The Arrogance of Power (119 page)

Missile Crisis:
(“hedgehog”) London
Evening Standard,
Oct. 30, 1997; (effect on election)
MEM,
p. 244; Witcover, op. cit., p. 31.

'62 Election Day:
(in suite) ibid., p. 13; (“dreary drama”)
MEM,
p. 244; (“haggard”) Klein, op. cit., p. 55; int. Herb Klein; (“Screw them”) Witcover, op. cit., p. 14; (“The hell with”) Hillings with Seelye, op. cit., p. 94; (“no shape”) Klein, op. cit., p. 56; (“hurtling”) Hillings with Seelye, op. cit., p. 94; (Haldeman) Rather and Gates, op. cit., p. 129; (RN speech) reprinted in full; Hill, op. cit., p. 274–.

RN and press '62:
(angry in '60)
TW60,
p. 336; Fletcher Knebel in Minneapolis
Tribune,
undated, Jan. 1961;
U.S. News
&
World Report,
Nov. 26, 1962; (
LA Times
1962) int. Paul Ziffren by
FB, FBP,
American Journalism Review,
Apr. 1997; (not unfair) Klein, op. cit., p. 58; (“ridiculous”) int. Maurice Stans; (“What unnerved”) Hill, op. cit., p. 177.

RN after speech:
(“in the ass”) David, op. cit., p. 124–; Witcover, op. cit., p. 22, citing
Time,
uses “behind” rather than “ass”; (leaves for home) ibid.; (drive by self) Klein, op. cit., p. 372.

RN alcohol election night:
(8th Ave.) int. Jack Langguth; (concluded drink) e.g., James Wrightson, editor Sacramento
Bee,
in eds. Strober,
Nixon,
op. cit., p. 14; int. Richard Bergholz by FB, FBP; (description omitted) Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 18; (“perversely stimulating”) Hill, op. cit., p. 164; (“one or two”) Hillings with Seelye, op. cit., p. 93; Parmet,
Nixon,
op. cit., p. 429; Witcover, op. cit., p. 13; (Ehrlichman) Ehrlichman, op. cit., pp. 21, 17; int. John Ehlrichman in eds. Miller Center, op. cit., p. 121; int. John Ehrlichman.

insomnia:
(long-term) int. Leonard Hall by FB, FBP; (“more tired”)
MEM,
p. 237.

RN/Pat relations '62:
(watching Pat)
McCall's,
Oct. 1972, citing aide Nick Ruwe;
Cronkite,
op. cit., p. 221; (cruise) int. John Ehrlichman; Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 12; (“tension”) int. Ronald Ziegler; (“never forget”) int. Howard Seelye; (“bubbling”) SF
News Call
-
Bulletin,
Sep. 28, 1961; (“weapon”)
Newsweek,
Oct. 29, 1962; (“just stick”) int. Richard Bergholz by FB, FBP; (“Keep mouth shut”) int. Judge Jerry Pacht by FB, FBP.

Pat after election:
(aides preventing) Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 17; (Pat sobbing) Witcover, op. cit., p. 13; (Pat “berserk”) Cheshire, op. cit., p. 112; (return home) Witcover, op. cit., p. 22; (“Oh, Dick” etc.)
PAT,
p. 213.

RN rages:
(“irrational”) int. Robert Finch by FB, FBP; (“deep dark”) Safire, op. cit., p. 364.

Pat temper:
e.g., Alsop, op. cit., p. 59.

“martinis' great”:
1968 presidential aide who requested anonymity.

