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ABBREVIATIONS
BPP: Berrigan Brothers Papers, Cornell University Special Collections, Ithaca, New York
CDN: Chicago Daily News
CT: Chicago Tribune
LAT: Los Angeles Times
LBJCR: “Civil Rights During the Johnson Administration, 1963–1969: A collection from the holdings of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Texas” (microfilm)
MIP: Files on the events of 1970 collected by Maurice Isserman, in possession of author
MTR: Museum of Television and Radio, New York City
NLT: Nixon Library Tapes transcribed by author, National Archives, College Park, Maryland
NYDN: New York Daily News
NYT: New York Times
NYTM: New York Times Magazine
PDP: Paul Douglas Papers, Chicago History Museum
PDP722: Douglas Papers, Part I, Box 722, 1966 folder
PPP: Public Papers of the Presidents
RNLB: Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, Yorba Linda, California
USNWR: U.S. News & World Report
WP: Washington Post
WSJ: Wall Street Journal
CHAPTER TEN: IN WHICH A CRUISE SHIP FULL OF GOVERNORS INSPIRES CONSIDERATIONS ON THE NATURE OF OLD AND NEW POLITICS
200 Nixon’s travels: Raymond Price, With Nixon (New York: Viking, 1977), 20–28; ]Jules Witcover, The Resurrection of Richard Nixon (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970), 192–94](http://books.google.com/books?ei=UttBSJXMEYKejgGN-5zjBg&id=D2pCAAAAIAAJ&dq=resurrection+of+Richard+Nixon&q=Ceaucescu&pgis=1).
201 Gaylord Parkinson had proven a disappointment: Ibid., 207; Stephen C. Shadegg, Winning’s a Lot More Fun (New York: Macmillan, 1969), 106–7.
201 “They don’t vote”: Price, With Nixon, 25.
201 “Often, what the leaders told him”: Ibid., 24.
201 “Asia After Viet Nam”: Ibid., 37; Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 195, 217; Foreign Affairs 46, no. 1 (October 1967).
202 “What Has Happened to America?”: Reader’s Digest, October 1967; Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 218.
202 “It’s gettin’ nowadays that a policeman”: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 218.
203 Canceled Time story: William Safire, Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House (New York: Ballantine, 1977), 46.
203 Nixon strategy for winning delegates: Shadegg, Winning’s a Lot More Fun, 106–7.
203 John Mitchell and Jarris Leonard: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 209.
204 George Romney and “brainwashing”: Shadegg, Winning’s a Lot More Fun, 100; Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 213.
204 “One moment he’s the front-runner”: Richard Whalen, Catch the Falling Flag: A Republican’s Challenge to His Party (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972), 24.
205 Westmoreland’s troop increase request: Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961–1973 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999); Tom Wells, The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 150, 294; Christian Appy, Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993), 36; A. J. Langguth, Our Vietnam: The War, 1954–1975 (New York: Touchstone, 2000), 444–47.
205 Tip O’Neill to the president:Steven M. Gillon, Politics and Vision: The ADA and American Liberalism, 1947–1985 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 299. The fact that only 1.5 percent of reservists: Appy, Working-Class War, 36.
205 In late July, for the first time: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 474. “American officers talk somberly”: Ibid. “I frankly am lukewarm”: Mary Hershberger, Jane Fonda’s War: A Political Biography of an Antiwar Icon (New York: New Press, 2005), 7. Chuck Percy wondered why: Michael Flamm, Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), 114. And Kentucky’s Republican senator: Whalen, Catch the Falling Flag, 31. The fiscal year ended with the worst deficit: Shadegg, Winning’s a Lot More Fun, 83.
206 Defense Secretary McNamara wrote to the president: “Draft Memorandum from Secretary of Defense McNamara to President Johnson,” May 19, 1967, http://www.state
.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/v/13148.htm. forty-seven thousand more soldiers: Langguth, Our Vietnam, 447.
206 South Vietnamese election: Ibid., 455; “U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote,” NYT, September 4, 1967; “A Stake Worth Fighting For,” Time, November 10, 1967. “I have only one—Hitler”: “Premier Ky, in Saigon, Denies That He Called Hitler His Hero,” NYT, July 16, 1965.
206 6,721 American soldiers had died: “Cost of Commitment,” Time, September 27, 1967. a typical story was about the beloved mess cook: “No Ordinary Man,” Reader’s Digest, July 1967. Indianapolis Star editorial in same issue.
