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“a huge feast”: La Repubblica, August 30, 1995.
“The unexpected cyclone”: SGI board minutes, March 8, 1975, SGI archives.
“with profound bitterness and disappointment”: Ibid.
“They have poisoned me”: New York Times, March 23, 1986.
dissolved: acs.beniculturali.it.
“The maelstrom was over”: Stans, 384–385.
CHAPTER SIX: A LITTLE BLOOD
“The wine trade is to France”: New York Times, October 26, 1974.
a wide range of charges: New York Times, September 13, 1973.
“little more than wrist-slapping”: New York Times, December 19, 1974.
“I will be the Nixon of Bordeaux”: New York Times, October 26, 1974.
“Winegate”: New York Times, December 21, 1974.
the first post-Nixon scandal: William Safire, Safire’s New Political Dictionary (New York: Random House, 1993), 278.
“May I talk to you?”: Salgo, 113.
Mark Felt: watergateatlandmark.com, retrieved August 1, 2017.
Bob Dole faced: Bob and Elizabeth Dole, 154.
Anna Chennault’s friendship with Gerald Ford: Forslund, 96.
“I always resent it”: Ibid., 88.
“Anna has ‘wondered’”: Corcoran letter, August 22, 1975, Chennault archives.
“The President requested”: Robert T. Hartmann memorandum, September 3, 1975, Ford Presidential Library.
“unallowable”: Washington Star, September 15, 1975.
“the taxpayer shares the cost of these parties”: Ibid.
Gruenstein’s discovery made: Washington Post, September 16, 1975.
“You probably read that Northrop”: Washington Star, September 22, 1975.
“so tiny and sweet-looking”: Washington Post, October 3, 1975.
She brought Tommy Corcoran: State Dinner guest list, October 2, 1975, Ford Presidential Library.
Northrop had paid Chennault: Washington Post, October 6, 1975.
“Nobody pays for my parties”: Philadelphia Inquirer, October 12, 1975.
“There is a distinct possibility”: Washington Post news service, reprinted in the Waukesha Freeman, October 16, 1975.
“widespread, systematic”: Milwaukee Journal, October 16, 1975.
The Pentagon launched audits: Associated Press story, 1976, undated, Chennault archives.
Chennault told investigators: Forslund, 110.
“not known”: Philadelphia Inquirer, October 12, 1975.
Chennault continued as a Northrop consultant: Monthly consultant reports, Chennault archives.
“Unless your services are fully described and accurately recorded”: John R. Alison memorandum, August 29, 1980, Chennault archives.
A pistachio pudding shortage: Washington Post, February 26, 1976.
the popularity of Watergate Cake: Ibid.
“cover-up icing”: St. Joseph News-Press, July 30, 1975.
One version: Deseret News, May 5, 2010.
“but we can’t substantiate”: “The History of the Watergate Salad” Kraft Foods, kraftbrands.com.
“Perhaps to alleviate”: Washington Post, November 13, 1975.
“We haven’t invented anything”: Washington Post, February 2, 1976.
“rather unappealing”: Camille Stagg correspondence, February 4, 2017.
a reader sent the recipe: Evening Independent, March 15, 1977.
“to create something for the buffet”: Stephanie Frazier, “Watergate Salad of Jake’s Tyler,” WSMV Channel 4, November 14, 2014, www.wsmv.com.
“which doesn’t always contain real pistachios”: Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 4, 1999.
“We tell them we had nothing to do with it”: Anton Obernberger interview, July 11, 2017.
The recipe: “The History of Watergate Salad,” Kraft Foods.
“We had much in common”: Chennault, The Education of Anna, 222.
“It all sounded very wholesome”: Ibid., 223–224.
“I’m his piano player”: New York Times, August 16, 1977.
Suter’s Tavern: ghostsofdc.org and Foggy Bottom News, February 1964.
now occupied by the Watergate: Ibid.
“The name Tongsun Park meant a good party”: People, March 6, 1978.
“I wasn’t terribly surprised”: Chennault, The Education of Anna, 224.
“South Korea is a friendly power”: New York Times, September 7, 1977.
“Washington is a marvelous city”: New York Times, April 15, 2005.
“It’s a high, hard one”: Washington Post, July 24, 1977.
