Being Nixon: A Man Divided (66 page)

2.
Safire, p. 116.

3.
Henry Cashen interview.

4.
Dwight Chapin interview.

5.
Garment, p. 141.

6.
RN
, p. 6.

7.
White,
Making of the President, 1968
.

8.
Eisenhower, p. 246.

9.
RN
, pp. 332–3; Dwight Chapin interview.

10.
Garment, p. 76.

11.
RN
, pp. 334–5; Nixon/Gannon interview.

12.
Hughes,
Chasing Shadows
, pp. 59–60.

13.
Ibid., p. 55.

14.
Lyndon Johnson,
Vantage Point
, pp. 522–8, 548–9.

15.
Eisenhower, p. 248.

16.
Dwight Chapin interview.

17.
Rose Mary Woods to RN, July 21, 1960, PPP, NL.

18.
Haldeman, p. 118; Ehrlichman, p. 134.

19.
Hughes,
Chasing Shadows
, pp. 66–7.

20.
Kissinger,
White House Years
, pp. 10–14.

21.
Donald Rumsfeld interview.

22.
Irwin Gellman interview; RN to Kissinger, July 7, 1958; Kissinger to RN, June 10, July 1, 1959, PPP, NL.

23.
RN
, p. 341.

24.
Kissinger,
White House Years
, p. 14.

25.
Isaacson, p. 142.

26.
Henry Kissinger interview.

27.
Isaacson, p. 107.

28.
Safire, pp. 133, 39–40.

29.
Jo Haldeman interview.

30.
Eisenhower, p. 259.

31.
Dwight Chapin oral history, NL.

32.
Eisenhower, p. 259.

33.
RN
, pp. 360–1.

34.
Eisenhower, p. 258.

35.
RN
, p. 361.

36.
Haldeman diary, January 20, 1969, NL.

37.
Kenneth Thompson, ed.,
Nixon Presidency
, p. 160.

38.
Kissinger,
White House Years
, p. 4.

39.
Price,
With Nixon
, p. 48.

40.
Greenberg, p. 75.

41.
RN
, p. 366.

42.
Robert Bostock interview.

43.
Haldeman diary, January 21, 1969, NL.

44.
Reeves,
President Nixon
, p. 30.

45.
Wicker, p. 446;
RN
, p. 42.

46.
Stuart, p. 49.

47.
RN
, p. 369.

48.
Haldeman diary, January 27, 31, 1969, NL.

49.
Reeves,
President Nixon
, p. 31; Strober and Strober, p. 74; Haldeman diary, January 31, 1969, NL.

50.
Safire, pp. 140, 366.

51.
Reeves,
President Nixon
, p. 29.

52.
Safire diary, April 4, 1969, Safire papers, LOC.

53.
Black, p. 579.

54.
Dwight Chapin interview in Aitken papers, NL.

55.
Magruder,
American Life
, p. 60.

56.
Wicker, p. 400; Safire diary, September 14, 1970, Safire papers, LOC.

57.
Wicker, p. 401.

58.
Rather,
Palace Guard
, p. 30.

59.
Ehrlichman, p. 60; Haldeman, p. 53.

60.
Ehrlichman, p. 58.

61.
Douglas Hallett interview.

62.
Lawrence Higby interview.

63.
Haldeman diary, January 25, 1969, NL.

64.
President’s Daily Diary, NL.

65.
Alexander Butterfield oral history, NL.

66.
Haldeman notes, March 16, 1969, NL; Haldeman interview by James Rosen courtesy James Rosen.

67.
Dwight Chapin interview.

68.
Ehrlichman, p. 49.

69.
Eisenhower, p. 278.

Chapter 12: Statesman and Madman

1.
Small,
Presidency
, p. 53.

2.
Safire, p. 99.

3.
Ibid., p. 131.

4.
Butterfield oral history, NL.

5.
Henry Cashen interview.

6.
William Safire oral history, NL.

7.
Elizabeth Moynihan interview.

8.
Feeney, p. 158.

9.
Hodgson,
Gentleman from New York
, pp. 25–6.

10.
Weisman, ed.,
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
, p. 152.

11.
Christopher DeMuth oral history, NL.

12.
RN
, p. 342.

13.
Eisenhower, p. 254.

14.
Weisman, ed., p. 176.

15.
Nixon’s underlined copy of a biography of Disraeli by André Maurois is at the Nixon Library; Moynihan later recommended the more popular biography by Robert Blake. Patrick Moynihan to RN, November 30, 1970, Moynihan papers, LOC.

16.
Reeves,
President Nixon
, p. 33; White,
Making of the President, 1968
, p. 171.

17.
RN to Patrick Moynihan, January 15, 1969, Moynihan letters, LOC.

18.
Weisman, ed., p. 173; Hess, pp. 92–103, 118.

19.
See Hoff,
Nixon Reconsidered
; Wicker, p. 409; Small, pp. 153–4, 309; Greenberg, p. 304, 327.

20.
William Timmons interview.

21.
Price, p. 45.

22.
Reeves,
President Nixon
, p. 32; Price memo, January 23, 1969, POF, NL.

23.
Hoff, p. 118;
RN
, p. 353.

24.
RN notes, February 6, 1969, PPF, NL.

25.
Haldeman diary, May 2, 1969, NL.

26.
Sidey, “The Man with the Four-Button Phone,”
Life
, January 31, 1969.

27.
Halberstam, p. 604.

28.
Jim Keogh to Leonard Garment, February 17, 1969, POF, NL. Richard Reeves writes that Nixon responded, “You don’t understand, they’re trying to destroy us,” but those words do not appear on the memo. Reeves, p. 40 (no citation). It is possible he said them or wrote them to someone else.

