Trump's proposed golf resort, near Aberdeen, north east Scotland Reuters

Aside from attempts to use the hotel to influence the president-elect, they worry about a 60-year lease that his company took out with the US to use the government-owned building that houses the hotel. In addition to an annual rental fee, the Trump Organisation has to pay a special annual payment based on various measures on how well the hotel is doing.

Any disputes over that payment will be handled by the General Services Administration, the federal agency overseeing the property. The head of the GSA will be appointed by the new president.

The Pence speech on Tuesday was the highlight of the Heritage Foundation's annual gathering for its biggest donors. The event was mostly being held at the Ronald ReaganLooking Back

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1913: Nine-year-old John Theodore Freeman Jr. of Albany drowned in the Hudson River at the basin at the foot of North Lansing Street after he chased a butterfly across a lumberyard, realizing too late he had reached the end of the wood piles that hung over the basin.

1963: Three area residents on a fishing trip died and one was hospitalized when their 18-foot launch capsized in the dark, choppy Atlantic Ocean off Rye Harbor, N.H.