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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-EIGHT: PING-PONG
569 Nixon had told his patron: Leonard Garment, Crazy Rhythm: From Brooklyn and Jazz to Nixon’s White House, Watergate, and Beyond (New York: Crown, 1997), 86. Nixon’s diplomatic mentor: A. J. Langguth, Our Vietnam: The War, 1954–1975 (New York: Touchstone, 2000), 80. President Kennedy’s people had talked: “Tit for Tat: Two Prophecies,” Time, August 2, 1971.
569 “Within the next decade”: “Riding the Tiger,” Time, October 27, 1967. Time, whose founder: “River of Aid,” Time, April 21, 1967. A 1966 Harris poll found: “Harris Poll Reports the Voters Prefer Wage and Price Curbs,” NYT, October 12, 1966. a right-wing publicist: Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (New York: Hill & Wang, 2001), 104. China was the word Nixon: Seattle Times, October 28, 1966.
569 “Our leader has taken leave”: Richard Reeves, President Nixon: Alone in the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 283.
570 That first summer, Kissinger: Ibid., 105–7. That August the president met: Ibid., 121.
570 When Ceausescu visited: Ibid., 269.
570 That November, Pakistan’s: Ibid., 282. East Pakistan slaughter: Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger (New York: Verso, 2001), 44–71.
570 “The overworked term genocide”: Ibid., 45. Time managed to get an Australian: “A Visit to Canton,” Time, October 6, 1967.
571 Now, in 1971, team member Tim Boggan: “The Play and the Meals Are Tough on U.S. Team,” NYT, April 12, 1971.
571 “Because it’s their bag”: NLT, conversation 481–7, April 17, 1971.
571 Editorialized the New York Times: “Brave New World for Ping-Pong,” NYT, April 16, 1971. The most Scotty Reston: “China Beyond Vietnam,” NYT, April 16, 1971. “Ping-Pong diplomacy”: Jules Witcover, The Making of an Ink-Stained Wretch: Half a Century Pounding the Political Beat (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), 150–51.
571 “The Chinese government reaffirms”: Reeves, President Nixon, 319. Kissinger relayed a message: Hitchens, Trial of Henry Kissinger, 47.
572 “The thing is okay!”: Reeves, President Nixon, 325.
572 On May 31 Kissinger got word: Ibid., 327.
572 He’d attended the White House Correspondents’: Ibid., 321. “We’ll get them on the ground”: Ibid., 325–26. “They couldn’t oblige us fast enough”: “Nixon Hoped Antitrust Threat Would Sway Network Coverage,” WP, December 1, 1997.
572 according to one estimate 350,000: Iwan Morgan, Nixon (London: Hodder Arnold, 2002), 118.
572 He had read the economic tea leaves: John Judis, Grand Illusion: Critics and Champions of the American Century (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992), 190–224.
573 Nixon outlined all this: PPP 222, July 6, 1971.
573 Kissinger’s stomachache: Jonathan Schell, The Time of Illusion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), 175.
573 The June 13 Sunday New York Times: “Tricia Nixon Takes Vows in Garden at White House,” NYT, June 13, 1971.
574 The next day’s Times: “Vietnam Archive: A Consensus to Bomb Developed Before ’64 Election, Study Says,” NYT, June 14, 1971.
575 The third day revealed: “McNaughton Draft for McNamara on ‘Proposed Course of Action,’” NYT, June 15, 1971.
575 That was written two weeks before: PPP 172, April 7, 1965.
575 In its customary spot: “Argument Friday; Court Here Refuses to Order Return of Documents,” NYT, June 16, 1971.
575 Reported the Post: “FBI Checking All Having Access to Known 15 Copies of Viet Study,” WP, June 16, 1971.
575 Nixon-Kissinger response to Pentagon Papers: Reeves, President Nixon, 331–35.
576 John O’Neill and Veterans for a Just Peace: “After Decades, Renewed War on Old Conflict,” WP, August 28, 2004.
576 By the next day, they had: Reeves, President Nixon, 332. Once was for his 1950 wedding: “Carol Cummings’ Troth,” NYT, December 3, 1950. “bridegroom was”: “Daniel Ellsberg of M.I.T. Marries Patricia Marx,” NYT, August 9, 1970. “to paraphrase H. Rap Brown”: “Victory in the Ashes of Vietnam?” NYT, February 4, 1969.
