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proudly showed off her bulging closets: McLendon, 78.
“progressive party”: Wall Street Journal, March 25, 1969.
“a smattering of unofficial Republican heavyweights”: Washington Star, July 20, 1969.
“the icing on the cake”: Newsweek, February 16, 1970.
“Mr. A. Chennault”: Office of the President-Elect, December 2, 1968, Chennault archives.
NEXT PERLE MESTA?: Washington Post, January 29, 1969.
“hostess with the mostess” and a “Party Queen”: Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 26, 1969.
“The Tiger Lady”: Washington Sunday News, February 23, 1969.
“Madame Chennault”: Palm Beach Life, March 1969.
“Who told you that?”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 2, 1969.
“no comment”: Washington Post, January 29, 1969.
“manifestly untrue”: Washington Evening Star, February 11, 1969.
Dragon Lady: Ibid.
The FBI was called in to investigate: Washington Daily News, March 4, 1969.
“It’s really a tragic thing”: Ibid.
“What a way to live”: Knight Ridder, January 4, 1970.
“Because of your friendship”: Moretti correspondence, June 18, 1969, SGI archives.
“the biggest tax evader in postwar Italy”: Gerald Posner, God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), 185.
“sufficiently uncomfortable”: Fortune, August 1973.
“Only one light was burning”: Luigi DiFonzo, St. Peter’s Banker: Michele Sindona (New York: Franklin Watts, 1983), 11.
“Rockefeller interests in New York”: Washington Post, June 19, 1969.
“Our policy is to avoid maintaining control of companies as in the past”: Fortune, August 1973.
“an advisor-diplomatic messenger”: Chennault correspondence, December 10, 1968, Chennault archives.
“Stay out of it”: McClendon, 71–72.
“The public must wait for my book”: Washington Sunday Star, July 13, 1969.
“If I tell all”: China Post, August 28, 1969.
A Humphrey aide confirmed: Washington Post, July 10, 1969.
“an insult”: China News, July 22, 1969; New York Times, July 23, 1969.
“Mr. White is an excellent writer”: Chicago Tribune, July 23, 1969.
“The Mysterious Anna Chennault”: Washington Examiner, July 17–19, 1969.
“For whom does Anna Chennault work?”: Ibid.
“She is down here a lot”: Ibid.
“I deny the accusations as false”: Washington Post, July 29, 1969; China News, July 30, 1969.
She referred all further inquiries: Ibid.
“Anna, in rapturous prose”: Washingtonian, September 1969.
a woman “of fierce ambition”: Seattle Times, April 6, 1969.
Mr. Fixit: New York Times, July 31, 2013.
“Since you had the liaison”: Rosen, 69.
President Nixon hosted a state dinner: Washington Post, November 20, 1969.
“high-level title”: Rosen, 60.
More than a dozen Watergate residents: Contested Material Collection, Box 51, Folder Number 16, Nixon Presidential Library.
“was diplomatically out of town”: Washington Post, June 13, 1971.
The General Services Administration reduced its standard rate: Jesse Smith memorandum, September 24, 1971, SGI archives.
stepped up marketing efforts: Ibid.
To capitalize on the excitement surrounding the Kennedy Center: Ibid.
“We are trying everything”: Ibid.
“most receptive”: Villarosa correspondence, October 9, 1970, SGI archives.
Sweden opened a new chancery: Washington Post, October 31, 1971.
for a $14,000 profit: Knight Ridder, January 4, 1970.
now started at $32,000: Ibid.
On the tenth floor: Washington Post, July 23, 1970.
optimism permeated SGI headquarters: SGI board minutes, August 27, 1973, SGI archives.
“Watergate-type”: Washington Post, July 22, 1970.
Henry Winston became president: Washington Evening Star, April 25, 1972.
“In little more than a year”: Newsweek, February 16, 1970.
“overtones of racism”: Arnstein oral history, April 12, 2013.
A waiter from the Watergate Hotel: Globe and Mail, July 25, 2009.
“so I don’t feel left out”: Chennault, The Education of Anna, 199.
“and really swung it”: Washington Evening Star, January 30, 1970.
“to discuss an issue”: Chennault, Education of Anna, 180.
“I love it”: Knight Ridder, January 4, 1970.
