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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 THIRTEEN: VIOLENCE
274 “Has violence become”: Newsweek, June 24, 1968; Time, June 21, 1968. “The country does not work”: J. Hoberman, The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties (New York: New Press, 2003), 353.
274 “Life in this society being”: Valerie Solanas, The SCUM Manifesto (New York: Verso, 2004).
274 Truman Capote went on NBC’s: “Ray’s Odd Odyssey,” Time, June 21, 1968. In a cover essay in Life: Hoberman, Dream Life. Said William F. Buckley: Michael Flamm, Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), 153.
275 The countercultural journalist: Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 (New York: Popular Library, 1973), 140.
275 Thomas Kuchel versus Max Rafferty: USNWR, November 28, 1967; “The California Textbook Fight,” Atlantic Monthly, November 1967; “Max Rafferty: Gadfly on the Rump of Education,” Atlantic Monthly, December 1967; John Hope Franklin, Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), 230; “Max Rafferty Is Not a Mad Messiah of the Right—He Is More Disturbing Than That,” NYTM, September 1, 1968; obituary of David Shaw, LAT, August 2, 2005; Leon Panetta interview; Nixon to Reagan, June 14, 1966, and “RMN call Sandy Quinn,” June 16, 1966, RNLB, 501.1; Sandy Quinn to Rose Mary Woods, RNLB, 501.1.1–10; “Suggested for Senator Kuchel” and accompanying documents, October 1966, RNLB 501.1.8; Evans and Novak column, WP, June 11, 1966.
277 An intellectually ambitious memo: Robert Mason, Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 48.
277 Nixon groped toward giving: William Safire, Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House (New York: Ballantine, 1977), 49.
278 This story of a “silenced” majority: The Green Berets (Ray Kelly and John Wayne, dir., 1968); Hoberman, Dream Life, 145, 207–9.
278 Enemy atrocities in news reports”: Daniel C. Hallen, The “Uncensored” War: The Media and the Vietnam War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 155. Her review was the subject of a peroration: Peter B. Levy, ed., America in the Sixties—Left, Right, and Center: A Documentary History (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998), 193.
279 “one Dr. Spock is more dangerous”: Thomas Maier, Dr. Spock: An American Life (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 294. Boston 5 trial: Tom Wells, The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 233–34, 269, 308.
280 On May 13, 112 Americans died: http://www.viethero.us/Wall/panel.htm. An American delegation in Paris: Hoberman, Dream Life, 202. The next week, students overran Paris: Ibid.; Jane Fonda, My Life So Far (New York: Random House, 2005), 200.
280 Marcuse: Herbert’s Hippopotamus (dir. Paul Alexander Juutilainen, 1996), http://www
.marcuse.org/herbert/soundvideo/herbhippo.htm.
281 “Is Dr. Spock to Blame?”: Newsweek, September 23, 1968.
281 Like the parents, for example: Steven V. Roberts, “Leader of S.D.S. Unit: From New Jersey Suburb to the Picket Lines,” NYT, May 19, 1968.
281 “Ron honestly believes”: Lou Cannon, Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power (New York: Public Affairs, 2005), 259.
281 His governorship was floundering: Ibid., 179–200. Meanwhile a cabal of aides: Ibid., 238–51. “Can anyone tell me”: Ibid., 228.
282 Nixon did it twice: F. Clifton White and William J. Gill, Why Reagan Won (Washington: Regnery Gateway, 1981), 85.
282 White explained it to Reagan: F. Clifton White, Politics as a Noble Calling: The Memoirs of F. Clifton White (Ottawa, IL: Jameson Books, 1994).
283 So he went back on the road: Jules Witcover, The Resurrection of Richard Nixon (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970), 306.
283 Nixon in Atlanta:Jack Bass and Marilyn Thompson, Ol’ Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond (Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1998), 224; Arjen Westerhoff, “Politics of Protest: Strom Thurmond and the Development of the Republican Southern Strategy, 1948–1972” (M.A. thesis, American Studies Program, Smith College, 1991); White and Gill, Why Reagan Won, 108; Harry Dent, The Prodigal South Returns to Power (New York: Wiley, 1978); Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 309; Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 64.
283 A unanimous Supreme Court decision: Green v. County School Board of New Kent County, 391 U.S.430.
284 Senator Thurmond had just released: Bass and Thompson, Ol’ Strom, 210.
285 “From what I’ve read”: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 320.
285 Abe Fortas confirmation hearings: Laura Kalman, Abe Fortas: A Biography (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), 338–54.
288 “In an age in which the Playboy philosophy”: Levy, ed., America in the Sixties; Beth Baley, “Sexual Revolution(s),” in David Farber, ed., The Sixties: From Memory to History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), 235–62.
289 “Where law and order stops”: Maier, Dr. Spock, 315.
289 The first insisted they were neither: David Farber, Chicago ’68 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 1–6.
289 Rubin was from Cincinnati: Anthony Lukas, Don’t Shoot—We Are Your Children! (New York: Random House, 1971), 322–69.
290 Which was precisely their point: Michael William Doyle, “Staging the Revolution: Guerrilla Theater as a Countercultural Practice, 1965–68,” in Peter Braunstein and Doyle, eds., Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s (New York: Routledge, 2001), 71–97. New Left journalist Robert Scheer: Hoberman, Dream Life, 205–6. “Those who grew up before the 1950s”: Farber, Chicago ’68, 220. “You need three hundred pages”: Ibid., 215–16.
290 “We will create our own reality”: Ibid., 17.
290 In New York, the Lindsay administration: Vincent J. Cannato, The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and the Battle to Save New York (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 221.
291 They hosted a “Yip-in”: Farber, Chicago ’68, 30–32.
291 The other faction: Farber, Chicago ’68, 71–101.
292 A third faction: Ibid., 101–10.
292 The City of Chicago: Ibid., 122, 157, 146.
293 Cleveland ambush: “The Overshadowing Issue,” Time, August 2, 1968; “This One Was Planned,” Ibid.
294 New York firemen: Connato, Ungovernable City, 138.
294 “Outside of the visible return”: Carter, Politics of Rage, 334.
294 The National Governors’ Conference: Time, “The Overshadowing Issue.” Dick, How can I: Shadegg, Winning’s a Lot More Fun, 196. Lester Maddox bumped: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 323.