RN physical abuse:
(Woodward) ints. Bob Woodward and also Carl Bernstein, David Obst; (Hersh) convs. Seymour Hersh, transcripts Hersh int. on NBC
Today
and CNBC
Hardball,
June 23, 1998; (Brown) transcript of int. Pat Brown by FB, FBP; (Cullen) int. Frank Cullen; (van Petten) int./corr. Jon Ewing and re. Van Petten career, corr. Tom Wolfe; (Ehrlichman on RN drink) Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 21–; ints. John Ehrlichman and int. John Ehrlichman in eds. Miller Center, op. cit., p. 121–; (Sears) ints. John Sears; (background) Garment, op. cit., pp. 107, 113; Wise,
Police State,
op. cit., p. 56–; Susan Trento,
The Power House,
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992, p. 72; Safire, op. cit., p. 167; (Taylor background, not re. beating) int. Waller Taylor III; (Taylor father—Reese) see Reese and Waller Taylor files, Series 320, VP, NA and Dennis Effle report to author, July 18, 1996; (service station) Winter-Berger, op. cit., p. 247; (Bohemian Grove) RN to Reese Taylor, July 31, 1961, corr. files, Series 320, VP, NA; (Segretti) Waller Taylor to RN, May 26; Finch to Waller Taylor, May 29, 1959, corr. files, Series 320, VP, NA; ('60 Convention) Waller Taylor to RN, July 11; RN to Taylor, July 22, 1960, corr. files, Series 320, VP, NA; (“He knows Pat”) int. Lou Cannon by FB, FBP; (psychologist/abuse) int. and corr. Gaye Humphries, counseling psychologist, formerly with Irish Defense Forces.

RN/trousers:
int. Sarah McClendon and see
Parade,
Oct. 31, 1971.

“more reserved”:
NYT
magazine, May 13, 1962.

“mother lay”:
PAT,
p. 214.

“sadness for years”:
ibid., p. 216.

divorce?:
int. Arnholt Smith and int. John Sears.

depression/impotence?:
(Bassett) notes and transcript of int. Bassett friends, Paul and Mickey Ziffren by FB, FBP,
FB,
p. 331; (RN observed) Harriet Van Horne column, New York
Post,
Nov. 15, 1968 and see Woodstone, op. cit., p. 8; (Hutschnecker) ints. Arnold Hutschnecker.

Woods/dinner:
int. James Bassett by FB, FBP; (just “kind of thing”) int. Nancy Chotiner.

RN finished?:
(Eisenhower) int. Leonard Hall by FB, FBP; (
Time
) Witcover, op. cit., p. 25; (“unelected”)
NYT,
Nov. 9, 1962; (“shot down”) int. Bryce Harlow in eds. Miller Center, op. cit., p. 7; (JFK gloated) Parmet,
Nixon,
op. cit., p. 437; (JFK/Brown)
SF Examiner,
Dec. 6, 1998 citing JFK/Brown taped call, JFKL, released 1998; (JFK: “nobody . . .”) Bradlee, op. cit., p. 32n; (RN/Graham) Graham, op. cit., p. 443; (Chotiner)
SF Examiner,
Nov. 24, 1962.

Pat griping:
Witcover, op. cit., p. 41.

$4 billion:
PAT,
p. 61.

“I was accused”:
Nixon,
Arena,
op. cit., pp. 36–, 122.

Paradise Island:
(background) Lisa Gubernick,
Squandered Fortune,
New York: Putnam, 1991, p. 124–; Paul Albury,
Paradise Island Story,
London: Macmillan, 1984, p. 94–; Gigi Mahon,
The Company That Bought the Boardwalk,
New York: Random House, 1980, p. 27; Alan Block,
Masters of Paradise,
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1991, p. 61–; (“Meyer's Island”) Nassau
Guardian,
Feb. 16, 1978 citing Vincent Teresa deposition; (RN arrival '62) Nassau Weekend
Guardian,
Nov. 17/18, 1962, Witcover, op. cit., p. 36–; (Davies) ibid.; ints. Huntington Hartford and (former wife) Diane Hartford; (not charged) Denny Walsh article,
NYT,
Jan.
21, 1974; (RN family arrive)
MEM,
p. 247, Nassau
Daily Tribune,
Nov. 28, 1962; (Paar) Paar, op. cit., p. 132; (“morose”) int. Seymour Alter;
NYT,
Jan. 21, 1974; (cigarette box) ibid.; (‘67 visits) London
Daily Mail,
Jan. 8, 1968;
Look,
Apr. 2, 1968; DP column, undated (Oct. ?),1968; Gubernick, op. cit., p. 176.

