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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 THIRTY: THE PARTY OF JEFFERSON, JACKSON, AND GEORGE WALLACE
607 There might be five serious parties: “Splinter Politics,” NYT, January 2, 1972. Wicker’s more sober colleague: “Reporting the Campaign,” NYT, January 7, 1972.
607 The president’s approval rating: “President Holds Firm at 49 Pct.,” WP, January 20, 1972. The January 17 Harris: “Sen. Muskie Pulls Up Even with Nixon in Trial Heat,” WP, January 17, 1972. The day after the Harris poll: “Selling of the President Will Be Musical,” NYT, January 19, 1972; see also “Ads in ‘Selling of President’ Musical Irk McGinniss,” NYT, March 3, 1972, 28: ironically the play of McGinniss’s anti–Madison Avenue book included a product placement for a pesticide company owned by one of the investors. When the president sat down: “Nixon Shows He Is an Old Hand at TV Techniques,” NYT, January 5, 1972. The “Anderson papers”: See, for instance, “A Look at How Foreign Relations Are Conducted Now,” WP, January 20, 1972, and Art Buchwald’s humor column “Another Secret Document,” the same day. The New York Times editorialized: “The President in 1971,” NYT, January 2, 1972.
608 in real life, during its run: “Pet Slayer Strikes Again,” CT, January 14, 1972.&edition=&startpage=3&desc=Pet+Slayer+Strikes+Again)
608 In the entertainment pages: These films are from NYT, January 4, 7, 1972; LAT, January 12, 1972; and CT, January 15, 1972. Rex Reed called the new western: “Blood Bath for Sadists,” NYDN, January 21, 1972. Two reviews of Clockwork Orange: “‘Orange’—‘Disorienting but Humane Comedy’”; “. . . Or ‘A Dangerous, Criminally Irresponsible Horror Show’?”; both in NYT, January 9, 1972, Arts and Leisure section.
608 Topps trading cards of 1972 presidential candidates are occasionally available on eBay. Democrats hoped he would not: “Democrats Spin Wheel to Allocate Hotels, Seats at Miami,” WP, January 20, 1972.
609 Only one thing was certain: “Kennedy Ties Viet Deaths, Nixon Policies,” WP, January 18, 1972.
609 California Democrats announced: “Kennedy to Appear at Democratic Rally in L.A. Next Month,” LAT, January 12, 1972. then the next day: “Kennedy Plans to Inform Florida That He Won’t Seek Nomination,” NYT, January 12, 1972.
609 Five days later his friend: NYDN, January 23, 1972.
609 Patsy Mink and Secret Service protection: NYDN, January 23, 1972. Edward T. Coll: “Benefit Is Minimal; N.H. Debate Has Minimal Benefit,” WP, March 6, 1972. Sam Yorty, the Los Angeles mayor: Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 (New York: Popular Library, 1973), 52, 80.
610 “Moscow Muskie”: “Muskie Scores N.H. Publisher,” WP, February 11, 1972. Wilbur Mills, the powerful chairman: Thompson, Fear and Loathing, 208; poll is “Democrats, in Debt, Turn Down Fund-Raising Idea,” NYT, January 9, 1972. Senator Vance Hartke made a: Ibid.
610 Pete McCloskey: “Simon to Auction About 70 Works,” NYT, March 30, 1971; “McCloskey’s Campaign: Truth-in-Government Issue Is Key Hope,” NYT, January 6, 1971. John Ashbrook: “Nixon’s Too Left-Wing for William Loeb,” NYT, December 12, 1971; “White House Discounts Bid by Ashbrook,” NYT, January 2, 1972. “end as all previous attempts”: Matusow, Nixon’s Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998), 157. Nixon moved to buy off: PPP 387, December 9, 1971; NYDN, January 25, 1972, on Otepka. It worked: National Review: Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (New York: Mariner Books, 2002), preface, xv.
610 Henry “Scoop” Jackson: Richard J. Whalen, “Will the Real Majority Stand Up for Scoop Jackson?” NYTM, October 3, 1971. The New York Times reported, “He hopes”: “Jackson Believes He Must Win Florida Primary or Forget Presidential Bid,” NYT, September 30, 1971.
611 He switched parties for a presidential: Vincent J. Cannato, The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and the Battle to Save New York (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 500. “a combination of decadence and barbarism”: Ibid., 146.]http://books.google.com/books?id=Upv5ezVPBOMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ungovernable+city&ei=S_WcSJ2iEYryiwGP67H7BA&sig=ACfU3U2wJ-lA4vsQx0umMVOxEQJ0Q1T1vg#PPA147,M1) even though the welfare population: [Kenneth S. Baer, Reinventing Democrats: The Politics of Liberalism from Reagan to Clinton (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000), 25. even though the Knapp Commission: “The Knapp Commission Didn’t Know It Couldn’t Be Done,” NYTM, January 9, 1972. A survey by the Addicts Rehabilitation Center: Charles Rangel, “Do You Know Any 12-Year-Old Junkies?” NYT, January 4, 1972. “City Restrooms May Be Razed”: New York Post, January 30, 1972. “42d Street Crowd Helps Robber Flee”: NYT, January 5, 1972.
