard Nixon.

The youngest of 12 children (hence, the nickname "Bebe" meaning "Baby" in Spanish) of Cuban immigrants to Tampa, Florida, Matias and Carmen, Rebozo owned several businesses in Florida, including a gas station and a group of laundromats, before he started his own bank, the Key Biscayne Bank & Trust, in Key Biscayne, Florida, in 1964. Rebozo regularly attended Key Biscayne Community Church, sometimes accompanied during later years by Nixon.

Rebozo first met then U. S. Representative Nixon in 1950 through Florida Representative George Smathers. Smathers had recommended Key Biscayne as a vacation destination to Nixon, who eventually established a residence there which was later nicknamed the "Winter White House" by journalists. While Nixon was vacationing in Key Biscayne, Smathers had Rebozo take Nixon deep sea fishing. Rebozo and Nixon then started a friendship that endured 44 years. According to a November 27, 1975, article in The New York Times, a completed manuscript of a biography on Rebozo, which was scheduled to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, was stolen from the home of Thomas Kiernan. In addition to Rebozo's biography, "several tape recordings of interviews and several research files, including one file containing all of Mr. Kiernan's book contracts and another containing all his royalty statements, were taken," the newspaper reported. Other news coverage at the time pointed out at the time that "thieves ignored" jewelry and other items of value. In 1974, Rebozo received a letter threatening his life that year.

Rebozo died on May 8, 1998, of complications from a brain aneurysm. He later married Jane Lucke, who survived him.