He called the program: Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy, p. 121.
CHAPTER 16: DIEM
“If I have”: Hess int.
On the morning of April 21: On June 11, 1964, Marina Oswald gave this account of her husband’s behavior on April 21, 1963. Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, vol. 5, p. 389. The episode is recounted in Priscilla Johnson McMillan, Marina and Lee (New York: Harper and Row, 1977), p. 368. The Warren Commission report (pp. 188-89) dismissed Mrs. Oswald’s account as having “no probative value” after reviewing editions of the Dallas Morning News from January I through May 15, 1963, and finding no reference to a Nixon trip to Dallas. The commission failed to notice the dramatic headline of April 21, “Nixon Calls for Decision to Force Reds Out of Cuba,” which corroborates Mrs. Oswald’s account both in timing and circumstance.
“Too many people”: Stephen E. Ambrose, Nixon, The Triumph of a Politician 1962-1972 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989), p. 23.
Later that month: Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy, p. 95.
Stephen Hess: Hess int.
Nixon planned to write a book: Hess int.
The Lodge appointment: account of Diem overthrow drawn from Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 465.
Averell Harriman: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 561.
“It shocks and saddens me”: Robert McNamara, In Retrospect—The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (New York: Random House, 1995), p. 55.
“My God!”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 565.
“We don’t have a prayer”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 464
“What would we have done”: Neil Sheehan, Bright Shining Lie (New York: Vintage Books, 1988), p. 371.
When a younger: Sheehan, Bright Shining Lie, p. 371.
Kennedy rushing from the room: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 649.
“I like him, too”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 465.
“Richard Nixon suddenly seems”: Time, November 22, 1963.
CHAPTER 17: DALLAS
“Nixon Predicts”: Dallas Morning News, November 22, 1963.
“Damn it”: Smathers int.
Back at the White House: conversations with Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr.
Charles Bartlett: Bartlett int.
“Nixon opens”: Hess int.
that afternoon: Hess int.
“Dear Jackie”: letter courtesy of Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace.
CHAPTER 18: ETERNAL FLAME
Don Hewitt: Hewitt int.
“Dear Mr. Vice President”: letter courtesy of Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace.
Jacqueline Kennedy’s instrument: White, In Search of History, pp. 672-81.
“You always”: PBS broadcast, The Kennedys, September 1992.
“He wanted to be there”: PBS broadcast, The Kennedys, September 1992.
“There is no substitute”: New York Times, April 2, 1964
In Pakistan: Nixon, In the Arena (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), p. 71.
“I know that”: Nixon, RN, p. 257.
When the commission: Nixon letter to commission of August 4, 1964, courtesy of Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace.
With aroused Goldwater: Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, p. 329.
“Get out of this mysticism”: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times.
A young Kansas congressman: Jake H. Thompson, Bob Dole: The Republicans’ Man for All Seasons (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1994), p. 53.
CHAPTER 19: THE NEW NIXON
“Between wars”: John Ehrlichman, The China Card (New York: Bantam Books, 1987), p. 23.
“I’ll ruin you!”: Evan Thomas, Jr., int.
Manchester suffered: account drawn from William Manchester article in Look, August 4, 1967.
Robert MacNeil: conversation with Robert MacNeil.
“First ’66”: conversation with Patrick J. Buchanan.
Johnson would drop: Ambrose, Nixon (1962-1972), p. 90.
“He was telling”: Hess int.
“I understand how”: Ambrose, Nixon (1962-1972), p. 99.
“It became clear”: Report of the Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency, 23 May 1967.
His rival now produced: Foreign Affairs, 1967.
Nixon received similar advice: letter obtained from William Gavin, who later served as a speechwriter for President Nixon.
CHAPTER 20: 1968
“We’ve just seen some terrible”: Ehrlichman int.
“Those who had”: Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, p. 355.
Realizing that the New Yorker: Sears int.
“I just feel”: Newfield, Robert Kennedy, p. 258.
“Let me be very clear”: Time, September 27, 1968.
Larry O’Brien: O’Brien, No Final Victories, p. 380.
CHAPTER 21: HAUNTING
“Nixon standard”: William Safire, Before the Fall (New York: Double- day, 1975), p. 152.
FBI director: Ambrose, Nixon (1962-1972), p. 235.
On the eve: Washington Star, January 20, 1969.
Ted Kennedy quietly warned: Herbert G. Klein, Making It Perfectly Clear (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980), p. 299.
