by Tim Weiner
“Sophisticates in the press”: Memorandum of conversation, July 2, 1974, Moscow, FRUS XV: Soviet Union.
“For example, I am indicted”: April 17, 1973, NWHT, Oval Office.
“I suppose it could be said”: Nixon, RN, pp. 1050–51.
“End career as a fighter”: Ibid., pp. 1056–57.
“Mr. President,” Saxbe said: Saxbe interview with Stanley B. Kutler, May 15, 1987, cited in Kutler, The Wars of Watergate (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990), p. 542.
“There was a hush as he went up to the podium”: Ransom oral history, FAOH.
“I remember my old man”: Nixon remarks on departure from the White House, Aug. 9, 1974, Public Papers of Richard Nixon.
Epilogue
“He just flat-lined”: Steve Bull interview by Timothy Naftali for the Richard Nixon Presidential Oral History Project, June 25, 2007.
“Richard! Wake up, Richard!”: This account of Nixon’s brush with death is taken from the memoir of the physician who treated him, John C. Lungren, MD, Healing Richard Nixon (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2003), pp. 83–89.
“What history says”: Nixon/Frost interview, recorded May 4, 1977.
“As people look back on the Nixon administration”: Nixon interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, April 10, 1988.
“You have to, in some cases, sacrifice a lot of virtue”: Ray Price interview by Timothy Naftali for the Richard Nixon Presidential Oral History Project, April 4, 2007.
Index
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Abplanalp, Bob
Abrams, Creighton
Agnew, Spiro T.
Akins, Jim
Albert, Carl
Allende, Salvador
ambassadors
bombing and
campaign funds and
Anderson, Jack
Annenberg, Walter
Antippas, Andrew
antiwar protests
Cambodia and
Nixon talks with
Apollo program
Arab-Israeli conflict
Argentina
Armstrong, Anne
Armstrong, Scott
Armstrong, Willis C.
Arroyo Márquez, Nicolás
Assad, Bashar
Assad, Hafiz
Austria
Baker, Howard
Bangladesh
Barker, Bernard “Macho”
Bayh, Birch
Bay of Pigs invasion
Beam, Jacob
Beecher, William
Begin, Menachem
Bennett, Donald
Bernstein, Carl
Black, Hugo
black-bag jobs
Black Panthers (Thai regiment)
blacks
Blind Ambition (Dean)
Blood, Archer
Bolz, Charles
Bork, Robert
Breakfast Plan
Brennan, Peter J.
Brezhnev, Leonid
summit of 1972 and
summit of 1973 and
summit of 1974 and
Yom Kippur War and
Brookings Institution
Brown, Dean
Brown, Frederick Z.
Buchanan, Pat
Buchanan, Wiley
Buchwald, Art
Buffum, William
Bui Diem
Bull, Steve
Bundy, McGeorge
Bunker, Ellsworth
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Bureau of the Budget
Burger, Warren
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Bush v. Gore
Butterfield, Alexander
Buzhardt, J. Fred
Byrd, Robert
Byrne, William Matthew, Jr.
Cabinet
Calley, William L.
Cambodia
bombing of
Congress and
fall of
funding and
invasion of
records falsified
campaign contributions
ambassadorships and
Checkers speech and
post-Watergate
slush funds and
Camp David
tape system in
Carlucci, Frank
Carswell, G. Harrold
Carter, Jimmy
Casey, William
Castro, Fidel
Caulfield, Jack
Ceauşescu, Nicolae
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
budget of
Cambodia and
Chile and
Diem and
FBI investigation and
India-Pakistan war and
Iran and
Laos and
Nixon reshapes
NSC and
secret cash and
surveillance and
Thailand and
U-2 and
Vietnam and
Watergate burglars and
Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN)
Chambers, Whittaker
Chang Wenjin
Chapin, Dwight L.
Cheek, James R.
Cheney, Dick
Chennault, Anna
Chen Yi
Chiang Kai-shek
Chile
China
India and
Kissinger and
Nixon visit to
Shanghai communiqué and
Soviets and
Vietnam and
Chisholm, Shirley
Church, Frank
Churchill, Winston
Clifford, Clark
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Colby, William
Cold War
Colson, Charles W. “Chuck”
FBI and
Hunt and
indictment of
Nixon and
Senate Watergate Committee and
Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP)
indictments and
Senate Watergate Committee and
Watergate break-in and
communism
Conein, Lucien
Congressional Record
Connally, John
Corporate Security Consultants International
Costa Rica
Cox, Archibald
Cromwell, Oliver
Cuba
missile crisis
Cuban Americans
Dash, Sam
Davydov, Boris N.
