nixonland29
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-NINE: THE COVEN
585 A pulp thriller of relevance: David St. John, The Coven (New York: Weybright & Talley, 1972).
586 George Gordon Battle Liddy suspected: G. Gordon Liddy, Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980), 217. Liddy gave over twelve pages: Ibid., 147–59. restraining hold: Ibid., 193. For, “To permit the thought”: Ibid., 268.
586 It was like one of the agents: Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (New York: Viking, 1976), 77.
587 The International Association of Chiefs: “91 Policemen Reported Kill in First 9 Months of 1971,” NYT, January 2, 1972. In Philadelphia, former police chief: Jefferson Decker, “Frank Rizzo, Richard Nixon, and Law-and-Order” (master’s thesis, Department of History, Columbia University, 2003).
587 In New York vigilantes shouting: “Fire Bomb Kills Woman, Hurts 13 in Hurok Office,” NYT, January 27, 1972. A cabdriver in Queens rammed: “Cab Rams Protesters; 5 Hurt,” NYDN, January 25, 1972. Two attempts on his life followed: “Author Shot,” WP, January 16, 1972; “Violence Besets Newsman After Book on Newark Riots,” WP, January 19, 1972. Newark Boys Chorus School: “Vandalized Buses Bring an Inquiry,” NYT, January 5, 1972.
587 “What burns me to the bottom”: “A Wallace Backer Stirred by Busing,” NYT, May 14, 1972. Then one hot evening: “Irene McCabe and Her Battle Against Busing,” Detroit News Web site, http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=161&category=people.
588 In Washington, D.C., feminist Ti-Grace: Patrick Allitt, Catholic Intellectuals and Conservative Politics in America, 1950–1985 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995), 153. In Mountain Home, Idaho: “The Covered Wagon,” New York Review of Books 17, no. 11 (December 30, 1971). In New Mexico, in the rugged: “Dying Young in New Mexico,” WP, January 16, 1972. See also “State Aides Scored in Albuquerque Riots,” NYT, June 16, 1971; “Albuquerque Divided over Cause of First Major Riot,” NYT, June 20, 1971.
588 The federal commissioner of public services: Philadelphia Inquirer, February 9, 1972. In January, police in New York: “Police in 3 Cities Defuse Bombs Placed in 8 Banks,” NYT, January 8, 1972; “FBI Seeking Soldier in Bank Bombs Case,” WP, January 14, 1972; “U.S. Extends Hunt for Bomber to Europe,” CT, January 15, 1972.&edition=&startpage=S7&desc=U.+S.+Extends+Hunt+for+Bomber+to+Europe) Stanford and H. Bruce Franklin: “Radical Professor Firing Approved,” WP, January 10, 1972; “Stanford Fire Laid to Arson,” WP, January 18, 1972. The next day, in Miami: “Addenda,” WP, January 19 1972, A9. That same day, Mayor Daley: “Chicago Water Called Safe from Poisons,”&edition=&startpage=1&desc=Chicago+Water+Called+Safe+from+Poisons) “Poison Plot Story Stuns Friends of Two Suspects,”&edition=&startpage=7&desc=Poison+Plot+Story+Stuns+Friends+of+Two+Suspects) “Tighten Water Plant Guard After Poison Scare Arrests,” CT, January 19, 1972.&edition=&startpage=1&desc=Tighten+Water+Plant+Guard+After+Poison+Scare+Arrests)
589 “Typical of the group”: Richard Reeves, President Nixon: Alone in the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 322. “The show was a total glorification”: Ibid.
589 Two University of Michigan English professors: Christopher Russell Reaske, ed., Student Voices on Political Action, Culture, and the University (New York: Random House, 1971). Black Viewpoints, a Signet paperback: Black Viewpoints (New York: Signet, 1971). Michigan, BU, Princeton gynecological clinics: “Colleges Expand Modern Psychiatric Aid,” NYT, January 1, 1972.
589 “after reading this book”: Julius Lester, “Blacks Rage to Live,” New York Times Book Review, November 22, 1970. On August 21, Jackson was shot: “‘Soledad Brother’ and 5 Are Killed in Prison Battle,” NYT, August 22, 1971; Charles R. Ashman, The People vs. Angela Davis: The Trial of the Century (New York: Pinnacle, 1972). A black crime wave broke out: “Anti-Negro Group Vexing Police in Wilmington, N.C.,” NYT, October 1, 1971. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana: “Muslims Blamed as Four Die in Baton Rouge Racial Disorder,” LAT, January 11, 1972. In upstate New York: “Syracuse Seeks a Truce Between White and Black Youths,” NYT, August 8, 1971.
590 Attica riot: Tom Wicker, A Time to Die (New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Books, 1975).
592 The Chicago Tribune ran: “What Do You Think of the Handling of the Attica Prison Riot,” CT, September 15, 1971.&edition=&startpage=2&desc=What+Do+You+Think+of+the+Handling+of+the+Attica+Prison+Riot%3F)
592 Lindsay, Agnew, Attica responses: WP, January 20, 1972. Nelson Rockefeller shocked his liberal: “Agitation at Attica: Rockefeller,” NYT, September 25, 1971. Muskie response: Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg, The Real Majority: An Extraordinary Examination of the American Electorate (New York: Coward McCann, 1980), 15.
592 “Sometimes when I see those columns”: PPP 222, July 6, 1971.
