Rick Perlstein

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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 SEVEN: BATTING AVERAGE 141 He said the president might: “Nixon Forecasts Vietnam Buildup,” NYT, September 14, 1966.
141 Nixon hit Ohio: “Nixon Warns of Peril to Two-Party System,” NYT, September 15, 1966; Cincinnati Inquirer, September 15, 1966.
141 Denver, Davenport, Salt Lake City: USNWR, September 16, 1966; Rocky Mountain News, September 16, 1966; “Nixon in Iowa,” NYT, September 16, 1966; “Nixon Would Curb Shipping to Hanoi,” NYT, September 17, 196 141 thought Garry Wills: Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970), 13.
142 In Gallup’s poll: D. Duane Angel, Romney: A Political Biography (New York: Exposition Press, 1967), 220. To the talking heads: See, for example, “GOP Governors Seen Trying for Moderate in ’68,” LAT, July 5, 1966.&edition=&startpage=1&desc=GOP+Governors+Seen+Trying+for+Moderate+in+%2768)
143 This new political science: Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York: Signet, 1964); Nixon citation from 2001 Routledge edition, 360. “Republican Camelot”: See the chapter by that name in Wills, Nixon Agonistes, 219.
143 George Romney: “The Dinosaur Hunter,” Time, April 6, 1959; “The Citizen’s Candidate,” Time, November 16, 1962. Charles Percy: “A Delicate Business,” Time, March 31, 1967; “The Temper of the Times,” Time, April 14, 1967; Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (New York: Hill & Wang, 2001), 56, 79. “the first Kennedy Republican”: George D. Wolfe, William Warren Scranton: Pennsylvania Statesman (State College: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981) 65. “He is fresh”: Vincent J. Cannato, The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and the Battle to Save New York (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 43.
143 “A man needs money”: Wills, Nixon Agonistes, 219–20.
143 “Where Beame symbolized”: Cannato, Ungovernable City, 64. “the first leader his party”: CQ Political Report, November 12, 1965. “Will the real liberal”: Cannato, Ungovernable City, 64.
144 “Do you realize that”: Ibid., 63.
144 “The thorough research”: Ibid., 73. “A Long Six Months”: NYT, July 4, 1966, 14.
144 New York Civilian Complaint Review Board campaign: Cannato, Ungovernable City, 45, 155–83; “25,000 Police Against the Review Board,” NYTM, October 16, 1966; “Cassese Asserts Reds Back Board,” NYT, September 20, 1966; Tamar Jacoby, Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration (New York: Free Press, 1998), 98–100; Nick Salvatore interview; Ryan Hayes interview. See also Peter Maas, Serpico (New York: Viking, 1973). 146 On September 20, Gerald Ford: “Right Backers Fear Backlash,” NYT, September 21, 1966.
147 “Brown looked out the window”: Bill Boyarsky, The Rise of Ronald Reagan (New York: Random House, 1968), 127.
147 The next day, Ronald Reagan: “Ronald for Real,” Time, October 7, 1966.
148 “I am afraid of what lies”: David J. Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (New York: Harper Perennial, 1999), 532. Atlanta’s conscience-stricken: Reporter magazine, October 22, 1966; “A Candidate of Conscience” and “A Rebellious Southerner,” NYT, October 4, 1966; “Charles L. Weltner, 64, Chief Justice of Georgia,” NYT, September 2, 1992.
148 At the New Southern Hotel: “Nixon Asks GOP to Unite in South,” NYT, September 30, 1966. “In building this party”: “Nixon on the Stump—an Old-Timer at 53,” NYT, October 2, 1966.
148 The New York Times was impressed: Ibid.
148 The media reported: “LBJ Rapped by Romney on Inflation,” WP, September 30, 1966.
148 “declare victory and go home”: “Aiken Suggests U.S. Say It Has Won War,” NYT, October 20, 1966. “From diplomats in Tokyo”: Jules Witcover, The Resurrection of Richard Nixon (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970), 157. Arriving in Greensboro: “Nixon Criticizes U.S. Peace Steps,” NYT, September 29, 1966.
