Being Nixon: A Man Divided (68 page)

17.
Isaacson, pp. 494–5; Conversation 891-1, 9:47
A.M.
, April 9, 1973, NT.

18.
RN
, p. 496.

19.
Kenneth Riland diary, “The Nixon Saga, February 16, 1969”; Maxine Cheshire,
New York Daily News
, February 12, 1973, RA.

20.
Riland diary, February 22, 1969, RA.

21.
Ibid., February 3, 1971; Reeves, p. 301; Kimball, pp. 241–8.

22.
Conversation 451-23, 6:16
P.M.
, February 18, 1971, NT.

23.
Haldeman diary, March 26, 1971, NL.

24.
Dallek,
Nixon and Kissinger
, pp. 259–60.

25.
Conversation 246-17, 3:15
P.M.
, April 7, 1971, NT.

26.
Haldeman diary, March 30, 1971, NL.

27.
Dallek,
Nixon and Kissinger
, p. 262.

28.
Haldeman diary, December 5, 6, 1970, NL.

29.
Haldeman notes, March 26, 1971, NL.

30.
Conversation 249-6, 8:59
A.M.
, April 15, 1971, NT; Haldeman diary, April 16, 1971, NL.

31.
Haldeman diary, February 17, 1971, NL.

32.
Ibid., May 18, 1971, NL.

33.
Dallek,
Nixon and Kissinger
, p. 219.

34.
Reeves, p. 326; Haldeman diary, May 19, 1971.

35.
Dallek,
Nixon and Kissinger
, p. 218.

36.
Conversation 487-1, 9:15
A.M.
, April 23, 1971, NT.

37.
Haldeman notes, April 27, May 3, 1971, NL.

38.
Reeves,
President Nixon
, p. 321; Dean,
Blind Ambition
, p. 41.

39.
Colson, p. 50.

40.
Conversation 487-21, 2:52
P.M.
, April 23, 1971, NT.

41.
Colson, pp. 51–2.

42.
Safire diary, May 13, 1971, Safire papers, LOC.

43.
Haldeman diary, March 17, 1971, NL.

44.
Ibid., January 1, 2, 1971, NL.

45.
Haldeman, p. 245; Graham, pp. 443–4.

46.
Haldeman diary, June 11, 12, 1971, NL.

47.
Safire diary, November 20, 1968, Safire papers, LOC.

48.
Eisenhower, pp. 314–5.

49.
James Bassett interview in Brodie papers, UU.

50.
Haldeman diary, June 12, 1971, NL.

Chapter 19: “Blow the Safe”

1.
RN
, p. 508.

2.
Conversation 5-50, 12:18
P.M.
, June 13, 1971, NT.

3.
Haldeman diary, June 13, 1971, NL.

4.
Haldeman notes, June 13, 1971, NL.

5.
Colson, p. 66; Charles Colson oral history, NL.

6.
Haldeman, p. 155.

7.
Haldeman diary, June 14, 1971, NL.

8.
Conversation 519-1, 8:49
A.M.
, June 14, 1971, NT.

9.
See Conversation 534-2, 8:45
A.M.
, July 1, 1971, NT.

10.
Prados, “The Diem Coup After 50 Years,”
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book
No. 444, November 1, 2013; Dallek,
Camelot’s Court
, pp. 403–19.

11.
Conversation 261-16, 6:38
P.M.
, June 17, 1971, NT; Reeves, p. 334.

12.
Conversation 525-1, 5:15
P.M.
, June 17, 1971, NT.

13.
RN to Henry Kissinger, September 22, 1969; Tom Charles Huston to H. R. Haldeman, June 18, 1971, March 13, 1970, SMOF, NL, T. C. Huston oral history, NL.