Dean, John Wesley, III
appointed legal counsel to Nixon
CREEP covert ops plans and
criminal lawyer and
decides to testify and resign
Ellsberg psychiatrist break-in and
FBI investigation and
federal prosecutors and proffer by
Gray and
guilty plea of
Hunt’s safe and
Huston Plan and
impeachment and
IRS and
Nixon on
Nixon conversation of September 15, 1972, with
Nixon conversation of February 27, 1973, with
Nixon conversation of March 17, 1973, with
Nixon conversation of March 21, 1973, with (“cancer on presidency”)
Nixon conversation of April 15, 1973, with
Nixon conversation of April 16, 1973, with
Nixon tapes and
Senate Watergate Committee and
Watergate break-in and trials and
Watergate report for Nixon and
Deep Throat. See also Felt, Mark
DEFCON alert
Defense Department (Pentagon)
Defense Intelligence Agency
de Gaulle, Charl
es
DeLoach, Cartha “Deke”
Democratic National Committee (DNC). See also Watergate break-in
Democratic National Convention
of 1968
of 1972
Democratic Party
Democrats for Nixon
de Roulet, Vincent
Diem, Ambassador. See Bui Diem
Diem, President. See Ngo Dinh Diem
Dirksen, Everett
Disraeli, Benjamin
Doar, John
Dobrynin, Anatoly
Doyle, James
Duck Hook plan
Dulles, John Forster
Eagleburger, Larry
Eagleton, Thomas
Eastland, James
East Pakistan
Eastwood, Clint
EC-121 (NSA spy plane)
Egypt
Nixon trip to
Yom Kippur War and
Ehrlichman, John D.
elections and
Ellsberg and
fired
indictment of
Joint Chiefs and
Plumbers and
Senate Watergate Committee and
Vietnam and
Watergate and
wiretaps and
Eisenhower, David
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
death of
Nixon as vice president and
Eisenhower, Julie Nixon
elections
of 1946
of 1950
of 1952
of 1960
of 1962
of 1964
of 1968
of 1970
of 1972
Ellsberg, Daniel
emergency detention
Emerson, Gloria
Environmental Protection Agency
Ervin, Sam, Jr.
Espionage Act (1917)
executive privilege
Faisal, king of Iraq
Faisal, king of Saudi Arabia
Farkas, Ruth
Farland, Joseph
Farmer, James
Federal Aviation Administration
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
death of Hoover and
Gray nomination and
LBJ and
Watergate and
Federalist Papers
Felt, Mark
Fielding, Lewis
Foa, Sylvana
Ford, Gerald
Foreign Affairs
France
Franco, Francisco
Frost, David
Fulbright, J. William
Gandhi, Indira
Garment, Leonard
Garthoff, Ray
Gayler, Noel
Gelb, Leslie
Gemstone plan
Gillespie, Charles Anthony, Jr.
Gladstone, William
Gonzales, Virgilio
Goodby, James E.
Graham, Billy
Gray, L. Patrick
Great Society
Greek junta
Green, Marshall
Gromyko, Andrei
Guam
Habib, Philip
Haig, Alexander M.
Ellsberg and
Kissinger and
SALT and
Southeast Asia and
Watergate and
Yom Kippur War and
Haiphong harbor
Haldeman, Harry Robbins “H. R.”
antiwar protests and
Asian trip and
Cabinet and
Cambodia and
campaign contributions and
China and
CIA and
CREEP and
Deep Throat and
DEFCON and
diary of
domestic spying and
elections and
FBI and
fired
India-Pakistan war and
indictment of
IRS and
Joint Chiefs and
Kissinger and
Laos and
Nixon inner circle and
nuclear weapons and
Pentagon Papers and
Senate Watergate hearings and
Soviet summits and
Vietnam and
Watergate and
White House tapes and
Halperin, Morton
Hanoi, bombing of
Harlan, John Marshall
Harlow, Bryce N.
Hart, Samuel F.
Haynsworth, Clement
Health, Education, and Welfare Department
Hecksher, Henry
Helms, Richard
heroin trafficking
Hill, Robert C.
Himma, Einar
Hiroshima
Hiss, Alger
Hmong tribe
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Holdridge, John
Hoover, J. Edgar
death of
HUAC and
Horan, Hume
Houghton, Arthur A., III
Howland, Richard C.