611 Forest Hills and scatter-site housing: Paul Cowan, Tribes of America: Journalistic Discoveries of Our People and Their Cultures (New York: New Press, 2008), 113–31; Jack Newfield, Bread and Roses, Too (New York: Dutton, 1971), 188.
612 Lindsay’s presidential strategy: “Running Against ‘Washington,’” NYT, January 1, 1972; Cannato, Ungovernable City, 516–18.
612 “I will not tolerate gang rule”: “Rizzo Takes Post in Philadelphia,” NYT, January 4, 1972; Jefferson Decker, “Frank Rizzo, Richard Nixon, and Law-and-Order” (master’s thesis, Department of History, Columbia University, 2003). Nixon received Rizzo in the Oval Office: Ibid.; H. R. Haldeman, The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994), 401.
612 “I’m tired of those kooks”: Richard Reeves, President Nixon: Alone in the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 324. Wallace in Florida: Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origin of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996), 412–25; Reeves, President Nixon, 424; Thompson, Fear and Loathing, 429.
613 Shirley Chisholm: Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed (documentary, Shola Lynch, dir., 2004).
613 “I would announce on Inauguration Day”: Playboy, August 1971.
614 Dutton insisted that “some of”: Frederick G. Dutton, Changing Sources of Power: American Politics in the 1970s (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971), 28. “the growing edge of the present”: Ibid., xi.
614 Scotty Reston was one of Dutton’s: “Reporting the Campaign,” NYT, January 7, 1972. It brought in an immediate eighty-five thousand: Rick Perlstein, “Ms. Magazine: Feminist Fighter,” Columbia Journalism Review, November 2001.
614 All he had to show for it: “Muskie Has Lead Among Democrats,” WP, January 23, 1972.
615 George McGovern background: Robert Sam Anson, McGovern: A Biography (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972); documentary One Bright Shining Moment (Stephen Vittoria, dir., 2005).
616 Jimmy the Greek, the Vegas oddsmaker: Jack Anderson, “Jimmy the Greek Calls Election Shots,” WP, January 19, 1972.
616 McGovern had faced his first: Shirley MacLaine, You Can Get There from Here (New York: W. W. Norton, 1975), 63. When McGovern had announced: Wicker, On Press, 61.
616 McGovern in Paris: Gordon L. Weil, Long Shot: George McGovern Runs for President (New York: W. W. Norton, 1973), 22–27; “McGovern Meets Vietcong as War-Study Trip Begins,” NYT, September 10, 1971.
617 Then he flew to Saigon: “McGovern Begins a Fact-Finding Tour of Vietnam,” NYT, September 14, 1971; “McGovern Says Pullout Would Topple Thieu,” WP, September 16, 1971.
617 Nixon had held a November: PPP 356, November 12, 1971. Then, on Christmas Day: Jonathan Schell, The Time of Illusion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), 203.
617 After that, Nixon made: PPP 12, January 13, 1972.
617 The only real antiwar action:Reeves, President Nixon, 314. On New Year’s Eve in Times Square: “Revelers by Thousands Usher in Frosty New Year,” NYT, January 1, 1972.
618 POWS NEVER HAVE A NICE DAY: Steven V. Roberts, Eureka (New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Books, 1974), 20. “Following the President’s lead”: Schell, Time of Illusion, 231. Dan Rather asked the president: PPP 1, January 2, 1972.
618 “It is simply not true”: “McGovern Bids U.S. Set Pullout Date,” NYT, January 9, 1972.
619 “They’re out on a limb there”: Reeves, President Nixon, 426.
619 The president stepped up to the TV: PPP 21, January 25, 1972.
620 A New York Times editorial: “President’s Peace Proposals,” NYT, January 26, 1972. “After really listening”: NYDN, January 27, 1972. Hugh Scott and Sybil Stockdale: Ibid.
621 “Mr. President, stop the bombing”: Reeves, President Nixon, 429; January 30, 1972, Saturday News clipping in BBP, Box 259.
621 The Digest had responded: Reader’s Digest, June 1967. Philip Berrigan and Harrisburg 7 trial origins: Chronological clippings in BBP; Cowan, Tribes of America, 275–99.
623 After all, Bob Haldeman had: “Nixon’s Aide Says Peace-Plan Foes Help the Enemy,” NYT, February 8, 1972; “Chief of Staff in the White House,” NYT, February 8, 1972; James Reston, “The Haldeman Case,” NYT, February 9, 1972.
