Chapter 2
“One man may . . .”: Richard Nixon, Six Crises, New York: Doubleday, 1962, p. xvi.
Whittier presidency:MO, p. 151–.
jail: Charles Elliott, Whittier College, Redondo Beach, CA: Legends Press, 1986, p. 157–.
privy: Ralph de Toledano, One Man Alone, Richard Nixon, New York: Funk & Wagnall, 1969, p. 26; JA, p. 37–.
schooling: (teacher) int. Mary George Skidmore in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 78; (“My mother”) Nixon, Arena, op. cit., p. 103; (light) FB, p. 54; (“Richard always”); MO, p. 61; (good grades) Nixon, Arena, op. cit., p. 102, MO, p. 60, int. Mary George Skidmore in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 78; (fifth grade) JA, p. 23; (Carnegie/music) ibid., p. 24; AMI, p. 39–, int. Jane Milhous Beeson in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 57; (woodwork) Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 54; (klutz) AMI, p. 43, int. John Ehrlichman; (steady A) JA, p. 23; MO, p. 90; Nixon, Arena, op. cit., p. 104; (award) JA, p. 29, MO, p. 110; (offered scholarship) int. Dr. Paul Smith in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 149–; (Richard was needed) MO, p. 110, JA, p. 31; (scholarship) unpub. Whittier College study by John Rothmann, JFRP; Hoyt, op. cit., p. 195.
society: (Franklins) MO p. 117–; (Orthogonians) FB, p. 114, AMI, p. 60; (“two left feet”) Kansas City Star, Nov. 3, 1955; (motto) FB, p. 114; (song) Elliott, op. cit., p. 150; (raw flesh) FB, p. 115; JA, p. 35; (injured) MO, p. 120; (“have-nots”) “The Mystery of Richard Nixon” Saturday Evening Post, July 12, 1958.
family fortunes: (open-necked shirts) JA, p. 33; (West) MO. p. 137–; (Welch) ints. Ola Florence Welch Jobe; (Smith) int. Dr. Paul Smith in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 151.
place in society: (Bassett) int. James Bassett by FB, FBP; (“My dad”) Carl Solberg, Hubert Humphrey, NY: Norton, 1984, p. 313; (“not children”) Garment, op. cit., p. 69; (“working class”) Herbert Parmet, Richard Nixon and His America, Boston: Little, Brown, 1990, p. 23; (destroy establishment) Douglas Hallett article, New York, Oct. 20, 1974; (Bork) Bar Report, Dec./Jan. 1998, p. 8; (“start sucking”) WHT, Sept. 15, 1972, conv. no. 779–002, p. 30; (“screw the universities”) Elmo Zumwalt, Jr., On Watch, Arlington, VA: Adm. Zumwalt & Assoc. Inc.,1976, p. 419; (“All money stops”) eds. Strober, Nixon, op. cit., p. 83, int. John Ehrlichman in eds. Miller Center, op. cit., p. 129, and see Time, Apr. 25, 1988, p. 56; (Bok) int. Alexander Butterfield in eds. Strober, Nixon, op. cit., p. 50; (Clawson) WP, Aug. 9, 1979, (clubs) Good Housekeeping, July 1968; (Watts) int. William Watts.
RN at college: (liberal) Earl Mazo, Richard Nixon, A Political and Personal Portrait, New York: Harper, 1959, p. 26; MO, p. 150; (black man) Mazo, op. cit., p. 23; (dynamo) Alsop, op. cit., p. 220; (“Dick lived”) ibid., p. 219; (“not . . . popular”) ibid., p. 218; (“stuck-up”/“cock-sureness”) ibid., p. 135, Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 100; (“I classified”) Philip Blew to FB, 1974, FBP; (“incredible combination”) Alsop, op. cit., p. 218; (Tolstoy) MEM, p. 15; (“didn’t do bad things”) Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 108; (acting) Abrahamsen, op. cit., p. 98; (“I taught him”) Mazo, op. cit., p. 23; Alsop, op. cit., p. 132–; Henry Spalding, The Nixon Nobody Knows, Middle Village, New York: Jonathan David, 1972, p. 121.
debating: (team) AMl, p. 68; MO, p. 30; Good Housekeeping, June 1960; (Vincent) Theodore White, Breach of Faith, London: Jonathan Cape, 1975, p. 58; William Costello, The Facts About Nixon, New York: Viking, 1960, p. 23; (Johns) FB, p. 81; (Elliott) Abrahamsen, op. cit., p. 111; (others remember) int. Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin by FB, FBP.
