The Arrogance of Power

  RN after hospital: (marathon) PAT, p. 190–; Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., p. 330; (fever) ibid., p. 331; (“pills/liquor”) Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 21, but see PAT, p. 192; (coma) JA, p. 288; (blood pressure?) ed. Sevareid, op. cit., p. 75; (denial) Congressional Quarterly, Aug. 12, 1960, p. 1395.

  first debate: (70 million) TW60, op. cit., pp. 283–87; (JFK preparations) ibid., p. 283–; (prostitute) C. David Heymann, A Woman Called Jackie, New York: Birch Lane Press, 1994, p. 242 citing longtime aide Langdon Marvin, who says JFK had him arrange for the prostitute; (RN studied?) Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., p. 337; (“totally refused”) Robert Finch cited in Matthews, op. cit., p. 147; (“didn’t look”) int. James Bassett by FB, FBP, Klein, op. cit., p. 105; (Rogers) Matthews, op. cit., p. 147; (reject make up) Klein, op. cit., p. 105; Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., p. 338; TW60, p. 285; (banged knee) Chicago Sun-Times, April 24, 1994, Matthews, op. cit., p. 148, citing Klein int.; (Hewitt) ibid.; (clothes hanging) David Halberstam, The Fifties, New York: Villard Books, 1993, p. 731; Klein, op. cit., p. 105; (lost 10 lbs.) Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., p. 341; (face/suit) ibid.; int. Leonard Reinsch, JFK Oral History Program, JFKL, p. 60; (make up offer) Matthews, op. cit., p. 149; (JFK powder) Goodwin, op. cit., p. 115 and see Halberstam, The Fifties, op. cit., p. 731; (Lazy Shave) Klein, op. cit., p. 105; Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., p. 338; (“You look great”) David Halberstam, The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy, London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1968, p. 181–; Martin, op. cit., p. 222; (“nearly blinded”) int./corr. Leonard Miall, former BBC head of television talks; (“macho”) Klein, op. cit., p. 105, Matthews, op. cit., p. 149; (JFK fazed) ibid., p. 148–; (“spraddled”) int. Edward Morgan, JFK Oral History Program, JFKL, p. 15; (“drooping”) TW60, p. 289; (“A man severed”) Goodwin, op. cit., p. 115; (Daley) cited by Rep. Roman Puchinski in eds. Strober, Kennedy, op. cit., p. 31; (Copley) San Diego Reader, July 28, 1994; (Woods/Hannah) PAT, p. 341; Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., p. 340; (Pat) Newsweek, Oct. 17, 1960 and see PAT, p. 191; (RN seemed to think) Klein, op. cit., p. 106 and int. Len Hall by FB, FBP; (aides/“all right”) Goodwin, op. cit., p. 115; (“I know I can”) Matthews, op. cit., p. 155; (radio v. TV) TW60, p. 290, Edward Morgan Oral History, supra., p. 16; PAT, p. 192; (Gallup) TW60, p. 294; (Baker) Halberstam, The Fifties, op. cit., p. 732; (JFK crowds) TW60, p. 291, Goodwin, op. cit., p. 116; (good make up) TW60, p. 289; (milk shakes) Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., p. 341; (Lodge) int. Murray Frampson (CBS) by FB, FBP.

  dirty tricks: (Tuck) An Evening with Dick Tuck, broadcast tape, available at Library of Congress, Halberstam, Odyssey, op. cit., p. 71; Orrin Klapp, Symbolic Leaders, Chicago: Aldine, 1964, p. 207; (“no sleaze”) int. Pierre Salinger; (2nd debate) Salinger, op. cit., p. 84, Leonard Reinsch Oral History, supra., p. 18; (New Nixon?) Democratic Digest, Nov./Dec. 1960; (not “alley fighter”) TW60, p. 303; (Ehrlichman) Ehrlichman, op. cit., pp. 6, 30; (“most ruthless”) MEM, p. 225.

