342 For Goldwater MSG rally, see ML, Box 91, and Box 88/National Goldwater Rally. For “put the accent” quote, see Newsweek, May 25, 1964.
343 For “Looselippmann” quip, see John Gregory Dunne, “Marvin in Manialand,” in Quintana and Friends (New York: Dutton, 1979). For give-and-take in polls, see White, Making of the President 1964, 151. Senator Goldwater Speaks Out on the Issues: AC. For pamphlet release date, see transcript of ABC Reports, May 14, 1964, RAC, Box 11/893. “The next logical step”: transcript of May 15, 1964, radio call-in show, RAC, Box 11/894. Council on Foreign Relations quote: ibid. “I hope I’m as wrong as I could be”: ABC Reports, May 14, 1964.
343 “The senator is too busy”: “Far Right and Far Left,” NYP, April 15, 1964.
343 For NAR’s Oregon bounce, see White, Making of the President 1964, 151.
343 For “H-Bomb button” brochure, see James M. Perry, A Report in Depth on Barry Goldwater: The Story of the 1964 Republican Presidential Nominee (Silver Spring, Md.: National Observer, 1964), 102-3; and Kessel, Goldwater Coalition, 85.
344 For reaction to brochure, see May 26, 1964, Goldwater press release, RAC, Box 11/908; White with Gill, Suite 3505, 341; and George D. Wolf, William Warren Scranton: Pennsylvania Statesman (State College: Penn State Press, 1981), 104. For Lodge organization’s failed efforts for Rockefeller, see Kessel, Goldwater Coalition, 83, 85. “I personally believe that Goldwater”: see Goldwater speech, May 16, 1964, in Santa Rosa, RAC, Box 11/896, and AHF, Box 1/20.
344 For Beckwith and Mississippi, see Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998), 321-33. For Wallace results in Maryland, see Carter, Politics of Rage, 215.
344 For threats to Rockefeller, see Anderson and Lee, “1964 Election in California.” “This is the kind of extremist tactics”: Perry, Report in Depth. Billboards that were mysteriously chainsawed: author interview with Noel Black. For agents provocateurs, see CT, June 4, 1964. For “Rodeo of Rodeos” parade, see Phoenix Republic, March 13, 1964, clip in SHBGS.
345 For Rockefeller California advertising, see Bill Roberts, “General Outline,” RAC, Box 11/935; also RAC, Box 11/937. The 1,200 phone solicitors are mentioned in White, Making of the President 1964, 153. White’s sabotage: author interview with Jameson Campaigne Jr. For subcontracting publicists and black college list, see Perry, Report in Depth, 99. For “truth squad” and Goldwater quote, see Scrapbook 298, MCSL, 18. For expense-account lunches, see, for example, Danzig expense voucher, RAC, Box 11/933. For eighteen-stop schedule, see Time, May 29, 1964. For Colorado River charges, see May 20, 1964, speech in Stockton, LAT, May 21, 1964.
345 For Burch inspection tour, see Richard Kleindienst, Justice: The Memoirs of an Attorney General (Ottawa, III.: Jameson Books, 1985), 35; Harper to Baus, April 23, 1964, FCW, Box 8/Baus and Ross; and Shadegg, What Happened, 117, 119, 121. For businessmen’s fears, see Time, June 12, 1964. For Knowland’s travels and predictions, see “Victory for Goldwater in California Forecast,” LAT, January 20, 1964; and Montgomery and Johnson, One Step from the White House, 271.
345 For Knowland’s firing, see Kleindienst, Justice, 35.
346 The Garbo operation is described in Edwards, Goldwater, 219-20; Shadegg, What Happened, 116, 121-26; and author interviews with Lee Edwards, Ron Crawford, and Charles Lichenstein.