“a glittering Potomac Titanic”: Washington Post, May 3, 1970.
CHAPTER FOUR: NOT QUITE PERFECT
“You bring the dollars”: Washington Post, May 3, 1970.
“You have a new boss”: Salgo, 111.
“Republican Bastille”: Washington Post, May 3, 1970.
“in charge of this thing”: Washington Post, February 20, 1970.
“in case they threw firebombs”: Ibid.
“I sure wish”: Ibid.
“say hello”: Washington Post, February 21, 1970.
The next day was peaceful: Ibid.
“absurd”: Washington Evening Star, February 25, 1970.
inscribed a copy: Washington Post, May 3, 1970.
“Hello, gorgeous!”: Washington Sunday Star, October 12, 1969.
“Holy Hell broke loose”: McLendon, 108.
“That letter is what gave me the courage”: Ibid., 109.
“a national celebrity”: Ibid., 104.
“hordes of reporters”: Rosen, 118.
“My family worked for everything”: Ibid., 118–119.
“His answer infuriated me”: McLendon, 174.
“and heard the sound of his world turning upside down”: Rosen, 123.
“What else can I do”: McLendon, 123.
“I love her, that’s all I have to say”: Rosen, 123.
“command post”: McLendon, 123.
to a stint at the U.S. Post Office: Washington Evening Star, April 15, 1970.
“the darling of the press”: Madeleine Edmondson and Alden Duer Cohen, The Women of Watergate (Scarborough House, Briarcliff Manor, NY: Stein and Day/Publishers, 1975), 36.
“I love the Democrats”: McLendon, 124.
“totally unprepared”: Detroit Free Press, July 2, 1972
“like others react to hard liquor”: Ibid.
“Those two months”: McLendon, 137.
“The Silent Majority embraced her as its own”: Ibid., 127.
“It was obvious”: Ibid., 117–118.
“She has to be watched”: Ibid., 200.
Sprinkled throughout: Life, August 8, 1969.
“It’s a disgrace”: Washington Sunday Star, February 1, 1970.
“The noise is terrible”: Newsweek, February 16, 1970.
“It’s not a good place to live”: Knight Ridder, January 4, 1970.
“Once we noticed”: Wall Street Journal, March 25, 1969.
Additional leaks appeared: Evening Star, June 25, 1969.
“We couldn’t breathe at all”: Knight Ridder, January 4, 1970.
“I thought I had seen a lot of water in the submarine service”: Ibid.
“went berserk”: Ibid.
“It’s computerized”: Annelise Anderson interview, October 18, 2016.
“There used to be hotel policemen”: Washington Daily News, March 4, 1969.
“elevator scenes”: Wall Street Journal, March 25, 1969.
“somebody on the inside with a key”: Washington Star, July 20, 1969.
“inside jobs”: Knight Ridder, January 4, 1970.
Carolyn Blount, wife of the postmaster general: Ibid.
“Usually at dinner parties”: Washington Post, August 16, 1970.
The occasion was a farewell dinner: Ibid.
Sally’s parents: Sally Quinn interview,
February 1, 2017.
“They all wanted their parties covered”: Ibid.
“She was extremely aggressive”: Ibid.
“I loved watching her”: Ibid.
“Richard Nixon missed a good party”: Washington Post, November 10, 1969.
“the Watergate is where it’s happening”: Milwaukee Journal, March 10, 1970.
“Your apartment is lovely”: Nancy Reagan correspondence, undated (postmarked March 17, 1972), Chennault archives.
“Miss Woods, please”: Nixon Presidential Library Materials Staff, Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06), Conversation No. 15–126.
“personally telephoned”: Washington Post, November 24, 1971.
“Anna Chennault has beauty”: Los Angeles Times, October 11, 1970.
“Anna Chennault is like a woman with a small bosom”: Palm Beach Post, September 27, 1970.
“If the war in Vietnam were to end tomorrow”: reprinted in Milwaukee Journal, March 10, 1970.
“She still relishes”: Life, October 2, 1970.
“a lonely, frustrated woman”: Edmondson and Duer Cohen, 44.
One night at dinner in Anna Chennault’s penthouse: Chennault, The Education of Anna, 181.
