The Arrogance of Power (110 page)

“They're trying . . .”:
Crowley,
Nixon in Winter,
op. cit., p. 305.

RN and Hiss:
(Harvard/Whittier) Stripling int. in “The Trials of Alger Hiss,” History on Film, [documentary script], 1979, supplied to author by Producer/Director John Lowenthal, p. 38–; (“opportunistic”) ibid., p. 163; (“hat set”)
Esquire,
Nov. 1975, p. 78; (“sonofabitch”) Lowenthal script,
supra.,
p. 39; (visits) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 22–; (trick answer)
MO,
p. 420; (accommodation/car)
PERJ,
p. 133; (farm) ibid., pp. 47–, 134;
MO,
p. 348.

homosexuality:
(RN/“queers”)
Esquire,
Nov. 1975, p. 152; (Chambers admission)
PERJ,
p. 103–; (tried to force)
PERJ,
p. 343; (secret)
PERJ,
p. 104; (threesome)
PERJ,
p. 91–; (stepson)
PERJ,
p. 359; Bert and Peter Andrews,
A Tragedy of History,
Washington, D.C.: Luce, 1962, p. 751; (Chambers denied)
PERJ,
p. 358; (“closest”) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 43; (numerous items) Meyer Zeligs,
Friendship and Fratricide,
New York: Viking, 1967, p. 233; (“He never”/“His attitude”)
PERJ,
p. 526; Levitt, op. cit., p. 299fn; (unrequited)
PERJ,
p. 521.

espionage not involved:
MO,
p. 452.

RN behavior:
Tannenhaus, op. cit., p. 291–;
MO,
p. 459;
Esquire,
Nov. 1975, p. 147; (“proof”)
MO,
p. 473; (promised Pat) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 46;
PAT,
p. 101; (“exhausted”) Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 177; (RN phoned)
MO,
p. 463; (after Christmas) Robert Stripling, ed. Bob Considine,
The Red Plot Against America,
New York: Arno Press, 1977, p. 145; (Miller) William Miller as told to Frances Spatz Leighton,
Fishbait, The Memoirs of the Congressional Doorkeeper,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1977, p. 41–; (logs) Smith,
Alger Hiss,
op. cit., p. 257; (“Attempt”)
MO,
p. 467.

typewriter:
(in court) Smith, Alger Hiss, op. cit., p. 355;
PERJ,
p. 426; Harold Rosenwald int. in Lowenthal script,
supra.,
p. 148; (“murder weapon”) int. Alger Hiss; ibid., p. 151; (RN “major factor”)
PERJ,
p. 493; (same machine)
MO,
p. 474;
PERJ,
p. 515; (junk dealer)
PERJ,
p. 351; (Woodstock matched)
PERJ,
p. 354 and cf. 351; Hoover to Sen. Karl Mundt, May 3, 1957, Mundt Archives, Grp. 1, Box 162, File 7, Dakota State College; (convinced jury)
PERJ,
p. 515, FB, p. 231; (documents sufficient?) int. Agent Jack Danahee;
PERJ,
p. 519; (RN “key witness”) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 59; (“contention”) Levitt, op. cit., pp. 162, 191; (doubt) ibid., p. 162fn;
Nation,
June 26, 1986, p. 780; (Hiss possession?)
Nation,
May 12, 1962, p. 416–, but cf.
PERJ,
p. 352; (manufactured too late?) ibid., p. 776–; Levitt, op. cit., p. 188–, but cf.
PERJ,
pp. 262fn, 364, 523–.

Typewriter forgery?:
(Hiss “forgery”) Levitt, op. cit., p. 163; (RN “fingerprint”)
PERJ,
p. 493, Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 60; (replica)
PERJ,
p. 517; (supporters) ibid., p. 518; Levitt, op. cit., p. 197–; (successful forgery) Montgomery Hyde,
Room 3603,
New York: Farrar, Strauss, 1963, pp. 135, 145; William Stevenson,
A Man Called Intrepid,
New York: Ballantine, 1976, pp. 204, 294, 296, and photo of “30 Ottobre 1941” letter.

Finding typewriter:
(
World Telegram
) Dec. 13, 1948; (HUAC Report) Levitt, op. cit., p. 206; (McDowell)
Nation,
May 12, 1962, p. 420; (Sullivan) Peter Irons article,
Real Paper,
Mar. 12, 1975; Summers,
Official & Confidential,
op. cit., New York: Putnam, 1993, p. 167; (“On Dec. 13”) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 60; (sequel)
Nation,
May 12, 1962, p. 421; (RN/Oval Office) WHT, Mar. 10, 1972, transcribed for author; (“we built”) Dean,
Blind Ambition,
op. cit., p. 57; (Colson/RN reactions)
PERJ,
p. 493; (Dean's notes) int. John Dean by FB, FBP; (Canada site) Stevenson, op. cit., pp. 222, 204.

Schmahl:
Jim Hougan,
Spooks,
New York: William Morrow, 1978, p. 289;
PERJ,
cites, esp. p. 584–; Levitt, op. cit., p. 202–;
Nation,
Oct. 7, 1978, p. 336.