Island take-over:
(Crosby/Davis) Nassau
Tribune,
Dec. 14, 1968; (Lansky meeting) Gubernick, op. cit., p. 170–; Block, op. cit., p. 43; (bribe/exemption) “Masters of Paradise Island: Organized Crime, Neo-Colonialism & the Bahamas” by Alan Block and Patricia Klausner in
Dialectical Anthroplogy,
Vol. 12, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987, p. 92, citing “Report to Control Commission with Reference to the Casino License Application of Resorts International Hotel, Inc., Vol 3, (1978), p. 15, and Report of Commission of Inquiry into the Operation of the Business of Casinos in Freeport & Nassau, Nassau, 1967, pp. 20, 102; Henry Petersen to Fred Vinson, Mar. 24, 1967, citing Louis Chesler, admission to Peloquin, Messick Papers, Alan Block Collection; (informant on cheating) IFB report, Nov. 9, 1964, Phelps No. 92-2831, File 92–102, Justice Dept. Org. Crime & Racketeering Section, Block Collection; (Peters trailed)
Saturday Evening Post,
Feb. 25, 1967; (been cartons) Miami
Herald,
Apr. 12, 1967; (Hartford furious) Gubernick, op. cit., p. 156 and see 153–; Block, op. cit., p. 62–; Mahon, op. cit., p. 65; (license in 1966)
Dialetical Anthropology, supra.
, p. 94; Mahon, op. cit., p. 68–; (Groves) Block, op. cit., pp. 27–, 34–; Mahon, op. cit., p. 60–;
Saturday Evening Post,
Feb. 25, 1967.

Crosby:
(background)
Manhattan, Inc.
, Feb. 1987; (Groves/
Life
)
NYT,
Jan. 17, 1979; (real estate project) Mahon, op. cit., p. 208–; (“The funds amassed”) Block, op. cit., p. 81; (Fiduciary Trust) ibid., p. 82–; (Enforcement Div. opposed)
Barrons,
Sept. 26, 1977,
Manhattan, Inc.
, Feb. 1987;
Hollywood Reporter,
Dec. 5, 1978;
Wall St. Journal,
May 22, 1970, p. 15.

“ripe for skim”:
Block, op. cit., p. 70.

Cellini:
(Director) company bio., Resorts International stockholder's report, 1967, Block Collection; (banned/removed)
NYT,
Jan. 17, 1979, [Brunswick, NJ]
Home News,
Jan. 24, 1979; (claimed innocent)
Dialectical Anthroplogy, supra.
, p. 96;
Bergen County Record,
Oct. 14, 1976; Las Vegas
Sun,
Mar. 21, 1971, Mahon, op. cit., p. 86; (Eddie Cellini/Cuba/Kentucky) CIA Inspector General's Report on Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro, op. cit., p. 30; Messick,
Lansky,
op. cit., p. 217;
Dialectical Anthropology, supra.
, p. 96; Jerry Shields,
The Invisible Millionaire,
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986, p. 226; Hank Messick,
Secret File,
New York: Putnam, 1969, p. 323–; [Brunswick, NJ]
Home News,
Jan. 24, 1979.

Lansky/Dino Cellini indictment:
Jeff Gerth article,
Penthouse,
July 1974.

Teresa:
(testified) Perm. Subcttee. on Investigations, Cttee on Gov. Ops., 92nd Cong., 1st Sess., U.S. Sen., Hearings on Organized Crime (Stolen Securities), July 27, 1971, p. 814; Nassau
Guardian,
citing Jan. 31, 1978 testimony in
Resorts International Inc., v. Straight Arrow Publishers Inc.,
U.S. Dist. Court, S. Dist. of Florida, No. 76144551-CIV-WMH, and see Teresa and Renner, op. cit., p. 222; (inspector) Ray Clark, cited in undated memo, 1973, Warren Adams to John Sablich of Fidelifacts; (corporate investigators for plaintiff Huntington Hartford in suit v. James Crosby, Resorts International, et al), supplied to author, p. 536; (FBI agent) Frank Smith, cited in memo Dec. 10, 1973, John Sablich to Mr. Moerdler, ibid., p. 583.