Longfellow:MEM, p. 13; Life, Nov. 6, 1970.
second in class: unpub. Whittier College study by John Rothmann, JFRP.
lawyer ambition: int. Jane Beeson in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 55–; Mazo, op. cit., pp. 13, 14.
minister: Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 238; Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., p. 295.
politics: (1920) int. Merle West; Abrahamsen, op. cit., p. 67; (“crooked politicians”) Mazo, op. cit., p. 14; (McKinley) This Week magazine in LAT, Sept. 18, 1960; (Lincoln) Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 40; unpub. Whittier study supra.; (LaFollette) ibid., p. 21–; (Wilson) Nixon, Arena, op. cit., p. 88; (desk) William Safire, Before the Fall, New York: Belmont Tower, 1975, p. 105; Kissinger, Upheaval, op. cit., p. 1183.; int. Dr. Paul Smith in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 161; (Roosevelt) unpub. Whittier study, supra., Nixon, Arena. op. cit., p. xi, MEM, p. 109; (teacher prophesied) Kansas City Star, Oct. 30, 1955; (father’s forecast) int. Harry Schuyler in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 257; (“he wanted to go”) Alsop, op. cit., p. 222; (“I would like”) JA, p. 27.
Duke University: (“the proudest day”) Laurie Nadel, The Great Stream of History, New York: Atheneum, 1991, p. 16; (“I don’t believe”) Spalding, op. cit., p. 99; (prodigiously) Alsop, op. cit., p. 234; MO, p. 165; (took jobs) ibid., p. 163; int. William King, Duke archivist, Richard M. Nixon Collection, Duke University Archive; (accommodation) Kansas City Star, Nov. 4, 1955; Alsop, op. cit., p. 232; (solitary figure) JA, p. 69; Alsop, op. cit., p. 237; (cripple) San Antonio Light, Nov. 20, 1968; JA, p. 69; (racial bias) Alsop, op. cit., pp. 230, 235–; (before dawn) ibid., p. 231; (“shot full”) Life, Nov. 6, 1970; (special occasions) Alsop, op. cit., pp. 235, 237–; (Morrah) Abrahamsen, op. cit., p. 121; (Fuller) Life, Nov. 6, 1970; (Farley) FB, p. 127; (graduation) MEM, p. 22; MO, p. 181; (Bar Assn.) Life, Nov. 6, 1970, Abrahamsen, op. cit., p. 120.
Break-in: Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 120; Hoyt, op. cit., p. 214; FB, p. 131; MO, p. 171–; JA, p. 71; Abrahamsen, op. cit., p. 118; (newspaper) Charlotte (NC) Observer, July 22, 1973; Jack Anderson syndicated column, May 16, 1973; (more sinister?) Duke Chronicle, Nov. 18, 1976, Dorothy Marshall to Drew Pearson, citing Prof. Dumont of University of Michigan, DPP; (“finesse”) Hoyt, op. cit., p. 214; Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 120; (“There are ways . . .”) WHT, Sept. 15, 1972, conv. no. 779-002, p. 3.
Duke disowns: (honorary doctorate) Newsweek, Apr. 19, 1954; SF Chronicle, Sep. 4, 1981; Durham (NC) Herald-Sun, Apr. 24, 1994; NYT, Apr. 6, 1954; (Library) SF Examiner, Sept. 4–5; AP, Aug. 31, 1981; (petition) Durham (NC) Herald, Durham Sun, Oct. 31, 1973; (portrait) SF Examiner, Sep. 4, 1981.
FBI: RN application form, Apr. 23, 1937, FBI 69-102459-1.
NY lawfirms: Mazo, op. cit., p. 25–; JA, p. 76.
Horack:JA, p. 76.
Bewley job:MO, p. 182–.
prophesies: (teenager) JA, p. 61; (astrologer) Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 331; int. John Ehrlichman.
Chapter 3
“Sometimes I think . . .”:Life, Nov. 6, 1970.
RN and girls: (washing-up) Mazo, op. cit., p. 13; Barber, op. cit., p. 402; Time, Aug. 25, 1952, p. 13; Abrahamsen, op. cit., p. 59; (garlic) JA, p. 23; (“. . . hated girls.”/rollercoaster)Kor-nitzer, op. cit., p. 54; (“stuffy”) MO, p. 141; (“aloof”) Spalding, op. cit., p. 54; (“he didn’t know . . .”) Life, Nov. 6, 1970, p. 60; (“. . . wasn’t sexy.”) MO, p. 142, FB, p. 124; (male friends) int. Charles Kendle in Schulte, op. cit., p. 193; Alsop, op. cit., p. 223; (slowest driver) Abrahamsen, op. cit., p. 111.
