Being Nixon: A Man Divided (65 page)

38.
White,
Making of the President, 1960
, p. 338.

39.
Kenneth Thompson, ed.,
Nixon Presidency
, pp. 11–2.

40.
Klein, pp. 96–7.

41.
Leonard Hall interview in Halberstam papers, BU.

42.
RN
, p. 222.

43.
Thomas,
Ike’s Bluff
, p. 392.

44.
Susan Eisenhower, David Eisenhower interviews.

45.
Douglas Hallett and Irwin Gellman interviews.

46.
Aitken, p. 288.

47.
Ehrlichman,
Witness to Power
, p. 10; Dwight Chapin interview.

48.
Frank, p. 215.

49.
Aitken, p. 289; Herbert Klein oral history, NL.

50.
Eisenhower, p. 194.

51.
Six Crises
, p. 386.

52.
Eisenhower, p. 197.

53.
Six Crises
, p. 374.

54.
Ibid., 392.

55.
Peter Flanigan interview; Peter Flanigan oral history, NL.

56.
RN
, p. 225.

57.
Julie Eisenhower interview in Aitken papers.

Chapter 8: Over the Wall We Go

1.
Leonard Hall interview in Halberstam papers, BU.

2.
Six Crises
, p. 404.

3.
Bradlee,
Good Life
, p. 21.

4.
Irwin Gellman interview. Gellman calculates that the real margin was closer to forty thousand votes because the votes cast for independent electors in Alabama were counted by the news media for Kennedy.

5.
Matthews, p. 185;
Six Crises
, p. 407.

6.
Six Crises
, p. 405.

7.
Greenberg, p. 189.

8.
Wicker, p. 257.

9.
Aitken, p. 293.

10.
RN
, p. 228.

11.
Nixon/Gannon interview.

12.
Aitken, p. 295.

13.
Nixon/Gannon interview.

14.
RN
, pp. 151–2.

15.
Stewart Alsop, p. 20.

16.
Aitken, p. 16.

17.
RN
, pp. 236–7.

18.
Eisenhower, p. 204.

19.
RN
, p. 240.

20.
John Carley interview.

21.
Thomas,
The Very Best Men
, p. 103.

22.
Matthews, p. 215.

23.
RN
, pp. 242–3; Ehrlichman, pp. 148–9.

24.
Klein, p. 59; Halberstam, pp. 348–9.

25.
Dwight Chapin interview; Klein, p. 55; Matthews, p. 216.

26.
RN
, pp. 245–6.

27.
Perlstein,
Nixonland
, p. 46.

28.
Eisenhower, pp. 213–6.

29.
Time
, November 16, 1962.

30.
Aitken, p. 294;
RN
, pp. 252–5.

31.
Eisenhower, p. 216;
RN
, p. 248.

32.
Garment,
Crazy Rhythm
, p. 67.

33.
Ibid., p. 85.

34.
Ibid., p. 70.

35.
Ibid., pp. 86–90.

36.
RN
, p. 265.

37.
Stuart Spencer interview.

38.
Eisenhower, p. 221. See Barry Goldwater: 1964 Republican National Convention,
YouTube.com
.

39.
John Sears interview in Aitken papers, NL.

40.
Sears, “Politics Is Great—Except for People,”
Los Angeles Times
, April 24, 1994.

41.
See Adler,
Wit and Humor of Richard Nixon
.

42.
Sears, “Politics Is Great.”

43.
Garment, p. 115.

44.
Witcover,
Resurrection of Richard Nixon
, p. 170.

45.
Nixon/Gannon interview.

46.
RN
, p. 278.

47.
Eisenhower, p. 230.

48.
RN to Jonathan Aitken, May 29, 1991, Aitken papers, NL.

49.
Kimball,
Nixon’s Vietnam War
, p. 43.

50.
Perlstein,
Nixonland
, p. 111.

51.
Eisenhower, p. 218.

52.
Perlstein,
Nixonland
, pp. 82–3.

53.
Buchanan,
Greatest Comeback
, pp. 137, 149.

54.
Annelise Anderson interview; Anderson, “Making of the All-Volunteer Force,” Hoover Institution, Stanford University (courtesy Annelise Anderson).