149 “He has put politics”: “Nixon Scores Johnson for ‘Politics’ on Peace,” NYT, October 2, 1966. “If Mr. Goldberg’s naive”: NYT, September 29, 1966; Nixon to Eisenhower, October 4, 1966, RNLB, PPS 324.*246.5.
149 In Chicago, on October 8: “Draft Charter of Free Asia, Nixon Urges,” NYT, October 9, 1966.
149 Then he broke: Leonard Garment, Crazy Rhythm: From Brooklyn and Jazz to Nixon’s White House, Watergate, and Beyond (New York: Crown, 1997), 90.
149 “GOP Will Press Racial Disorders”: NYT, October 4, 1966, 1.
150 Whereas, in 1964: David A. Nichols, A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007), 269.
150 In Milwaukee, members: “Rights Unit Gets Own Commandos,” NYT, October 9, 1966. He didn’t ask for an injunction: “Shotgun Blast Hits Home of Wisconsin Klan Chief,” NYT, October 9, 1966.
150 So Republican candidates posed: “GOP Dramatizes Inflation as Key Issue,” NYT, October 5, 1966. Paul Douglas complained: The New Republic, October 22, 1966; “Senator Douglas Takes the Gloves Off,” NYT, October 20, 1966; see also, for instance, Rantoul, Illinois, speech, March 18, 1966, PDP, Box 1108, Campaign Correspondence. A frank GOP official explained: “GOP Dramatizes Inflation as Key Issue.”
150 Charles Percy went on CBS’s: “Percy Finds Rival Hurt by Backlash,” NYT, October 17, 1966; Saturday Evening Post, November 5, 1966. “I am for open”: “Senator Douglas Takes the Gloves Off.”
150 Handbills started appearing: PDP, Box 1117, Percy Materials. See also brochure for John Lanigan for state senate with bungalow on the cover—“when our peaceful parks and streets”—opening onto shooting flames—“are turned over to a ‘non-violent’ marching group.”
151 “Backlash in Jersey Is Favoring Case”: NYT, October 30, 1966, 72.
151 President Johnson spoke: “President Scores GOP in Congress at Newark Rally,” NYT, October 8, 1966.
151 “The leader and the dean”: PPP 504, October 7, 1966.
152 “It hasn’t been too many”: PPP 513, October 12, 1966. At the monument: PPP 510, October 12, 1966.
152 In Delaware the president: PPP 515, October 13, 1966; Stephen Ambrose, Nixon, Vol. 2: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962–1972 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989), 93.
153 Nixon released a statement: “Nixon Bids Johnson Apologize to GOP For ‘Vicious’ Attack,” NYT, October 15, 1966.
153 The president, in Pennsylvania: PPP 528, October 16, 1966. He had just signed: 508, 522, 523, 527, October 11–16, 1966. “In Tight Races Backlash Vote”: NYT, October 17, 1966, 1. 154 Nixon had two weeks: Andrew L. Johns, “A Voice from the Wilderness: Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War, 1964–1966,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 29 (1999).
154“third country” nations: Christian Appy, Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993), 16. In Canberra, Australia: Tom Wells, The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 100.
154 At the Manila summit, Johnson: PPP 548, October 24, 1966; Bill Moyers interview.
154 Then Johnson disembarked: “President Visits G.I.’s in Surprise Trip,” NYT, October 27, 1966.
154 My account of servicemen’s lives in Vietnam is drawn from Appy, Working-Class War, 121–46, 163, 295.
154 On melioidosis: “Vietnam’s Time Bomb,” Time, February 10, 1967. “What he seeks”: “Five Day Bonanza,” Time, December 22, 1967.
155 “bouncing betty”: Appy, Working-Class War, 333. a seventy-five-mile tunnel system: Ibid., 171; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/720577.stm.