Skyjector:
Mahon, op. cit., p. 55.

Chesler:
Jeff Gerth article,
Sundance,
Nov./Dec., 1972; Blumenthal & Yazijian, op. cit., p. 139.

Alter:
(“old Lansky man”) Smith cited in memo, Dec. 10, 1973, John Sablich to Mr. Moerdler, Fidelifacts report,
supra.
, p. 584; (Block) Block, op. cit., p. 61; (Alter/Lansky) ibid., pp. 62, 78n16; Miami
Herald,
Mar. 20, 1976; (officials oppose)
NYT,
Sept. 2, 1979; (violations/bribery) NY State Liquor Authority docs., transcript of Alter grand jury testimony, 1962, all in Block Collection;
NYT,
Dec. 13, 1978, Feb. 18, Sept. 2, 1979 and Block, op. cit., p. 61; Gubernick, op. cit., p. 172; Mahon, op. cit., p. 231–; (RN/Rebozo relations)
NYT,
Jan. 21, 1974; int. Seymour Alter; (“Treat well”) Judith Denny memo to files on DeBoer int., Aug. 15, 1975, Box 98, WSPF, NA.

RN and Paradise Island:
(“in on negotiations”) Frank Smith cited in memo, Dec. 10, 1973, John Sablich to Mr. Moerdler, Fidelifacts report,
supra.
, p. 586; (RN/Crosby $100,000) int. Seymour Alter,
NYT,
Jan. 21, 1974; (RN/benefactor dine) Nassau
Tribune,
June 11, 1968; (Cosa Grande) Nevada State
Journal,
Oct. 31, 1968; undated memo, Warren Adams to John Sablich, Fidelifacts report,
supra.
, p. 545; (Crosby Wh. House)
HD,
p. 25;
Barrons,
Sept. 26, 1977; (Golden background) memos Jim Rowe to Scott Armstrong, Oct. 17, 1973; Armstrong to Terry Lenzner, Oct. 22, 1973; Sen. Int. memo folder 807, Box 101, WSPF; Nassau
Tribune,
Aug. 8, 1969, Resorts International stockholder's report, (1969?), Block Collection; (close to RN) Frank Smith cited in memo, Dec. 10, 1973, John Sablich to Mr. Moerdler, Fidelifacts report,
supra.,
p. 588; (“Nixon's man”)
Rolling Stone,
May 20, 1976; (Ehrlichman) int. John Ehrlichman; Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 52; (S.S. advice)
Barrons,
Sept. 26, 1977; (“significant investment”) London
Daily Mail,
Jan. 8, 1968.

“giving the shaft”:
Moldea,
Interference,
op. cit., p. 174.

Paradise Island Bridge:
(suit) Nassau
Tribune,
Oct. 9, 1973; Gubernick, op. cit., p. 210; (Bridge facts) Nassau
Tribune,
Jan. 27, 1966, Oct. 9, 1973, Aug. 31, 1984; (percentages) IRS informant Sally Woodruff, wife of Ed Woodruff, text,
supra;
report on Sy Alter, P.I. Bridge Co., Ltd., p. 4, Block Collection; (“reason to believe”) Nassau
Tribune,
Oct. 9, 1973; (RN Swiss deposits?) Moldea,
Interference,
op. cit., p. 458n6 and convs./corr. Dan Moldea; (Crosby denied) Mahon, op. cit., p. 50; (Smith) cited in memo, Dec. 10, 1973; John Sablich to Mr. Moerdler, Fidelifacts report,
supra.,
pp. 578, 586–; (Butler background) Block, op. cit., pp. 141–, 157n24 and 37, Hutchison, op. cit., refs.; (Butler/bridge) ibid., p. 281–; Hougan,
Spooks,
op. cit., p. 180; (Mitchell) int./corr. Jim Hougan, investigative journalist who conducted interview.