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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 SEVENTEEN: THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED DAYS
357 Inauguration scene: WP, January 21, 1969. “The disjointedness”: Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970), 13.
357 Inauguration speech: PPP 1, January 20, 1969.
358 Afterward, the Justice Department’s: Richard Reeves, President Nixon: Alone in the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 14.
358 “There are no more innocent bystanders”: “Police Drive Back 400 Demonstrators at a Coast College,” NYT, December 6, 1969. Or East St. Louis: Julius Lester, Revolutionary Notes (New York: Grove Press, 1970), 195.
358 “counterinaugural”: Jonathan Schell, The Time of Illusion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), 25; Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (New York: Popular Library, 1977); Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 (New York: Popular Library, 1973), 86.
359 Praise from columnists: Schell, Time of Illusion, 27; “Dr. Allen Goes to Washington,” NYT, February 9, 1969; Joseph Kraft, “Winding Down; Lowering of Sights and Easier Tempers Mark Onset of New Administration,” WP, January 19, 1969.
359 Nixon introduced his new cabinet: Schell, Time of Illusion, 23. “Truth will become the hallmark”: Ibid., 24. Evans and Novak said: Ibid.
359 Urban Affairs Council: Reeves, President Nixon, 31. “He knows that if his administration”: “New Bipartisan Era?” WP, November 16, 1969. Overseas trip and press conference: Schell, Time of Illusion, 31; Reeves, President Nixon, 55.
360 Each day a chance: Ibid., 124. A briefing paper came: Ibid., 57. BRING US TOGETHER: Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 73.[(http://books.google.com/books?id=k2U9w6RVpowC&printsec=frontcover&dq=wars+of+watergate&ei=jk9cSPKyOZPSjgGGkIzIDw&sig=vsW0cwSBKSdzhJQOMT3_ElUKnA8#PPA73,M1)
360 “Keep them away”: [Reeves, President Nixon, 71. “I want everyone fired”: Ibid, 36.
360 Press secretary/communications director: Kutler, Wars of Watergate, 162. First Committee on Economic Policy meeting: Reeves, President Nixon, 32–33.
361 First press conference and year-round polling: Ibid., 34. Not concerned by Press: Ibid., 36.
361 “Men don’t really like soup”: Ibid., 61.
361 At his first economics gathering: Ibid., 78–79.
361 Ron Ziegler: Thompson, Fear and Loathing, 400; Kutler, Wars of Watergate, 162; “Ronald L. Ziegler, Press Secretary to President Nixon, Is Dead at 63,” NYT, February 12, 2003. Honolulu landscaping: Reeves, President Nixon, 192.
362 Naps: Reeves, President Nixon, 30. “John Quincy Adams and Grover Cleveland”: Ibid., 31.
362 “To: Mrs. Nixon”: Ibid., 28.
362 Operation Menu: Ibid., 58–59; Schell, Time of Illusion, 32.
362 “Nothing should happen in the South”: Reeves, President Nixon, 117.
362 “Berlin Wall”: Kutler, Wars of Watergate, 81;“Your appointment is over”: Ibid., 71.
363 “I still have not had any progress report”: Reeves, President Nixon, 37.
363 “Nixon Network”: Tom Wells, The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 632; “Nixon Hoped Antitrust Threat Would Sway Network Coverage,” WP, December 1, 1997; Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (dir. Maureen Muldaur, 2002).
363 A press aide, Jim Keogh: Reeves, President Nixon, 40.
363 The first news summary: Ibid., 28. District of Columbia Court Reorganization Bill: Schell, Time of Illusion, 44.
364 “Freedom—intellectual freedom”: PPP 122, March 22, 1969.
364 “For the boys at the top of their class”: PPP 117, March 19, 1969. “Beginning on or about April 12, 1968”: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/indictment.html.
365 Eight Chicago cops were also indicted: CT, March 23&edition=&startpage=A7&desc=1+OF+17+CITED+BY+RIOT+JURY+STILL+AT+LARGE), June 12&edition=&startpage=10&desc=Jurors+Acquit+3+Policemen+in+Convention+Attack), June 14&edition=&startpage=N1&desc=U.S.+SUPPRESSES+SOME+AUGUST+RIOT+TAPES), December 4&edition=&startpage=A14&desc=Student+Testifies+Policeman+Beat+Him), December 5&edition=&startpage=8&desc=Cop+Denies+Striking+%27Hippie%27), December 6&edition=&startpage=10&desc=JURY+ABSOLVES+POLICEMAN+IN+BEATING+CASE), December 19, 1969.&edition=&startpage=4&desc=Cop+Is+Acquitted+in+Beatings)
365 “The crisis is nationwide”: “Who Defends the University,” NYT, March 12, 1969.
365 Joseph Kraft column: Godfrey Hodgson, America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon—What Happened and Why (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976), 371–73; Joseph Kraft, “Daley and Police Have a Point in Claiming Press Is Biased,” WP, September 3, 1968.
366 Stewart Alsop and Senator Ribicoff: Robert W. Merry, Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop—Guardians of the American Century (New York: Viking, 1996), 473–74.
366 “The blue- and white-collar people”: Barbara Ehrenreich, Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class (New York: HarperPerennial, 1990), 99–100.
366 “The Revolt of the White Lower Middle Class”: Jefferson Cowie, “Nixon’s Class Struggle: Romancing the New-Right Worker, 1969–1973,” Labor History 43 (Summer 2002): 257–83.
367 Robert Shad Northshield: Mark R. Rasmuson, “Huntley and Brinkley Boss: Reporting Chicago or Abusing It?” Harvard Crimson, December 10, 1968, http://www.the
crimson.com/article.aspx?ref=105240.
367 A University of Chicago sociology professor: Interview with Richard Flacks; Chicago Daily News, May 6, 1969; “An SDS Founder Beaten in Chicago,” NYT, May 7, 1969.
367 On the president’s one hundredth day: “Guard Is Ordered to Town in Illinois to Quell Disorders,” NYT, April 30, 1969. “Either the administrators”: “Revolutionary Adventurism,” NYT, May 8, 1969.
367 “We can, of course”: Bruce Oudes, ed., From: The President: Richard Nixon’s Secret Files (New York: HarperCollins, 1989), 23.
368 The first foreign policy crisis: Reeves, President Nixon, 68–70; PPP 156, April 18, 1969.
368 My account of Nixon and Kissinger’s relationship is drawn from, and deeply indebted to, the chapter on the subject in John Judis, Grand Illusion: Critics and Champions of the American Century (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992), 190–224.
368 Kissinger was glad to oblige: Wells, War Within, 289.
370 Kissinger was even on the record: Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (New York: Viking, 1976), 46.
371 “When Nelson buys a Picasso”: Joseph Persico, The Imperial Rockefeller: A Biography of Nelson A. Rockefeller (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), 72.
371 National Security Decision Memo 2: Reeves, President Nixon, 26.
371 Blunt Helen Thomas: PPP 10, January 27, 1969.
371 Senator McGovern and Kissinger: Robert Brent Toplin, ed., Oliver Stone’s USA: Film, History, and Controversy (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000), 209.
371 “I’d rather not comment on that”: Merry, Taking on the World, 475–76.
372 On February 21, Kissinger: Nina Tannewald, “Nuclear Weapons and the Vietnam War,” Journal of Strategic Studies 29 (August 2006).
372 The president’s second press conference: PPP 98, March 4, 1969. “Public pressure over the war”: “Vietnam Dilemma,” NYT, March 8, 1969.