577 November 1970 letter . . . from MIT faculty: Letters, NYT, November 30, 1970. Ellsberg biography: Tom Wells, The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 359–63. “best platoon leader”: “Pentagon Papers Chase,” Nation, July 9, 2001. “You guys have been conned”: Tom Wicker, On Press (New York: Viking, 1978), 180.
577 Ellsberg had lectured Henry Kissinger: Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (New York: Viking, 2002), 236–49. “I’m just not in a position”: PPP 104, March 9, 1967, press conference.
577 American Legion counterprotesters: “Moratorium, Mets Stir New Yorkers,” WP, October 16, 1969.
578 “Tony, can you get ahold”: Wells, War Within, 364.
578 McGovern told him: “McGovern Cites Advice to Ellsberg on Papers,” NYT, August 1, 1972.
578 Kissinger figured out by the seventeenth: Reeves, President Nixon, 332. “Go back and read the chapter”: Ibid., 338.
578 Chuck Colson—who had: “The Man Who Converted to Softball,” Time, June 17, 1974.
579 Ellsberg, he told Haldeman: Bruce Oudes, ed., From: The President: Richard Nixon’s Secret Files (New York: HarperCollins, 1989), 283. the Justice Department’s Robert Mardian: R. W. Apple, ed., The Watergate Hearings: Break-in and Coverup (New York: Viking, 1973), 511.
579 “We have the Democrats on a marvelous”: Oudes, ed., From: The President, 283–84.
579 Provide top-secret documents: Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 4–5.](http://books.google.com/books?id=SyBzl29qbZ0C&pg=PA4&dq=%22peddling+them+around%22&ei=XxuRSJjeFJXIigGP4bj4Dw&sig=ACfU3U0j9DDlCr6tN74oPaEHB-eG7lTncA) likely to get lost: Ibid.
579 Nixon called the majority leader: Reeves, President Nixon, 336.
580 Said Haldeman: “Huston swears”: Ibid., 334–35.
580 “I want Brookings”: Reeves, President Nixon, 339. Mardian and Hoover: Ibid., 372. Recruiting for Ellsberg project: Stanley Kutler, Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes (New York: Free Press, 1997), 10–12; Oudes, ed., From: The President, 261; Staffs of United Press International and the World Almanac, The Impeachment Report: A Guide to Congressional Proceedings in the Case of Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States (New York: Signet, 1974), 160; John W. Dean, Blind Ambition: The White House Years (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976), 47.
580 Colson suggested E. Howard Hunt: Kutler, Abuse of Power, 13.
581 “He told me a long time ago”: Christopher Matthews, “New Tapes Debunk Oliver Stone’s ‘Nixon,’” San Francisco Chronicle, January 1, 1998.
581 Nixon asked Colson and Haldeman: Kutler, Abuse of Power, 16.
581 “Every moment’s continuance”: New York Times Co. v. United States, Black concurrence, 403 U.S. 713.
581 Gravel Pentagon Papers hearing: Norman Mailer, St. George and the Godfather (New York: New American Library, 1972), 79–80; Reeves, President Nixon, 334–35; “Gravel Calls Night ‘Hearing,’ Reads Pentagon Documents,” WP, June 30, 1971; “Gravel Unlikely to Be Disciplined by Senate,” WP, July 1, 1971.
581 “another Senator McCarthy”: Kutler, Abuse of Power, 11.
582 the Times had predicted a constitutional: “Voting Bill Ready for House Action,” NYT, June 5, 1970. Samuel Lubell, the prescient: “The 18-year-old Vote Could Beat Nixon in ’72,” Look, July 13, 1971.
582 Haldeman started worrying: Dean, Blind Ambition, 40.
582 “Jesus Christ, John!”: Ibid., 44.
582 “I have requested this television time”: PPP 231, July 15, 1971. Nixon calling conservatives “the animals”: Margaret MacMillan, Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World (New York: Random House, 2007); Reeves, President Nixon, 349; Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (New York: Viking, 1976), 68–108.
583 An acquaintance described Krogh: Ibid., 73.
583 G. Gordon Liddy: Ibid., 86; Reeves, President Nixon, 349; G. Gordon Liddy, Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980). “I enjoyed the mass salute”: Ibid., 4.
584 Furnished with a red wig: Lukas, Nightmare, 81. “The art of espionage”: Ibid., 90.
584 FBI agents visited Dr. Fielding: Ibid., 93. “Krogh should, of course”: Ibid., 94.
584 Young and Krogh filed the action: Reeves, President Nixon, 353.
584 Hunt approached a Cuban friend: Lukas, Nightmare, 95.