593 Fielding break-in: Lukas, Nightmare, 99–101; Liddy, Will, 163–69.
593 The Plumbers sketched out possible: Ibid., 170.
594 On September 8 the president: Reeves, President Nixon, 368; NLT, conversation 274–42.
594 “We have the power”: Stanley Kutler, Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes (New York: Free Press, 1997), 29.
594 “Bob, please get me the names”: Ibid., 31.
594 In truth, the responsible: Francis X. Winters, The Year of the Hare: America in Vietnam, January 25, 1963–February 15, 1964 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999).](http://www.amazon.com/Year-Hare-America-Vietnam-1963-February/dp/0820321214/ref=sr13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217995111&sr=1-3)
595 At a September 16 press conference: PPP 292, September 16, 1971.
595 Indeed, none of his briefers: Lukas, Nightmare, 83.
595 AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL: Reeves, President Nixon, 371; Lukas, Nightmare, 84.
595 “Five million might finance McCarthy”: NLT, Colson and Nixon conversation, December 23, 1971. Another was to secretly push a black: “Nixon’s Fateful Reversal,” WP, October 30, 1997; Reeves, President Nixon, 371. by January McCarthy announced: “White House Discounts Bid by Ashbrook,” NYT, January 2, 1972.
596 also in January, Colson: Reeves, President Nixon, 424.
596 Antonin Scalia and White House OTP: Public Broadcasting PolicyBase, “Nixon Administration Public Broadcasting Papers: Summary of 1971,” http://www.current
.org/pbpb/nixon/nixon71.html. “all funds for Public Broadcasting”: Ibid.
596 The News Twisters: David Brock, The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy (New York: Crown, 2004), 26–33; Jonathan Aitken, Charles W. Colson: A Life Redeemed (New York: Continuum, 2006), 143–44.
596 Bestseller lists: See, for example, Time, December 13, 1971.
597 “They’re using any means”: Kutler, Abuse of Power, 8.
597 The New Yorker ran a cartoon: “Lessons from Watergate: A Derivative for Psychoanalysis,” Psychoanalytic Quarterly 45 (1976): 37–61.
597 “I thought your delegation”: Joseph Persico, The Imperial Rockefeller: A Biography of Nelson A. Rockefeller (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), 80.
597 “The Carpenters are hardly”: “Those Reassuring Carpenters,” CT, August 16, 1971.&edition=&startpage=B17&desc=Those+Reassuring+Carpenters)
597 in a 1966 Esquire profile: Gay Talese, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” Esquire, April 1966. “I’ll do anything to defeat that bum”: Kitty Kelley, His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra (New York: Bantam Books, 1987), 424.
598 “Okie from Muskogee” and “Welfare Cadillac”: “Love It or Leave It: New Patriotic Music Wins Fans, Enemies,” WSJ, August 18, 1970.
598 Polling on economy: Reeves, President Nixon, 351. He had excoriated: PPP 250, August 4, 1971.
599 “That little Jew cocksucker”: Reeves, President Nixon, 343.
599 My account of Connally hiring and New Economic Policy is drawn from Allen J. Matusow, Nixon’s Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998). An added source on Nixon’s conviction of America’s economic limits comes from John Judis, Grand Illusion: Critics and Champions of the American Century (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992), 190–224.
600 Colson explained the bottom line: Jefferson Cowie, “Nixon’s Class Struggle: Romancing the New-Right Worker, 1969–1973,” Labor History 43 (Summer 2002): 257–83.
601 “Nobody asked,” a historian observed: Matusow, Nixon’s Economy, 154.
602 The speech began with a boast: PPP 264, August 15, 1971.
603 “Nixon Stuns Democrats”: Nick Thimmesch, WP, September 2, 1971.
603 “In all the years”: Matusow, Nixon’s Economy, 156. The stock market joined: Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World (New York: Touchstone Books, 1999), 63. Time once more rhapsodized: “Nixon’s Grand Design for Recovery,” Time, August 30, 1971.
603 “New Score Is Dow 32”: Matusow, Nixon’s Economy, 156.
603 “Robin Hood in reverse”: Ibid., 158. The only national politician: Gordon L. Weil, The Long Shot: George McGovern Runs for President (New York: W. W. Norton, 1973), 129.
603 On August 17 he became: PPP 268.
604 “clearly this divides the Democrats”: Jonathan Schell, The Time of Illusion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), 183.
604 By the standards set by HEW: Allen J. Matusow, The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s (New York: HarperCollins, 1984), 193. Joe Kraft hoped: “Holding Line on Busing,” WP, January 20, 1972. But the “fanatics” spoke for: George Gallup, “76% of Public Opposes Busing,” WP, November 1, 1970. Nixon ordered Ehrlichman: H. R. Haldeman, The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994), 328.
604 John Mitchell proposed Richard Poff: John W. Dean, Blind Ambition: The White House Years (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976), 49–50.
605 “He’s a real reactionary”: Reeves, President Nixon, 376. “Fuck him”: Ibid., 383. “The simple fact is that”: Ibid.
605 Powell was the author of a memo: The full text of the August 23, 1971, memo is at http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=22. Rehnquist had reportedly: Letter to the editor, Newsday, March 9, 1972. This quote was in circulation at the time, but I have not been able to verify its authenticity.
605 “Rehnquist is pretty far right”: Reeves, President Nixon, 387.
605 “Conservatives,” he complained: Reeves, President Nixon, 294–95.
605 Buchanan strategy memos: Schell, Time of Illusion, 180–81.
606 Even the most conservative: “5 Democrats Ask Nixon to Set Date for Pullout,” NYT, April 23, 1971.
606 “The sooner we get the hell”: Reeves, President Nixon, 382.