He asked Sargent Shriver: Sargent Shriver int.
the media hit him: Klein, Making It Perfectly Clear, p. 298.
“The campaign of 1968”: Lester David, Good Ted Bad Ted (New York: Birch Lane Press, 1993), p. 161.
“There has been no more traumatic”: Ray Price, With Nixon (New York: Viking, 1977), p. 64.
“We could not simply”: Walter Isaacson, Kissinger (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), p. 165.
“Kennedy had his sent”: Ambrose, Nixon, p. 250.
“You might pass”: Ambrose, Nixon, (1962-1972) p. 250.
The key to Haldeman’s power: Jeb Magruder, An American Life—One Man’s Road to Watergate (New York: Atheneum, 1974), p. 64.
A small overseas skirmish: John Ehrlichman int.
“That’s a Kennedy song”: Safire, Before the Fall, p. 153.
Ehrlichman noticed: Ehrlichman int.
“Wow!”: David, Good Ted Bad Ted, p. 94.
Next, Kennedy jumped: Harris book; James Flug int.
“His people gave him some great word pictures”: Safire, Before the Fall, p. 154.
How dare Richard Nixon: Washington Post, July 19, 1969.
The New York Times piled on: New York Times, July 20, 1969.
“Wants to be sure”: H. R. Haldeman, Haldeman Diaries (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994), p. 72.
“This is quite a day”: Safire, Before the Fall, p. 152.
“I would get”: Ehrlichman int.
“Nixon saw it as”: Ehrlichman int.
To meet his boss’s needs: Haldeman int.
Operating on presidential orders: Lukas, Nightmare, p. 16.
The Nixon team: New York Times, July 7, 1973.
Two weeks after: John Ehrlichman, Witness to Power (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), p. 292.
Nixon relished pointing out: Bruce Oudes, ed., From: The President (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), p. 44.
He also ordered his staff: Oudes, From: The President, p. 45.
That same autumn: Louis Harris int.; Haldeman int.
“He was pushing it both ways”: Haldeman int.
“He’s continually cranking”: Ehrlichman int.; Haldeman int.; conversation with Patrick J. Buchanan.
CHAPTER 22: ESCALATION
Wondering aloud: Haldeman, Diaries, p. 123.
Lawrence O’Brien: Haldeman, Diaries, p. 134.
Nixon next ordered: Haldeman, Diaries, p. 148.
“After a while”: Daniel Patrick Moynihan int.
When antiwar demonstrators: Haldeman, Diaries, p. 205.
Nixon aide Jeb Magruder: Magruder, One Man’s Road to Watergate, p. 143.
Charles Colson: Lukas, Nightmare, p. 82.
He succeeded in having: Haldeman, Diaries, p. 215.
“The president loved that picture”: Haldeman int.
“I se
nt somebody”: Colson int.
“He arrived in the White House”: Magruder, One Man’s Road to Watergate, p. 71.
“He was always”: Colson int.
“You just sensed”: Colson int.
At year’s end: Ambrose, Nixon (1962-1972), p. 421.
CHAPTER 23: INTERLUDE
On January 1, 1971: Haldeman, Diaries, p. 229.
“As you know”: Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, p. 468.
On February 3: account of Kennedys’ White House visit taken from Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, pp. 468-70.
Personal accounts: letters courtesy of Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace.
CHAPTER 24: TARGETING TEDDY
On a sunny afternoon: Haldeman, Diaries, p. 248.
Two days later: Haldeman, Diaries: p. 249.
“Nixon took pains”: H. R. Haldeman, Ends of Power (New York: Dell Publishing, 1978), p. 105.
“The Kennedy-Nixon comparison”: Colson int.
The surprise loss: Haldeman, Diaries, p. 237.
Haldeman, he learned: Dan Rather, The Camera Never Blinks (New York: Ballantine, 1977), p. 249.
“We were in their faces”: Flug int.
“We must destroy”: David, Good Ted Bad Ted, p. 122.
In June: Lukas, Nightmare, p. 53.
“We should encourage”: quoted in Oudes, From: The President, p. 284.
He ordered Henry Kissinger: Haldeman, Diaries, p. 302.
Kissinger pushed Nixon: Haldeman, Ends of Power, p. 110.
“If we can change”: quoted in Oudes, From: The President, p. 283.
“I don’t give a damn”: Haldeman, Ends of Power, p. 112.
