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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 NINETEEN: IF GOLD RUST
397 Chappaquiddick: Time, July 25, August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, September 5, 1969, October 31, 1969; Richmond News Leader, July 21, 24, 25, 26, 1969; CT, August 1, 1969.
397 Bill Safire warned him: Richard Reeves, President Nixon: Alone in the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 100.
398 The White House’s on-staff private eye: Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (New York: Viking, 1976), 15–16; Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 103.
399 Network speech: “Kennedy’s Television Statement to the People of Massachusetts,” NYT, July 26, 1969.
400 Al Capp running for Senate: Esquire, November 1970. Middle America—or at least: CT, August 1, 1969.&edition=&startpage=12&desc=RESPONSES+TO+KENNEDY+SPEECH)
400 Steven V. Roberts on Tate-Polanski circle: Steven V. Roberts, Eureka (New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Books, 1974), 223–27.
401 Woodstock origins: http://www.yasgurroad.com/howwoodstock1.html.
401 And what Time seemed especially eager: “The Message of History’s Biggest Happening,” Time, August 29, 1969.
402 Yippie tent at Woodstock: 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), 121.
403 Time’s sister publication, Life: September 6, 1969.
403 “I am willing to state unequivocally”: Reeves, President Nixon, 120. J. Edgar Hoover released a public letter: Regularly broadcast on Technicolor Web of Sound Web radio station, http://www.techwebsound.com. Max Ascoli: Reeves, President Nixon, 72.
403 Letters to Time: September 12, 19, 1969.
404 Newsweek tried to grasp: Reeves, President Nixon, 62; “Sex and the Arts,” Newsweek, April 14, 1969.
404 “Stag nights” and sexual hypocrisy: Eric Schlosser, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003), 126–31. Even Reader’s Digest reported: Reader’s Digest, February 1967. Another 1967 Digest: Reader’s Digest, November 1967. “Silence is criminal”: “On Teaching Children About Sex,” Time, June 9, 1967. “Backwardness is succumbing”: Janice M. Irvine, Talk About Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 35.
405 Sherri Finkbine: “Abortion and the Law,” Time, August 3, 1962; “The Thalidomide Disaster,” Time, August 10, 1962; “People,” Time, August 24, 1962; “Thalidomide and Abortion,” Time, December 21, 1962; “Milestones,” Time, February 12, 1965; “More Abortions: The Reasons Why,” Time, September 17, 1965. In June of 1967 they lamented: “New Grounds for Abortion,” May 5, 1967. The previous month: “Freedom from Fear,” Time, April 7, 1967.
405 “Could it be possible that Time”: Letters, Time, August 17, 1962. “Abortion is murder”: Letters, Time, February 24, 1967. “The very idea that abortion”: Letters, Time, October 20, 1967.
406 Harris poll: “Changing Morality: The Two Americas,” Time, June 6, 1969.
406 “scared by the abundance of life”: Vincent J. Cannato, The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and the Battle to Save New York (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 146. “We’re going on a trip together”: Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970), 8. “Is Dr. Spock to Blame?”: Newsweek, September 23, 1968. “prevalent among the educated”: Nation, October 17, 1966.
406 He made sure every story: Reeves, President Nixon, 62. Onassis and I Am Curious (Yellow): “Photographer Says Mrs. Onassis Used Judo on Him,” NYT, October 6, 1969. “P had me in quite a while”: H. R. Haldeman, The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994), 43. “The courts have not left society defenseless”: PPP 181, May 2, 1969.
407 My sources for the sexual education controversy and Chicago conference are Irvine, Talk About Sex, and Mary Breasted, Oh! Sex Education! (New York: Praeger, 1969).
409 “Dear Dick, I know you don’t realize”: “Sex Education Battles Splitting Many Communities Across U.S.,” NYT, September 14, 1969.
410 A September issue of Look: Look, September 9, 1969.
410 California Supreme Court: People v. Belous, 458 P.2d 194 (Cal. 1969). In Netcong, New Jersey: “Man and Woman of the Year: The Middle Americans,” Time, January 5, 1970.