14.
Kenneth Hughes interview; T. C. Huston oral history, NL; Conversation 525-1, 5:15
P.M.
, June 17, 1971, NT.

15.
Conversation 533-1, 5:14
P.M.
, June 30, 1971; Conversation 534-2, 8:45
A.M.
, July 1, 1971, NT.

16.
Conversation 535-4, 9:15
A.M.
, July 2, 1971, NT.

17.
Haldeman diary. July 6, 1971, NL.

18.
RN
, p. 512.

19.
Hughes,
Chasing Shadows
, pp. 3, 164–6; Kenneth Hughes interview.

20.
Emery,
Watergate
, p. 48; Dean,
Blind Ambition
, pp. 42–6; Hughes,
Chasing Shadows
, p. 146; Charles Colson oral history, NL.

21.
See Hunt,
American Spy
.

22.
Conversation 534-5, 10:27
A.M.
, July 1, 1971, NT.

23.
Colson, p. 69.

24.
Ted Barreaux interview. Barreaux was senior intelligence adviser to the Chief of Naval Operations. Jim Hougan in
Secret Agenda
argues, with some evidence, that Hunt was not a stumblebum but a clever spy and a CIA plant in the Nixon administration.

25.
Conversation 260-21, 5:39
P.M.
, July 2, 1971, NT.

26.
Strober and Strober, p. 277.

27.
Cynthia Helms interview.

28.
Conversation 535-4, 9:15
A.M.
, July 2, 1971, NT.

29.
Ehrlichman notes, Ehrlichman papers, June 25, 1971, HL.

30.
Haldeman, pp. 154–5.

31.
Conversation 531-24, 6:50
P.M.
, June 28, 1971, NL.

32.
Weiner,
Enemies
, p. 298.

33.
RN
, p. 513; Conversation 535-4, 9:15
A.M.
, July 2, 1971, NT.

34.
Haldeman, p. 157.

35.
Haldeman notes, June 19, 1971, NL.

36.
Haldeman diaries, July 3, 1971, NL.

37.
Conversation 536-16, 10:41
A.M.
, July 3, 1971, NT; Fred Malek interview.

38.
Rob Odle interview; Medoff, “What FDR Said About Jews in Private,”
Los Angeles Times
, April 7, 2013; Kuznick, “We Can Learn a Lot from Truman the Bigot,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 18, 2003.