“vastly inadequate”: Miedzinski correspondence, November 1, 1971, Maurice M. Stans papers, Minnesota Historical Society.
Residents were outraged: Robert M. Caldwell correspondence, August 4, 1972, Stans papers.
“a practice followed for the past six years”: Ibid.
When word leaked out: Maurice Stans, The Terrors of Justice: The Untold Side of Watergate (New York: Everest House, 1978), 147.
“They can’t do this”: McLendon, 193.
“Pat and Adele cut them off of every list”: Ibid., 192.
“corrective work”: Brief for Appellees, U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Watergate West, Inc., et al., v. Watergate Improvement Associates, LTD., et al., March 1, 1976.
“temporary and basically ineffective”: Ibid.
The board then retained new engineers: Ibid.
Cecchi could not recall: Cecchi interview, March 2, 2016.
“They weren’t able to document anything”: Washington Post, March 9, 1972.
why did Watergate values keep rising?: Washington Evening Star, March 3, 1972.
Three weeks later, the developers fired back: Washington Evening Star, March 24, 1972.
“Are you crazy?”: Cecchi interview, March 2, 2016.
A check for $2,500: National Archives RG 460: Records of the Watergate special prosecution force—campaign contributions task force, Box 14, National Archives, College Park, Maryland.
On Monday, May 22: Hougan, 139.
He wrote in his logbook: Ibid., 146.
Johnnie Walker Red: E. Howard Hunt, American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate & Beyond (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007), 215.
They emerged at six: Hougan, 146.
The next night: Ibid., 151.
On Monday: Ibid., 152.
“delighted”: Ibid.
The firm identified fifteen different problems: Alice De Angelo, Watergate East Inter-Office Memo, March 9, 1973, Stans papers.
“hippie clothes”: Washington Times, June 16, 1992.
CHAPTER FIVE: THE MAELSTROM
“a sensation”: Patrick J. Buchanan, Nixon’s White House Wars (New York: Crown Forum, 2017), 400.
“His voice was low”: Ibid., 270.
“Holy crap!”: Givner interview, June 20, 2016.
A waiter brought a telephone: Rosen, 297.
“That is just incredible”: Ibid., 300.
“I thought that was strange”: Robert Parry, consortiumnews.com, March 20, 2014.
like any other Sunday: Stans, 80–81.
“Jesus Christ!”: Rosen, 303–305.
“Those bastards”: Ibid., 304.
Liddy asked LaRue to turn up the radio: Ibid., 311.
“I’m not going to stand for all those dirty things that go on”: Ibid., 106.
“He feels she’s suicidal”: Ibid., 322.
“I wondered if you could tell me”: Chennault, Education of Anna, 217.
“I did not know”: Stans, 193–194.
whom Chennault had feted: Washington Evening Star, May 2, 1969.
“I really oughta get going to all these nice parties”: Tape Subject Log, Conversation No. 744–1, June 30, 1972, Nixon Presidential Library.
“aborted”: Stans, 369–370.
“I played right into their hands”: McLendon, 207–208.
admired a blue corduroy sofa: Deborah Gore Dean interview, September 6, 2016.
“may have been too much”: Detroit Free Press, July 2, 1972.
“My bride was tired of traveling”: McCall’s, July 1973.
“plush, spacious duplex”: Washington Daily News, August 7, 1972.
“ridiculously low”: McLendon, 211.
“Everybody’s taste is different”: Washington Daily News, August 7, 1972.
“Goodie, goodie”: McLendon, 217.
“We’ll have to vote”: Washington Evening Star and Daily News, September 21, 1972.
twentieth-largest bank: Forbes, December 1972.
“You must believe me”: Ibid.
“Sindona’s reasons”: Fortune, October 1974.
“In Italy I would go to jail”: Forbes, December 1972.
“financial gangster”: Business Week, April 29, 1972.
“final touch”: Washington Evening Star and Daily News, September 15, 1972.
“airport bazaar flavor”: Washington Post, August 6, 1972.
“The serious financial and structural correction problems”: Caldwell correspondence, Stans papers.
added two requests: Stans correspondence, August 8, 1972, Stans papers.
“It was the first time I met Bob”: Bob and Elizabeth Dole, The Doles: Unlimited Partners (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988), 148–149.
