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One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

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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

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your e-book. Please use the search function on your e-reading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

  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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nbsp; Laos

  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

 

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