Ola Welch: (main sources) ints. Ola Florence Welch Jobe; “Whittier ’34 Most Likely to Succeed,” article by Lael Morgan (friend of Welch), LAT West magazine, May 10, 1970; JA, p. 58–; MO, pp. 109–, 141–, 159–, et al., FB, pp. 108–, 122–; (catcalls) MEM, p. 14; (“Would you think . . . ?) AM1, p. 38; (A-grade student) MO, p. 141; JA, p. 59; LAT West, May 10, 1970, p. 34; (“smartest”) MO, p. 109; Bruce Mazlish, In Search of Nixon, New York: Basic Books, 1972, p. 63; (car) AM1, p. 46; (mother professed) Good Housekeeping, June 1960; (“stripteaser”/“very normal”) MO, pp. 145, 142; (“no hanky-panky) FB, p. 123; (“never comfortable”) int. Ola Florence Jobe by William Cran, notes supplied to author; (parents disliked) main sources, supra., but see JA, p. 60; (“He had never . . .”) FB, p. 124; MO, p. 159; (“nothing to it”) Good Housekeeping, June 1960; (“nasty temper”) Mazlish, op. cit., p. 63; (“on the string”) Mazlish, op. cit., p. 64; (ceased seeing women) Alsop, op. cit., p. 236; FB, p. 128; MO,p. 175; (“You’ll never hear”) Mazlish, op. cit., p. 64, and cf. LAT West magazine, May 10, 1970; (RN silent re. Ola) FB, p. 128, see Gardner, Kornitz
er, Mazo, de Toledano, ops. cit.; (WH reception) int. John Lindsay by FB, FBP, int Ola Florence Welch Jobe; (memoirs) MEM, pp. 14, 18–19; (“broke his heart”) int. Hubert Perry; (Harlow) int. Bryce Harlow, Jr.; Wicker, op. cit., p. 652 and int. Bryce Harlow in White Burkett Miller Center, University of Virginia, eds., The Nixon Presidency, New York: University Press of America, 1987, p. 9–; (Feb. 2, 1936 letter) JA, p. 64; (mother never uttered) Nixon, Arena, op. cit., p. 94; (“play-acting”) FB, p. 123, Abrahamsen, op. cit., p. 107.
audition: (date) JA, p. 86; (previous role) MEM, p. 23; (colleague) MO, p. 204; (roles) ibid., Saturday Evening Post, Sept. 6, 1952.
Pat Ryan: (“That night . . .”) MEM, p. 23; (Cloes) int. Elizabeth Cloes in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 236; (“nuts”) Mazo, op. cit., p. 31; (birth) birth certificate, filed Apr. 7, 1912, County of White Pine, Nevada; (Rose Bowl) FB, p. 147, citing RN speech to National Football Foundation dinner, Dec. 9, 1969, and see Ch. 1 supra.; (“silly”) NYT, Nov. 4, 1952; (“must not permit”) FB, p. 26; (“near midnight”) PAT, p. 17; WH bios., June 12, 1969 and Dec. 21, 1971, NA, contrary to physician’s information on birth certificate; (“Thelma” in childhood) Artesia (CA) News, July 18, 1952; (father/“Pat”) Pat cited in Miami Herald, Jan. 19, 1969; (“took Pat”) JA, p. 87; MEM, p. 23; PAT, p. 34; (Haldeman) Parade, Feb. 5, 1995.
Pat background:PAT, unless otherwise indicated; (hold-up) Lester David, The Lonely Lady of San Clemente, New York: Thomas Crowell, 1978, p. 31; (timing of move to “Pat”) PAT, p. 34; (married before?) Cheshire, op. cit., p. 110–; Time, May 13, 1974.
loan lawsuit:FB, pp. 134–, 527; Abrahamsen, op. cit., p. 122–; MO, p. 189.
orange juice:MO, p. 195–; JA, p. 83; int. Evlyn Dorn by FB, FBP.
divorce cases: (open air sex) ibid.; (good-looking girl) Alsop, op. cit., p. 195.
virgin:JA, p. 104, citing Lt. Jim Stewart.
dinner invitations:PAT, p. 56.
courtship: except where indicated source is PAT, which includes the couple’s letters; (“insisted”) MO, p. 218; David, op. cit., p. 51; (brick fireplace) NYT, Aug. 10, 1971; (adjoining plots) Traphes Bryant with Frances Spatz Leighton, Dog Days at the White House, New York: Macmillan, 1976, p. 247; (no Whittier weekends) MO, p. 218; (LA dates) PAT, p. 59; David, op. cit., p. 52; (poor dancer) int. Hortense Behrens in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 226; (skating) int. Evlyn Dorn by FB, FBP; Life, Nov. 6, 1970, p. 64; JA, p. 91; (RN Beast) Mazo, op. cit., p. 34; (LA club) JA, p. 91; PAT, p. 61.
