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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 EIGHTEEN: TRUST
373 “Common sense should tell us”: “Vietnam Pullout Urged as Senators Resume Debate,” NYT, May 2, 1969, 1. Bombing in Cambodia: “Raids in Cambodia by U.S. Unprotested,” NYT, May 9, 1969, 1.
373 “The time is approaching”: PPP 195, May 14, 1969. Nixon on “mutual withdrawal” in 1966: Jules Witcover, The Resurrection of Richard Nixon (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970), 195; Herbert S. Parmet, Richard Nixon and His America (New York: Little, Brown, 1969), 491. Columnists vied with each other: Robert W. Merry, Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop—Guardians of the American Century (New York: Penguin, 1996), 482. Gallup was about to announce: “Nixon Approved by 64% in Survey,” NYT, May 18, 1969.
373 “Outrageous! Outrageous!”: Richard Reeves, President Nixon: Alone in the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 75.
373 On the roots of Kissinger’s rage and origins of phone taps: Ibid., 44–47.
374 On Caulfield: Ibid., 13; Reeves, President Nixon, 67, 75–76. On Kraft bugging see Lukas, Nightmare, 64–65.
374 Cornell uprising: Donald Alexander Downs, Cornell ’69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the University (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969).
378 New Statesman, Alistair Cooke, Beijing: Reeves, President Nixon, 73. See also “Yale Has Been Spared Campus Strife, but Some Administrators Are Nervous,” NYT, April 20, 1969, p. 74.
378 Fortune magazine had built: Fortune, January, 1969.
379 James J. Kilpatrick coined the phrase: Frederick G. Dutton, Changing Sources of Power: American Politics in the 1970s (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971), 80. Stanford protests:
W. Glenn Campbell, The Competition of Ideas: How My Colleagues and I Built the Hoover Institution (Ottawa: Jameson Books, 2001), 139–46; “Student Protest Ends at Stanford,” NYT, May 2, 1969. Kent State: James Michener, Kent State: What Happened and Why (New York: Random House, 1971), 104. Harvard: Winifred Breines and Alexander Bloom, eds., Taking It to the Streets: A Sixties Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 75; “Harvard Ponders Students’ Strike,” NYT, April 20, 1969, 75.
379 On April 19 the New York Police: “A How-to Guide for Protesters Covers Fighting of Policemen,” NYT, April 20, 1969, 76. On April 21 four hundred students: “Seizure of Building by 400 at Queensborough College Precedes Protest Move,” NYT, April 22, 1969, 1. On April 23, one hundred students: “Student Unrest in Brief,” NYT, April 24, 1969, 1; “Some Faculty Members Join a Sit-in at Fordham,” NYT, April 24, 1969, 35. twelve hundred students: “Yeshiva U. Cancels Classes as Students Mark Israeli Day,” NYT, April 24, 1969, 35. At Columbia: “Columbia Rebels Leave,” NYT, May 2, 1969, 1.
380 Something else happened at Queens College: “Vandals Roam at Queens,” NYT, May 2, 1969, 1.
380 The University of Buffalo nearly shut down: “Yale Has Been Spared Campus Strife,” NYT, April 20, 1969, 74; see also article republished from 1977 issue of the Catalyst, http://www.buffalonian.com/history/articles/1951-now/1960santiwar/powellbuff1965
to1976.html.
380 “The hypnotically erotic”: March 3, 1969, Miami Herald review quoted at http://www
.doors.com/miami/one.html. Cincinnati decency rally: “Ohio Rally Draws 10,000,” NYT, April 21, 1969, 34. Baltimore decency rally: “Youth Decency Rally Turns into Melee,” NYT, April 21, 1969, 34.