Anna was trying out a new look: Honolulu Star-Bulletin, November 24, 1976.
“In retrospect”: Martin Berkeley Hickman, David Matthew Kennedy: Banker, Statesman, Churchman (Provo, UT: Desert Book Company, 1987), 170.
“What they really wanted”: Salgo, 117.
Continental Illinois spokesman: Wall Street Journal, November 4, 1977.
His new title: “Nomination of Nicolas M. Salgo to Be United States Ambassador to Hungary,” White House Press Release, September 20, 1983.
625,000: Wall Street Journal, September 1, 1981.
assets of $5 billion: Forbes, November 26, 1979.
When she graduated: Forbes, October 12, 1981.
He tracked her down: Daily Mail, January 23, 1987.
thirty-hour day: Management Review, November 1986.
“Mr. Luscombe’s secretary”: Forbes, October 12, 1981.
I. M. Pei: Regine Palladin interview, August 21, 2017.
“When can you start?” Jimmy Sneed interview, August 10, 2017.
“I was fed up with problems”: Washington Post, December 2, 1979.
“a good moment”: Ibid.
“mischievous”: Palladin interview, August 21, 2017.
Salgo also agreed to hire: Larbi Dahrouch interview, September 3, 2017.
“a little strange”: Palladin interview, August 21, 2017.
“an orange cave”: Washingtonian, October 2015.
“Americans like to chew things”: Washington Post, December 2, 1979.
“Never before”: Ibid.
The offer came: New York Times, March 28, 1979.
“We demand a little blood”: Washington Business Journal, June 12, 1989.
A New York Times analysis concluded: New York Times, May 16, 1976.
“Ronald Reagan has an unusual tax problem”: Washington Star, May 18, 1976.
“a private matter”: Washington Post, August 1, 1980.
The tax return showed: Ronald Reagan Presidential Campaign Papers, 1964–1980, Box 45, Reagan Presidential Library.
“because it was good from an investment standpoint”: Washington Post, August 1, 1980.
By far the best-performing: Reagans’ 1979 joint federal tax return, Reagan Library campaign files 1980, Reagan Presidential Library.
“Operationally there is no change here”: Washington Post, October 16, 1979.
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE REAGAN RENAISSANCE
“The Watergate is to Washington”: Washingtonian, September 1983.
“The only good thing about them”: Fred J. Maroon, Jean-Louis: Cooking with the Seasons (Charlottesville, VA: Thomasson-Grant, 1989), 17.
Carter White House: “Raising the Stakes,” Edible DC, Summer 2012.
“less pleased with chicken”: Washington Post, December 2, 1979.
Palladin and his team: Larbi Dahrouch interview, September 4, 2017.
Ober managed: Washington Post, February 11, 1975.
ten thousand Americans: New York Times, January 16, 1975.
Her reasoning: Deborah Davis, Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and the Washington Post (Bethesda, MD: National Press, Inc., 1979), 276.
“Did God send you to me?”: Maroon, 82.
“From Exotic Peking”: Undated newspaper advertisement, Chennault archives.
“Please write your book”: Chennault, The Education of Anna, 230–31.
She was still upset with Nixon: Washington Star,
August 20, 1979.
had made her bitter: Ibid.
“Politics is a very cruel game”: Ibid.
“If I were not an Asian,” W, April 25–May 2, 1980.
“What Anna fails to realize”: Ibid.
“Mitchell was quick to the point”: Chennault, The Education of Anna, 193.
“high-handed secrecy and unnecessary haste”: Ibid., 239–242.
Senator Barry Goldwater praised the book: Ibid.
“a great contribution”: Goldwater correspondence, October 4, 1979, Chennault archives.
“the strange riverfront structure”: Chennault, The Education of Anna, 217–218.
“readable but rather shallow”: New York Times, February 3, 1980.
“That was an enticing prospect”: Bùi Diem, In the Jaws of History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987), 236–245.
“I don’t think anyone really has the knowledge”: Chennault correspondence, January 7, 1985, Chennault archives.
and studied whether: Washingtonian, October 1, 2000.
Who makes uniforms: Ibid.
“We had it coming”: David Bradley correspondence, February 2, 2017.
“He was equally comfortable”: Michael Nannes interview, February 17, 2017.