346 Goldwater California pamphlet is in AC. Clip of “meandering stream” joke in A&E Television Network, Nelson Rockefeller: Passionate Millionaire (1997, cat. no. AAE-17506). For transcript of “upside-down” ad, see RAC, Box 11/910. For men on the street, see Kessel, Goldwater Coalition, 87; transcript in RAC, Box 11/910; and Lichenstein interview.
346 For “school chums” letter, see Goldberg, Barry Goldwater, 191; and White with Gill, Suite 3505, 346. For finance office calls, see Perry, Report in Depth, 105.
346 For McNamara visit, see William J. Miller, Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biography (New York: Heineman, 1967), 357.
347 For May 24, 1964, Issues and Answers quote, see transcript in RAC, Box 11/904.
347 For earlier Goldwater comment that nuclear weapons should be used in Vietnam, see David Susskind’s Open End TV show, October 20, 1963, transcript in RAC, Box 10/770.
347 For nuclear headlines, see Goldberg, Barry Goldwater, 191; and Karl Hess, In a Cause That Will Triumph: The Goldwater Campaign and the Future of Conservatism (New York: Doubleday, 1967), 124. RFK’s quip is in Rita Lang Kleinfelder, When We Were Young: A Baby-Boomer Yearbook (New York: Prentice Hall, 1993), 363. “Goldwater wasn’t asked”: “Goldwater’s Plan for A-Weapons in Viet, Maybe,” NYHT, May 25, 1964. For the Eisenhower article, see White with Gill, Suite 3505, 242; and “On the Republicans’ Choice: A Personal Statement by Eisenhower,” NYHT, May 25, 1964. For “shoe” quote, see Newsweek, June 8, 1964.
348 The New York Times said Eisenhower’s words: NYT, May 27, 1964. Lubell quotes in Chicago Daily News, June 1, 1964. The Hoover phone call is in Goldberg, Barry Goldwater, 192.
348 For Honolulu meeting, see Robert S. McNamara with Brian VanDeMark, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (New York: Vintage, 1995), 212; and H. R. McMaster, Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam (New York: HarperCollins, 1997),99.
348 The conversation with Russell is in Michael Beschloss, ed., Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997), 363-70; with Bundy, in Beschloss, 370-73.
348 “You’ve got to warn the senator”: Harold Faber, ed., The Road to the White House: The Story of the 1964 Election by the Staff of the New York Times (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965), 39.
349 For the story of A Choice Not an Echo, I rely on Carol Felsenthal, Sweetheart of the Silent Majority: The Biography of Phyllis Schlafly (New York: Doubleday, 1981), 176-77; Peter Carol, Famous in America: The Passion to Succeed: Jane Fonda, George Wallace, Phyllis Schlafly, John Glenn (New York: Dutton, 1995); and author interview with Phyllis Schlafly.
350 Reagan’s Goldwater broadcast transcript is in RAC, Box 11/914. “And good evening to all you irresponsible Republicans”: Faber, ed., The Road to the White House, 39. For San Francisco fund-raiser, see Walton to Knowland, April 16, 1964, FCW, Box 8/Rus Walton.
350 Steve Allen transcript is in RAC, Box 11/913. For “Let Freedom Ring,” see GRR, September 1, 1964.
351 For 49 to 40 percent poll, see White, Making of the President 1964, 151. “I have a show opening”: Edwards, Goldwater, 225.
351 For cancellation of Loyola appearance: Shadegg, What Happened, 125; and Lee Edwards interview. For Protestant ministers, see Goldberg, Barry Goldwater, 193. Rockefeller, the ministers proclaimed, had “struck a serious blow against the Christian concept of marriage.”
351 For Rockefeller cutting back advertising, see Edwards, Goldwater, 28. For The Extremist, see production script, RAC, Box 11/944. For cancellation, see GRR, June 29, 1964. For $1 million in last week, see Time, May 29, 1964. For Goldwater’s reluctance to go negative, see CT, June 4, 1964, and May 23, 1964, Goldwater statement in FSA, Box 4. “ I would think a long time”: May 29, 1964, in Inglewood, RAC, Box 11/908. For statement on “destructive charges,” see Anderson and Lee, “1964 Election in California.”
