Being Nixon: A Man Divided (64 page)

32.
Ibid., pp. 48–9.

33.
Black, p. 131.

34.
Six Crises
, pp. 54–5.

35.
Parmet,
Richard Nixon and His America
, pp. 26–7.

36.
RN
, p. 71.

37.
Aitken, p. 176.

38.
Six Crises
, p. 70.

39.
Eisenhower, p. 101; Gellman,
Contender
, pp. 267, 272.

40.
Frank Gannon interview.

41.
Herbert Klein oral history, NL.

Chapter 4: Rock ’Em, Sock ’Em

1.
Halberstam, p. 262;
RN
, pp. 72–3.

2.
Murray Chotiner to RN, November 30, 1949, Kornitzer papers, DU.

3.
Black, p. 150.

4.
Gellman,
Contender
, pp. 289–343.

5.
Swift, p. 104; Irwin Gellman interview.

6.
RN
, p. 73.

7.
Mitchell,
Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady
, pp. 50, 159.

8.
Black, p. 160;
RN
, p. 65.

9.
Greenberg, p. 37.

10.
Merry,
Taking on the World
, p. 236.

11.
Brodie, pp. 244, 535.

12.
Thomas,
Very Best Men
, p. 27.

13.
Herken,
Georgetown Set
, p. 90.

14.
Patricia Alsop interview in Brodie papers, UU.

15.
Herken, pp. 187–8.

16.
Swift, p. 106.

17.
RN
, p. 138.

18.
Eisenhower, p. 111.

19.
Marjorie Acker interview.

20.
Rose Mary Woods to Hannah Nixon, May 25, 1956, Kornitzer papers, DU.

21.
Aitken, p. 196.

22.
Gellman, manuscript of
The President and the Apprentice
, ch. 19.

23.
Aitken, p. 197.

24.
Ibid., p. 198.

25.
Eisenhower, p. 112.

26.
RN
, p. 80.

27.
Frank,
Ike and Dick
, p. 21.

28.
RN
, p. 81.

29.
Ibid.

30.
Ibid., pp. 83–4.

31.
Felsenthal,
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
, pp. 194, 229.

32.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth interview in Kornitzer papers, DU.

33.
RN
, pp. 84–5.

34.
Ibid., pp. 85–7.

35.
Eisenhower, p. 105.

36.
Nixon/Gannon interview.

37.
Six Crises
, p. 76.

38.
Eisenhower, pp. 115–6.

39.
Nixon/Gannon interview.

40.
Ibid.

41.
Van Natta,
First Off the Tee
, p. 229.

42.
Frank, p. 39.

Chapter 5: Checkers

1.
New York Post
, September 18, 1952.

2.
RN
, p. 92.

3.
Six Crises
, pp. 83–7.

4.
Mazo,
Richard Nixon
, p. 121;
RN
, pp. 96–7.

5.
Eisenhower, p. 120.

6.
RN
, p. 98.

7.
Eisenhower, p. 119.

8.
West,
Upstairs at the White House
, p. 389.

9.
RN
, pp. 99–100.

10.
Ibid., p. 100.

11.
Ibid., p. 101.

12.
Six Crises
, p. 105.

13.
RN
, p. 103.

14.
Ibid.

15.
For the full text of the speech, see
www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/richardnixoncheckers.xhtml
.

16.
Aitken, p. 217.

17.
Wicker,
One of Us
, p. 108.

18.
Ibid. p. 98.

19.
Perlstein,
Nixonland
, p. 42.

20.
Aitken, p. 218.

21.
For the most thorough account, see Gellman, manuscript of
The President and the Apprentice
, ch. 2.

22.
Wicker, p. 100.

23.
RN
, pp. 105–7.

24.
Eisenhower, p. 126.

25.
RN
, pp. 108–17; Aitken, p. 222.

26.
Gellman, manuscript of
The President and the Apprentice
, p. 29.

27.
Six Crises
, p. 161; Aitken, p. 343.

28.
Gellman, manuscript of
The President and the Apprentice
, p. 11.

29.
See Greenstein,
Hidden-Hand Presidency
.

30.
Aitken, p. 226.

31.
Eisenhower, p. 137; RN to Mrs. Nixon, April 1, 1972, SMOF, NL.

32.
RN
, pp. 119–37.

33.
Thomas,
Ike’s Bluff
, p. 57.

34.
RN
, pp. 137–50; RN to Henry Kissinger, March 29, 1972, SMOF, NL (“The Bundy’s never gave me any credit for this”).

35.
Reeves,
Life and Times of Joe McCarthy
, p. 578.

36.
Gellman, manuscript of
The President and the Apprentice
, ch. 5.

37.
Parmet, p. 262.

38.
RN
, pp. 159, 163.

39.
Greenberg, p. 58.

40.
Eisenhower, pp. 117, 146.

41.
Graham, ed.,
Katharine Graham’s Washington
, p. 232.

42.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to Evangeline Bruce, October 13, 1955, Bruce papers, VHS.