  religious issue: (“dirtiest trick”) Lasky, op. cit., p. 37; (Catholic issue) TW60, p. 237–; (RN proud) Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., pp. 307, 364, 367–; JA, p. 280; (Kennedys “repeatedly”) MEM, p. 226; (hate mail) Lasky, op. cit., pp. 35, 45; MEM, p. 775; (anon. calls) J. W. Sorrells to Gov. Brown (CA), Nov. 3, 1960, Box 434, DPP; (Peale) Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., p. 327–; Billy Graham, Just As I Am, San Francisco: Harper, 1973, p. 391–; (Graham) ibid., pp. 390–, 442–; Salinger, op. cit., p. 75; Frady, op. cit., p. 438–; Esquire, Apr. 10, 1979; (“I wonder”) Graham, op. cit., p. 442.

  bedroom dirt: (Rebozo parties) int. Lloyd Cutler, eds. Strober, Kennedy, op. cit., p. 30; (“I knew . . .”) Crowley, Nixon Off the Record, op. cit., p. 33; (request to Hoover) Jack Anderson int. in Star, Mar. 23, 1976—referring to aide Luther Huston; int. Ann Noble Huston; (Hoover complied) ibid., Sullivan, op. cit., p. 48; (political research) Summers, Official & Confidential, op. cit., p. 262; (secret marriage) ibid., p. 292; Hersh, op. cit., Durie Malcolm refs.; (busy sex life) Summers, Official & Confidential, op. cit., p. 264–; (Raab) Hersh, op. cit., p. 120n; (Hall/other marriage) notes on “first marriage,” Ladislas Farago Papers, Mugar Library, Boston University; (“counter-productive”) San Francisco Examiner, (review of TV show Richard Nixon Reflects), May 4, 1990; (Hoover/Goldwater) Ladislas Farago Papers, supra.; (women vote) Laurence Leamer, The Kennedy Women, London: Transworld: 1994, p. 509.

  burglaries: (doctors’ offices) Beschloss, op. cit., p. 187; Lasky, op. cit., p. 37; (RN office raid) Humes, op. cit., p. 133.

  Democratic bugging: (Bush) statement by Hon. George Bush, Box 120, Korff Papers, Brown University; (detectives) reports on and affidavits of John Frank, Oliver Angelone, Edward M. Jones, John Leon, Joseph Shimon, June/July 1973, Box 120, Korff Papers, Brown University; int. Oliver Angelone; Lasky, op. cit., p. 46–; Jim Hougan, Secret Agenda, New York: Random House, 1984, p. 310; (subcommittee) ibid., p. 311n10; (RN “convinced”) Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, op. cit., p. 1182; (“victimized”) Crowley, Winter, op. cit., p. 314; (RFK “worst”) Crowley, Nixon Off the Record, op. cit., p. 32.

  JFK/RN and Mafia: (Kennedy/Mafia) Summers, Official & Confidential, op. cit., pp. 261, 268–; NY Daily News, Oct. 6, 7, 8, 1991 (series by author); Hersh, op. cit., Ch. 10; (RN/Cuba informant) int. Jack Clarke; (JFK compromised) Thelma Lansky (widow) int. 60 Minutes, June 25, 1989, CBS transcript; (Trafficante) Frank Ragano and Selwyn Raab, Mob Lawyer, New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1994, p. 84; int. Frank Ragano; (“we’ll contribute”) Sam & Chuck Giancana, op. cit., p. 286–; (Marcello bribe) int./corr. Michael Ewing, Dan Moldea, The Hoffa Wars, New York: Paddington Press, 1978, pp. 108, 260; (Hunter) Mollenhoff memo for files, Jan. 22, 1970, Box 74, Folder 10, Mollenhoff papers, Gerald R. Ford Library, Sheridan, op. cit., pp. 140, 156, 165–; WP, Jan. 5, 1961; (Hoffa on JFK) ibid., pp. 143, 146, 151, 157–; (“be assured”) Cushman to Mrs. Ernest Wild, Oct. 24, 1960, Hoffa folder, VP, NA; (indictment stopped) Sheridan, op. cit., pp. 5, 158; (reactivated) ibid., p. 159; (“remained unpaid”) ibid., p. 5.