352 For Goldwater’s Riverside appearance, see White, Making of the President 1964, 154-55; and (for MacNeil story) author interview with anonymous source.
352 For Knott’s Berry Farm, see McGirr, “Suburban Warriors,” 167; GRR, June 12, 1964: speech transcript in RAC, Box 11/920. For John Wayne and Ronald Reagan story, see Howard K. Smith, Events Leading Up to My Death: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Reporter (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 309-10.
353 Goldwater retreating to play with ham radio: AR, July 16, 1964. For Goldwater canvass, see Kessel, Goldwater Coalition, 87; Time, June 12, 1964; and White with Gill, Suite 3505, 338.
353 For Hannah Nixon, see White with Gill, 326; and Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “The Unmaking of a
President,” Esquire, November 1964.
353 Eisenhower’s about-face is in Edwards, Goldwater, 223. “You can’t canter without a horse”: Goldberg, Barry Goldwater, 193. Final Harris polls are in White with Gill, Suite 3505, 344. “Please keep in mind”: Kessel, Goldwater Coalition, 85.
353 The story of CBS on election night is told in Bill Leonard, In the Storm of the Eye: A Lifetime at CBS (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1987), 95-113.
354 For California primary returns, see Anderson and Lee, “1964 Election in California.” For the failing of polls, see Earl Mazo, “California Republican Primary Trips the Polls,” NYT, June 4, 1964. For the role of A Choice, Not an Echo, see Shadegg, What Happened, 124. The story of Goldwater’s drinking is in Edwards, Goldwater, 227. “I’m going right down the line”: Chicago Daily News, June 3, 1964.
355 In Mississippi, Freedom Summer organizers: author interview with Congressman Barney Frank. For “little old ladies in tennis shoes,” see Stanley Mosk and Howard H. Jewel, “The Birch Phenomenon Analyzed,” NYTM, August 20, 1961. For packages: “Mosk ‘Flooded’ by Shoes, Sandles,” SFC, August 10, 1961. Foreign press roundup is in Time, June 12, 1964. For de-Nazification trials, see “Ugly Past Lives Again in Germany Nazi Trials,” LAT, February 23, 1964.
355 Religious retreat story is from author interview with Graham T. T. Molitor.
17. DUTY 356 The theory that governors are inherently moderates is in Theodore H. White, The Making of the President 1964 (New York: Atheneum, 1965), 176. For the governors’ dread over racial disorder, see USN, June 22, 1964.
357 Narration of Cleveland governors conference is from James M. Perry, A Report in Depth on Barry Goldwater: The Story of the 1964 Republican Presidential Nominee (Silver Spring, Md.: National Observer, 1964), 109-12; Newsweek, June 22, 1964; F. Clifton White with William Gill, Suite 3505: The Story of the Draft Goldwater Movement (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1967), 362-68; George D. Wolf, William Warren Scranton: Pennsylvania Statesman (State College: Penn State Press, 1981), 104-7; Stephen Shadegg, What Happened to Goldwater?: The Inside Story of the 1964 Republican Campaign (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1965), 126-28; Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “The Unmaking of a President,” Esquire, November 1964, esp. for Nixon’s role; Murray Kempton, TNR, June 20, 1964; and Time, June 19, 1964.
358 Expose of Johnson’s business dealings is in “The Johnson Money,” WS, June 9, 1964. Rostow’s “up to and including all-out nuclear war” is in NYT, June 9, 1964. For King in St. Augustine, see Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998), 326-27, 337-40.
359 Scranton’s brooding and decision are in Perry, A Report in Depth, 113-14; Time, June 19, 1964; and Wolf, William Warren Scranton, 108-10.
