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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 MagazinePDP: 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 TWO: THE ORTHOGONIAN
20 For Richard Nixon’s early life see Leonard Lurie, The Running of Richard Nixon (New York: Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1972), 1–41; Renée K. Schulte, ed., The Young Nixon: An Oral Inquiry (Fullerton: California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program, 1978), passim; Fawn Brodie, Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981), 30–170.
20 One of Richard Nixon’s biographers: Brodie, Richard Nixon, 40.
21 “I won’t buy fertilizer”: Lurie, Running of Richard Nixon, 29.
21 Letter to mother: Ibid., 19; Brodie, Richard Nixon, 76; David Greenberg, Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image (New York: Norton, 2004), 247. “Please consider me for the position”: Brodie, Richard Nixon, 77.
22 The coach bemoaned his “ability”: Ibid., 81.
22 “I had the impression he would even practice”: Chris Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America (New York: Free Press, 1997), 59. The Orthogonians: Ibid., 24–25; Brodie, Richard Nixon, 113–15. I am indebted to Matthews’s book especially for the notion of the Franklin/Orthogonian rivalry as a theme of Nixon’s career.
23 “a rather quiet chap about campus”: Lurie, Running of Richard Nixon, 26. “the man least likely to succeed in politics”: Brodie, Richard Nixon, 130.
23 Iron Butt: Ibid., 122–25; Lurie, Running of Richard Nixon, 32. “List the names of any relatives”: FBI application on display, RNLB.
23 “remnants of the old violent New Deal”: Brodie, Richard Nixon, 165.
24 Nick’s, Nixon and poker: Ibid., 94, 167, 390; Lurie, Running of Richard Nixon, 40. James McManus, Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion’s World Series of Poker (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003), 118.
25 Hannah Nixon’s “repressed anger”: Brodie, Richard Nixon, 55.
25 Hannah once told Ladies’ Home Journal: Lurie, Running of Richard Nixon, 22.
25 Hannah Nixon’s exaggerations: Brodie, Richard Nixon, 35.
261946 Voorhis campaign: Lurie, Running of Richard Nixon, 44–49; Greenberg, Nixon’s Shadow, 11–31, 71; Brodie, Richard Nixon, 171–79; Tom Wicker, One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream (New York: Random House, 1991), 35–45; Mark Feeney, Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 66; Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon, 27–42.
26 Whittier College dancing ban: Lurie, Running of Richard Nixon, 30.
29 Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers: Sam Tanenhaus, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (New York: Random House, 1997); Brodie, Richard Nixon, 127–231; Richard Nixon, Six Crises (New York: Doubleday, 1962), 1–71; Whittaker Chambers, Witness (New York: Random House, 1962).
29 HUAC background: Walter Goodman, The Committee: The Extraordinary Career of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968).
33 “I have been advised”: Lurie, Running of Richard Nixon, 95; Russell Baker, “Chotiner Advises G.O.P. How to Win,” NYT, May 13, 1956.
33 “are everywhere—in factories, offices, butcher shops”: Lurie, Running of Richard
Nixon, 95.
34 1950 Helen Gahagan Douglas campaign: Brodie, Richard Nixon, 232–45; Lurie, Running of Richard Nixon, 91–98; Greg Mitchell, Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas—Sexual Politics and the Red Scare, 1950 (New York: Random House, 1950).
35 “I will not break bread with that man!”: Brodie, Richard Nixon, 244.
35 Vice-presidential run and Checkers Speech: Greenberg, Nixon’s Shadow, 31–35; David Broder and Stephen Hess, The Republican Establishment: The Present and Future of the GOP (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 152; Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 34; Wicker, One of Us, 80–110; Brodie, Richard Nixon, 271–89.
41 My account of 1950s liberals’ ideological crisis and Nixon’s role in it is heavily influenced by chapter 2 of Greenberg’s Nixon’s Shadow.
42 “Electric clocks, Silex coffeemakers”: Lurie, Running of Richard Nixon, 98. carnival barker: Ibid., 21. “This is salable merchandise!”: Brodie, Richard Nixon, 170. Pepsi bottle: Brodie, Richard Nixon, 385.
43 He now turned to assailing: Greenberg, Nixon’s Shadow, 109, 120.