  Hughes loan in ’60: (main sources) The Reporter, Aug. 16, 1962; James Phelan article, Schemmer, unpub. ms., op. cit., p. 216–; Maheu, op. cit., p. 83–; int. Robert Maheu; (RN panicked) int. Noah Dietrich, Higham Collection, Mary Norton Clapp Library, Occidental College; (RN decision) Klein, op. cit., p. 415; int. Herb Klein; (“sucker”) The Reporter, Aug. 16, 1962; NY Post, Nov. 1, 1960, Gladwin Hill, Dancing Bear, New York: World Publishing, 1968, p. 175; (Pearson provoked) articles Oct. 25, 27, 1960, Box G281, DPP; (Don N.) Oct. 30, 1960 statement, File 804, Box 104, WSPF, NA; (accountant re. decisions) NY Post, Nov. 1, 1960; (RN on effect) Haldeman and DiMona, op. cit., p. 45, Drosnin, op. cit., p. 519–, citing Rebozo Watergate testimony (RFK too) NYT, Nov. 13, 1960 and see Maheu, op. cit., p. 85.

  “filthy lying”: Goodwin, op. cit., p. 105.

  election day: (surge/ebb) Arthur Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, Boston: HoughtonMifflin, 1965, p. 74; (Gallup/Cone) Time, Oct. 31, 1960; (Election Day) Time, undated on election; JA, p. 288–; Good Housekeeping, Mar. 1962; Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., p. 377–; (Chotiner/Rebozo) ibid., p. 393; Life, July 31, 1970; Klein, op. cit., p. 36; (never conceded) Leonard Reinsch Oral History, supra., p. 29; Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., p. 390; TW60, p. 24; (Pat grief) ibid., NYT, Sept. 13, 1970; (bony arm) FB to Paul Ziffren, recounting Wilma Bassett int., in Ziffren int, FBP and FB, p. 432–; (RN prowled) ibid, citing James Bassett; (election result) TW60, pp. 350, 386.

  Vote fraud?: (Illinois) Earl Mazo and Stephen Hess, President Nixon, London: MacDonald, 1968, p. 242–; Look, Feb. 14, 1961; (“With. . . help”) Benjamin Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy, New York: Pocket, 1976, p. 33; (“mafiosi” role documented) Richard Mahoney, Sons & Brothers, New York: Arcade, 1999, p. 80–; (Blakey) ibid., p. 83; (“If it wasn’t”) Judith Exner with Ovid Demaris, My Story, New York: Grove Press, 1977, p. 194; (Chuck) Sam and Chuck Giancana, op. cit., p. 290; (“I know”) Cohen with Nugent, op. cit., p. 236; (Republicans cheated?) Parmet, Nixon, op. cit., p. 355; Bradlee, op. cit., p. 33; Wicker, op. cit., p. 252; (“The point”) ibid.; (Dems.
worried) Brandon, op. cit., p. 155; Matthews, op. cit., p. 184; (“could not subject”) MEM, p. 224 and see Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., p. 413; (“finest hour”) e.g., Miller, Stealing from America, op. cit., p. 341; (“RN was bitter”) int. Ralph de Toledano by FB, FBP, FB, p. 433 and see de Toledano, One Man Alone, op. cit., p. 309–; (“not really”) Crowley, Off the Record, op. cit., pp. 114, 147.

  RN reaction: (“He started”) int. Leonard Hall by FB, FBP; (“depressed”) Mathews, op. cit., p. 183; (“difficult to speak”) Klein, op. cit., p. 373.

  RN/JFK after election: (meeting) ibid.; Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., p. 404, RN cited by AP, Apr. 12, 1984; (JFK denied) Matthews, op. cit., p. 186; (“just as well”) Kenneth P. O’Donnell, David F. Powers with Joe McCarthy, Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, Boston: Little, Brown, 1970, p. 227–; (“I’ve saved”) Matthews, op. cit., p. 188; (“I had the wisdom”) MEM, p. 226; (“Dick blew”/“never cut out”) TW60, p. 317.