29.
RN to H. R. Haldeman, January 6, 1970, SMOF, NL.

30.
Rosen, p. 42.

31.
Aitken, p. 377.

32.
Strober and Strober, p. 72; see also Mort Allin exit interview, NL.

33.
Ambrose,
Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician
, p. 409.

34.
Lawrence Higby interview.

35.
Ambrose,
Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician
, p. 410. Ambrose cites a June
16, 1969, memo from RN to Haldeman. I was unable to find it in Haldeman’s Presidential memos file at the Nixon Library.

36.
Strober and Strober, p. 42.

37.
Aitken, p. 369.

38.
Herken, p. 349.

39.
Isaacson, p. 142.

40.
Graham,
Personal History
, p. 433.

41.
Cynthia Helms interview.

42.
Aitken, p. 371.

43.
Isaacson, p. 143.

44.
Strober and Strober, p. 125.

45.
Small, p. 98.

46.
Elliot Richardson interview in Aitken papers, NL.

47.
Kissinger,
White House Years
, pp. 138–43; Dallek,
Nixon and Kissinger
, pp. 109–12.

48.
Moynihan diary, July 21, 1974, Moynihan papers, LOC.

49.
Aitken, pp. 380–1;
RN
, p. 371.

50.
Safire notes, February 27, 1969, Safire papers, LOC.

51.
RN
, p. 371.

52.
Kissinger,
White House Years
, p. 93.

53.
Safire, p. 160.

54.
Kissinger,
White House Years
, pp. 107–8; Nixon/Gannon interview.

55.
RN
, p. 374.

56.
William Safire oral history, NL.

57.
Haldeman, p. 120.

58.
Ibid., p. 122.

59.
Kimball, p. 101.

60.
Isaacson, p. 166.

61.
RN
, p. 733.

62.
Evans and Novak,
Nixon in the White House
, p. 75.

63.
Melvin Laird interview; Small,
Presidency
, p. 65; Kimball, pp. 138–9; Van Atta,
With Honor
, p. 133.

Chapter 13: “Need for Joy”

1.
RN
, p. 380.

2.
Kissinger,
White House Years
, p. 243.

3.
Kimball, pp. 123–35; Haldeman diary, March 10, 1969, NL.

4.
Kissinger,
White House Years
, pp. 246–7.

5.
Safire meeting notes, August 18, 1969, Safire papers, LOC.

6.
Haig,
Inner Circles
, pp. 205, 195.

7.
Kimball, p. 135. On Nixon’s Vietnam policy generally, see Kimball, “The Vietnam War” in Small,
Companion to Richard M. Nixon;
for a balanced overview, see Herring,
America’s Longest War
and
From Colony to Superpower
. For a strong critique, see Berman,
No Peace, No Honor
.

8.
Swift, p. 220, Lucy Winchester Breathitt interview.

9.
Jo Haldeman interview.

10.
Cynthia Helms interview.

11.
Dwight Chapin, Steve Bull, Lawrence Higby, Brent Scowcroft interviews.

12.
Magruder, p. 61.

13.
Haldeman, p. 110.

14.
Haldeman diary, March 28, 1969, NL.

15.
Price, pp. 61–2.

16.
Black, p. 596.

17.
Safire diary, March 31, 1969, Safire papers, LOC.

18.
RN
, pp. 387–8.

19.
Isaacson, p. 213.

20.
Ibid., p. 225.

21.
Haldeman notes, June 16, 1969, NL.

22.
Isaacson, p. 229.

23.
Haldeman diary, September 4, 1969, NL.

24.
Swift, p. 254.

25.
Gulley,
Breaking Cover
, pp. 176–90.

26.
Safire, p. 801.

27.
Haldeman diary, July 18, 1969, NL.

28.
Isaacson, p. 209.

29.
RN
, p. 394.

30.
Haldeman diary, July 21, 24, 25, 1969, NL.

31.
Ibid., July 30, 1969.

32.
Reeves,
President Nixon
, p. 88.

33.
Henry Cashen interview.

34.
RN
, p. 395.

35.
Haldeman, p. 132.

36.
Henry Kissinger interview; Van Atta, pp. 272–3.

37.
Notes on lunch with William Rogers, March 16, 1973, Safire papers, LOC.

38.
Haldeman diary, July 19, 1969, NL.

39.
Safire, p. 188; Safire diary, July 20, 1969, LOC.

40.
Haldeman notes, July 19, 1969, NL.

41.
Klein, p. 110.

42.
Safire, p. 192.

43.
Haldeman notes, July 21, 1969, NL.

44.
Ibid., March 26, 1969, NL.

45.
Strober and Strober, p. 263; Alexander Butterfield oral history, NL.

46.
Haldeman diary, August 4, 1969, NL.

47.
Safire, pp. 194–5. Dwight Chapin does not believe Safire could have observed this scene because he says Nixon and Kennedy met alone.

48.
RN notes, September 7, 1969, PPF, NL.

49.
Perlstein,
Nixonland
, p. 417.

50.
Haig, pp. 229–31.

51.
Haldeman diary, October 3, 1969, NL.