206 Readers of the prestige press: Harrison Salisbury, Behind the Lines: Hanoi, December 23, 1966–January 7, 1967 (New York: HarperCollins, 1967); Jonathan Schell, The Village of Ben Suc (New York: Knopf, 1967); “Vietnam in Print,” Time, November 17, 1967.
207 It was confusing: “The Sobering Truth About the War,” Reader’s Digest, October 1967. Over a quarter found the war: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 462. George McGovern subsequently wrote: Robert Sam Anson, McGovern: A Biography (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972), 165.
207 Citizens’ Committee for Peace with Freedom in Vietnam: Wells, War Within, 148–49; “Voice from the Silent Center,” Time, November 3, 1967; Whalen, Catch the Falling Flag, 33.
207 Letters to the editor: Time, November 17 and 24, 1967.
207 An undersecretary of agriculture who visited Kansas: Wells, War Within, 147.
208 Jimi Hendrix called it: Charles Shaar Murray, Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Post-War Rock’n’Roll Revolution (New York: St. Martin’s, 1991), 161. One bestseller at Ivy League bookstores: Wills, Second Civil War, 7. The White House considered ending: Wells, War Within, 144–45. High school underground newspapers: “Freedom Underground,” Time, March 31, 1967.
208 “One basic plot only has appeared daily”: Ben Hecht, Child of the Century, 469.
209 Bonnie and Clyde: J. Hoberman, The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties (New York: New Press, 2003), 157–58, 168, 172, 422; “The New Cinema: Violence . . . Sex . . . Art,” Time, December 8, 1967. See the impassioned letters pro and con in Time, December 15, 1967, and December 22, 1967.
210 National Mobilization Committee to End the War: David Farber, Chicago ’68 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 60–68.
211 “young men with menopausal minds”: Peter Braunstein and Michael William Doyle, eds., Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s (New York: Routledge, 2001), 69.
211 National Conference for a New Politics: Renata Adler, Toward a Radical Middle: Fourteen Pieces of Reporting and Criticism (New York: Random House, 1969), 239–59.
212 George Meany on “silent majority”: Jeremy Varon, Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), 147. Al Capp on “Joanie Phoanie”: “Which One Is the Phoanie?” Time, January 20, 1967. “On January 5, 1967, Vietcong terrorists”: “Who Speaks for the Civilian Dead in South Vietnam?” USNWR, January 16, 1967. Mission: Impossible: TV listings, Time, March 4, 1967.
212 Joan Didion published an essay: Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968).
212 The NYPD maintained a twenty-man: William McGowan, “Dan Ran the Hippie Squad,” WSJ, June 17, 2005. The New York Times’s J. Anthony Lukas: “The Two Worlds of Linda Fitzpatrick,” NYT, October 16, 1967; J. Anthony Lukas, Don’t Shoot, We Are Your Children (New York: Random House, 1971), 158–89.
213 “Don’t vote. Don’t politic”: Braunstein and Doyle, eds., Imagine Nation, 50. World leaders would “banish war”: Life, June 9, 1967. When Bobby Kennedy spoke: Arthur Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), 824; Robert F. Kennedy, To Seek a Newer World, 4.
213 Antiwar movement rumors: Wells, War Within, 159. “We are working to build a guerrilla”: “The New Left Turns to Mood of Violence in Place of Protest,” NYT, May 7, 1967.
214 Oakland Induction Center: Hugh Pearson, Shadow of a Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1994), 144; Hoberman, Dream Life, 179; Wells, War Within, 172-73.
214 Dow protests: “Ire Against Fire,” Time, November 3, 1967. “Murderers,” movement leaders were now intoning: Wells, War Within, 126. At Southwest Texas State College: Richmond News Leader, October 20, 1967.
214 Pentagon march: Wills, Second Civil War, 138, 195–201; Langguth, Our Vietnam, 459; Hoberman, Dream Life, 179–80; Abbie Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It (New York: Pocket Books, 1970), 42; “Protest! Protest! Protest!” Time, October 27, 1967; Thomas Maier, Dr. Spock: An American Life (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 293; Julius Lester, Revolutionary Notes (New York: Grove Press, 1970), 31–33; Norman Mailer, Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (New York: Signet, 1968).
216 The president was once again sure Moscow: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 489. He now thought Vietnam a colossal blunder: Langguth, Our Vietnam, 461. Dean Rusk, on the other hand: “Counterattack,” Time, October 20, 1967.
216 Contending rumors: “The Morning After,” Time, November 3, 1967. The next week, at Indiana University, Dean Rusk: Ibid. “Get ready for a big event”: Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It, 46.