“equally qualified”: W, April 25–May 2, 1980.
“No words can express my joy”: Chennault correspondence, November 7, 1980, Hoover Institution archives.
“I am not particularly interested”: Ibid.
“I am not sure”: Corcoran correspondence, November 7, 1980, Hoover Institution archives.
“I want to be free and independent”: Argus Leader, November 7, 1980.
“After four years”: Washington Post, January 14, 1981.
CHENNAULT’S COMEBACK: Washington Star, undated, Chennault archives.
“I am not a hostess”: People, January 26, 1981.
“Anna is afraid that if she remarries”: Washington Post, February 15, 1981.
“There are lots of insecure men”: Chicago Tribune, January 11, 1981.
“I haven’t had time to think about that”: People, January 26, 1981.
The invitations delighted Taipei: Christian Science Monitor, January 29, 1981.
“We’ve never had so many”: Washington Post, December 4, 1980.
Watergate sellers started raising prices: Ibid.
$750,000—about double: Washington Post, May 28, 1981.
“Prices don’t scare them”: Washington Post, December 4, 1980.
Watergate Hotel prepared two budgets: Washington Post, May 28, 1981.
“They’re our royalty”: Ibid.
Regulars called it the “Gossip Salon”: “Watergate Beauty Salon has a Rodeo Drive Tint,” New York Times, February 27, 1982.
“Before it was peanuts”: Washington Post, May 28, 2001.
“What does she know about minorities?”: Washington Post, February 11, 1981.
“I cannot understand”: Goldwater letter to Pen James, February 4, 1981, Hoover Institution archives.
“the Pope’s nose”: Corcoran correspondence, Chennault archives.
“You must be”: Washington Post, May 28, 1981.
“Please step out immediately”: Palladin interview, August 21, 2017.
Jean-Louis prepared: Washington Post, February 9, 1981.
Salgo asked Palladin: Dahrouch interview, September 4, 2017.
Giuseppe Cecchi recruited him: “Gabor Olah de Garab Watergate Hotel Manager, 1967–1985,” Watergate East Online, www.watergate50.com.
“And what a great teacher”: Eulogy prepared by Anna Chennault, undated, Chennault archives.
“I adore my job”: Associated Press, November 16, 1981.
“We are no longer the Nixon Watergate”: Washington Post, May 28, 1981.
CHAPTER EIGHT: A NEST FOR HIGH-FLYERS
“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me”: FoxNews.com, March 23, 2011.
Depending on the building: Washington Post, May 28, 1981.
“What precipitated the separation”: David Bret, Elizabeth Taylor: The Lady, The Lover, The Legend, 1932–2011 (New York: Greystone Books, 2011), 232.
“classic features”: Washington Post, April 27, 1991.
“was a wartime employee”: Time, July 7, 1947.
Mrs. Reagan did come for dinner: Jennifer Egan, “The Countess’s Private Secretary,” New Yorker, June 5 and 12, 2017.
As part of her “espionage”: Romanones correspondence with the author, June 9, 2016.
She wrote to White House aides: Romanones correspondence, May 19, 1981, Reagan Presidential Library.
“The main question is timing”: James M. Rentschler memorandum, November 1981, Reagan Presidential Library.
“might create a problem”: Romanones correspondence, November 5, 1981, Hoover Institution archives.
“a fan of Major Bob”: Burghardt memorandum, March 22, 1985, Reagan Presidential Library.
“had other implications”: Newsweek, March 24, 1991.
“seedy and sophisticated”: New York Times, June 21, 1987.
“Espionage is like a drug”: People, May 7, 1990.
“You have to keep many things secret”: Newsweek, March 24, 1991.
“romantic nonfiction”: Ibid.
“Espionage is mostly boredom”: Ibid.
auctioned off by Sotheby’s Geneva: ArtKabinet, May 24, 2011.
“Then he just started coming on to me”: CBS News with Dan Rather, June 30, 1982.
Representative Larry E. Craig: New York Times, July 8, 1982.
Williams was identified by name: Associated Press, July 7, 1982.
at the Watergate: New York Times, July 8, 1982.
“We at first sat down”: United Press International, July 9, 1982.
“It was something that I just accepted”: Ibid.
“a pathological liar”: Associated Press, July 7, 1982.