623 The first Democratic presidential contest: NYDN, January 26, 1972. “The Muskie bandwagon”: One Bright Shining Moment (Stephen Vittoria, dir., 2005).
623 Dirty tricks: Schell, Time of Illusion, 218–22, 289; Robert Novak, The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years of Reporting in Washington (New York: Crown Forum, 2007), 218; Reeves, President Nixon, 413.
624 China trip: Margaret MacMillan, Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World (New York: Random House, 2007); Reeves, President Nixon), 432–57; Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Pat Nixon: The Untold Story (New York: Kensington Publishing, 1987), 133–37; William Burr, ed., The Kissinger Transcripts: The Top-Secret Talks with Beijing and Moscow (New York: New Press, 1998), 59–65. Another detail of timing: Reeves, President Nixon, 432.
626 “Let there be freedom of choice!”: PPP 1, January 2, 1972. “last summer, a woman”: “In Small Town, U.S.A., Women’s Liberation Is Either a Joke or a Bore,” NYT, March 22, 1972. Phyllis Schlafly Report: Peter B. Levy, ed., America in the Sixties—Left, Right, and Center: A Documentary History (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998), 154–55.
627 “Mrs. Nixon’s presence in Peking”: Chicago Today, February 22, 1972.
627 Ronald Reagan explained to a Philadelphia: Douglas Brinkley, “The President’s Pen Pal,” New Yorker, July 26, 1999. The next Gallup poll affirmed: “Nixon Favored by 83% of Republicans,” WP, March 2, 1972.
628 “I’d like to rearrange a front page”: Reeves, President Nixon, 650. And at breakfast the day before: Ibid., 454.
628 Agnew, not unconvincingly: “UAW Defers Stand on Presidential Race,” WP, January 16, 1972. “His caution and prudence”: Jules Witcover, The Making of an Ink-Stained Wretch: Half a Century Pounding the Political Beat (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), 148. “Muskie Campaign Still Lacks Spark”: NYT, November 21, 1971.
628 “Canuck” letter and response: David Broder, “Muskie Denounces Publisher,” WP, February 27, 1972; Witcover, Making of an Ink-Staind Wretch, 154–56.
628 The next day a lacerating front-page: Schell, Time of Illusion, 218–19.
629 A White House staffer: “FBI Finds Nixon Aides Sabotaged Democrats,” WP, October 20, 1972; Jules Witcover, “‘Canuck’ Episode: A ’72 Dirty Trick,” WP, September 13, 1973.
629 For overview of Don Segretti and his activities: “Sabotage by Segretti: Network of Amateurs,” NYT, July 10, 1973; Schell, Time of Illusion, 221; Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 199; Reeves, President Nixon, 424; Lukas, Nightmare, 152–60.
629 “Now, get a massive mailing”: “Kennedy, Muskie, Jackson Eyed for Nixon Dirty Tricks in ’71,” WP, October 30, 1997.
631 “I don’t want him in”: Reeves, President Nixon, 301.
631 He had been on a flight: Ibid., 324. A few days later Wallace drawled casually: Ibid., 324.
632 Three months later, Evans and Novak: “The Nixon-Wallace Détente,” WP, January 19, 1972.
632 On January 2, 1972, when Dan Rather: PPP 1, January 2, 1972. John Mitchell funneled $10,000: Schell, Time of Illusion, 217.
632 “Harlem for Muskie Committee”: Ibid., 218; Lukas, Nightmare, 162.
632 it was McGovern’s “straight, decent”: Thompson, Fear and Loathing.
633 McGovern’s was the only viable campaign: Lukas, Nightmare, 165 (Buchanan: “We must do as little as possible at this time to impede McGovern’s rise”).
633 Florida commercials: James Moorehead Perry, Us & Them: How the Press Covered the 1972 Election (New York: Crown, 1973). Muskie whistle-stopped: Thompson, Fear and Loathing, 112. Muskie’s publicity man: Ibid., 97.
633 On “Citizens for Muskie” letterhead: Schell, Time of Illusion, 220; Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Packaging the Presidency: A History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising, 3rd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 279.
633 “Muskie is a rat fink”; “Mothers Backing Muskie”: Ibid.; Lukas, Nightmare, 157.
634 Florida results: Thompson, Fear and Loathing, 129.
634 “As Gene McCarthy made America”: Saturday Review, March 11, 1972.
634 He spoke to the nation—on St. Patrick’s Day: PPP 90, March 16, 1972. Wallace, thrilled, took it: “Call for a Curb on Busing,” CT, March 18, 1972.&edition=&startpage=S8&desc=Call+for+a+Curb+on+Busing)