359 For Maryland state chair, see Robert Novak, The Agony of the GOP 1964 (New York: Macmillan, 1965), 298. Scranton’s entrance speech is in Walter Judd Papers, Box 213/Presidential Campaigns, HI.
360 For Scranton’s December letter to Goldwater, see White with Gill, Suite 3505, 368. “The Republican establishment is desperate”: NYT, June 13, 1964. “I guess he doesn’t know my views”: Murray Kempton, TNR, June 20, 1964.
360 For Scranton campaign trail quotes, see John Kessel, The Goldwater Coalition: Republican Strategies in 1964 (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968), 101; NYT, June 16, 1964; Life, June 26, 1964; Time, June 26, 1964, and July 3, 1964; Mary McGrory, WS, June 19, 1964; and Wolf, William Warren Scranton, 112-13.
360 “A coordinated labor market” is in Detroit News, June 27, 1964. For Scranton’s Taft quotes, see Time, July 3, 1964. For the liberals’ Taft fetish, see “Campaigner Goldwater,” Stewart Alsop, SEP, September 19, 1964; David Riesman quote in “Thunder on the Far Right: Fear and Frustration,” Newsweek, December 4, 1961; White, Making of the President 1964, 113, 117-18, 262; Richard Hofstadter, “A Long View: Goldwater in History,” NYRB, October 8, 1964; and Bruce Chapman, interviewed on ABC Reports, November 10, 1963, RAC, Box 10/773. Lippmann, Time, and Rovere quotes are in James T. Patterson, Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert Taft (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972), 314, 531.
361 For Scranton’s strategy, see Kessel, Goldwater Coalition, 99; and Wolf, William Warren Scranton, 114. Telegrams and so forth to delegates: White with Gill, Suite 3505, 379. For 55 to 34 Gallup poll, see Time, July 3, 1964. Schlafly on Gallup is in Phyllis Schlafly, A Choice, Not an Echo (Alton, III.: Pere Marquette Press, 1964), 45. Buckley quote is in John B. Judis, William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives (New York: Touchstone, 1990), 207.
361 For “on the right track” statement, hear LBJT, 6406.16/12. For what the GI told him, see William J. Miller, Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biography (New York: Heineman, 1967), 363. For Milton Eisenhower, see TNR, June 20, 1964. For Gates, see Middendorf to Burch, June 26, 1964, and Middendorf to Kitchel, June 26, 1964, FCW, Box 8/Wm. Middendorf. For Dewey, see Newsweek, July 6, 1964.
362 Schlafly quotes are in A Choice Not an Echo, 86-87.
362 For statistic on banking resources, see White, Making of the President 1964, 85. For physicians, see Jack Anderson, LAT, July 3, 1964.
362 Lodge airport reception and failed trip is in Newsweek, July 20, 1964. Roundup of media praise for Scranton campaign is in Time, July 3, 1964. Iowa claim is June 16, 1964, UPI dispatch in SHBGS. For Illinois, see Chicago Daily News editorial, June 16, 1964.
362 “Storied kingmakers” quote is in Time, June 26, 1964. Telegrams to Goldwater: White with Gill, Suite 3505, 378.
363 For church burnings, see Branch, Pillar of Fire, 367-83. For Goldwater’s visit to Eisenhower and meeting with Yerger and Grenier, see John Grenier OH, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4007: A-9.
363 For Kitchel to Goldwater in 1962, see two letters dated November 12, 1962, in DK, Box2/Goldwater, Barry, 1947-63. For Rehnquist in Phoenix and on Plessy, see David Saraye, Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court (New York: John Wiley, 1992), 31-32, 35-38. For Goldwater consulting Rehnquist and Bork, see Jon Margolis, The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964: The Beginning of the “Sixties” (New York: Morrow, 1999), 239. For Bork brief, see Perry, Report in Depth. For Bork quote, see TNR, August 31,1963.