“Leroy Williams maintains”: ABC News transcript, July 9, 1982.
he did not have sex: United Press International, July 9, 1982.
CBS News tracked down “Roger”: Washington Post, July 10, 1982.
Peacock Lounge: Ibid.
“If you can stick him”: Ibid.
“I have lied”: Associated Press, August 27, 1982.
Richard Kind, the owner of Friendly Models: Miami Herald, July 16, 1982.
“I am positive he named Larry Craig”: Idaho Statesman, December 2, 2007.
According to a postmortem: Associated Press, September 19, 1982.
“undisclosed locations”: Ibid.
“like Howard Carter”: Mark Slater interview, August 8, 2017.
“real estate fees”: Washington Post, July 23, 1984.
“This appealed to me”: New York Times, July 24, 1984.
He changed his story: Washington Post, August 8, 1984.
the matter became further confused: Ibid.
he and his wife revised: New York Times, August 16, 1984.
“performed literally no work”: Oregonian, June 2, 2012.
That triggered a vote: District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Watergate West Inc. v. Barclays Bank, S.A., September 14, 2000.
WATERGATE: A WASHINGTON NEST FOR HIGH-FLYERS: Dossier, February 1982.
With a Republican in the White House: Salgo, 163.
“gave a discount”: “A Conversation with Ambassador Keith C. Smith,” Library of Congress, 2004.
Salgo placed all of his assets in a blind trust: Salgo, 119.
“My whole fortune comes from there”: Ibid., 121.
Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice: Estates Times, September 21, 1984.
including an almond orchard: Management Review, November 1986.
Luscombe ordered their air-conditioning turned off: Wendy Luscombe interview, June 8, 2016.
Luscombe solicited proposals: Washington Post, March 18, 1986.
“Europeans would put the charm back into it”: Ibid.
the Watergate Hotel was losing money: Christian Science Monitor, March 7, 1984.
“Fear is drifting through the corridors”: Washington Post, March 18, 1986.
If he were to remain: Ibid.
“only looked at the numbers”: Dahrouch interview, September 4, 2017.
“but he didn’t know how”: Sneed interview, August 10, 2017.
“With Salgo, everything was easy”: Palladin interview, August 21, 2017.
“But basil with raspberries?”: Washington Post, August 29, 1982.
“do something in my way”: New York Times, March 22, 1987.
Cunard Line: Washington Post, April 17, 1986.
Cunard’s first venture: The Times, March 16, 1986, Trafalgar House press clippings copy.
“the acknowledged empress of hotel interior designers”: Washington Post, July 31, 1988.
Lee’s design amounted to a British conquest: The Guardian, August 2, 1988.
“the staff had to scramble”: Lynda Clugston Webster interview, July 21, 2017.
“Almost”: New York Times, April 24, 1986.
Watergate South, across the hall: People, July 25, 1977.
MRS. LUCE IS BACK, PEPPERY AS EVER: New York Times, November 13, 1981.
“I’ve been coming to Washington since the days of Harding”: Ibid.
“stenographic or clerical staff”: Green correspondence, July 28, 1982, Clare Boothe Luce papers, Library of Congress.
That night: Washington Post, May 26, 1984.
“President’s Lunch Bar”: Watergate Hotel news release, January 11, 1985.
“Graffiti is all over the world”: Washington Post, February 14, 1985.
“It’s a disgrace”: Washington Post, July 24, 1985.
For the next five years: Washington Post, May 14, 1983.
“That’s for people who have no money”: Washington Post, July 24, 1985.
“we would be leery”: Ibid.
“It was really exciting”: Roxie Herbekian interview, February 24, 2017.
“They want to get liquid”: Australian Financial Review, March 10, 1989.
“not been burned”: Washington Post, August 6, 1989.
received no new funding: Financial Times, March 9, 1989.
“I think it needs some work”: Washington Post, July 6, 1989.
“The Cunard people were running the place”: Webster interview, July 21, 2017.
Complicating a potential sale: Washington Post, December 22, 1989.
Cunard Hotels and Resorts agreed: Washington Post, March 26, 1990.
National Coal Board announced: Washington Post, March 27, 1990.
Trusthouse Forte brought in a new general manager: Cathy Arevian interview, May 2, 2016.