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There are no women's locker rooms or bathrooms at Burning Tree. No women are permitted inside the club at all, not even for service reasons or parties, with rare exceptions. A recent allowance was made for the spring cocktail party, and women are allowed into the pro shop in December to holiday shop
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The Burning Tree Club was founded in 1922, supposedly in response to a male foursome from the Chevy Chase Club being stuck behind a slow-playing group of female golfers. The name of Burning Tree Club was named for the colorful leaves of a particularly large oak tree in the autumn on its grounds.
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employee and security coordinator for CRP) was found out; Kleindienst, in a profanity-laced tirade, refused to do so, said that Mitchell "knows me well enough to call himself if he has anything more like that to say to me" for any such request, and that he couldn't and wouldn't do it.
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In his 2021 novel "Into the Ether", author David Sherer portrays a scene where President Stanton discovers the case of the missing protagonist Dr. Adrian Wren while reading The Washington Post during lunch at Burning Tree Country Club.
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The initiation fee is $ 75,000, while membership fees are $ 500/month. Membership is exclusive with a cap around 600. The member list is private, and includes honoraria and retired golfers and can be achieved by invitation only.
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the day after the Watergate break-in at a luncheon at the club after a round of eighteen holes and "violently gesturing" at him and soon going with him and
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was recalled to have played cards after a round on the Burning Tree course. In the book, after hearing that although
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did not ask directly, he personally requested that Kleindienst as Attorney General arrange for Watergate burgular
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agents have been turned away. Women U.S. Army EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) personnel have been turned away.
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for their husbands. They can do this only by appointment, during very restrictive hours, and only on Saturdays.
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Maryland Writer's Project, Works Project Administration.
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In the 1994 book "Watergate", author Fred Emery mentions
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bids on a set of golf clubs supposedly used by President
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to be released before his true identity (as a former
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Private, all-male golf club in Bethesda, Maryland, US
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to a small room off the locker area where President
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