364 Goldwater’s mien on the Senate floor is described in Time, June 26, 1964. The full speech is in White with Gill, Suite 3505, 429-31.
364 For Mississippi precinct day, MFDP, Mississippi regular Democrats, and civil rights workers’ disappearance, see Margolis, Last Innocent Year, 238, 242-55 (Cronkite quote on 254). For Lippmann column, see NYHT, June 30, 1964.
365 The New York Times found it impossible: “Arizona Target of GOP Leader,” NYT, June 20, 1964. For Scranton courting Dirksen in Washington, see White with Gill, Suite 3505, 373.
365 “It looks good in North Carolina!”: Birmingham World, July 4, 1964. For Illinois whistle-stop, see Wolf, William Warren Scranton, 113. For Illinois delegation meeting, see White with Gill, Suite 3505, 372; Margolis, Last Innocent Year, 259; Wolf, William Warren Scranton, 113; and Kessel, Goldwater Coalition, 103.
365 For 1952 Dirksen speech, see AHF, Box W3/6.
365 For Johnson’s quote upon signing the Civil Rights Act, see Branch, Pillar of Fire, 404. On violence, see “The Civil Rights Law Goes into Action,” USN, July 20, 1964. For the LACYR’s resolution, see Stewart Alsop, SEP, September 29, 1964. Scranton’s trip West is in Kessel, Goldwater Coalition, 104. For Theodore Roosevelt’s granddaughter, see White, Making of the President 1964, 165.
366 “I doubt he’s got it completely locked up”: Michael Beschloss, ed., Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997),419-20.
366 “The 1952 tricks will be used again”: Middendorf to Kitchel, June 26, 1964, and Middendorf to Burch, June 27, 1964, FCW, Box 8/Middendorf.
366 For White and Day at the Mark Hopkins, see White with Gill, Suite 3505, 381-82.
367 For White’s JFK influence, see White, Suite 3505, 243. For J
FK apparatus, see Thomas C. Reeves, A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy (New York: Free Press, 1991), 174; and Pierre Salinger, With Kennedy (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966), 38. For Laird, see Kessel, Goldwater Coalition, 107.
367 White’s confidence mixed with fear is in White with Gill, Suite 3505, 377-78.
367 For turn-the-other-cheek strategy in platform committee, see The GOP Constructs a Platform, CBS News special, MTR, T78:0143.
367 For buddy system, see Shadegg, What Happened, 139. Transportation is described in White with Gill, Suite 3505, 384; and Shadegg, What Happened, 138, 145. For delegate binders, see Shadegg, 137. For “Can be influenced” quote, see report on Michigan delegate Robert Flood; AHF, Box W¾.
367 For delegation command posts, see Chicago Daily News, July 14, 1964.
367 For communications system, see White with Gill, Suite 3505, 381-82; Lee Edwards, Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1995), 254; Shadegg, What Happened, 137, 159; White, Making of the President 1964; Time, July 13, 1964; and author interviews with Lee Edwards and Ron Crawford.
368 For TV and radio setup: author interview with Edwards and Carol Dawson; Shadegg, What Happened, 145; White with Gill, Suite 3505, 383.
368 For security, see Drew Pearson, “A Look at Barry’s ‘Armed Camp,’ ” WP, July 15, 1964; Time, July 13, 1964; and White with Gill, Suite 3505, 383-84. See also photographs in AHFCP, vol. 3, photos 15, 16, 18, and 22.
369 The trailer is described in Shadegg, What Happened, 144-45; Margolis, Last Innocent Year, 267; White, Making of the President 1964, 264; and F. Clifton White with Jerome Tuccille, Politics as a Noble Calling (Ottawa, III.: Jameson Books, 1994), 159. For trailer security, see Shadegg, What Happened, 159. For pools of volunteers, see “Special Trains Head for S.F.,” Youth for Goldwater Newsletter, March 1964, JCJ. For warehouses, see Newsweek, July 13, 1964.
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