381 “The freshmen are more radical”: Reeves, President Nixon, 72. Radical high schools in NYC and New Jersey: “Schools in City Shut by Protests,” NYT, April 22, 1969, 38. Jerry Rubin in Cincinnati: Anthony Lukas, Don’t Shoot—We Are Your Children! (New York: Random House, 1971), 322–25. By May, three of five administrators: Godfrey Hodgson, America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon—What Happened and Why (New York: Doubleday, 1976)]http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?author=hodgson&title=america+in+our+time, 364. Two sympathetic teachers: [Mark Libarle and Tom Seligman, eds., The High School Revolutionaries (New York: Random House, 1970).
381 “Che Guevara is thirteen years old”: Jack Newfield, Bread and Roses, Too (New York: Dutton, 1971), 130.
381 Doctor Zhivago: H. R. Haldeman, The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994), 52. Richard Kleindienst imagined a time: Newfield, Bread and Roses, Too, 139. William Rehnquist . . . called them the “new barbarians”: http://www-stu.calvin.edu/chimes/2001.05.04/perspectives/story05.shtml.
381 McCarthy campaign veterans: David Mixner, Stranger Among Friends (New York: Bantam, 1996), 74–76.
381 A month later, Kissinger and Ehrlichman: Tom Wells, The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 294.
382 On May 15 the president: Reeves, President Nixon, 82; Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 142. Endgame of the Fortas nomination: Laura Kalman, Abe Fortas: A Biography (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), 345–55; Marc Stein, “Did the FBI Try to Blackmail Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas?” History News Network, July 18, 2005, http://hnn.us/articles/13170.html.
383 Theodore Hesburgh: “Notre Dame Gives Warning; Hesburgh Threatens Ousters,” NYT, February 18, 1969, 1.
383 On January 5, 1969, Reagan: Lou Cannon, Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power (New York: Public Affairs, 2005), 291. On January 15, down in San Diego: Herbert’s Hippopotamus, (dir. Paul Alexander Juutilainen, 1996). the Santa Barbara campus announced: Author interview with Richard Flacks. Then San Diego student: Herbert’s Hippopotamus. “I’ll sleep well tonight”: Cannon, Governor Reagan, 291.
383 In Berkeley, the university had: Main source for Berkeley riot is “The Battle of People’s Park,” Rolling Stone, June 14, 1969, online at http://www.beauty-reality.com/travel/
travel/sanFran/peoplespark3.html.
385 Perhaps some premeds had read: Today’s Health, May 1969.
385 The fifth day of the seventeen-day: Herbert’s Hippopotamus.
386 Warren Burger speech: Kutler, Wars of Watergate, 143; USNWR, June 29, 1969.
386 The John Lennon/Al Capp encounter is captured in the documentary John and Yoko’s Year of Peace (Canadian Broadcast Corporation, 2000).
387 Hamburger Hill: Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr., “Battle for Hamburger Hill During the Vietnam War,” Vietnam magazine, http://www.historynet.com/magazines/vietnam
/3031001.html.
387 “There is no more time for considering”: Robert Sam Anson, McGovern: A Biography (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972), 168–69.
387 Kennedy reaction: Summers, “Battle for Hamburger Hill.”
387 “Son of Kennedy Congress Winner”: Chris Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America (New York: Free Press, 1997), 41.
388 “The cabinet officers should fill”: Reeves, President Nixon, 33. Berlin and “Battle Hymn of the Republic”: Ibid., 33, 51.
388 When Gallup did its monthly poll: George Gallup, The Gallup Poll, Vol. 3 (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources), 2194. On March 26, Nixon approved: Reeves, President Nixon, 67.
388 Congressman Jerry Ford thought Haldeman: Yanek Mieczkowski, Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1006), 57. Nixon scrawled an order: Reeves, President Nixon, 57.
389 One day Nixon raged: Ibid., 84. Three days later Hedrick Smith: “U.S. Battle Losses Stir Nixon Aides,” NYT, May 23, 1969, 1. The reporter with the best: Reeves, President Nixon, 90.
389 By the end of the school year: Wells, War Within, 297–99. West Virginia passed a law: “The Legislatures React,” Time, June 13, 1969.
389 “I feel at home here”: PPP 224, June 3, 1969.