Hughes, Howard
Humphrey, Hubert H.
Hunt, E. Howard
Diem cable forgeries and
Ellsberg and
Watergate and
White House safe and
Hussein, king of Jordan
Huston, Tom Charles
Huston Plan
Hutschnecker, Arnold
Hyland, William
ICBMs
India-Pakistan war
Indonesia
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT)
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Nixon trip to
Yom Kippur War and
Italy
Jaeger, George
Jamaica
Japan
Jaworski, Leon
Johnson, Lyndon B.
elections of 1968 and
Presidential Library
Vietnam and
Joint Chiefs of Staff
NSC and
Vietnam and
Jordan
Justice Department
Kalmbach, Herbert
Karamessines, Thomas
Kemper, Ronnie
Kennedy, Edward M. “Ted”
Kennedy, John F.
assassination of
Presidential Library
Vietnam and
Kennedy, Richard Thomas
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kent State killings
Kerry, John
KGB
Khan, Sultan
Khan, Yahya
Khrushchev, Nikita
Killgore, Andrew
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kissinger, Henry
appointed national security adviser
appointed secretary of state
Arab-Israeli conflict and
Asian tour and
Cambodia and
Chile and
China and
DEFCON and
Haig and
India-Pakistan war and
Iran and
Joint Chiefs and
Kent State and
Laos and
leaks and wiretapping and
Nixon inner circle and
North Korea and
Pentagon Papers and
SALT and
Soviets and
Taiwan and
Vietnam and
Vietnam peace accords and
Watergate and
White House tapes and
Yom Kippur War and
Kleindienst, Richard
Knight, Hal
Korean War
Kosygin, Alexei
Kreisky, Bruno
Krogh, Egil, Jr. “Bud”
Laird, Melvin
Lake, Tony
Lam Son 719 attack
Lange, Howard H.
Lano, Angelo J.
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LaRue, Frederick C.
Lawrence of Arabia
Lebanon
Le Duan
Le Duc Tho
Lenin, V. I.
Liddy, G. Gordon
indictment of
Lincoln, Abraham
Linebacker campaign
Lodge, Henry Cabot
Lon Nol
Lord, Winston
Lowenstein, Jim
MacArthur, Douglas
Madison, James
Magruder, Jeb Stuart
Mao Tse-tung
Marbury v. Madison
Marcos, Ferdinand
Mardian, Robert
Marshall, Thurgood
Martinez, Eugenio
McCain, John S., III
McCain, John S., Jr.
McCord, James
indictment of
letter to Sirica
McGovern, George
McNamara, Robert Strange
Meir, Golda
Menu attacks
Merry, E. Wayne
Midway, USS
Miller, David D., Jr.
Miller, Ed
Miller, William Green
MIRVs
Mitchell, John Newton
antiwar protests and
Carswell and
elections of 1972 and
Hoover and
indictment of
Joint Chiefs and
Nixon inner circle and
Vietnam and
Watergate and
wiretaps and
Mitchell, Martha
Montgomery, James Marvin
Moorer, Thomas H.
Moose, Dick
Morris, Roger
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
Muskie, Edmund
My Lai massacre
Naftali, Timothy
National Environmental Policy Act
National Security Agency (NSA)
National Security Council (NSC)
NATO
Negroponte, John
New York Post
New York Times
Ngo Dinh Diem
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyen Duy Hinh
Nguyen Van Thieu
elections and
peace accords blocked by
Nicaragua
Nitze, Paul
Nixon, Donald
Nixon, Julie (daughter)
Nixon, Richard M.
abuse of power by
addresses, on Cambodia
addresses, on Checkers
addresses, on Soviet summit
addresses, on State of the Union (1974)
addresses, on Vietnam, 1969
addresses, on Watergate
addresses, to GOP leaders
addresses, to NATO
addresses, to news executives
addresses, to POWs
Agnew and
ambassadors and
anticommunism and
antiwar protests and
Apollo 11 and
Arab-Israeli conflict and
balance of power and
blacks and
Bobby Kennedy and
brother Don and
Cabinet and
California gubernatorial election and
Cambodia and
campaign contributions and
Caulfield hired by
Cheney and
Chile and
China and
China visit and Mao summit
CIA and
Colson and
Congress and
Cox appointment and
Cox firing and Saturday Night Massacre
CREEP and
crime and
daughters and