Hoover/framing:
Nation,
Nov. 10, 1984, p. 468; (“Had Nixon asked”) Sullivan, op. cit., p. 95.

Diem:
NYT
News Service, Apr. 29, 1973; H. R. Haldeman and Joseph DiMona,
Ends of Power,
New York: Times Books, 1978, p. 161; WHT, Sept. 18, 1971;
AOP
p. 35, and for Apr. 28 and May 8, 1973 at pp. 371, 416;
HD,
p. 672; Howard Hunt,
Undercover,
New York: Berkley, 1974, p. 179; FB, p. 498, citing Ehrlichman;
NM,
p. 84;
New Yorker,
Seymour Hersh article, Dec. 14, 1992, p. 761; (Wallace) WHT, May 15, 1972;
AOP,
p. 38; Gordon Liddy,
Will,
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980, p. 309; Hunt,
Undercover,
op. cit., p. 217–; Emery, op. cit., p. 116.

Volkogonov:
John Lowenthal monograph, Oct. 4, 1996, supplied to author, citing
Bulletin,
Oct. 14, 1992, Cold War International History Project, Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Issue 2, Fall 1991, p. 33; Dmitri Simes int. by Kai Bird and John Taylor int. Apr. 14, 1994 and
NYT,
Oct. 29, 1992 and see “Venona and Alger Hiss,” in
Intelligence & National Security
[UK: Frank Kass, forthcoming Autumn 2000], the author has sought a comment from John Taylor, director of the Nixon Library and Birthplace, but he did not respond to letters on this, Dec. 20, 1998, Jan. 20, May 7, 1999, and follow-up call Apr. 3, 1999; (RN exploded) Crowley,
Nixon in Winter,
op. cit., p. 304–.

Field:
(Hiss link)
PERJ,
p. 174; Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev,
The Haunted Wood,
New York: Random House, 1999, pp. 4–, 44; (interrogations)
New Republic,
Nov. 8, 1993; Maria Schmidt article;
Nation,
Nov. 8, 1993, Ethan Klingsberg article; (starved/beaten) ibid., p. 530–; (Massing/FBI)
PERJ,
p. 176; (consistent with messages in Soviet files)
PERJ,
p. 182–; Weinstein and Vassiliev, op. cit., p. 4–.

Weinstein/NKVD files:
ibid., acknowledgments, p. xv–;
PERJ,
pp. 182–, 204, 325; (ten messages) Weinstein and Vassiliev,
supra.,
pp. 5, 7, 8, 10, 79, 80, 267–; (clear text) ibid., pp. 5, 79–.

Gordievsky:
Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky,
KGB, The Inside Story,
New York: HarperCollins, 1990, pp. 2, 285.

Sudoplatov:
Pavel Sudoplatov and Anatoli Sudoplatov with Jerrold and Leona Schecter,
Special Tasks,
London: Little, Brown, 1994, p. 277–.

Pavlov:
Vitaly Pavlov,
Operation Snow,
Moscow: Goya, 1996, p. 50 of translation supplied to author.

“ALES”:
eds. Robert Benson and Michael Warner,
Venona, Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939–1957,
Washington, D.C.: National Security Agency/CIA, 1996, p. 423; John Haynes and Harvey Klehr,
Venona,
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999, pp. 126–,
170–, 352; Nigel West,
Venona, The Greatest Secret of the Cold War,
London, HarperCollins, 1999, p. 234–;
PERJ,
p. 325–; Weinstein and Vassiliev, op. cit., p. 267–;
NYT,
Oct. 23, 1978.

Weinstein/“NKVD reports”:
(never saw?)
Nation,
May 24, 1999; (deal) Weinstein and Vassiliev, op. cit., pp. xv, xi; (no response) Swan to Weinstein, Jan, 28, Mar. 15, Apr. 13, 1999.

Lowenthal:
ints. John Lowenthal;
Times
[London]
Literary Supplement,
Feb. 7, 1999.

HUAC files sealed:
PERJ,
p. xxiiifn.

VENONA:
(new release) Mar. 20, 1945 message, Washington to Moscow, obtained under Freedom of Information Act and kindly provided to author by John Lowenthal; (1946) eds. Benson and Warner, op. cit., p. xxi and Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
Secrecy,
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, p. 61; (re. Truman) ibid., p. 71; (FBI) ibid., and cf. Robert Lamphere and Tom Shachtman,
The FBI-KGB War,
New York: Random House, 1996; (Donovan provided) ibid., p. 84 & cf.; eds. Benson and Warner, op. cit., p. xviii.

