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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 FOURTEEN:
FROM MIAMI TO THE SIEGE OF CHICAGO
295 Miami riots: http://digital.library.miami.edu/gov/MiamiReport.html. “That could have been me talking”: Miami Herald, April 18, 1968.
295 “Can It Happen Again?”: Newsweek, July 22, 1968.
295 “We must reject the idea”: F. Clifton White and William J. Gill, Why Reagan Won (Washington: Regnery Gateway, 1981), 118; Jules Witcover, The Resurrection of Richard Nixon (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970), 338.
295 John Lindsay testified: Ibid., 326–27. Nixon in Montauk: Ibid., 327.
295 Monday morning, August 5: “Debray: A Jail Interview,” NYT, August 5, 1968; “Nixon Said to Want Rockefeller, Lindsay, or Percy for 2d Place,” NYT, August 5, 1968.
296 “a few secret kingmakers in New York”: Phyllis Schlafly, A Choice, Not an Echo (Alton, IL: Pere Marquette Press, 1964). “The double cross is on”: Jack Bass and Marilyn Thompson, Ol’ Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond (Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1998), 226. You couldn’t turn around without: Lee Edwards interview.
296 Archbishop of Miami: Republican National Committee, Official Proceedings of the Republican National Convention.
296 John Wayne: Ibid.
296 Nixon’s Kevin Phillips: Joe McGinniss, The Selling of the President (New York: Penguin, 1970), 123.
296 At 4 p.m., Reagan returned: White and Gill, Why Reagan Won, 117.
296 Reaction to Reagan announcement: Bass and Thompson, Ol’ Strom, 226; Stephen C. Shadegg, Winning’s a Lot More Fun (New York: Macmillan, 1969), 200.
297 The favorite sons: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 342.
297 Nixon arrived at Miami International: Ibid., 339.
297 Nixon forced himself to maintain a smile: Bass and Thompson, Ol’ Strom, 225.
297 Nixon motorcaded: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 340.
297 At the evening session: RNC, Official Proceedings. The action was in the parking lot: White and Gill, Why Reagan Won, 119.
298 “Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you”: RNC, Official Proceedings.
298 The anchormen in the broadcast booths: Shadegg, Winning’s a Lot More Fun, 202.
298 Mitchell, Dent, and Thurmond meeting: Bass and Thompson, Ol’ Strom, 227.
298 Nixon suite: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 341.
298 the old Wall Street crew found themselves: Leonard Garment, Crazy Rhythm: From Brooklyn and Jazz to Nixon’s White House, Watergate, and Beyond (New York: Crown, 1997), 126.
298 Dent would speak to them first: Ibid., 344.
299 Thurmond extracted a promise: 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); Bass and Thompson, Ol’ Strom, 228.
299 Tuesday morning’s newspapers: NYT, August 6, 1968; CT, August 6, 1968. Reagan and Thurmond had a meeting: White and Gill, Why Reagan Won, 123; Bass and Thompson, Ol’ Strom, 230.
299 At the second, the Miami Herald: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 342–44.
300 “War Between the States”: Fawn Brodie, Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character (New York: W. W Norton, 1981), 256.
300 An interminable train of Republican congressmen: “Experts Tutor 7 for TV Speeches,” CT, August 7, 1968.&edition=&startpage=7&desc=Experts+Tutor+7+for+TV+Speeches%2C+but...)
300 Rockefeller’s manager, Leonard Hall: White and Gill, Why Reagan Won, 112.
301 “We only have one option left”: Ibid., 125.
301 “Hatfield Veep Pick”: Bass and Thompson, Ol’ Strom, 230.
301 The Herald’s Don Oberdorfer was wandering: Ibid., 230; White and Gill, Why Reagan Won, 126; Don Oberdorfer interview.
301 Nixon sat far from anyone else: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 347.
301 Delegate totals:RNC, Official Proceedings.
301 In the Reagan trailer, Clif White’s: White and Gill, Why Reagan Won, 128.
302 In New York, an aged liberal: Robert H. Barnes, Harry Elmer Barnes as I Knew Him (Worland, WY: High Plains Publishing Company, 1994), 116.](http://books.google.com/books?id=x_Y9AAAACAAJ&dq=Harry+Elmer+Barnes+as+I+Knew+Him&ei=s7tOSLRVj9qKAaj40eUN)
302 To choose a running mate: Jules Witcover, No Way to Pick a President (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999), 204.
302 The first “consultative” meeting: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 352.
302 Nixon called in the next group: Ibid., 353.
302 Nixon went down to the Hilton ballroom: Ibid., 355.
302 Spiro Agnew biography: Jules Witcover, White Knight: The Rise of Spiro Agnew (New York: Random House, 1972); “The Athenian Touch,” Time, April 7, 1967.
304 “I stand here”: RNC, Official Proceedings.
304 Pat Buchanan would later write: Jonathan Schell, The Time of Illusion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), 279. Not many people had been watching: “TV: Politics Fails to Lure Viewers from Adventure,” NYT, August 7, 1968.