RN and drink: (alcohol ban) MO, p. 200, Saturday Evening Post, undated, summer 1971, Jean Lippiatt article; (SF bar) MEM, p. 18; (“Those parties . . .”) Nixon, Arena, op. cit., p. 147; (Blew) Blew letter to FB, Dec. 16, 1974, FBP; MO, p. 199; (objections to Nixon film) Charles Colson and William Safire in NYT, Nov. 27, Dec. 28, 1995; Herb Klein in San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 19, 1995.
wedding: Pat, p. 69–; MO, p. 233.
cruise: C. L. Sulzberger, The World and Richard Nixon, New York: Prentice Hall, 1987, p. 26; PAT, p. 72; JA, p. 94.
Cuba: (gambling) Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, Eli Landau, Meyer Lansky, New York: Paddington Press, 1979, p. 227; (Havana as attorney) Mazo, op. cit., p. 35; MO, p. 233; Hoyt, op. cit., p. 330; int. Evlyn Dorn by FB, FBP; int. Earl Mazo.
RN in War: (OPA) MO, p. 242; (against family wishes) MEM, p. 27; MO, p. 243–; Life, Nov. 6, 1970, p. 64; (pose in uniform) FB, p. 165; (“in the foxholes”) MO, p. 281; (“when the bombs . . .”) Alsop, op. cit., p. 143; Spalding, op. cit., p. 137; (could curse) ibid., p. 140.
poker: (since Duke) RN application to FBI, including poker as “recreation,” Apr. 23, 1937, FBI 67-102459-1; Alsop, op. cit., p. 144; JA, p. 108; Life, Nov. 6, 1970, p. 66; Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 147–; Mazo, op. cit., p. 37–; de Toledano, op. cit., p. 40; (1960) Chicago Sunday Tribune, Nov. 6, 1960; (in WH) int. Paul Ziffren by FB, FBP; (as VP) Tip O’Neill with William Novak, Man of the House, New York: Random House, 1987, p. 157–.
“Pollyanna . . .”:Time, Oct. 9, 1972.
Chapter 4
“They tried . . .”: Margaret Truman, First Ladies, New York: Random House, 1995, p. 199–.
RN marriage: (license) JA, p. 92; (“Pat never told”) ibid., p. 88; (“hundreds of times . . .”) PAT, p. 83; (hugs in future) Helen Thomas, Dateline: White House, New York: Macmillan, 1975, p. 169; int. John Lindsay by FB, FBP; (Dorn) int. Evlyn Dorn by FB, FBP; (Dixon) FB, p. 144; (Quakers kiss) int. Mary George Skidmore in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 86; (“both were shy”) PAT, p. 63; (avoided scenes) ibid., p. 57; (Priest) Fr. John Cronin, cited in Esquire, July 1994; (clothes scattered) int. Gloria Steinem; (“I . . . don’t tell all”) Time, Aug. 19, 1974; (Mazo) David, op. cit., p. 73–; int. Earl Mazo; (Winchester) Kandy Stroud article, Ladies’ Home Journal, Mar. 1975; (Dr. Smith) FB, p. 141; (“baggage”) FB, p. 145; (Steinem) int. and corr. Gloria Steinem; (Stroud) int. Kandy Stroud; (Ehrlichman) int. John Ehrlichman; (Dean) int. John Dean and John Dean, Lost Honor, LA: Stratford Press, 1982, p. 22–; (Watts) int. William Watts; (Bork) int. Robert Bork by FB, FBP; (Sidey) int. Hugh Sidey in eds. Miller Center, op. cit., p. 313; (“The moneyed class”) PAT, p. 47; (Steinem) int. Gloria Steinem, corr. with author, 1998; Steinem in New York, Oct. 28, 1968; (“didn’t respect him”) corr. Gloria Steinem, July 7, 2000.