43.
Eisenhower, p. 152.

44.
Mazo, p. 139.

45.
Kenneth Thompson, ed.,
Nixon Presidency
, p. 301.

46.
RN
, p. 163.

47.
Eisenhower, p. 151.

48.
Mazo, p. 139.

Chapter 6: “El Gringo Tiene Cojones”

1.
Ferrell,
Diary of James C. Hagerty
, p. 234.

2.
Kornitzer, pp. 323–4; John Carley interview.

3.
Six Crises
, p. 144.

4.
RN
, pp. 204–5; RN oral history, Dulles Papers, PU.

5.
Emmett Hughes,
Ordeal of Power
, p. 317.

6.
Mazo, p. 157.

7.
Eisenhower, p. 157.

8.
RN
, pp. 166–70.

9.
Gellman, manuscript of
The President and the Apprentice
, chs. 19 and 20.

10.
Leonard Hall interview in David Halberstam papers, BU.

11.
Gellman, manuscript of
The President and the Apprentice
, ch. 18.

12.
Thomas,
Ike’s Bluff
, pp. 353–5; Caro,
Master of the Senate
, pp. 616–7; Dallek,
An Unfinished Life
, pp. 398–9.

13.
Eisenhower, p. 157; Aitken, p. 240.

14.
RN
, pp. 170–1.

15.
Kissinger,
White House Years
, p. 264; Haldeman, p. 107.

16.
Colson,
Born Again
, p. 92.

17.
Frank, p. 149.

18.
Safire, p. 418.

19.
Gellman, manuscript of
The President and the Apprentice
, ch. 12.

20.
RN
, p. 186.

21.
Eisenhower, pp. 171–2; Rose Mary Woods to Hannah Nixon, March 21, 1958, Kornitzer papers, DU.

22.
Halberstam, p. 335.

23.
Brodie, p. 365.

24.
Walters,
Silent Missions
, p. 323.

25.
Six Crises
, pp. 193–204;
RN
, pp. 186–9.

26.
Eisenhower, p. 174.

27.
RN
, pp. 189–90.

28.
Strober and Strober, p. 40.

29.
RN
, pp. 189–91.

30.
Ibid. p. 193.

31.
Ibid. p. 195.

32.
Eisenhower, p. 179.

33.
RN
, p. 198.

34.
Nixon/Gannon interview.

35.
Aitken, p. 257.

36.
Don Hughes interview in Aitken papers, NL.

37.
Jim Bassett interview, January 18, 1959, Kornitzer papers, DU.

38.
RN interview, March 25, 1959, Kornitzer papers, DU.

39.
Irwin Gellman interview.

40.
RN
, p. 207.

41.
Safire, p. 1.

42.
Gellman, manuscript of
The President and the Apprentice
, ch. 33.

43.
Black, p. 386;
Six Crises
, p. 397.

Chapter 7: Jack

1.
RN
, p. 75.

2.
Matthews,
Kennedy and Nixon
, p. 93.
New York Times
columnist Maureen Dowd wrote that her brother Michael, a Senate page, delivered mail to both Senators Kennedy and Nixon. “He recalled that Kennedy never looked up or acknowledged his presence, but Nixon would greet him with a huge smile. ‘Hi, Mike,’ he’d say. ‘How are you doing? How’s the family?’ ”
New York Times
, April 11, 2015.

3.
Rex Scouten interview in Aitken papers, NL.

4.
Nixon/Gannon interview.

5.
Ibid.

6.
For the development of the Franklins v. Orthogonians theme, see Matthews, pp. 24–5; Wicker, pp. 8–9; Perlstein,
Nixonland
, pp. 22–3.

7.
Hamilton,
Reckless Youth
, p. 213.

8.
Aitken, p. 269.

9.
Ibid., p. 268.

10.
John Lindsay interview in Brodie papers, UU.

11.
RN
, p. 218.

12.
Leonard Hall interview in Halberstam papers, BU; Halberstam, p. 335; West, p. 389.

13.
Summers,
Arrogance of Power
, p. 204.

14.
Haldeman, pp. 111–2.

15.
RN
, pp. 218–9.

16.
Herbert Klein oral history, NL.

17.
Halberstam, p. 339.

18.
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy
, p. 106.

19.
Matthews, p. 136.

20.
Irwin Gellman interview.

21.
Eisenhower, p. 191, Black, p. 409.

22.
Aitken, p. 278.

23.
Herken, p. 261.

24.
Matthews, p. 155.

25.
RN
, pp. 219–20; Aitken, p. 279.

26.
Morris,
Eye on the Struggle
, pp. 171, 201–3, 206, 220–3; Gellman, manuscript of
The President and the Apprentice
, chs. 26, 27, 31; Arthur Krock to Wallace Carroll, October 22, 1957, Krock papers, PU.

27.
Herbert Klein oral history, NL.

28.
Six Crises
, p. 362.

29.
Herbert Klein oral history, NL.

30.
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy
, p. 102.

31.
Irwin Gellman interview; James Meriwether, “Worth a Lot of Negro Votes: Black Voters, Africa, and the 1960 Presidential Campaign,”
The Journal of American History
, December 2008, p. 762.

32.
James Bassett interview in Brodie papers, UU; Aitken, p. 282.

33.
Wicker, p. 240; William Safire oral history, NL.

34.
Six Crises
, p. 403.

35.
Theodore White notebooks, T. White to P. Salinger, November 11, 1960, White papers, HU.

36.
White,
Breach of Faith
, p. 69.

37.
Herken, pp. 250, 257–8, 263.