30 Nixon acceptance speech: PPP (no document number), August 8, 1968.
305 the serial killer of nurses, Richard Speck: USNWR, July 25, 1966. “There is no end to the ghastly”: Ramparts, July 1966. “The world is sick”: Time, April 7, 1967. See also William Fulbright, “The Price of Empire,” esp. section 2, “A Sick Society,” http://web.utk.edu/~mfitzge1/docs/374/POE1967.pdf; and “The Great Society Is a Sick Society,” NYTM, August 20, 1967. Three British journalists: Lewis Chester, Bruce Page, and Godfrey Hodgson, American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968 (New York: Viking, 1969), 286.
306 Washington Star on Ramsey Clark: Reader’s Digest, October 1967.
307 He told Bill Safire: Fawn Brodie, Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981), 117, 457.
307 William Lynch, Mayor Daley’s: John Schultz, No One Was Killed: Convention Week, Chicago—August 1968 (Chicago: Big Table Publishing Co., 1989), 4; Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor, American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the Nation (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000), 75, 469–70. Mayor Daley’s pleased reaction: “Daley Blasts Supression of Czechs,” CT, August 23, 1968&edition=&startpage=11&desc=DALEY+BLASTS+%27SUPPRESSION%27+OF+THE+CZECHS); David Farber, Chicago ’68 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 248–49.
307 “Snake dancing” was a maneuver: Schultz, No One Was Killed, 78; see also the film Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler, dir., 1969). Downtown in Civic Center Plaza: Lewis Z. Koch interview; Schultz, No One Was Killed, 49.
307 Thursday night at 11 p.m.: Ibid., 49, 79.
308 Contentious hearings drew: Ibid., 32; Theodore H. White, Making of the President 1968 (New York: Atheneum, 1969), 321.
308 Lester Maddox: Bradley R. Rice, “The 1966 Gubernatorial Elections in Georgia” (Ph.D. diss., University of Southern Mississippi, 1982); 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), 306; Ryan Hayes interview; CQ Political Notes, December 12, 1966. not with “ax handles,” but with “pick handles”: CDN, August 28, 1968. The regulars—“slow, florid”: Schultz, No One Was Killed, 41. “So now we can’t trust”: Ibid., 45.
308 “We reject as unacceptable”: White, Making of the President 1968, 323. This war had consumed: Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Packaging the Presidency: A History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising, 3rd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 221.
309 McGovern 1968 presidential run: Robert Sam Anson, McGovern: A Biography (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972), 186–212. “I was looking around”: Steinem interviewed in documentary One Bright Shining Moment (Stephen Vittoria, dir., 2005).
309 His proposal was radical: Anson, McGovern, 166.
309 “Have you ever written a book”: Schultz, No One Was Killed[(http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?title=no+one+was+killed).
310 It was what Richard Nixon: “Nixon Bids Johnson Apologize to GOP for ‘Vicious’ Attack,” NYT, October 15, 1966.
310 “Why are you here?”: [Schultz, No One Was Killed, 68. Ralph Yarborough, the liberal Texas: Ibid.
310 Saturday night, Yippies: Ibid., 79. Yippies drove a flatbed truck: Ibid., 81.
310 Eugene McCarthy arrived: Ibid., 71; White, Making of the President 1968, 71.
311 Southern delegates kept alive: Ibid., 327; Farber, Chicago ’68, 136. Polls showed Humphrey: White, Making of the President 1968, 326.
311 Sunday morning: Seymour Hersh, “The Secret Arsenal,” NYTM, August 25, 1968.
311 Time ran a picture: “Daley City Under Siege,” Time, August 30, 1968.
311 Sunday night, at ten forty-five: Schultz, No One Was Killed.
312 Monday morning, the Chicago police: Ibid., 76, 94, 131.
312 The way was flecked: White, Making of the President 1968, 328. City workers had removed: Farber, Chicago ’68, 159. The Evergreen Review: Schultz, No One Was Killed.
312 The convention floor accommodated: White, Making of the President 1968, 318. Aretha Franklin belted out: Ibid., 323. “Throw them out!”: Ibid., 329; Schultz, No One Was Killed, 126. Concessionaires were instructed: Theodore H. White, The Making of the President 1972 (New York: Atheneum, 1973), 19. In the park, a cop car: Schultz, No One Was Killed, 111.
313 Then, the retaliation: Ibid., 120–21, 140. The liberal Chicago Daily News: Ibid., 123.
313 The California delegation was pledged: Anson, McGovern, 205.
313 California and New York were strongest: White, Making of the President 1968, 318; White, Making of the President 1972, 19. In Lincoln Park, as word passed: Schultz, No One Was Killed, 139. “We even heard”: Ibid., 136.
313 At about 7 p.m. on Tuesday: Daniel Walker et al., Rights in Conflict: The Violent Confrontation of Demonstrators and Police in the Parks and Streets of Chicago During the Week of the Democratic National Convention of 1968 (New York: Bantam Books, 1968), 186–87. Police spies recorded: Anthony Lukas, The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities: Notes on the Chicago Trial (New York: HarperCollins, 1970), 23.
314 At eleven, a phalanx of clergymen: Schultz, No One Was Killed, 143.
314 At the amphitheater, the day’s chaos: White, Making of the President 1968, 333.
314 The Chicago Daily News ran a picture: CDN, August 28, 1968.
314 “In the darkness and confusion”: NBC coverage, viewed at Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago, Illinois.