Pat personality after marriage: (Pierpoint) Robert Pierpoint, At the White House, New York: Putnam, 1981, p. 185; (“Coppelia”) London Spectator article, reprinted in The New Republic, Dec. 22, 1958; (Pat claimed) Thomas, op. cit., p. 116 and unid. clip during Soviet visit, 1972, author’s collection; (smoked) PAT, p. 89; Bauer, op. cit., p. 116; int. Tom Korologos; (lung cancer) NYT, June 23, 1993; (“incessantly”) J. F. terHorst and Col. Ralph Albertazzie, The Flying White House, New York: Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1979, p. 35; (“I once saw . . .”) Thomas, op. cit., p. 160; (“drinking heavily”) Woodward and Bernstein, Final Days, op. cit., p. 173; denied in Star, Apr. 27, 1976; Betty Beale in SF Sunday Examiner and Chronicle, May 2, 1976, by Julie Eisenhower in Newsweek, May 24, 1976, by Helen M. Smith, Good Housekeeping, July 1976, and int. Lucy Winchester; (“PN had a problem”) Ronald Kessler, Inside the White House, New York: Pocket, 1993, p. 41, and int. Ronald Kessler.
RN and women: (Portnoy’s) HD, p. 127; (Fleming) Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus, New York: Ballantine, 1972, p. 8; (“B-girls”) int. Lou Cannon in eds. Miller Center, op. cit., p. 189; Wise, Politics, op. cit., p. 330–; Ed Reid, Mickey Cohen, Mobster, New York: Pinnacle, 1973, p. 140; (Sears) int. John Sears; (“If you ever . . .”) William Safire, Before the Fall, New York: Belmont Tower, 1975, p. 19–; (“have him give . . .”) HD, p. 423; (“trouble finding Henry”) Jimmy Breslin, How the Good Guys Finally Won, New York: Viking, 1975, p. 66; O’Neill, op. cit., p. 253–; (“built for you, Henry.”) Atlantic Monthly, May 1982, p. 45; (“Can you imagine . . . ?”) int. Hugh Sidey in eds. Miller Center, op. cit., p. 301; (Hutschnecker) ints. Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker and int. Dr. Hutschnecker by FB, Nov. 7, 1976, FBP.
Hannah to DC: int. Jessamyn West, citing her mother, Hannah’s sister, by FB, FBP.
Chapter 5
parade for Ike:Life, Dec. 13, 1953; Eric Sevareid, Candidates, 1960, New York: Basic Books, 1959, p. 130.
letter:MO, p. 270–.
no political plans: (“never occurred . . .”) Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 151; (never discussed) Mazo, op. cit., p. 34; Earl Mazo, “Is It Worth It?,” Good Housekeeping, 1959; (speeches) MO, pp. 201–, 233; (“We shall realize . . .”) PAT, p. 68; (President someday) ibid., p. 58; (male friends) MO, p. 200.
Voorhis campaign: (Perry) MO, p. 270, Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 153–; (peers/press) Jerry Voorhis, The Strange Case of Richard Milhous Nixon, New York: Popular Library, 1972, p. 12; (studying Voorhis) int. Evlyn Dorn by FB, FBP; (pads) MO, pp. 285, 288, 290; int. Bryce Harlow in eds. Miller Center, op. cit., p. 8; ($580) MO, p. 292; (“Hit ’em”) int. John Rothmann; (Hoover) SF Chronicle, Oct. 14, 1946; (“infiltration”) Athan Theoharis, Beyond the Hiss Case, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982, p. 80–; (Republican Women) MO, p. 326; (Tricia/P
at) PAT, pp. 87–, 89; Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 155; (Dixon) int. Tom Dixon and int. FB, FBP, FB, p. 178; (RN satisfaction) LA Examiner, Nov. 7, 1946; (Chandlers) Esquire, Nov. 1977, p. 202–; conv. Pat Bradshaw, citing Buff Chandler; (Hannah . . . never saw) Good Housekeeping, June 1960; (stolen pamphlets) PAT, p. 90, Saturday Evening Post, Sept. 6, 1952; (irons/toasters) Paul Bullock, Jerry Voorhis: The Idealist as Politician, New York: Vantage, 1978, p. 277; (false stories) Jerry Voorhis, Confessions of a Congressman, New York: Doubleday, 1947, p. 342; MO, p. 302; (Voorhis realized) Bullock, op. cit., p. 271fn.; (booed) MO, p. 322; (Businessmen/bank admonished) Voorhis, Confessions, op. cit., p. 342, NY Post, Oct. 19, 1955; (leaflet) MO, p. 330; (PAC ploy) Bullock, op. cit., p. 246–; AMI, p. 129–; (anonymous calls) Bullock, op. cit., p. 275–, denied at 276; AMI, p. 138, but see Gellman, op. cit., p. 84–; (“I suppose . . .”) Alsop, op. cit., p. 188; (“The important thing . . .”) Bullock, op. cit., p. 280; Greg Mitchell, Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady, New York: Random House, 1998, p. 43.