155 “There are some who may”: PPP 552, October 26, 1966; Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History (New York: Viking, 1983), 501. 155 In late October, the Republican: WP, October 26, 1966. The chair of the RCCC: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 123.
156 Kalamazoo: “Nixon Says Tax Increase in ’67 Would Touch Off a Recession,” NYT, October 26, 1966. Grand Rapids: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, . Oregon and Spokane: Ibid.; Seattle Times, October 28, 1966; “Nixon Says ‘Johnson Blitz’ Threatens ‘Great Republican Tide,’” NYT, October 28, 1966.
156 In Boise, he noted: “Nixon Fears War as Issue in 1968,” NYT, October 29, 1966.
156 Bill Moyers was on the horn: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 159. At 4:29 a.m., Nixon woke them: Ibid.
156 “How can you have your mother”: “Inside Report: Doubts in Nixon Country,” WP, November 3, 1966. 156 No literary critic ever read: William Safire, Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House (New York: Ballantine, 1977), . Just as Nixon worried: PPP 549, October 25, 1966.
157 He started banging out notes: Garment, Crazy Rhythm, 113. In an aboard-plane interview: “Nixon Bids 2 Parties Meet Johnson War,” NYT, November 1, 1966.
157 On November 1, Nixon’s: Jules Witcover, White Knight: The Rise of Spiro Agnew (New York: Random House, 1972), 128.
157 The Republican National Committee had produced: “GOP Gives Party Film Mixed Reviews,” WP, November 2, 1966.
158 On the Thursday morning: Safire, Before the Fall, 36. In the afternoon, Lyndon Johnson: PPP 575, November 3, 1966.
158 Experienced observers had long ago: Bill Moyers interview. Kidney stone: Robert Caro: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (New York: Knopf, 2002), 618–19. Heart attack: Ibid., 622–26. “It’s not an emergency”: PPP 575.
158 “Do you think it will get”: , Before the Fall, 37.
159 “I sold as hard”: Ibid., 38.
159 A gaggle of reporters: Ibid., 36–37.
159 The lead article: “Nixon Criticizes Manila Results,” NYT, November 4, 1966.
159 The jump on page 18: “The Text of Nixon’s Appraisal of Results of Manila Conference on the Vietnam War,” NYT, November 4, 1966.
160 Johnson yowled: Safire, Before the Fall, 38.
160 “I didn’t get weary”: PPP 575, November 3, 1966.
160 Nudges. Murmurs: Jules Witcover describes the press conference scene in Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 162–65.
160 He couldn’t hide that: Ibid., 163.
161 “Says Republican Does Not”: “Johnson Derides Nixon’s Criticism of Manila Stand,” NYT, November 5, 1966. 161 “He hit us!”: Safire, Before the Fall, 39.
161 “The only time to lose”: Fawn Brodie, Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981), 48. Jules Witcover wrote that: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 165.
162 Mike Wallace of CBS: Ibid.; Garment, Crazy Rhythm, 114.
162Then, speaking at the armory: “Nixon Sees Break in Bipartisan Line,” NYT, November 5, 1966. 162 Down at the LBJ Ranch: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 167.
162 Nixon said, “Is every”: “Nixon Defended by Eisenhower After Criticism by the President,” NYT, November 6, 1966.
162 Both parties had been provided: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 167. The RNC had planned: “Nixon May Share TV with Disputed Film,” WP, November 4, 1966. But that never suited: Safire, Before the Fall, 34. They even considered: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 168. The Republicans also: “Bailey Guilty of ‘Smear,’ Laird Says,” WP, November 6, 1966.
163 Sunday morning, Nixon: Ralph de Toledano, One Man Alone: Richard Nixon (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969), 332. “I respect you for the great”: David Broder and Stephen Hess, The Republican Establishment: The Present and Future of the GOP (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 197.
163 “In the space of a single”: Andrew E. Busch, Horses in Midstream: U.S. Midterm Elections and Their Consequences (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999)(http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?title=horses+in+midstream), 101. Handicappers had said: Ryan Hayes interview.