  Halsey:The New Republic, undated 1958, sent to Harry Truman by Paul Butler, Apr. 9, 1958, Richard M. Nixon, general corr. file, Box 109, postpresidential papers, Truman Library.

  RN unbalanced: (“How did you ever?”) eds. Strober, Nixon, op. cit., p. 302, citing Colson; (“sick”/“unsound”) Bradlee, op. cit., pp. 32n, 116; (“not know who was”) J. K. Galbraith citing JFK, Esquire, LXXXI, 1974.

  Hutschnecker: int. Hutschnecker citing female patient who knew Joseph Kennedy; Kitty Kelley, His Way, New York: Bantam, 1986, p. 530; “Nixon on the Couch,” article ms. by Irving Wallace, FBP.

  pressure: (“when he broke”)TW60, p. 315 and see ed. Sevareid, op. cit., p. 108, re. “black spells”; (“I have faith”) int. Hannah Nixon, This Week, Sept. 18, 1960.

  JFK inauguration: (“trying”) Bobst, op. cit., p. 276; (night drive), Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., p. 417, MEM, p. 227, Good Housekeeping, Mar. 1962.

  “terrible blow”: int. Fletcher Knebel, citing JFK, JFK Oral History Program, JFKL.

  “cannot imagine”: letter, Mar. 16, 1960, ed. Buckley, op. cit., p. 287.

  Chapter 19

  “He can’t help it . . .”:Ladies’ Home Journal, Nov. 1962.

  Pat after 1960: (“banshee”) Cheshire with Greenya, op. cit., p. 111, citing Kelly; (“I’ve given up”) David, op. cit., p. 73; (“mother took”) McCall’s, Oct. 1973 and see ibid, May 1971; (“We won”) Ladies’ Home Journal, Mar. 1975 and see Bobst, op. cit., p. 275; (“turning point”) PAT, p. 204; (“one of her ‘moods’ ”) James Bassett to wife, Wilma, Sep. 4, 1960, Bassett Papers.

  Nixon after ’60: (Bahamas ’61) Nassau Daily Tribune, Jan. 20, 1961; Nassau Guardian, Jan. 23, 24, 25, 31, 1961; Bobst, op. cit., p. 276; (cut short/“shallow talk”) Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., p. 423; (“limbo”) PAT, p. 203; (“bachelor apt.”) MEM, p. 231; (grand address) Hoyt, op. cit., p. 289–; Nixon lived first at the Statler, then the Gaylord.

  new L.A. house: (move) PAT, p. 204, Good Housekeeping, Mar. 1962; (described) Newsweek, June 26, 1961; Esquire, Feb. 1962; (price/ownership) WP, Dec. 16, 1973.

  Murchison: (owner) ibid., Jane Wolfe, The Murchisons, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989, p. 316; (contributor) ibid.; James Conaway, The Texans, New York: Knopf, 1976, p. 81; (gifts) e.g., “12 quarts of chili”—Rose Mary Woods to Bessie, Feb. 26, 1957, cited at Bruce Adamson, Oswald’s Closest Friend, Aptos, CA: self-published, 1993, vol. 5, p. 89; (hosted) Wolfe, op. cit., p. 316; (Teamsters’ financing) LAT, May 17, 1962, Esquire, Feb. 1962; Nancy Manella memo to Joe Wershba, (60 Minutes) June 4, 1973, FBP.

  RN income: (“After 8 years”) Atlantic Monthly, Aug. 1983; (Adams) Hoyt, op. cit., p. 286– and MO refs; full name of firm was Adams, Duque, & Hazeltine; (writing contracts) Good Housekeeping, Mar. 1962; Esquire, Feb. 1962; (butler) ibid.; (car) Good Housekeeping, Mar. 1962; (more in a year) PAT, p. 204; Esquire, Feb. 1962; (“Hallelujah”) David, op. cit., p. 74.

  Pat happy?:PAT, p. 204.