“poor reputation”: Joan E. Spero, The Failure of Franklin National Bank (Washington, DC: Beard Books, 1999), 79.
Sindona recruited Peter Shaddick: Ibid., 76.
All Cecchi could do: Cecchi interview, March 2, 2016.
Watergate didn’t need the publicity: Salgo, 113.
$4,000 per month: Bettye Bradley oral history, 1983.
“We had to go with anonymous towels”: Cecchi interview, March 2, 2016.
“These are private people”: New York Times Magazine, October 15, 1972.
Tourists gaped: New York Times, June 17, 1973.
“The Watergate Tour”: Ibid.
“All of a sudden”: Grand Rapids Press, January 19, 1975.
Sindona later revealed: Sindona correspondence, September 7, 1981, Reagan Presidential Library.
“I just turned down a million dollars”: Stans, 186–187.
“certainly not by me”: Sindona correspondence, September 7, 1981, Reagan Presidential Library.
Chennault asked to be named: Chennault correspondence, January 4, 1973, Chennault archives.
“And then he’ll just brush it off”: Ken Hughes, Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2014), 158.
a three-year term: Washington Evening Star and Daily News, January 31, 1973.
“You know, I have a protégé”: Hughes, 157–158.
Anna Chennault never got her private meeting: Ibid.
“a constant reminder”: R. Spencer Oliver interview, September 25, 2016.
Committee moved out: Washington Daily News, March 24, 1974.
“less than we have”: Kathryn J. McGarr, The Whole Damn Deal: Robert Strauss and the Art of Politics (New York: Public Affairs, 2011), 144.
“is also its most valuable”: Washington Post, May 14, 1973.
“a premier place to live”: Washington Post, May 19, 1973.
“it isn’t evident”: San Antonio Light, February 19, 1974.
“We’re down to the more so
lid stores”: Washington Post, February 17, 1974.
“Don’t be bugged with the commonplace”: Washington Star-News, March 28, 1973.
failed to generate: Sunday News, March 24, 1974.
“Everybody tells me”: Jet, March 17, 1973.
died of a brain tumor: The Guardian, October 9, 2000.
“might show up stoned”: Buchanan interview, December 2, 2016.
swimming laps in the hotel pool: Rolling Stone, September 27, 1973.
“had bounded out of bed”: Buchanan, Nixon’s White House Wars, 311.
“But I was the only one who wasn’t under indictment”: George Arnstein oral history, April 12, 2013.
“very aggressive”: Adrian Sheppard interview, January 23, 2017.
“one of the most horrible experiences”: Tommaso Magnifico interview, November 17, 2016.
Back in Canada: Adrian Sheppard interview, January 23, 2017.
“a cruel joke of destiny”: Tommaso Magnifico interview, November 17, 2016.
“Why live next door”: Washington Post, July 28, 1974.
“tight”: Washington Post, September 8, 1973.
“spang in the middle of Watergate”: Ben Bradlee, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 390–391.
“are you into that?”: Sally Quinn interview, February 1, 2017.
“the butler”: Washington Star News, October 18, 1973.
“queen of the Watergate”: Washington Post, October 18, 1973.
“a Republican has been welcomed back”: Ibid.
a long, deep scratch: Edward W. Brooke, Bridging the Divide: My Life (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007), 210.
That Christmas: Buchanan, Nixon’s White House Wars, 363.
Shaddick and Bordoni concealed: Spero, 79–82.
“In rejecting the bid”: Business Week, May, 18, 1974.
since the Depression: Time, May 27, 1974.
Shaddick resigned: Business Week, May 18, 1974.
“nervous”: Newsweek, June 3, 1974.
less than $9 million: Fortune, June 1974.
Banca di Roma extended: Business Week, July 13, 1974.
22,000 volumes: “The Historical Intelligence Collection,” CIA, https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2011-featured-story-archive/walter-pforzheimer.html.
“She’s living one day at a time”: McCall’s, June 1975.
In the steam room: People, March 3, 1975.
Italy’s Watergate: Business Week, March 3, 1975.
Stans pleaded guilty: Stans, pp. 368–372.
about $86 million: Based on an exchange rate of.001495 lira to the U.S. dollar, Monday, October 21, 1974.