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6.
Lowenstein, letter to Rumsfeld, March 10, 1962.

7.
“Top Nixon Aide Voices ‘Respect' for Lowenstein,”
Long Island Press,
October 14, 1970.

8.
“Key Nixon Adviser Defends Lowenstein,”
Long Island Press,
October 14, 1970.

9.
Lady Bird Johnson,
A White House Diary
(New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), p. 734.

10.
“Consent by Injunction,”
Chicago Tribune,
February 20, 1964; “Lopsided Law,”
Chicago Tribune,
February 27, 1964.

11.
“Lopsided Law,”
Chicago Tribune,
February 27, 1964.

12.
“Civil Rights,”
Congressman Donald Rumsfeld Reports,
vol. 1, no. 4., November 22, 1963.

13.
Rumsfeld voting record, “Civil Rights—HR 7152, 88th Cong., 2d sess.”, February 10, 1964.

14.
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “James Farmer's GOP Candidacy Born at Kenyon College Conference,”
Washington Post,
July 22, 1968.

15.
William McGaffin, “How Rumsfeld Aided Candidate,”
Chicago Daily News,
May 23, 1968; “Farmer Tells Why GOP Endorsed Him,”
New York Post,
May 20, 1968.

16.
“Caucuses Begin Today for Hill Leadership,”
Washington Post,
January 2, 1969.

17.
Richard Nixon,
RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon
(New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978), p. 245.

18.
Nixon, letter to Rumsfeld, November 16, 1962.

19.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., afterword, in Barry M. Goldwater,
The Conscience of a Conservative
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), p.123.

20.
“Running Mate,”
Time
, July 24, 1964.

21.
John Chamberlain, “A Vote for Goldwater,”
Washington Post,
October 30, 1964.

22.
Barry M. Goldwater, speech, acceptance of Republican presidential nomination, twenty-eighth Republican National Convention, July 16, 1964.

23.
Barry M. Goldwater, speech, acceptance of Republican presidential nomination, twenty-eighth Republican National Convention, July 16, 1964.

24.
“The Record Rep. Rumsfeld Made for You,” Committee to Elect Lynn A. Williams to the U.S. Congress, undated.

CHAPTER 6
Young Turks

1.
Rumsfeld, “The Ford-Halleck Race 1964-1965,” June 7, 2000.

2.
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “House GOP to Hold Non-Halleck Caucus,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
December 1, 1964.

3.
William McGaffin, “House GOP ‘Young Turks' Study Gains,”
Chicago Daily News,
December 17, 1964.

4.
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “House GOP to Hold Non-Halleck Caucus,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
December 1, 1964.

5.
“Challenge to Charlie,”
Time,
December 25, 1964.

6.
“These Are My Guys,”
Time,
November 17, 1975.

7.
Rumsfeld, “Republican Congressmen—1965—89th Congress,” tally sheet for Ford-Halleck Race, January 1965.

8.
Rumsfeld, “The Ford-Halleck Race 1964–1965,” June 7, 2000.

9.
Yanek Mieczkowski,
Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s
(Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2005), pp. 10–11; Gerald R. Ford,
A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
(New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 77.

10.
Michael Beschloss, ed.,
Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964–1965
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), p. 164.

11.
Michael Beschloss, ed.,
Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964–1965
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), p.164.

12.
Rumsfeld voting record, “Vietnam Appropriation, H. J. Res 447,” May 5, 1965.

13.
“The Second Session of the 89th Congress Is Well Underway,”
Congressman Donald Rumsfeld Reports
, vol. 2, no. 5, March 1966.

14.
“Undercurrent of Doubt in Tonkin Gulf Affair,” Republican National Committee Radio News, June 12, 1966.

15.
Rumsfeld, draft, “Remarks on the U.S. Problem in South Viet Nam,” April 11, 1966.

16.
Rumsfeld and Callaway, interviewed by Lisagor and Nicodemus, May 31, 1966, rough transcript.

17.
“The Situation in South Vietnam,”
Congressman Donald Rumsfeld Reports,
vol. 3, no. 5, May 1968.

18.
“The Situation in South Vietnam,”
Congressman Donald Rumsfeld Reports,
vol. 3, no. 5, May 1968.

19.
Rumsfeld voting record, “Defense Authorization, FY 1966 — HR 12889,” March 1, 1966.

20.
Roy P. Basler, ed.,
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,
vol. 3 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 16.

21.
House Concurrent Resolution 508, 90th Cong., 1st sess., September 25, 1967.

22.
Rumsfeld, “Statement Before the Joint Committee on the Organization of the Congress,” June 2, 1965.

23.
“U.S. Conduct of War Ripped by Rumsfeld,”
Chicago Tribune,
April 13, 1966.

24.
“U.S. Conduct of War Ripped by Rumsfeld,”
Chicago Tribune,
April 13, 1966.

25.
“Selective Service,”
Congressman Donald Rumsfeld Reports,
vol. 3, no. 1, April 10, 1967.

26.
“Selective Service,”
Congressman Donald Rumsfeld Reports,
vol. 3, no. 1, April 10, 1967.

27.
Rumsfeld, statement prepared for presentation to the House Committee on Armed Services, quoting Harold Wool, Director of the Office of Procurement Policy and General Research (Manpower), May 2, 1967.