  “If you ever”: notes of int. Adela St. Johns by FB, FBP.

  McGuire/Hopkins: (Bahamas) Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit., p. 418; (Southern Air) NYT, Sept. 1, 1973; (Hopkins) Louis and Yazijian, op. cit., p. 170.

  Bay of Pigs: (Dulles) MEM, p. 233; (“JFK called”) ibid., p. 234; (RN/JFK meeting) ibid., p. 234–; (“shit”) JA, p. 295; (JFK/assurances) Schlesinger, 1,000 Days, op. cit., pp. 250, 295; MEM, p. 234 and see James Binder, Lemnitzer: A Soldier for His Time, Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, 1997, p. 270; (“worst experience”) ed. Kornbluh, Bay of Pigs, op. cit., p. 3; (RN calls) Wills, op. cit., p. 31; (“should not start”) MEM, p. 236; (“Jack handled”) Newsweek, Oct. 9, 1961; (“doomed”) MEM, p. 233; (“Do you think?”) Crowley, Nixon in Winter, op. cit., p. 302; (Ike/“down drain”) Roger Morris, Uncertain Greatness, New York: Harper & Row, 1977, p. 174; (“I was hard-line”) Witcover int. in Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 25, 1967; (U.S. force 60,000?) ed. Kornbluh, Bay of Pigs, op. cit., p. 322, re. contingency plan; (option excluded) ibid., pp. 111, 274; (“find legal cover”) MEM, p. 234; (CIA damned?) e.g., Hunt, Give Us This Day, op. cit., Chap. 16; Summers, Not in Your Lifetime, op. cit., p. 177.

  Esterline on RN/Bay of Pigs: (“It is very wrong”, et seq.) int. Jacob Esterline, 1975 conducted by CIA historian Jack Pfeiffer for CIA in-house history, leaked transcript, pp. 12–, 39–, and ints. by Gus Russo, 1996, 1998, provided to author; (RN re. JFK “never . . . accountable”) Crowley, Nixon in Winter, op. cit., p. 302; (“Bay of Pigs Thing”) WHT, June 23, 1972.

  RN activity ’61: (“I found”) MEM, p. 232; (weekly report) int. Stephen Hess in eds. Miller Center, op. cit., p. 364; (speeches) Good Housekeeping, Mar. 1962.

  Six Crises: (“7th crisis”) Nixon, Six Crises, op. cit. [Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962], p. xii; (“barricaded”) Neil Morgan article, Esquire, Feb. 1962; (1990 Introduction) Richard Nixon, Six Crises, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. xii; (“I was hired”) int. Alvin Moscow; (Adela St. Johns) cited by (former Whittier College president) Paul Smith in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 169; (“written for him”) conv. Seymour Hersh, citing RN spokesman Jack Brennan, corroborated in. int. John Sears; ($345,000) estimate with Life serial included, Esquire, Feb. 1962; (“wisdom”) circular letter by Doubleday chairman Douglas Black, Feb. 1, 1962, Box G281, DPP; (sent to writers) int. Jack Langguth.

  advice on ’62 run: (Bobst) Bobst, op. cit., pp. 277, 324; (Chambers) Chambers to RN, Feb. 2, 1961 and Rose Woods memo, Aug. 1, 1961, found in Box 36, FBP; (Dewey) Dewey to RN, Nov. 13, 1961, Thomas Dewey Papers, Series 8, Box 26A, University of Rochester; (colleagues) MEM, p. 237–; PAT, p. 205; (Klein) San Diego Reader, July 28, 1994, citing Klein to RN, June 28, July 10, 1961; (Bassett) int. James Bassett by FB, FBP.

  Pat and ’62 decision: (council) Pat article Ladies’ Home Journal, Nov. 1962; MEM, p. 239; PAT, p. 206 and see Klein, op. cit., p. 47; (brother Tom) PAT, p. 205; (“trapped”) ibid., p. 207; (restaurant) FB, p. 454, and see LAT, Feb. 11, 1968.

