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Hutschnecker:
int. Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker, Nov. 7, 1976 by
FB,
FBP.

Arthur death:
(rock) Gardner, op. cit., p. 23;
FB,
p. 89; Edward Nixon to author, May 8, 1996; int. Donald Nixon, Jr., and other relatives;
MO,
p. 881 n.84; (certificate)
FB,
p. 89; (root cause)
MEM,
p. 10; Nixon,
Arena,
op. cit., p. 192; (nightmare)
MO,
p. 43–; (“staring”)
FB,
p. 90; (cried)
MEM,
p. 10.

Harold:
Abrahamsen, op. cit., p. 87;
MO,
p. 87–; (TB) ibid., p. 94–; (raw milk)
JA,
p. 23; (Richard/Don sick) ibid., pp. 23, 27; (“catastrophic”) RN to Pat Buchanan, Feb. 10, 1971, NP, NA; (sold land) int. Harry Schuyler in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 251.

tough period:
MO,
p. 98–,
Richard M
.
Nixon, A Self-Portrait,
1968 film script, FBP, p. 6; (shirts/breath)
Good Housekeeping,
June 1960; (meat) int. Merle West and see
Good Housekeeping,
June 1960; (Arizona)
MO,
p. 94–; (afraid) ibid., p. 96; (carnival)
FB,
p. 97; (conspired)
AM1,
p. 44; (wiretap)
MO,
p. 97.

Harold death:
(“guilt”) Henry Lawton, “Milhous Rising,”
Journal of Psychohistory,
Spring 1979, p. 533; (“Why?”) Jessamyn West,
Double Discovery,
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980, p. 138; (punishment)
MO,
p. 44,
JA,
p. 48; (“God's decision”) Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 60.

religion:
(two churches) unpub. essay by John Rothmann, JFRP; int. Jane Milhous Beeson in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 62–; (Quaker background)
Encyclopedia Brittanica,
Charles Henderson,
The Nixon Theology,
New York: Harper & Row, 1972;
MO,
pp. 23–, 27; int. Edward Nixon; (“four times”) Nixon,
Arena,
op. cit., p. 95; (quiet)
MO,
p. 86; (closet) ibid., p. 31;
JA,
p. 338; (her life) int. Jane Beeson in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 63; (“firebrand”) Jessamyn West, “Four Years, For What?,”
Whittier College Bulletin,
May 1954; (cheeks) West,
Hide and Seek,
op. cit., p. 239–; (“reawakening”)
AM1,
p. 41; (devotees)
NYT,
Jan. 26, 1969; (RN rethought)
JA,
p. 54–; (Trohan) int. Walter Trohan; (Peale) Rothmann unpub. essay,
supra
.; (“backslider”) Marshall Frady,
Billy Graham,
Boston: Little, Brown, 1979, p. 446; (Catholicism) int. John Ehrlichman, int. John Ehrlichman in eds. Miller Center, op. cit., p. 135, Colson cited in
WP,
Apr. 24, 1994, p. C1 and Douglas Hallet article in
NYT
Magazine, Oct. 20, 1974; (anathema)
MO,
p. 23; (stopped holding) Marianne Means, Boston
Herald
-
American,
Sept. 26, 1973, John Osborne in
New York,
Apr. 21, 1975; (“guidance”) Michael Medved,
The Shadow Presidents,
New York: Times Books, 1979, p. 326; (Colson) Charles Colson,
Born Again,
New York: Bantam, 1977, p. 203; (Lincoln table)
SF Chronicle,
May 26, 1977; (Korff) int. Baruch Korff and Baruch Korff,
The President and I,
Providence, RI: Korff Foundation, 1995, p. 74; (“peace”) ibid., p. 167; (“Life of Christ”) UPI, Mar. 19, 1975;
MEM,
p. 78; (Bible) int. WSPF attorney; (old age) Crowley,
Winter,
op. cit., p. 339–; (“I believe”)
This Week
magazine, Sept. 18, 1960; (repudiate) int. Dr. Paul Smith in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 177; Henderson, op. cit., p. 32–;
FB,
p. 62; int. Rev. Eugene Coffin, East Whittier Friends Church by
FB,
FBP; (RN's “great trouble”) int. Walter Trohan; (“victim”) int. Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker.

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, Kornitzer, 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.

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