390 Tap on Hedrick Smith: Reeves, President Nixon, 86.
390 “From the people who brought you Vietnam”: “Muting the Message: Advertising Is Subject to Stricter Censorship than Editorial,” WSJ, May 21, 1969, 1.
390 “It is open season on the armed forces”: PPP 225, June 4, 1969.
391 “It sounded like the old Nixon”: Max Frankel, “Nixon and Critics,” NYT, June 8, 1969, E1. Time reported, “A few of his own staff”: “Defending the Defenders,” Time, June 13, 1969. “On an urgent basis”: Reeves, President Nixon, 87.
391 He jetted off to Midway Island: Ibid.; Wells, War Within, 326; Jonathan Schell, The Time of Illusion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), 50; William Burr and Jeffrey Kimball, “Nixon’s Nuclear Ploy,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 59, no. 1 (January/February 2003). Time put him on the cover: Time, May 30, 1969. At his next press conference: Reeves, President Nixon, 91; PPP 248, June 19, 1969.
392 McGovern reform commission in Chicago: “Plea for ‘Soft-Stand’ by McGovern Is Refused by Daley,” CT, June 8, 1969&edition=&startpage=1&desc=Plea+for+%27Soft-Stand%27+by+McGovern+Is+Refused+by+Daley); “McGovern and Daley Open Old Wounds,” WP, June 8, 1969.
392 Evans and Novak: “McGovern-Daley Clash Spotlights Civil War Raging Among Democrats,” WP, June 11, 1969, A27.
393 “building outhouses in Peoria”: Reeves, President Nixon, 33. “I’ve always thought the country could run itself”: Ibid., 43.
393 A growing state was seen: Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (New York: Hill & Wang, 2001), 5. Galbraith: “Nationalize Arms Contractors, Galbraith Tells Congressmen,” CT, June 4, 1969.&edition=&startpage=13&desc=Nationalize+Arms+Contractors%2C+Galbraith+Tells+Congressmen)
393 Gallup, in its January polling: Gallup, Gallup Poll, 2177.
393 An article in Time in February 1967: “Beyond LSD,” Time, February 10, 1969. “Houseboat Summit”: Peter B. Levy, ed., America in the Sixties—Left, Right, and Center: A Documentary History (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998), 179–82. See, for instance, Robert Theobold, ed., The Guaranteed Income: Next Step in Economic Evolution? (Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1966); Marc Pilisuk and Robert Perrucci, eds., The Triple Revolution: Social Problems in Depth (Boston: Little, Brown, 1968).
394 Milton Friedman, in the 1962 book: Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).
394 “Wipe them out”: Reeves, President Nixon, 100.
394 Moynihan profile: Adam Clymer, “Daniel Patrick Moynihan Is Dead; Senator from Academia Was 76,” NYT, March 27, 2003, 1; Allen J. Matusow, The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s (New York: HarperCollins, 1984), 194–98; Reeves, President Nixon, 44–46; Kutler, Wars of Watergate, 91; Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary Edsall, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991), 53–55; interview with Kevin Phillips.
394 Then in a head-turning 1967 speech: “The Politics of Stability,” New Leader, October 9, 1967; Leonard Garment, Crazy Rhythm: From Brooklyn and Jazz to Nixon’s White House, Watergate, and Beyond (New York: Crown, 1997), 123–24; Richard J. Whalen, Catch the Falling Flag: A Republican’s Challenge to His Party (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972), 38–45; “Darts to the Heart,” Time, October 6, 1967.
395 In his employment interview: Reeves, President Nixon, 45.
396 “A third of a century of centralizing power”: PPP 324, “Address to the Nation on Domestic Programs,” August 8, 1969.
396 For analysis of the Family Assistance Program see “Toward a Working Welfare System,” Time, August 15, 1969.
396 Lindsay quote: Ibid. Time gave the president: “Moving Ahead, Nixon Style,” Time, August 15, 1969.
396 He even revised the chart: Reeves, President Nixon, 125. “RN is riding high”: Ibid., 108.