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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-FIVE: AGNEW’S ELECTION
524 “I will be urging the election”: Jules Witcover, White Knight: The Rise of Spiro Agnew (New York: Random House, 1972), 350–60. “Pirates in the Sky”: Time, September 21, 1970. Springfield appearance: Witcover, White Knight, 359; John R. Coyne, ed., The Impudent Snobs: Agnew vs. the Intellectual Establishment (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1972), 360–65. Buchanan and Safire had worked hard: Witcover, White Knight, 357–58.
525 AFL-CIO president George Meany: Jefferson Cowie, “Nixon’s Class Struggle: Romancing the New-Right Worker, 1969–1973,” Labor History 43 (Summer 2002): 257–83. Their “supreme venerable” told the press: Richard Reeves, President Nixon: Alone in the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 266. At a Stevenson rally, DNC chair: “O’Brien Excoriates Party ‘Extremists,’” NYT, September 11, 1970. He had Agnew, in Casper, Wyoming: Coyne, ed., Impudent Snobs, 365–69.
525 At the California Republican convention: Whitcover, White Knight, 363. After Ted Kennedy told students: Ibid.
526 Next, it was Las Vegas: Ibid., 365.
526 Nixon reinforced Agnew’s message: PPP 295, September 16, 1970; Jonathan Schell, The Time of Illusion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), 120; Reeves, President Nixon, 247. Life put Spiro Agnew on the cover: “Agnew on the Warpath,” Life, October 16, 1970.
526 IMPUDENT SNOBS UNITE HERE: Ibid.
526 John Mitchell, drunk at a party: Reeves, President Nixon, 246. “If the vice president were slightly roughed”: Ibid., 265.
527 Gore/Ellington primary: Reg Murphy and Hal Gulliver, The Southern Strategy (New York: Scribner, 1971), 107–10.
527 Gore hopped on a tree stump: Ibid., 108.
527 On September 22 Spiro Agnew: Ibid., 118–200.
528 Agnew in Indianapolis, Salt Lake City, North Dakota: “Agnew on the Warpath.”
528 President Nixon was in Europe: Reeves, President Nixon, 242. The president was handling the crisis: Ibid., 255. soccer field: Ibid., 251–52. “If there is anything I want to do”: “I Don’t Want the Hot Words of TV,” Time, October 5, 1970. Rome, Yugoslavia: Reeves, President Nixon, 258. “Facing the Middle East”: Time, October 5, 1970.
528 Charles Goodell: Tom Wells, The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 365; “Bipartisan Senate Group Maps A
3-Pronged Antiwar Strategy,” NYT, May 9, 1970; Mary Hershberger, Jane Fonda’s War: A Political Biography of an Antiwar Icon (New York: New Press, 2005), 21.
529 “Isn’t that something!”: Reeves, Richard Nixon, 171.
529 When his group Los Hijos de Tormenta: Patrick Allitt, Catholic Intellectuals and Conservative Politics in America, 1950–1985 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995)http://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Intellectuals-Conservative-Politics-1950-1985/dp/080148300X/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217292589&sr=1-10, 54–55. Jim Buckley and Bill Rusher: [George J. Marlin, Fighting the Good Fight: A History of the New York Conservative Party (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2002), 166.
529 In June, Jim Buckley traveled: Ibid., 171. At a July 22 White House meeting: Reeves, President Nixon, 245.
529 A commission on pornography: Carroll, It Seemed Like Nothing Happened, 28; David M. Edwards, “Politics and Pornography: A Comparison of the Findings of the President’s Commission and the Meese Commission and the Resulting Response,” http://home.earthlink.net/~durangodave/html/writing/Censorship.htm.
530 “Earlier today, I was asked”: Witcover, White Knight, 372–78. Goodell was the “Christine Jorgensen”: Reeves, Richard Nixon, 267. “Miss Jorgensen Asks Agnew for Apology”: NYT, October 11, 1970.
530 He took up the cudgels: Reeves, Richard Nixon, 268.
530 The next leg: Ibid.
530 Hijacking and drug abuse statements: PPP 344, 345, October 14, 1970. On Tuesday he had signed: PPP 346, October 15, 1970. A concrete chip or three: Schell, Time of Illusion, 12. In Green Bay, Wisconsin: Reeves, Richard Nixon, 268; PPP 358, October 17, 1970.
531 He wound up Tuesday in Kansas: PPP 368, October 19, 1970.
531 Rockford Star, October 20–November 3, 1970: Rockford Star morgue files, Rockford, Illinois.
532 On Tuesday the twenty-seventh: PPP 389, October 27, 1970; “Nixon Toughens Drug Laws,” Rockford Star, October 28, 1970. Bush’s opponent was the conservative: Murphy and Gulliver, Southern Strategy, 124. “George Walker Bush is one member”: James Moore, Bush’s War for Reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the People (New York: Wiley, 2004), appendix.
534 In Life, Hugh Sidey reported: Rockford Star, October 25, 1970. Thursday night in San Jose: Schell, Time of Illusion, 130; Reeves, President Nixon, 270; Fawn Brodie, Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981), 375; Rockford Star, October 30, 1970 (AP report).
534 Phoenix speech: Rockford Star, November 1, 3, 1970; Reeves, President Nixon, 271.
535 Election results: Ibid., 272–73; “GOP Shocked, Baffled by Election Losses,” Rockford Star, November 5, 1970.
535 John Wayne commercial for James Buckley: Bob Greene, Running (Chicago: Regnery, 1973), 80. Bill Brock ads: Murphy and Gulliver, Southern Strategy, 124. Forty-six-year-old Senator William Saxbe: Ibid., 41.
535 Publicly the president claimed victory: Witcover, White Knight, 396.
535 “Don’t keep saying that, John”: Reeves, President Nixon, 274.
536 It came out in that election-eve broadcast: Ibid., 271; Schell, Time of Illusion, 131; Rockford Star, November 3, 1970; “Excerpts from Senator Muskie’s Nationwide TV Broadcast on Election Eve,” NYT, November 3, 1970, 40.
537 Economic statistics: Reeves, President Nixon, 269–70.
537 In August, Congress had handed: Allen J. Matusow, Nixon’s Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998), 67. The New York Times found a typical blue-collar: Reeves, President Nixon, 264, 271.
537 “I really want the economy to boom”: Ibid., 264. On November 7 in Key Biscayne: Ibid., 273.
538 He began seeing 1972 in apocalyptic terms: Matusow, Nixon’s Economy, 84. “America has only two more years”: Ibid.