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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 TWENTY-ONE: THE POLARIZATION
445 Six of the eleven top-rated: “Hope and Glory,” People, July 31, 2003.
445 “How about a big cheer”: Nicholas von Hoffman, WP, November 16, 1969.
445 “Bob wasn’t born”: “The Comedian as Hero,” Time, December 22, 1967.
445 Bantering with Romy Schneider: Bob Hope: The Vietnam Years, 1967–1969, vol. 2 (Hope Enterprises, 2004). “GI’s in Vietnam High on Hope’s”: NYT, December 23, 1969.
446 Eighteen million Reader’s Digest: Richard Reeves, President Nixon: Alone in the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 226; see ad in January 28, 1969, NYT. The left-wing folk singer: http://70.84.59.228/~thepoorm/Flag_Decal.mp3.
446 The Christmas season’s most brilliant: “Agnew Watches Selling Well, but . . . ,” NYT, July 8, 1970. TV producer Norman Lear would have a new: Peter N. Carroll, It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: America in the 1970s (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 61.
447 This year they made a different: “Man and Woman of the Year: The Middle Americans,” Time, January 5, 1970.
447 My reconstruction of the Chicago trial is drawn from Anthony Lukas, The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities: Notes on the Chicago Trial (New York: HarperCollins, 1970), and John Schultz, The Chicago Conspiracy Trial (New York: De Capo Press, 1993), and the transcripts, audio clips, and documents at http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/chicago7.html.
450 FUCK THE ———: Garry Wills, Under God: Religion and American Politics (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), 291.
452 It seemed an auspicious: Lewis Z. Koch interview; Royko Column, Chicago Sun-Times, December 9, 1969.
455 “What did go on in Judge Julius Hoffman’s”: Contempt: Transcript of the Contempt Citations, Sentences, and Responses of the Chicago Conspiracy 10 (Chicago: Swallow Press, 1970), back cover.
456 The liberal editorialists: “The Chicago Decision,” NYT, February 20, 1970; “And Then There Were Five,” WP, February 20, 1970. Spiro Agnew called it: Jack Newfield, Bread and Roses, Too (New York: Dutton, 1971), 261.
456 My account of the jury deliberations comes from John Schultz’s remarkable interviews with jurors in The Chicago Conspiracy Trial section entitled “The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation,” 263–341.
457 Contempt citations: Contempt.
457 “The blunt, hard fact”: Newfield, Bread and Roses, 261. “We’ve lost our kids”: Lukas, Barnyard Epithet, 32, 85; Schultz, Chicago Conspiracy Trail, 135. Rubin and Hayden reactions: Contempt[(http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?title=Contempt+Transcript+of+the+Contempt).
457 In Ann Arbor, five thousand students: [Kenneth J. Heineman, Put Your Bodies Upon the Wheels: Student Revolt in the 1960s (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002), 171. The FBI put a “White Panther”: Jeff A. Hale, “The White Panthers’ ‘Total Assault on the Culture,’” in Peter Braunstein and Michael William Doyle, eds., Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s (New York: Routledge, 2001), 124–56. In Madison a student stole: Reeves, President Nixon, 175.
457 Weatherman Bernardine Dohrn said: James Michener, Kent State: What Happened and Why (New York: Random House, 1971), 91. On February 17, what appeared to be a copycat crime: Joe McGinniss, Fatal Vision (New York: Random House, 1985).
MacDonald himself was convicted for the murder, having made up the “acid is groovy” cover story to conceal his guilt.
457 In St. Louis, at 2 a.m.: Washington University summary memo, MIP. In frigid Buffalo: Heineman, Put Your Bodies Upon the Wheels, 171.
458 That same day, William Kunstler: Daniel Haier, “Burning Down the Isla Vista Bank of America,” Daily Nexus, February 25, 2005.
458 On March 6 a mysterious explosion: Village Voice, March 12, 1970; “2d Victim in Blast Is Identified Here,” NYT, March 18, 1970.
458 On March 11 a bomb gashed: “Maryland Hunts Woman in Blast,” NYT, March 12, 1970.
458 The next night, in Buffalo: Heineman, Put Your Bodies Upon the Wheels, 171.
458 Three days later Judge Hoffman: “Judges Hear Graham,” WP, March 16, 1970.
458 In New York City one day: Reeves, President Nixon, 175. On April 4: “Reagan ‘Bloodbath’ Remark Criticized,” LAT, April 9, 1970.&edition=&startpage=3&desc=Reagan+%27Bloodbath%27+Remark+Criticized)