163 Republicans now controlled statehouses: [“The Temper of the Times,” Time, April 14, 1967.
164 By one estimate: Busch, Horses in Midstream, 102,. Lurleen Wallace won: 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), 292. The Georgia gubernatorial race: Bradley R. Rice, “The 1966 Gubernatorial Elections in Georgia” (Ph.D. diss., University of Southern Mississippi, 1982). “The plague of Wallace politics”: Nation, June 6, 1966. Actually, the plague just waited: USNWR, November 21, 1966. NBC’s voter analysis showed only 38 percent of whites voted Democratic in Florida compared to 54 percent previously. The liberal who’d knocked off Judge Smith: Bruce J. Dierenfield, “Conservative Outrage: The Defeat in 1966 of Rep. Howard W. Smith of Virginia,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 89 (1981): 181–205. Nelson Rockefeller survived: CQ Political Notes, December 12, 1966. Nelson’s brother Winthrop: Reporter, October 20, 1966. In New York City, civilian police review: Cannato, Ungovernable City, 183[(http://books.google.com/books?id=Upv5ezVPBOMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ungovernable+city&ei=eMUjSJbXNLW2iQGP95nFDQ&sig=Nej0Al8FrCtrUW3HlSTxkFQMwZ0#PPA183,M1). In Colorado: “Proposition Vote May Doom 5 Men,” NYT, November 10, 1966.
164 They wrote the second chapter: See “Hypotheses Unbound,” [Time, February 3, 1967. A cartoon in the Washington Star: Broder and Hess, Republican Establishment, 3. 79.2 percent turnout in California: Totton J. Anderson and Eugene C. Lee, “The 1966 Election in California,” Western Political Quarterly 20 (June 1967).
164 Illinois results: Robert E. Hartley, Charles H. Percy: A Political Perspective (New York: Rand McNally, 1975), 82. he was detoured through the kitchen: Martha Cleveland, Charles Percy: Strong New Voice from Illinois (Jacksonville, IL: Harris-Wolfe, 1968), 194–97. He was now, said Stewart Alsop: Saturday Evening Post, November 5, 1966.
164 “It was hatred that elected”: David Murray, Charles Percy of Illinois (New York: Harper & Row, 1968), 193. Conservatives had erected: Lee Edwards, Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution (Washington, DC: Regnery, 1995), 364.
165 A ward analysis demonstrated: Richard C. Wade, “Backlash in the Percy Campaign,” Reporter, January 12, 1967; Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary Edsall, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991), 60. See also Robert Evans and Rowland Novak, “Inside Report: The Permanent Backlash,” WP, October 24, 1966. Roman Pucinski was reelected: Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor, American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the Nation (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000), 427.
165 “They believe that backlash”: Herbert Parmet, Richard Nixon and His America (New York: Little, Brown, 1989), 487.
165 “Whether we like it or not”: “Brown Assesses Backlash,” NYT, December 29, 1966. “Maybe they feel Lyndon Johnson”: Busch, Horses in Midstream, 101. Bakersfield punished its Negroes: “Bakersfield, Cali, Rejects Role in Antipoverty Program,” NYT, November 10, 1966.
165 Statistics on Omaha, Ohio urban Poles, and AFL-CIO: Alan Draper, “Labor and the 1966 Elections,” Labor History 30 (1989): 76–92. “It’s nothing personal”: “Backlash Enters Bay State Race; Brooke’s Lead Is Said to Be Dwindling over Issue,” NYT, October 23, 1966.
166 Warren Weaver of the New York Times: “Nixon ‘Bats’ .686 for 1966 Season; Leads Political Averages in Stumping for Winners,” NYT, November 13, 1966.
166 Wasting his time on candidates: Parmet, Richard Nixon and His America, 491. 166 Nixon’s election night: Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 169–70.] 166 He also slurred a confidence: Garment, Crazy Rhythm, 115.