The photograph of Pat that RN carried with him during the war. (ARLEN BLAKE)
Tricia and her parents in the yard of their house in Whittier in 1946. (KEYSTONE PHOTO SERVICE)
The first political campaign: opposing Jerry Voorhis for the House of Representatives from California’s Twelfth District.
RN and John F. Kennedy (back row at right) in a radio interview with other freshman members of the Eightieth Congress in January 1947. (RENI NEWSPHOTO SERVICE)
The Hiss case: examining the “pumpkin papers” microfilm with Robert Stripling.
Campaigning for the U.S. Senate in California’s San Joaquin Valley in 1950. (RAY GEERS STUDIO)
Photo from 1950 Senate election campaign poster.
Rose Mary Woods became RN’s secretary in 1951.
Receiving the nomination for Vice President at the 1952 Republican National Convention in Chicago. (UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL)
Letter from John F. Kennedy after receiving the Republican vice presidential nomination. Text of the letter appears on here.
The Fund Speech: September 23, 1952. (GEORGE SILK/Life Magazine © TIME INC.)
RN discloses, Stevenson refuses. The front page of The New York Times after RN and Eisenhower met in Wheeling, West Virginia, following the Fund Speech. (© 1952 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY. REPRINTED BY PERMISSION.)
Inauguration Day 1953. From left: Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Hoover.
1953 trip: front page of the Singapore Standard, October 25, 1953. (SINGAPORE Standard)
1953 trip: with Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek in Taipei.
1953 trip: with President Syngman Rhee in Seoul. (UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL)
1953 trip: while I was in meetings, Pat insisted on having her own schedule of activities. Here she visits the Shwedagon Pagoda in Burma. Her guide (left) is U Thant, later secretary-general of the United Nations.
1953 trip: with Prime Minister Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi.
Letter from President Eisenhower following the 1953 trip. Text of the letter appears on here.
Inauguration Day 1957. President Eisenhower stands with two of his grandchildren, Anne and David Eisenhower; RN with Tricia and Julie. This was the first meeting between David and Julie, who were to be married twelve years later.
RN’s first and only White House news conference as Vice President, in November 1957, following President Eisenhower’s stroke. (WIDE WORLD PHOTOS)
Frank Nixon in Whittier in 1952. (GEORGE SILK/Life Magazine © 1952 TIME INC.)
RN with Hannah Nixon in 1952. (GEORGE SILK/Life Magazine © 1952 TIME INC.)
Caracas: RN’s limousine after the mob attack on May 13, 1958.
With Queen Elizabeth II in London, November 1958.
Sir Winston Churchill pushed aside his aide to stand alone before the cameras at his door in Hyde Park Gate, London, November 1958.
Making a point with Khrushchev in the “kitchen debate” at the American Exhibition in Moscow in 1959. Leonid Brezhnev is at right. (WIDE WORLD PHOTOS)
With Fidel Castro in RN’s office at the U.S. Capitol, April 19, 1959. (UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL)
With President Eisenhower at Washington’s Griffith Stadium for the first baseball game of the season on April 18, 1960. (UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL)
With vice presidential running mate Henry Cabot Lodge at the 1960 Republican National Convention.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Lyndon Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen visit RN when an infected knee forced him into the hospital during the 1960 campaign. (UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL)
The Nixon–Kennedy debates: the first was on September 26, 1960, in Chicago. (UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL)
Election Night 1960: conceding that if the trend continues, John F. Kennedy will be elected President. (HANK WALKER/Life Magazine © 1960 TIME INC.)
One of the Nixon family’s favorite photographs, taken on their arrival in California in 1961. Checkers is in the foreground.
The “last press conference” following the 1962 election for governor of California. Herb Klein is standing in the background. (RALPH CRANE/Life Magazine © 1962 TIME INC.)
With Checkers in Central Park after the move to New York in 1963.
A grainy wire service photo from South Vietnam during the Asian trip in September 1965. (UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL)
Relaxing in Key Biscayne before the 1968 campaign.
The Nixons and the Agnews at the Republican National Convention at Miami Beach, August 1968.
Campaigning in 1968 in Philadelphia. (DIRCK HALSIEAD/UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL)
A candid photo taken by Dwight Chapin in RN’s hotel suite after his election as President on November 6, 1968. The TV screen shows the Illinois returns that clinched the victory. John Mitchell looks on as RN holds Julie’s victory gift—the Great Seal of the United States in crewelwork.
Meeting with Vice President Hubert Humphrey two days after the 1968 election, at the airport at Opa-Locka, Florida.
Escorting Julie on December 22, 1968, the day of her wedding to David Eisenhower.