“The more I think about”: Lukas, Nightmare, p. 82.
“Eduardo”: Hunt, Undercover, p. 141.
To prepare for the task: Lukas, Nightmare, p. 81.
Segretti suggested: Lukas, Nightmare, p. 154.
Nixon derided the white marble building: quoted from Ambrose, Nixon (1962-1972), p. 417.
Word reached him: Oudes, From: The President, p. 298.
Haldeman-inspired plan: Haldeman, Diaries, p. 338.
Rose Kennedy wrote: Oudes, From: The President, p. 312.
“No! Never!”: quoted from Ambrose, Nixon (1962-1972), p. 417.
Two days later: Haldeman, Diaries, p. 356.
“I wanted ammunition”: Nixon, RN, p. 513.
“The P ordered”: Haldeman, Diaries, p. 356.
“I went to Helms”: Ehrlichman int.
“I want to protect the agency”: Richard Helms int.
He would later complain: Ehrlichman int.; Haldeman int.
Years later: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 577.
CHAPTER 25: SMOKING GUN
When Hugh Sidey: Haldeman, Diaries, p. 401.
His indignation: New York Times, January 24, 1972.
“Nixon knew”: Haldeman int.
“Should this Kennedy mafia-dominated”: Lukas, Nightmare, p. 181.
“O’Brien’s not going”: Haldeman, Ends of Power, p. 11.
“When are they going”: Haldeman, Ends of Power, p. 155.
“Why don’t you guys”: Magruder, One Man’s Road to Watergate, p. 197.
he pulled a dirty trick: Magruder, One Man’s Road to Watergate, p. 203.
The single-minded: Oudes, From: The President, p. 402.
He listened with interest: Haldeman, Diaries, p. 435.
Lawrence O’Brien: O’Brien, No Final Victories, p. 298.
Within a week: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, All the President’s Men (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974), pp. 31-32.
A public relations director: Woodward and Bernstein, All the President’s Men, p. 253.
“Destroy him”: Ambrose, Nixon (1962-1972), p. 583.
the Kennedy staff: Flug int.
“I know the people around Nixon”: Woodward and Bernstein, All the President’s Men, p. 274.
He also realized: Flug int.
“Kennedy is out for blood”: Woodward and Bernstein, All the President’s Men, p. 202.
That night: Haldeman, Diaries, p. 531.
And, finally: Haldeman, Diaries, p. 536.
“If Bradlee ever”: Woodward and Bernstein, All the President’s Men, p. 205.
“That’s some pretty personal”: Woodward and Bernstein, All the President’s Men, p. 205.
“I know it’s there”: Woodward and Bernstein, All the President’s Men, p. 205.
CHAPTER 26: KENNEDY VERSUS NIXON—AGAIN
“The Kennedy ghost”: Price, With Nixon, p. 62.
Thanks to Senator Kennedy: Flug int.
Unable to let pass: Stephen E. Ambrose, Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973-1990 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), p. 60.
“bear trap”: Ambrose, Nixon (1973-1990), p. 76.
Nixon told Dean: Ambrose, Nixon (1973-1990), p. 85.
Until he was assured: Flug int.
One name Kennedy mentioned: Robert Healy, Boston globe, May 27, 1973.
“The original terms”: Elliot Richardson, The Creative Balance (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1976), p. 37.
no-man’s-land: Richardson, The Creative Balance, p. 37.
While Richardson viewed: Richardson, The Creative Balance, p. 37.
“Cox will be a disaster”: Nixon, RN, p. 910.
To speech-writer Ray Price: Price, With Nixon, p. 236.
“Archie Cox?”: Price, With Nixon, p. 236.
“If Richardson”: Nixon, RN, p. 910.
after many drinks: Anatoli Dobrynin, In Confidence (New York: Times Books, 1995), p. 182.
He and the House parliamentarian: conversation with Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr.
Before making: James Reston, Jr., Lone Star: The Life Story of John Connally (New York: Harper & Row, 1989) p. 460.
With Albert now next: Joe Foote int.
He called the firings: Ambrose, Nixon (1973-1990), p. 250.
As James Flug: Flug int.
“I don’t have any office”: David Nyan, Boston Globe, October 24, 1973.
“I had to light a fire”: O’Neill, Man of the House, p. 251.
When the beleaguered: Ambrose, Nixon (1973-1990), p. 268.