55.
Hess,
Professor and the President
, pp. 11–2.

56.
Amos Eran interview. Eran was an aide to Rabin.

57.
RN
, p. 248.

58.
Aitken, p. 337.

59.
RN
, p. 281.

60.
Raymond Price oral history, NL.

61.
RN
, p. 285.

62.
Courtesy of Christopher Buckley.

63.
RN
, p. 284.

64.
RN speech to Bohemian Grove, July 27, 1967, Aitken papers, NL.

65.
Douglas Hallet interview; RN to H. R. Haldeman, March 1, 1971, SMOF, NL.

Chapter 9: The New Nixon

1.
Ruth Proffitt interview.

2.
Eisenhower, p. 220.

3.
RN
, p. 250.

4.
Ibid., p. 291.

5.
Eisenhower, p. 234; Hutchshnecker,
Will to Live
, pp. 53–4.

6.
RN
, pp. 288–94; Eisenhower, pp. 233–4.

7.
James Bassett interview, January 8, 1959, Kornitzer papers, DU.

8.
RN
, p. 265.

9.
Ibid., p. 288.

10.
Kenneth Khachigian interview.

11.
Kissinger,
White House Years
, p. 247.

12.
Safire diary, February 21, 1971, Safire papers, LOC.

13.
Alexander Haig oral history, NL.

14.
Garment, p. 118; Deborah Gore Dean interview.

15.
Safire, p. 336.

16.
Garment, pp. 119–20.

17.
Rosen,
Strong Man
, pp. 17, 36.

18.
Dwight Chapin interview; Dwight Chapin oral history, NL.

19.
White,
Breach of Faith
, p. 97.

20.
Aitken, p. 303; Haldeman, p. 76.

21.
Rob Odle interview.

22.
Ehrlichman, pp. 3–9, 21–2.

23.
Whalen,
Catch the Falling Flag
, p. 137.

24.
Kimball, p. 52.

25.
Edward Cox speech, Gerald Ford Museum, May 16, 2011, C-SPAN,
YouTube.com
.

26.
Perlstein,
Nixonland
, p. 81.

27.
Wills,
Nixon Agonistes
, p. 88.

28.
Halberstam, pp. 589–60.

29.
White,
Making of the President, 1968
, pp. 166–7.

30.
Haldeman, p. 38.

31.
Herken, p. 347.

32.
Ehrlichman, p. 24.

33.
Aitken, p. 353; Wills,
Nixon Agonistes
, p. 216.

34.
Stuart,
Never Trust a Local
, p. 27.

35.
Safire, p. 60.

36.
Dwight Chapin oral history, NL.

37.
Witcover, p. 310.

38.
Robert Ellsworth oral history, NL.

39.
RN
, pp. 305–7.

40.
For background of the speech, see Gavin,
Speechwright
, pp. 6–13.

41.
Safire, pp. 67–8; Safire diary, August 8, 1968, Safire papers, LOC.

42.
Henry Cashen interview.

43.
Edward Cox speech.

44.
Robert Ellsworth oral history, NL.

45.
McGinniss,
Selling of the President
, p. 123; Wills,
Nixon Agonistes
, p. 265.

46.
Perlstein,
Nixonland
, pp. 277–9.

47.
Ibid., p. 224; Buchanan, p. 292.

48.
Sherman,
Loudest Voice in the Room
, p. 33.

49.
Ibid., pp. 30–41.

50.
McGinniss, pp. 67, 73, 100.

51.
Ibid., p. 111.

Chapter 10: October Surprise

1.
Haldeman, p. 100.

2.
Strober and Strober, p. 40.

3.
Dwight Chapin oral history, NL.

4.
Safire, pp. 86–7; Safire diary, September 18, 1968, Safire papers, LOC.

5.
Bradlee, p. 212.

6.
White,
Making of the President, 1968
, p. 381.

7.
Tom Brokaw interview.

8.
John Carley interview.

9.
Stuart Spencer interview.

10.
Dwight Chapin interview; Strober and Strober, p. 27.

11.
Jack Dreyfus interview in Aitken papers, NL. Frank Gannon doubted that Nixon was a regular user of Dilantin.

12.
Garment, p. 44; Leonard Garment oral history, NL.

13.
Dwight Chapin interview.

14.
Ibid.

15.
Ehrlichman, p. 39.

16.
Eisenhower, p. 241.

17.
Constance Stuart oral history, NL.

18.
Ehrlichman, pp. 30–5; Safire diary, October 28, 1968, Safire papers, LOC.

19.
John Carley interview.

20.
Ehrlichman, p. 32.

21.
Safire, pp. 63–4.

22.
Francis Bator interview. Bator was a Harvard professor and Kissinger colleague.

23.
RN
, p. 323; Isaacson,
Kissinger
, pp. 129–32; Hughes,
Chasing Shadows
, pp. 173–5.

24.
RN
, p. 317.

25.
Black, p. 540.

26.
RN
, p. 326.

27.
Feeney, p. 86, Safire, p. 785.

28.
Forslund,
Anna Chennault
, pp. 19–52; Hughes,
Chasing Shadows
, p. 8.

29.
Safire, pp. 73, 111–2; Diem,
In the Jaws of History
, p. 237; Chennault,
Education of Anna
, pp. 175–6.

30.
Dallek,
Nixon and Kissinger
, pp. 74–7; Kimball, pp. 56–60.

31.
LBJ to George Reedy, January 4, 1956; George Christian to Jake Jacobsen, November 4, 1966; Billy Graham notes of conversation with RN, September 8, 1968; JL; Safire diary, October 14 and 20, 1968, Safire papers, LOC.

32.
RN
, p. 327.

33.
Hughes,
Chasing Shadows
, p. 29.

34.
Strober and Strober, p. 30.

35.
Hughes,
Chasing Shadows
, p. 31.

36.
Ibid., pp. 5–6, 37; Walter Rostow, Memo for Record, May 14, 1973, “X Envelope,” Reference File: Anna Chennault, South Vietnam and U.S. Politics, JL.

37.
Director FBI to Bromley Smith, November 4, 1968, “X Envelope,” JL.

38.
Hughes,
Chasing Shadows
, p. 40.

39.
Ibid., p. 50.

40.
Director FBI to Bromley Smith, November 3, 1968, “X Envelope,” JL.

41.
Hodgson,
American Melodrama
, p. 734.

42.
Luke Nichter, Thomas Schwartz, James Rosen interviews.

43.
RN to Jonathan Aitken, May 29, 1991, Aitken papers, NL.

44.
Tom Charles Huston oral history, NL.

Part Two: At the Mountaintop

Chapter 11: “He Loves Being P!”

1.
RN
, p. 332.