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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
541 Steve Roberts of the New York Times: “Earthquakes as Artform,” in Steven V. Roberts, Eureka (New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Books, 1974), 27–33.
541 In February, forty-eight students: Chicago Sun-Times, February 15, 1971.
541 “a plan that shows how to survive the debacle”: Harold Brown, How You Can Profit from the Coming Devaluation (New York: Avon, 1971). “The rebirth of Israel”: Hal Lindsey, The Late Great Planet Earth (New York: Bantam, 1971). “While you are reading these words”: Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (New York: Ballantine, 1971).
542 “If all of modern science and technology”: B. F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom & Dignity (New York: Bantam, 1971). “In the neural system as now constituted”: Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (New York: Bantam, 1971).
542 “There is a revolution coming”: Charles Reich, The Greening of America (New York: Bantam, 1971); “The Graying of The Greening of America,” Weekly Standard, December 19, 2005; Michael Barone, Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan (New York: Free Press, 1990), 468.
542 McGovern and Greening of America: Robert Sam Anson, McGovern: A Biography (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972), 146n.
543 A comforting thought: Robert Christgau, “A Slender Hope for Salvation,” LAT, November 29, 1970.
543 Turnouts for elections: Edward Luttwak, “A Scenario for a Military Coup d’État in the United States,” Esquire, July 1970.
543 At the University of Nebraska: PPP 12, January 14, 1971.
544 The State of the Union: PPP 26, January 22, 1971.
544 He put it a little differently: Bruce J. Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (New York: De Capo Press, 2002), 30. In a strategy meeting: Richard Reeves, President Nixon: Alone in the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 274.
544 Jetting to Nebraska: John W. Dean, Blind Ambition: The White House Years (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976), 66.
544 Colson’s staff, approval rating: Reeves, President Nixon, 297.
545 Colson and Chotiner intelligence: Ibid., 279, 281. “Opponents List”: Ibid., 297–98; Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 104.
545 On January 31, 1971, the New York Times: “U.S. Silent on Speculation About an Invasion of Laos,” NYT, January 31, 1971. “The president is aware”: “The Nondenial Denier,” NYT, February 16, 2003.
545 Laos operation: Jonathan Schell, The Time of Illusion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), 142–44, 208; Reeves, President Nixon, 299–304.
545 On February 4: Ibid., 301.
546 Then the subject turned to Governor Wallace: H. R. Haldeman, The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994), 243–44.
546 When he traveled to the Midwest: Bruce Oudes, ed., From: The President: Richard Nixon’s Secret Files (New York: HarperCollins, 1989), 226. Nixon and Quaker pacifism: “Excerpts from the Interview Granted by President Nixon on Foreign Affairs,” NYT, March 10, 1971; “Quakers Assail Nixon War Stand,” NYT, April 8, 1971.
547 Selling of the Pentagon: “Police, Protesters Clash as Agnew Vilifies Media,” Harvard Crimson, March 19, 1971, http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=355478; “The Year Archie Bunker Came In and Lawrence Welk Went Out,” NYT, January 2, 1972. TV critic Jack Gould: “TV: CBS Explores Pentagon Propaganda Costs,” NYT, February 24, 1971.
547 The Washington Post took Agnew’s side: “Mr. Agnew versus CBS versus the DOD,” WP, March 26, 1971. Unconvinced, one group of Republican: James Mann, “Close Up: Young Rumsfeld,” Atlantic Monthly, November 2003. Bob Dole on “new Chamberlains”: “Democrats Scored by Dole on Vietnam,” NYT, March 7, 1971.
547 Pat Buchanan, in a March 24 memo: Schell, Time of Illusion, 180. “Another Stormy Spring Foreseen”: NYT, March 26, 1971, 20.
548 “Sinatra has the makings”: Oudes, ed., From: The President, 225.
548 Senator Sam Ervin was on the case: Karl E. Campbell, “Senator Sam Ervin and the Army Spy Scandal of 1970–1971: Balancing National Security and Civil Liberties
in a Free Society,” Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission, http://www.cmhpf.org/senator%20sam%20ervin.htm.
549 Weather Underground bomb: “Capitol Rich in History Where Bomb Exploded,” NYT, March 2, 1971.
549 “self-discipline on the part of the executive branch”: Schell, Time of Illusion, 155.
549 Dairy industry scandal: Ibid., 146; Fawn Brodie, Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981), 34; United States v. John Connally, CR 74-440, 349, Exhibit 1, full transcript of conversations.