Inauguration Day, January 20, 1969. Chief Justice Earl Warren administers the oath. Pat holds two Milhous family Bibles. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
The last photo of RN and General Eisenhower. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
With President Charles de Gaulle in Paris in February 1969. Behind RN are (left) National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and Secretary of State William Rogers. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
The telephone conversation between the earth and the moon: talking to the Apollo XI astronauts from the Oval Office in July 1969. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
RN with former President Johnson and John McCormack in May 1970, at a White House luncheon honoring McCormack when he retired as Speaker of the House of Representatives. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
In the Oval Office in 1970 with staff aides John Ehrlichman, Henry Kissinger, and Bob Haldeman (seated).
In the Lincoln Sitting Room with Henry Kissinger. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
RN at the picture window of Aspen Lodge at Camp David.
Visiting with U.S. troops in Vietnam in July 1969. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
Hats of construction union leaders on the table in the Roosevelt room at the White House after the Cambodian operation in May 1970. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
“Working the fence” at the airport at Bangor, Maine, in 1971. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
RN with Michael Newton, poster child for Better Hearing and Speech Month Campaign, 1971. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
Pat practicing her personal diplomacy at an orphanage in Ivory Coast during her African trip in January 1972. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
One of the Nixon family’s favorite photographs of the White House years, taken in the Blue Room during the Christmas holidays in 1971.
Escorting Tricia in the Rose Garden on June 12, 1971, the day of her wedding to Edward Cox. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
Dancing at Tricia’s wedding reception in the East Room.
The historic handshake with Premier Chou En-lai in Peking on February 21, 1972. (UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL)
The meeting in Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s house in Peking. (PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)
One of RN’s most vivid memories of the 1972 China trip was this audience—made up of both men and women—at the gymnastic exhibition they visited in Peking. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
At the Great Wall of China in 1972. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
Shaking hands with Leonid Brezhnev after signing the SALT agreement in the Kremlin, May 26, 1972. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
Campaigning for re-election in October 1972, in Atlanta, Georgia. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
With Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel following a White House dinner on March 1, 1973. (UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL)
At the POW dinner, May 24, 1973, Irving Berlin leads the singing of “God Bless America.” Sammy Davis, Jr., joins in. The flag made in captivity by a POW is displayed in the background. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
Summit II: with Brezhnev on the South Portico of the White House after his arrival ceremony in June 1973. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
Summit II: with Brezhnev in RN’s second-floor study at La Casa Pacifica in San Clemente in June 1973. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
With Pat and Bebe Rebozo in San Clemente, August 20, 1973. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
The tense press conference of October 26, 1973, following the controversial firing of Archibald Cox as Watergate Special Prosecutor and after the military alert during the Yom Kippur War. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
With President Anwar Sadat of Egypt in Alexandria during the Middle East trip in June 1974. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
Summit III: sailing on the Black Sea in the Crimea in June 1974. Brezhnev (right) and translator Viktor Sukhodrev point out Yalta. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
With Tricia in the Rose Garden, August 7, 1974. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
RN with Julie after informing the family of his decision to resign, August 7, 1974. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