28.
“Selective Service Act,”
Congressman Donald Rumsfeld Reports,
vol. 3, no. 2,September 1967.

29.
Lyndon B. Johnson, “Address to the Nation Announcing Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam and Reporting His Decision Not to Seek Reelection,” March 31, 1968.

PART FOUR
In Nixon's Arena

1.
Rumsfeld, “Memorandum—Rumsfeld Personal File,” August 1974.

CHAPTER 7
1968: Year of Turmoil

1.
Rumsfeld, “confidential Memo—1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination,” August 8, 1968.

2.
Rumsfeld, “confidential Memo—1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination,” August 8, 1968.

3.
Rumsfeld, “confidential Memo—1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination,” August 8, 1968; Rumsfeld, interviewed by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober, February 18, 1994, transcript.

4.
Rumsfeld, “confidential Memo—1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination,” August 8, 1968.

5.
Rumsfeld, “confidential Memo—1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination,” August 8, 1968.

6.
Rumsfeld, “confidential Memo—1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination,” August 8, 1968.

7.
“Now the Republic,”
Time,
August 16, 1968.

8.
“Nixon Picks Agnew as Running Mate,”
Chicago Tribune,
August 9, 1968.

9.
Rumsfeld, statement, “Concerning Activity in the City of Chicago, Illinois, During the Democratic National Convention,” October 1, 1968.

10.
Jeffrey Kimball,
Nixon's Vietnam War
(Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998), p. 32.

11.
Rumsfeld, [No Subject], October 15, 1968.

12.
Rumsfeld, [No Subject], October 15, 1968.

CHAPTER 8
The Job That Couldn't Be Done

1.
Richard Nixon, speech, acceptance of Republican presidential nomination, twenty-ninth Republican National Convention, August 8, 1968.

2.
Rumsfeld voting record, “Anti-Poverty Economic Opportunity Act—HR 11377,” 88th Cong., 2d sess., August 8, 1964.

3.
Rumsfeld, [No Subject], April 4, 1969.

4.
William H. Rehnquist, “Re: Appointment of Congressman to the Office of Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity,” April 14, 1969.

5.
Jack Anderson, “Anti-Poverty Czar Embellishes Office,”
Washington Post,
September 22, 1969.

6.
Jack Anderson, “Anti-Poverty Czar Embellishes Office,”
Washington Post,
September 22, 1969.

7.
Rumsfeld, “The Washington Merry-Go-Round Column by Jack Anderson titled: ‘Anti-Poverty Czar Embellishes Office' (
The Washington Post
—Monday, September 22, 1969),” undated.

8.
“Scoops On Target and Off,”
Time,
April 3, 1972; “The Case of the O.E.O. Office,”
New York Times,
August 13, 1972.

9.
Milton and Rose D. Friedman,
Two Lucky People: Memoirs
(Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 344–45.

10.
Eric Wentworth, “OEO Plans Test of Education Vouchers,”
Washington Post,
December 26, 1970.

11.
Terry Lenzner, as quoted in Rowan Scarborough,
Rumsfeld's War: The Untold Story of America's Anti-Terrorist Commander
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2004), p. 73.

12.
Rumsfeld, letter to Hoover, November 11, 1969.

CHAPTER 9
Counsellor

1.
Rebecca Roberts, “Kent State Shooting Divided Campus and Country,”
Talk of the Nation,
WKSU/National Public Radio, Kent, OH: May 3, 2010.

2.
Donald Murdoch to Rumsfeld, “Jackson Visit,” May 18, 1970.

3.
Charles W. Colson,
Born Again
(Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1995), p. 77.

4.
H. R. Haldeman to Bob Ehrlichman, Bob Finch, Bryce Harlow, Donald Rumsfeld, and George Shultz, [No Subject], June 15, 1970.

5.
Stephen E. Ambrose, “Comparing and Contrasting Ike and Dick,” in
Richard M. Nixon: Politician, President, Administrator,
edited by Leon Friedman and William F. Levantrosser (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991), p. 15.

6.
Rumsfeld to Nixon, “The Administration and Minorities,” March 18, 1971.

7.
Rumsfeld, “Cabinet Meeting, July 10, 1970,” July 10, 1970; Kissinger, handwritten note, July 10, 1970.

8.
Rumsfeld, [No Subject], January 15, 1971.

9.
Nixon and Rumsfeld, taped conversation, July 22, 1971.

10.
Rumsfeld, “Key Biscayne Meeting,” November 7, 1970.

11.
Rumsfeld voting record, “Dept. of Housing & Urban Development, Establish—HR 6927,” Roll Call #142, 89th Cong., 1st sess., June 16, 1965.

12.
James Reston, Jr.,
The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally
(New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989), pp. 396–97.

13.
Richard Nixon, Executive Order 11615: “Providing for Stabilization of Prices, Rents, Wages, and Salaries,” August 15, 1971.

14.
Rumsfeld, interviewed by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober, February 18, 1994, transcript.

15.
John Cassidy, “The Hayek Century,”
Hoover Digest,
no. 3, 2000.

16.
Rumsfeld, interviewed by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober, February 18, 1994, transcript.

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