“Wherever Nixon turned”: Price, With Nixon, p. 62.
CHAPTER 27: DEATH OF A PRESIDENCY
“Opponents are savage”: Nixon, RN, p. 971.
“A car driven by”: Washington Post, January 27, 1974.
“Let’s get them all”: Ambrose, Nixon (1973-1990), p. 370.
In July: New York Times Magazine, July 14, 1974.
Alexander Haig: Haig int.
“We talked a bit”: Price, With Nixon, p. 340.
“History will treat”: Isaacson, Kissinger, p. 597.
“It depends”: Isaacson, Kissinger, p. 597.
EPILOGUE: TWILIGHT
“In going over the side”: William V. Shannon column, New York Times, August 18, 1974.
“dual standard of justice”: quoted in New York Times, Sepember. 16, 1974.
“Nobody drowned at Watergate”: Clare Booth Luce, New York Times, August 1974.
he was predicting: Rowland Evans-Robert Novak column quoted in Christian Science Monitor, November 4, 1974.
“The most charitable”: Richard M. Nixon, The Real War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), p. 113.
America’s role: Nixon, In the Arena, pp. 91, 341.
“presidential power”: David, Good Ted Bad Ted, p. 211.
“Tell them not to make the mistakes we did”: Vernon Jordan int.
“I have endured a few crises in my lifetime”: letter courtesy of Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace.
“Don’t say that”: conversation with John Taylor.
“Despite the intensity”: Washington Post, April 23, 1994.
“He believed”: Haig int.
Nixon made the cover of Time: Time, May 2, 1994.
INDEX
Abernathy, Ralph, 173
Acheson, Dean, 68, 96
Adams, Sherman, 78
Adams, Duque and Hazelt
ine, 195
Agnew, Spiro, 261, 266, 329–31
Ailes, Roger, 265
Alabama, University of, 224
Albert, Carl, 330–31
Algeria, 118–20
Alhambra Post-Advocate, 39, 54
Alsop, Joseph, 164
Ambrose, Margaret, 56
Ambrose, Stephen, 41
American Broadcasting Company (ABC), 115–16, 219
Americans for Democratic Action, 100
American Society of Newspaper Editors, 221
American University, 223–24
American Veterans Committee, 100
Anderson, Ace, 71
Anderson, Jack, 310, 311
Andrews, Bert, 62
Army-McCarthy hearings, 97–98
Arnold, Bill, 59, 70, 72–73
Arvold, Frances, 241
Bailey Memorandum, 108, 141
Bartlett, Charles, 10, 93, 120, 128, 206, 229, 236
Bartlett, Martha, 128
Baruch, Bernard, 52
Batista, Fulgencio, 124
Bayh, Birch, 324
Bay of Pigs invasion, 19, 20, 187, 196–201, 207, 208, 213, 222, 232, 284, 292, 303–4, 306, 307, 314–316, 324, 325, 331, 338, 339
Bellino, Carmine, 319
Berle, Adolf, 60
Berlin Wall, 203
Bernstein, Carl, 317, 319, 321
Bernstein, Leonard, 305
Bissell, Richard, 163, 164, 196, 197, 200
Blough, Roger, 209, 239
Boddy, Manchester, 69
Boggs, Hale, 321
Bohlen, Charles “Chip,” 28
Bork, Robert, 332, 343
Boston American, 31
Boston Globe, 43
Boston Herald, 114
Boston Post, 87
Bouvier, John “Black Jack,” 121–122
Braden, Tom, 212
Bradlee, Benjamin, 10, 120, 128, 131, 178, 193, 208, 209, 225, 319, 321, 334
Braun, Eva, 27
Brezhnev, Leonid, 314, 328, 338
Brinkley, David, 158, 230
Brown, Edmund G. “Pat,” 199, 204, 205, 210–11, 213, 215, 216, 281
Brownell, Herbert, 79
Brown University, 303
Buchanan, Frank, 51
Buchanan, Patrick J., 12, 254, 266, 274, 281, 312
Buckley, William F., Jr., 87–88
Budenz, Louis, 47, 53
Burke, William “Onions,” 107
Burton, Richard, 248, 267
Buse, Robert, 53
Butterfield, Alexander, 329
Byrd, Harry F., 188
Byrd, Robert, 300
Califano, Joseph, 246
California, University of, 212
Cambodia, 247, 278, 286–87, 300
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