Meeting with Vice President Ford on August 8, 1974, RN’s last full day as President. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
RN’s farewell to the Cabinet and White House staff in the East Room on the morning of August 9, 1974. (WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
(WHITE HOUSE PHOTO)
(WIDE WORLD PHOTOS)
(© COPYRIGHT 1974 DON CARL STEFFEN)
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INDEX
Abadi (Djakarta), 135
ABC, 246, 247, 330, 333, 854, 945, 953, 966, 1040, 1041
Aberbach, Joel, 768
Abernathy, Ralph, 436
ABM (Anti-ballistic missile system), 415–18, 523, 611, 616, 617–18, 1025, 1036, 1039
Abplanalp, Bob, 625, 673, 827, 952, 954, 957, 958, 964, 1045
Abrams, Creighton, 380, 450, 467, 600, 706
Abu Dhabi, 931
Acheson, Dean, 110–11, 112, 401, 408, 409
Achilles, Ted, 187
Adams, Duque and Hazeltine, 231
Adams, Earl, 231
Adams, John, 141
Adams, Sherman, 86, 90, 96, 142, 165–66, 174, 175, 184, 193–99, 428, 708, 802, 823, 846
Adelson, Bill, 20
Adenauer, Konrad, 280–81
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois (Martin), 100
Adler, Renata, 990
Advise and Consent (Drury), 503
AFL-CIO, 38, 659, 672, 974
Africa, 118
RN’s 1967 trip to, 280, 283
Agnew, Judy (Mrs. Spiro T.), 340, 753
Agnew, Spiro T. “Ted,” 277, 300, 310–316, 320, 324, 333, 340, 365–66, 383, 384, 402, 411–12, 427, 432, 448, 491, 495, 549, 604, 674–75, 683, 712, 736, 753, 762, 814, 816, 823, 856, 858, 901, 903, 912–18, 920, 922–23, 956, 1004, 1005, 1020
Agreement for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 880, 882
Aiken, George, 96, 451, 604, 822
Albert, Carl, 500, 604, 888, 917, 1081
Alcorn, Meade, 195, 197, 198
Aleksandrov, Andrei, 611
Alexander, Donald, 1045
Algeria, 931
Allen, James, 1050
Allende, Salvador, 489–90
Alliance for Progress, 283
Allyson, June, 77
Alsop, Stewart, 416, 684
America-Japan Society, 129–30
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 780, 974
American Exhibition, Moscow, 208–209
American Political Science Review, 768
American Society of Newspaper Editors, 152, 201, 301–302
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 160
Anderson, Jack, 194, 531–32, 574, 580, 582, 585, 664, 953
Anderson, John, 822, 997
Andreotti, Giulio, 835
Andrews, Bert, 57–58, 68, 70, 95, 106
Annenberg, Walter, 977
Anti-Memoirs (Malraux), 557
Antiwar demonstrations and movements, 350–51, 356, 388–89, 398–404, 412–13, 448, 466, 469, 492–94, 497, 513, 515
Apollo program, 361, 394, 428–29, 430, 618
Arabs. See specific countries: Algeria; Egypt; Iraq; Jordan; Lebanon; Libya; Saudi Arabia; Syria
Arends, Les, 517, 1082
Argentina, 490
RN’s 1958 trip to, 186
Arlen, Harold, 540
Armstrong, Neil, 429
Army, U.S., and McCarthy hearings, 140–43, 147
ARVN [South Vietnamese Army], 449, 450, 454, 467, 468, 498–99
Asad, Hafez, 936, 1013–14
Ash, Roy, 767, 1049
Ashbrook, John, 541
Askew, Reubin, 673
Associated Press (AP), 298, 404, 458, 471, 812, 990
At That Point in Time (Thompson), 966
Atkins, Ollie, 1075
Atlanta Constitution, 219
Atlantic Monthly, 990
Attlee, Clement, 49
Australia, 152, 154, 274
RN’s 1953 trip to, 120–21
Austria
RN’s 1956 trip to, 182–83
RN’s 1972 trip to, 609
RN’s 1974 trip to, 1009
Bailey, Pearl, 539
Baker, Bobby, 645, 755, 777, 895
Baker, Howard, 738, 811, 930, 932
Baldwin, Lilly, 23
Ball, George, 326, 327
Baltimore Sun, 854
Bao Dai, 122
Barnum, Everett, 3
Barzel, Rainer, 835
Bassett, Jim, 96, 218
Batista, Fulgencio, 201–203
Bay of Pigs, 232–36, 256, 513, 515, 633, 640–42, 650
Bayh, Birch, 420–21, 582
Beall, J. Glenn, Jr., 816
Beam, Jacob, 478
Beard, Dita, 580, 582, 637
Beeson, Alden, 9
Beeson, Harold, 9
Beeson, Jane (Mrs. Harold), 9
Beeson, Sheldon, 9
Bellino, Carmine, 895
Bennett, D. V., 473
Bennett, Tony, 539
Bennett, Wallace F., 1064
Bentley, Elizabeth, 52, 53
Ben-Veniste, Richard, 952
Berlin, 235, 344–45, 406, 445, 523, 524
RN’s 1963 trip to, 248–49
RN’s 1969 trip to, 371
Berlin, Irving, 867
Bernstein, Leonard, 539
Best, Judah, 916, 920
Bevan, Aneurin, 158
Bevin, Ernest, 49
Bewley, Kathryn (Mrs. Thomas W.), 27
Bewley, Thomas W., 27
“Big Five” coalition, 38
Birch Society. See John Birch Society
Bittman, William, 804, 805
Black, Hugo, 423
Black Panthers, 455, 469–76
Black, Shirley Temple, 987
Blackmun, Harry A., 423
Blacks, 435–45
student demands, 398
Blake, Robert, 681, 768
Bliss, Ray, 272
Block, Herbert, 163
Blount, Winton “Red,” 340
“Blue Book,” 994, 996, 998, 999, 1001, 1002
Bo, Mai Van, 349, 396–97
Bobst, Elmer, 247
Boddy, Manchester, 74
Bogdan, Corneliu, 547
Boggs, Hale, 604, 639
Bohemian Grove, 80–81, 283–85
Bohlen, Charles E. “Chip,” 139, 234–35, 406
Bolivia, 490
RN’s 1958 trip t
o, 186
Bonn
RN’s 1969 trip to, 371
Bork, Robert, 934, 943
Borman, Frank, 362, 429
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