  RN/Brown race: (“I welcome”) SF Examiner, Sep. 28, 1962; (RN/Communism) RN remarks, Manhattan Beach, June 1, 1962, JFRP; Hess and Broder, op. cit., p. 164; (no mess) AMI, p. 651; (“yokels”) John Osborne, The Third Year of the Nixon Watch, New York: Liveright, 1972, p. 167; (“sweat off balls”) eds. Strober, Nixon, op. cit., p. 12.

  covenant: Box G281, DPP and see AMI, p. 661; Klein, op. cit., p. 25; Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 15, RN corr. with Herman Edelsberg (Anti-Defamation League) Sep./Oct. 1956—sources differ as to whether the covenant furor applied to a Nixon home in Washington or California; perhaps homes in both places were involved.

  Hughes Loan ’62: (justice officials) NYT, Jan. 24, 1972; (Chinatown) Herbert Baus and William Ross, Politics Battleplan, New York: Macmillan, 1968, p. 293; Matthews, op. cit., p. 215; Mankiewicz, op. cit., p. 27; conv. John Rothmann—sources conflict as to the location either L.A. or San Francisco; (Braden raised) MEM, p. 242–; transcript of Nixon/Brown discussion, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, Oct. 1, 1962, JFRP; (Meet the Press) program transcript, Oct. 7, 1962, p. 10; (Braden audits) int. Tom Braden by FB, FBP; (RN thought handicap) MEM, p. 243; (Brown/advantage) Jame
s Phelan obit., NYT, Sept. 12, 1997; (Brown denied) Fairmont Hotel transcript, supra., p. 10.

  John Davies: ints. Alvin Moscow and see Whitcover, op. cit., p. 36.

  RN on Dem. bugging: (“We were bugged”) WHT, Sep. 15, 1972, WSPF, NA; (“victimized”) Crowley, Winter, op. cit., p. 314.

  Watergate names ’62: (Haldeman/Ehrlichman/Ziegler/Kalmbach/Woods) Nixon for Governor staff directory, VP, NA, (Stans) Stans, op. cit., p. 100; NYT, Apr. 15, 1998; (Kalmbach jail) SF Examiner, Mar. 26, 1985; NM, pp. 111n, 135n; (Chotiner) Frontier, Oct. 1962, WP, Feb. 23, 1969; (constituent) Mrs. Clarence Bentson to Brown, July 11, 1961, Brown Papers, Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley.

  Knight:NYT. Sep. 29, 30, Oct. 5, 1961; Barry Lerner to DP, Nov. 20, 1961, undated clippings, Oceanside (CA) Blade Tribune and Longbeach Telegram.

  phoney propaganda: statement to editors from Democratic official Don Kimball, Oct. 27, 1962, attaching false photos and rebuttal; WP, Feb. 23, 1969; NYT, Oct. 19, 1962; SF Examiner, Oct. 23, 1962; (mailing) Mankiewicz, op. cit., p. 63– and p. 219; reprinting Supreme Court Judgment, Case 526150, Oct. 30, 1964, “Poll Selection” facsimile, JFRP; Nation, May 28, 1973; (RN/“asshole”) RN to Ehrlichman, Oct. 16, 1972; AOP, p. 165; (Colson/RN ’72) Oct. 7, 1972 entry; AOP, p. 156.

  Missile Crisis: (“hedgehog”) London Evening Standard, Oct. 30, 1997; (effect on election) MEM, p. 244; Witcover, op. cit., p. 31.

  ’62 Election Day: (in suite) ibid., p. 13; (“dreary drama”) MEM, p. 244; (“haggard”) Klein, op. cit., p. 55; int. Herb Klein; (“Screw them”) Witcover, op. cit., p. 14; (“The hell with”) Hillings with Seelye, op. cit., p. 94; (“no shape”) Klein, op. cit., p. 56; (“hurtling”) Hillings with Seelye, op. cit., p. 94; (Haldeman) Rather and Gates, op. cit., p. 129; (RN speech) reprinted in full; Hill, op. cit., p. 274–.