RN paradigm:
(“bullshit!”)
Esquire,
Nov. 1975, p. 152;
PERJ,
p. 492; (Trohan) int. Walter Trohan; (“He developed”) Trohan to Lou Nichols, Jan. 10, 1974, Nichols collection; (RN/judge)
PERJ,
p. 418; (RN/foreman) Levitt, op. cit., p. 116; (“They couldn't”)
JA,
p. 176; (Kennedy)
AOP,
pp. 24–, 28, 234–; (Stevenson)
MO,
pp. 752, 859–; (Vazzana)
Esquire,
Nov. 1975, p. 151; (“I was spending”) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 40–; (pills) ibid.; (“He wouldn't”)
Good Housekeeping,
June 1960; Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 177; (Pat reluctant)
PAT,
p. 101; (“absorption”)
JA,
p. 164; (visits)
MO,
p. 512; RN note to staff, Oct. 6, 1959, VP NA; (“loving care”) Whittaker Chambers,
Cold Friday,
New York: Random House, 1964, p. 57; (“Nixie”) Whittaker Chambers,
Witness,
New York: Random House, 1952, p. 793; (less than loyal) Chambers to Ralph de Toledano, May 12, 1959, in ed. Ralph de Toledano,
Notes from the Underground,
Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1997, p. 317–; (“pity”) Henry Grunwald,
One Man's America,
New York: Doubleday, 1997, p. 280; (“difficult time”)
Saturday Evening Post,
Sept. 6, 1952; (discontent)
PAT
p. 97.

“Whenever a man”:
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations,
London, Oxford University Press, 1974, p. 268.

McCarthy:
(speech) David Oshinsky,
A Conspiracy So Immense,
New York: Free Press, 1983, p. 108, William Manchester,
The Glory and the Dream,
Boston: Little, Brown, 1973, p. 520–; (“Listen, you bastards”) Thomas Reeves,
The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy,
New York: Stein & Day, 1982, p. 233; (RN on McCarthy)
MEM,
p. 149; (“hard core buddies”) int. Bobby Baker; (RN in 1952) Reeves, op. cit., p. 451; Costello, op. cit., p. 274; (Alsop) Alsop, op. cit., p. 151; (Sevareid) Sevareid, op. cit., p. 87; (Cronkite) Walter Cronkite,
A Reporter's Life,
New York: Knopf, 1996, p. 228; (Dewey) Leonard Lurie,
The Running of Richard Nixon,
New York: Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1972, p. 172; (wedding) ed. Toledano,
Notes from the Underground,
op. cit., p. 145; (“McCarthy's a friend”) int. Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker; (at Eisenhower's behest)
MEM,
p. 144; (RN “hatchetman”) Abrahamsen, op. cit., p. 165; int. Roy Cohn by FB, FBP; (Khrushchev) Pierre Salinger,
P.S., A Memoir,
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995, p. 148; (“but anything!”) unpub. journal of James Bassett, supplied by Cynthia Bassett; (RN/censure motion) Manchester, op. cit., p. 718; Oshinsky, op. cit., p. 490 and see
MEM,
p. 148–; (funeral) ibid., p. 506.

Rayburn:
(“next thing to McCarthy”) D. B. Hardeman and Donald Bacon,
Rayburn,
Austin, TX: Texas Monthly Press, 1987, p. 381–; (“ugly fellow”) Alsop, op. cit., p. 30.

Douglas campaign:
(“went for broke”) int. Willard Espy by FB, FBP; (soundings)
MO,
p. 524; (Palmer) int. Paul Ziffren by FB, FBP; (nine backed RN) Parmet, op. cit., p. 190; (no photographs) Mitchell, op. cit., p. 251; (Hearst)
MO,
p. 589; (“letters”) ibid., p. 603; (brand as leftist) ibid., p. 565 and see Gellman, op. cit., p. 298; (Douglas background) ibid., p. 528–; (Chotiner/P.R.) ibid., p. 602; (blimp) notation, Oct. 2, 1952, Box G201 73, DPP; (“prizes galore!!!”) ibid.,
Avant
-
Garde,
Jan. 1968;
The Reporter,
Apr. 19, 1956; (“nothing but pictures”)
MO,
p. 602; (hard sold) ads. preserved in DPP.

smears/dirty tricks:
(“Pink Lady”) Mitchell, op. cit., p. 4; (pink paper)
MO,
p. 581, but see Gellman, op. cit., p. 12; (“purely fortuitous?”) int. John Rothmann and cf. Mitchell, op. cit., p. 141, “Fundamentals of Campaign Organization,” address by Murray Chotiner, Box 6 230, DPP; (flyers dumped) Mitchell, op. cit., p. 230;
MO,
p. 602; (phoney propaganda) Oshinsky, op. cit., p. 177; (pickets)
MO,
pp. 568, 602, 609, 618; (drenching Douglas) ibid., p. 562; Douglas, op. cit., p. 312; (forced off road) Mitchell, op. cit., p. 212; (Douglas pelted)
MO,
p. 603; Douglas, op. cit., p. 334.

Democrats' abuse:
(Tuck) “An Evening with Dick Tuck,” broadcast sound tape, available at some libraries; (Pat complained)
Saturday Evening Post,
Sept. 6, 1952; (overturned car)
MO,
p. 600; (Douglas lash back) Ingrid Scobie,
Center Stage,
New York: Oxford University Press, 1972, p. 280; (evoking fascism)
MO,
p. 600.

“Did you know?”:
MO,
p. 610, Douglas, op. cit., p. 332, but see
New England Journal of History,
Winter 1999/Spring 2000, Vol. 56, p. 24.