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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-TWO: TOURNIQUET
459 Carswell nomination: Richard Reeves, President Nixon: Alone in the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 160–63; Jonathan Schell, The Time of Illusion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), 81.
459 “Yes, I would”: PPP 20, January 30, 1970.
459 The Post reported: “U.S. Lawyer to Testify on Carswell,” WP, January 31, 1970. “Nixon Seeks to Fire”: Reeves, President Nixon, 167. Then he delivered: “‘Deep and Basic’ Reversal on Rights,” NYT, February 22, 1970.
459 “Benign neglect” memo: “‘Benign Neglect’ on Race Is Proposed by Moynihan,” NYT, March 1, 1970.
460 “We are gravely concerned”: Reeves, President Nixon, 171–72.
460 “Watergate, Where Republicans Gather”: WP, February 25, 1969; “Party Workers Shift to HHH,” WP, May 2, 1968. The president told Haldeman: Reeves, President Nixon, 174.
460 This was the Nixon who once: Fawn Brodie, Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981), 25.
460 His New Year’s message to the nation: PPP 1, January 1, 1970; Schell, Time of Illusion]http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2476&st=&st1=, 78. He didn’t care much: [Reeves, President Nixon, 172. According to polls, environmental: Ibid., 162. Since the publication: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962). Ehrlichman considered himself: Reeves, President Nixon, 163. So did General Curtis LeMay: Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origin of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996), 376. Linda Morse, she of the M1: Anthony Lukas, The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities: Notes on the Chicago Trial (New York: HarperCollins, 1970), 83. Allen Ginsberg said: Ibid., 30.
461 The latest edition: New York: Fawcett Crest, 1970.
461 He cleared his schedule: Reeves, President Nixon, 161. “Will you give me a recent report”: Bruce Oudes, ed., From: The President: Richard Nixon’s Secret Files (New York: HarperCollins, 1989), 86.
461 “The seventies will be a time”: PPP 9, January 22, 1970.
461 The New York Times’s headline: NYT, January 23, 1970. Pundits spoke hopefully: Schell, Time of Illusion, 78.
461 “The postwar period in international”: PPP 45, February 18, 1970.
462 The New York Times printed: Reeves, President Nixon, 168.
462 In his 1965 YAF inaugural address: In possession of author, from the collection of Jameson Campaigne. In the White House he sometimes: Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 97.
462 Mark Felt of the FBI: Bob Woodward, “How Mark Felt Become ‘Deep Throat,’” WP, June 2, 2005. By the sixth month: Tom Wells, The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 312, 319, 325. On February 9, the president’s: Oudes, ed., From: The President, 96. He had just quit the company: “Scavenger Hunt,” Slate, October 6, 2004, http://www.slate.com/id/2107718/.
462 Its latest tack was subpoenaing: Schell, Time of Illusion, 79. As more and more embarrassing evidence: Yanek Mieczkowski, Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005), 20.
462 Another secret bombing campaign: Reeves, President Nixon, 176–77.
463 March 2 and 3 were busy: Ibid., 170; Schell, Time of Illusion, 84; Kutler, Wars of Watergate, 163.
464 The GOP had a chance: Reg Weaver and Hal Gulliver, The Southern Strategy (New York: Scribner, 1971), 13.
464 But it had been chartered during: Ibid., 21–40.
464 In June, John Mitchell: Peter N. Carroll, It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: America in the 1970s (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 45. “If you people in New York”: Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (New York: Hill & Wang, 2001), 319. A week later the Justice Department: Schell, Time of Illusion, 39. The next day was the NAACP’s: Ibid., 41; Reeves, President Nixon, 118.
464 Fifth Circuit order and John Stennis: Ibid., 118–19.
465 The man who replaced him: Murphy and Gulliver, Southern Strategy, 49.
465 On October 30, 1969, in the middle: Reeves, President Nixon, 141–42; Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, 396 U.S. 19 (1969).
465 “Find a good federal judge”: Reeves, President Nixon, 160. Carswell nomination fight: Murphy and Gulliver, Southern Strategy, 131–50; Reeves, President Nixon, 161, 164, 186–87; Kutler, Wars of Watergate, 147; USNWR, April 20, 1970.
466 He pointed out that in 1940: Murphy and Guliver, Southern Strategy, 138.
466 Maddox: Ibid.]http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?author=gulliver&title=the+southern+strategy), “The Governor and the Ax Handles,” WP, March 3, 1970.
466 On March 15: “Nixon Political Aide Intervened on Schools,” WP, March 15, 1970.
467 Wallace payoff: [Carter, Politics of Rage, 388–89.
468 Postal strike: Reeves, President Nixon, 181–82.
471 Nixon penned a letter to William Saxbe: Schell, Time of Illusion, 82; Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, Nixon in the White House: The Frustration of Power (New York: Random House, 1971), 166.
472 Economics: Allen J. Matusow, Nixon’s Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998), 55–68; Reeves, President Nixon, 186, 214.
472 April 3 and 4 were movie nights: Mark Feeney, Nixon at the Movies: A Book About Belief (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 186, 341.
473 Nixon was in love with pomp: Oudes, ed., From: The President, 94.
473 During his turn at Oval Office generalship: H. R. Haldeman, The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994), 142; Reeves, President Nixon, 181.
473 Drew Pearson and Patton: Feeney, Nixon at the Movies, 67.
474 The following Tuesday Nixon ordered: Reeves, President Nixon, 186. Nixon made a spur-of-the-moment: Kutler, Wars of Watergate, 148; PPP 108, April 9, 1970.
474 Suddenly, Nixon was on the cover: “The Carswell Defeat—Nixon’s Embattled White House,” Time, April 20, 1970. Suddenly three astronauts: Reeves, President Nixon, 188.
474 A “Harvard man from the suburbs”: “The Burger/Blackmun Court,” NYT, December 6, 1970.
475 Justice Douglas impeachment attempt: Laura Kalman, Abe Fortas: A Biography (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), 374; J. F. terHorst, “Ford Leads Effort to Oust Nixon Supreme Court Picks,” Detroit News, January 27, 2006.
475 “The first part of the Yippie program”: James Michener, Kent State: What Happened and Why (New York: Random House, 1971), 179.
475 Complained Ailes in his notes: Roger E. Ailes to H. R. Haldeman, May 4, 1970, http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtuallibrary/documents/donated/050470_ailes.pdf.
475 Ailes’s note: “Someone said”: Ibid. “I have requested”: PPP 126, April 20, 1970; see also Schell, Time of Illusion, 89, and Carroll, It Seemed Like Nothing Happened, 11.
476 The White House had leaked word: Reeves, President Nixon, 193.
476 “Cut the crap out of my schedule”: Ibid.