216 Governors’ conference: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 218–21; Shadegg, Winning’s a Lot More Fun, 101; “Anchors Away,” Time, October 20, 1967; “In Unpath’d Waters,” Time, October 27, 1967.
217 “His mouth tells you no!”: “The Temper of the Times,” Time, April 14, 1967.
218 Americans for Democratic Action board meeting: Gillon, Politics and Vision, 195; Lewis Chester, Bruce Page, and Godfrey Hodgson, American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968 (New York: Viking, 1969), 64.
219 “One cannot speak of Black Power”: Gillon, Politics and Vision, 199–200.
219 “If we have LBJ for another four years”: Chester, Page, and Hodgson, American Melodrama, 115; Jeff Shesol, Mutual Contempt: Robert Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and the Feud That Defined a Decade (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), 415.
219 They ran the Dump Johnson movement: Chester, Page, and Hodgson, American Melodrama, 62–67; Gillon, Politics and Vision, 201. “Why am I in politics”: Theodore H. White, The Making of the President 1972 (New York: Atheneum, 1973), xiv.
219 Median age of voters by 1970: CQ Political Notes, October 14, 1966.
220 “He’s a Happening”: New Republic, April 2, 1966. “There is a strange psychic connection”: Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 (New York: Popular Library, 1973), 140.
220 Eldridge Cleaver, the Black Panther Party’s: Don A. Schanche, The Panther Paradox: A Liberal’s Dilemma (New York: D. McKay Co., 1970), 27. BOBBY KENNEDY—HAWK, DOVE, OR CHICKEN?: Shesol, Mutual Contempt, 403; Chester, Page, and Hodgson, American Melodrama, 116.
221 beating LBJ 52– 32: WP, October 1, 1967; Arthur Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), 822. “Intensely disliked” poll: Shesol, Mutual Contempt, 467. “Those New Frontier cats”: Chester, Page, and Hodgson, American Melodrama, 111.
221 In March 1967, as Ethel Kennedy: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 454. sworn affidavits: “The Temper of the Times,” Time, April 14, 1967. “How can we possibly survive”: Shesol, Mutual Contempt, 297. Then, in June, he made a florid: Ibid., 297, 415.
221 “the war in Vietnam is poisoning”: Margot A. Henriksen, Dr. Strangelove’s America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 364.
221 Only Eugene McCarthy: Chester, Page, and Hodgson, American Melodrama, 67. McCarthy generally: Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 28; Shadegg, Winning’s a Lot More Fun, 127; Chester, Page, and Hodgson, American Melodrama, 68–70, 73, 78, 183; Michael Barone, Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan (New York: Free Press, 1990), 429.
222 Meeting at Kennedy mansion: Chester, Page, and Hodgson, American Melodrama, 64, 89–91; Shesol, Mutual Contempt, 400.
223 “I have guarded your children well”: “Louise Day Hicks Dies at 87,” NYT, October 23, 2003.
223 On Hicks, Operation Exodus, confrontation with Cardinal Cushing, and Newsweek, see Charles Sumner Brown, “Negro Protest and White Power Structure: The Boston School Controversy, 1963–1966” (Ph.D. diss., Boston University, 1973).
223 George Wallace Woodley Country Club meeting: Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origin of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996), 294; Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 184. Wallace in governor’s chair: Ibid., 198. In spring he once more toured: CT, May 15, 1967.
224 In November he made a six-city tour: “Into the Silks,” Time, November 14, 1967. California tour: Carter, Politics of Rage, 313–14.
224 A memo from General Lewis B. Hershey: Time, December 15, 1967, December 29, 1967. A single called “An Open Letter”: Cash Box Top 100 Singles, December 9, 1967, http://members.aol.com/hta/randypny2/cashbox/19671209.html.
225 Eugene McCarthy announced: “A Voice for Dissent,” Time, December 8, 1967.
225 Rusk protest: Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It, 49.
225 Westmoreland in United States: Langguth, Our Vietnam, 467. Time argued victory was imminent: “Border Troubles,” November 17, 1967; “Progress,” November 24, 1967; “Suicidal Intensity,” December 8, 1967; “ARVN: Toward Fighting Trim,” January 5, 1967; “Future Indicative,” January 12, 1968.
225 Time opined, too: “The Real Black Power,” Time, November 17, 1967; “A Marriage of Enlightenment,” Time, September 29, 1967. “With God’s help, this will be the end”: Bob Hope: The Vietnam Years, 1967–1969, vol. 2 (Hope Enterprises, 2004). A White House pollster exulted: Flamm, Law and Order, 103.