39.
Safire, pp. 731–51; Safire diary, December 28, 1972, Safire papers, LOC.

40.
Haldeman diary, July 10, 1971, NL.

41.
RN
, pp. 442–4.

42.
Marjorie Acker interview.

43.
Ehrlichman, p. 266.

44.
Kissinger,
White House Years
, p. 760.

45.
Haldeman diary, July 10, 1971, NL.

46.
Isaacson, p. 351.

47.
Conversation 531-31, 6:30
P.M.
, June 29, 1971, NT.

48.
Kissinger,
White House Years
, pp. 766, 835–6.

49.
Haldeman, p. 157.

50.
Hughes,
Chasing Shadows
, p. 130.

Part Three: The Fall

Chapter 20: Big Plays

1.
Rob Odle interview.

2.
Emery, p. 57; John Dean interview.

3.
Rosen, p. 543.

4.
Lukas, p. 73.

5.
Egil Krogh interview.

6.
Ibid., Krogh,
Integrity
, pp. 45–50.

7.
Haldeman diary, August 10, 1971, NL.

8.
Safire, p. 643; Kissinger,
White House Years
, p. 951.

9.
Haldeman diary, February 27, 1971, NL.

10.
Ibid., June 6, 1971, NL.

11.
Ibid., August 11, 1971; Ehrlichman, p. 235.

12.
Ibid., p. 234.

13.
Small,
Presidency
, p. 208; see Matusow,
Nixon’s Economy
, pp. 84–7, 117.

14.
Silber,
Volker
, p. 80;
RN
, p. 518.

15.
Ibid.; Ben Stein interview, Kenneth Thompson, ed.,
Nixon Presidency
, p. 176.

16.
Nichter and Brinkley, pp. 231–61.

17.
RN
, p. 520; Ehrlichman, p. 324; RN to H. R. Haldeman, March 8, 1971, SMOF, NL.

18.
Burns,
Inside the Nixon Administration
, pp. 44–54.

19.
Haldeman diary, August 4, 1971, NL.

20.
Burns, p. 45.

21.
Frank Carlucci oral history, NL; Safire, p. 663.

22.
Yergin,
Commanding Heights
, pp. 60–4.

23.
Silber, pp. 71–86, 104.

24.
Haldeman diary, August 14, 1971, NL.

25.
RN
, p. 521; Safire, pp. 656–86. For excellent analyses, see Matusow, pp. 84–181, and Nichter,
Richard Nixon and Europe
, chapter 2, “Closing the Gold Window.”

26.
Haldeman diary, August 9, 1971, NL.

27.
Emery, pp. 59–61, 67.

28.
Krogh, pp. 74–5. But see Hougan, pp. 47–56 for evidence that Hunt was feeding the CIA with material, including Ellsberg’s file.

29.
Conversation 274-44, 3:36
P.M.
, September 8, 1971, NT.

30.
Conversation 276-4, 3:03
P.M.
, September 10, 1971, NT.

31.
Conversation 576-6, 10:40
A.M.
, September 18, 1971, NT.

32.
Conversation 571-10, 4:36
P.M.
, September 13, 1971, NT.

33.
Conversation 576-6, 10:40
A.M.
, September 18, 1971, NT.

34.
Emery, pp. 71–2.

35.
Nichter and Brinkley, pp. 312–3. The tape (Conversation 615-4), 7:50
A.M.
, November 5, 1971, has apparently been bleeped out. See Bass,
Blood Telegram
. The Nixon/Kissinger foreign policy driven by national interests and not ideals took extreme form in Pakistan; Bass argues strongly that the United States tolerated a genocide.

36.
Haldeman diary, December 21, 1971, NL.

37.
Feldstein,
Poisoning the Press
, p. 181; James Rosen, “Nixon and the Chiefs,”
The Atlantic
, April 1, 2002.

38.
RN
, p. 532.

39.
See Colodny and Gettlin,
Silent Coup
, pp. 1–68.

40.
Ehrlichman, pp. 279–80.

41.
Isaacson, p. 392.

42.
Conversation 641-10, 12:27
P.M.
, December 23, 1971, NT.

43.
Haldeman diary, August 24, 1971, NL.

44.
Van Atta, p. 244.

45.
Rosen, pp. 172, 180.

46.
Haldeman diary, December 30, 1971, NL.

47.
William Safire memo of meeting with RN, January 18, 1972, Safire papers, LOC.

48.
Herken, p. 375. Telecon, H. K.–Kay Graham, March 15, 1971, NSF (Kissinger phone conversations), NL.

49.
Haldeman diary, January 13, 1972, NL.

50.
MacMillan,
Nixon and Mao
, p. 17.

51.
Kissinger,
White House Years
, p. 1051.

52.
Lawrence Higby interview.

53.
Kissinger,
White House Years
, pp. 1051–2;
RN
, p. 557.

54.
Haig, p. 259.

55.
RN
, p. 559.

Chapter 21: Speak Quietly

1.
Kalb,
Kissinger
, p. 266.

2.
RN
, p. 560.

3.
Nixon/Gannon interview.

4.
Haldeman diary, February 21, 1972, NL.

5.
MacMillan, p. 46.

6.
Ibid., p. 65.

7.
RN
, p. 560.

8.
Burr, ed.,
Kissinger Transcripts
, pp. 60–5.

9.
RN
, p. 564.

10.
Haldeman diary, February 21, 1972, NL; Frank Gannon interview.

11.
Haldeman diary, October 14, 1971, NL.

12.
Eisenhower, p. 334.

13.
MacMillan, p. 278.

14.
William Safire to H. R. Haldeman, November 1, 1971, Safire papers, LOC.

15.
MacMillan, p. 281.

16.
RN
, pp. 572–3.