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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 MagazinePDP: 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 THREE: THE STENCH
44 President Eisenhower sent Nixon: Fawn Brodie, Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981), 316–20.
44 Nixon and Joe McCarthy: David Greenberg, Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), 56-57.
45 1954 campaign: Brodie, Richard Nixon, 313–15, 329; Greenberg, Nixon’s Shadow, 122.
45 Eisenhower’s heart attack: Richard Nixon, Six Crises (New York: Doubleday, 1962), 131–81; Brodie, Richard Nixon, 349.
45 “Dump Nixon” movement: Ibid., 247, 330, 350–53.
46 Nixon, Stevenson, Galbraith, and 1956 campaign: Ibid., 312, 327, 356–58; Greenberg, Nixon’s Shadow, 61,67; John Judis, Grand Illusion: Critics and Champions of the American Century (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992), 198.
46 “What does concern me”: “The Speech,” Time, August 4, 1952.
47 “Please! Not while I’m eating”: Greenberg, Nixon’s Shadow, 37. “The world is so much more dangerous”: Brodie, Richard Nixon, 328.
48 America’s history with Latin America: Lars Schoultz, Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy Toward Latin America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), esp. chapter 17. Nixon in South America: Richard Nixon, Six Crises (New York: Doubleday, 1962), 183–243; Brodie, Richard Nixon, 362–63, 371–73. Earl Mazo, Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959, 203–46.
49 “The nomination of Slippery Dick”: George W. Johnson, New Republic, May 26, 1958.
49 Right-to-work and 1958 election: Brodie, Richard Nixon, 374, 414; Charles Baird, “Right to Work Before and After 14(b),” http://www.sbe.csuhayward.edu/~sbesc/14bb.html.
49 And it was Richard Nixon: “Democrats Gain 6 Senate Seats,” NYT, November 5, 1958.
50 For Nixon’s enduring bitterness see, for example, the wire to a Bob Hope testimonial dinner in New York on March 31, 1961, on display at RNLB: “You can’t get much lower on the celebrity scale than a retired vice-president, but let me raise a humble voice in behalf of aspiring lawyers, golfing duffers, and at least 49.9 percent of Bob Hope fans everywhere (except Cook County and certain parts of Texas): we salute you Bob for the recognition so richly deserved . . .”
50 Memories of Eisenhower: Chris Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America (New York: Free Press, 1997), 137.
50 Memories of his mother: Claire and John Whitcomb, Real Life at the White House: 200 Years of Daily Life at America’s Most Famous Residence (New York: Routledge, 2000), 385.
50 Memories of Walter Cronkite: Mark Feeney, Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 47.
50 Memories of Henry Luce: William Martin, With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America (New York: Broadway Books, 1996), 54.
50 John F. Kennedy’s good fortune: Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon, 28–33; Thomas P. O’Neill, Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Tip O’Neill (New York: Random House, 1989), 83.
51 They weren’t unfriendly: Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon, 90–102.
52 Promise to campaign in fifty states: Brodie, Richard Nixon, 356, 424–25. Staph infection and travels: Theodore H. White, Making of the President 1960 (New York: Atheneum, 1961), 272–78).
52 “Television is not as effective”: Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon, 144.
52 Kennedy debate preparations: Museum of Broadcast Communications panel discussion with Howard K. Smith, Sander Vanocur, Don Hewitt, Ted Sorenson, and Herb Klein, September 26, 2000.
52 Day of debate: Ibid.; White, Making of the President, 283–90; Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon, 144–56. Viewed at Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago.
54 He would recite the number of meetings: Brodie, Richard Nixon, 421.
57 The January issue of Esquire: “The New Mood in Politics,” Esquire, January 1960, reprinted in Carol Polsgrove, ed., It Wasn’t Pretty, Folks, but Didn’t We Have Fun?: Esquire in the Sixties (New York: W. W. Norton, 1995).
57 John Steinbeck said that month: John Steinbeck, America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction (New York: Penguin Classics, 2003), 108. That same January, the Los Angeles Times: “Times to Carry Column by Sen. Barry Goldwater,” LAT, January 16, 1960.
58 Nixon’s “Last Press Conference”: Jules Witcover, The Resurrection of Richard Nixon (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970), 13–23.
58 Theodore White and Kennedy for president button: John C. Lundgren, Healing Richard Nixon: A Doctor’s Memoir (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003), 65. “One could listen to such a speech”: White, Making of the President, 272–78), 335.
59 Write a book, Jack Kennedy once advised: Nixon, Six Crises, preface. Joseph Kennedy fixing Pulitzer: Thomas C. Reeves, A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy (New York: Free Press, 1991), 142. “For the next twelve years”: Nixon, Six Crises, 82.
59 “relaxed and quick with a wisecrack”: David Broder and Stephen Hess, The Republican Establishment: The Present and Future of the GOP (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 152.
59 Decision to run for governor: Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon, 194, 203–6; USNWR, August 7, 1961; CT, September 24, 1961; Matthew Dallek, The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan’s First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics (New York: Free Press, 2000), 21; Kurt Schuparra, Triumph of the Right: The Rise of the California Conservative Movement, 1945–1966 (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998), 61; Richard Nixon, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978), 293–97.
59 Joe Shell and California far right: Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (New York: Hill & Wang, 2001), 165–67.
60 Brown accused Nixon: Nixon, RN, 241. “Would you buy a used car from this man?”: Joseph Lewis, What Makes Reagan Run?: A Political Profile (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968), 64.
61 “Barring a miracle”: “California: Career’s End,” Time, November 16, 1962.
61 The Political Obituary of Richard Nixon: Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 55.
61 Nixon stood out in the cold: Nixon, RN, 227.
61 Nixon and 1964 election: Perlstein, Before the Storm, 198–99, 253, 261, 286–98, 310–11, 318, 325, 331–32, 337, 353, 358–59.
65 Then he played peacemaker: Philip A. Klinkner, The Losing Parties: Out-Party National Committees, 1956–1993 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995), 73–74; Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 105–8.
65 The media was so starved for someone: Tamar Jacoby, Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration (New York: Free Press, 1998), 74.
65 Nixon’s ambiguous stature was sanctified: “Over-Nominated, Under-Elected, Still a Promising Candidate,” NYTM, April 25, 1965.
66 His job itself had roots in a chit: Brodie, Richard Nixon, 385. For Nixon office kitsch see Nixon Room at the Bonnie Bell Wardman Library at Whittier College.
66 Rose Mary Woods: Leonard Garment, Crazy Rhythm: From Brooklyn and Jazz to Nixon’s White House, Watergate, and Beyond (New York: Crown, 1997), 101; Kutler, Wars of Watergate, 82; “Nixon’s Real Enforcer,” NYTM, December 25, 2005. she typed up ingratiating notes: RNLB, PPS 32-.103.332K; PPS 501.1.4; PPS 320.103.332H; PPS 324.243f; PPS 324.244A; PPS 238.59.35.
67 “For the United States to negotiate”: Andrew L. Johns, “A Voice from the Wilderness: Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War, 1964–1966,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 29 (1999). A trip to Finland: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 111–12.
67 His domestic politics now: “Over-Nominated, Under-Elected.” A PR flack named Bill Safire: Maurice Stans, The Terrors of Justice: The Untold Story of Watergate (Washington: Brassey’s, 1995), 127.
67 Eugene Genovese affair: James Surowiecki, “Genovese’s March,” Lingua Franca, November/December 1996; Garment, Crazy Rhythm, 111–12; Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 116–19; Nation, November 15, 1965.