The Arrogance of Power (112 page)

Rebozo political role:
(“truly social”) Miami
Herald,
Nov. 1, 1973; (culivated senators)
Life,
July 31, 1970; (Rebozo/Kennedy) Miami
Herald,
Jan. 12, 1974;
JA,
p. 198fn; (dirt on JFK) FB research note, FBP, the divorcée was Durie Malcolm; Dunleavy and Brennan, op. cit., p. 21–; (“so careless”) Crowley,
Nixon Off the Record,
op. cit. p. 33; (1968 meeting) Whalen, op. cit., p. 182; (previous Christmas)
MEM,
p. 292; (Danner) Danner deposition, Sept. 4, 1973,
Plaintiff v. Hughes Tool Co.,
and Danner to Rebozo, Mar. 17, 1970, E files, Box B-56, NA; (“political influence”) int. John Ehrlichman; Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 51–; (“Nixon once sent”) Haldeman with DiMona, op. cit., p. 89; (“quarter million”)
AOP,
p. 4—the candidate was Raymond Guest; (Muskie) ibid., p. 124; (Wallace)
HD,
p. 408; (Vietnam policy) William Shawcross,
Sideshow,
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979, pp. 140, 142; Woodward and Bernstein,
Final Days,
op. cit., p. 204; (hated Castro) Kissinger,
White House Years,
p. 641; (“did not usually”) ibid., p. 1155; (“edgy”) Haldeman with DiMona, op. cit., p. 341.

RN/Rebozo money:
(“never had the urge”) Nixon,
Arena,
op. cit., p. 122–; (“means nothing”) Miami
Herald,
Nov. 1, 1973; (Bassett) int. James Bassett by FB, FBP; (investment advice) Klein, op. cit., p. 149; (dining/beer)
Newsday,
Oct. 13, 1971; (invested Cuba?)
Rolling Stone,
May 20, 1976; (FBI informant) Moore to Belmont, Jan. 9, 1959, FBI 480–1542; (motel)
Newsday,
Oct. 7, 13, 1971; int. Bob Greene by FB, citing Maroon, FBP; (dig derogatory information) Hunt,
Undercover,
op. cit., p. 183; (“selfless”)Tampa
Tribune,
June 26, 1958; (“They'll never
get . . .”) Miami
Herald,
June 15, 1958; (“Nixon never . . .”) int. George Smathers; (Nixon worth 1960–) Stephen Hess and David Broder,
The Republican Establishment,
New York: Harper & Row, 1967, p. 162.

Key Biscayne Bank:
(described)
Nation,
Nov. 12, 1973, Paar, op. cit., p. 131; (shovel)
Newsday,
Oct. 9, 1971; (bust)
Nation,
Nov. 12, 1973; (bank's function) ibid.; (Rebozo at bank)
NM,
p. 363, Miami
Herald,
Dec. 6, 1974; (Continental)
Life,
July 31, 1970; (sticker)
Sundance,
Nov./Dec. 1972, p. 35.

RN/Rebozo property:
(“loved property”) int. George Smathers; (Fisher's)
Newsday,
Oct. 13, 1971; (“After the 1968 election . . .”)
MEM,
p. 952; (Rebozo proposed)
Newsday,
Oct. 13, 1971; (“two houses”)
MEM,
p. 952; (Rebozo/Key Biscayne/San Clemente properties)
NM,
p. 346–; (house for Julie) Miami
Herald,
Feb. 26, 1974, Boston
Globe,
May 29, 1974; (Rebozo concern) Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 51; (“If there's something”)
NM,
p. 368; (“help Bebe”) Ehrlichman, op. cit., pp. 47, 51.

Rebozo in Watergate:
(IRS investigation) Miami
Herald,
Oct. 11, 1973;
NYT,
Feb. 27, Apr. 23, 1974; (targeted) closing memo, Oct.16, 1975, WSPF(H-R), p. 5–;
NM,
p. 364; ints. Sam Dash, Terry Lenzner; (hush money) ibid., p. 145–; (Rebozo obstructed) E, Report, pp. 931, 1071; (left country) ibid., p. 1071–; (RN IRS)
AOP,
p. 31; (Baruffi) int. Andrew Baruffi; (Senior IRS source) int. retired IRS official who requested anonymity; (hearings aborted) ints. Sam Dash, Scott Armstrong and Sam Dash,
Chief Counsel,
New York: Random House, 1976, p. 245; (“evidence would not support”) WSPF Report, p. 84; (“Star Chamber”)
MEM,
p. 967.

Rebozo dubious business activity:
(federal loan)
Newsday,
Oct. 6, 1971,
National Observer,
Feb. 2, 1974, Miami
Herald,
Aug. 20, 1972; (shopping center)
Newsday,
Oct. 7, 1971; (Buttari) Miami
Herald,
Feb. 8, 1969, Miami
News,
Feb. 9, 1969, eds. Peter Dale Scott, Paul Hoch, Russell Stetler, and Sylvia Meagher,
The Assassinations
:
Dallas and Beyond,
New York: Vintage, 1976, p. 404; (“kid gloves”)
Newsday,
Oct. 7, 1971, Miami
Herald,
Oct. 7, 8, 1971; (bank application)
NYT,
Oct. 17, 1973; Providence
Journal,
Nov. 6, 1973; (Rebozo held funds?)
NM,
p. 366; (RN net worth)
Newsday,
Dec. 9, 1973;
Congressional Quarterly Almanac,
1973, p. 1046–; (Rebozo net worth) ed. Miller,
Breaking of the President,
op. cit., Vol. IV, p. 518, Miami
Herald,
Nov. 5, 1973; (Stans) int. Maurice Stans; (earrings)
WP,
July 11, 1974,
NM,
p. 367; Safire, op. cit., p. 615; (RN rebuttal)
MEM,
p. 952; (Anderson) Miami
Herald,
Mar. 20, 1974; (“totally false”)
MEM,
p. 953; (Rebozo dismissed)
NYT,
Mar. 21,1974.

Rebozo/organized crime:
(Danner)
Sundance,
Nov./Dec. 1972, Hank Messick,
Lansky,
New York: Putnam, 1971, p. 189; (Miami hotels) Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, U.S. Sen., 81st Cong., Washington, D.C., U.S. Govt. Printing Office, Interim Report, p. 7–; (Smathers arranged) int. George Smathers; (Lansky associates) ed. Weissman, op. cit., p. 263; (RN/Mackles friendly)
Washington Star,
Dec. 25, 1968,
Ladies' Home Journal,
June 1971; (“fronting”)
Sundance,
Nov./Dec. 1972; (Frederich)
Newsday,
Oct. 13, 1971; (Fincher)
Newsday,
Oct. 13, 1971; (Fincher links) Moldea,
Interference,
op. cit., p. 292–; (Orowitz)
Penthouse,
July 1974, p. 106; (Polizzi picked/1943 conviction/Cleveland boss/petitions)
Newsday,
Oct. 7, 1971; (Grand Council) Los Angeles FBI report, Dec. 23, 1957, FBI 92-3229-5; (smuggling booze)
Village Voice,
Aug. 30, 1973; (Kefauver) ibid.,
Newsday,
Oct. 7, 1971; Estes Kefauver,
Crime in America,
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951, p. 64; (“one of the most”) David Scheim,
Contract on America,
New York: Shapolsky, 1988, p. 298, re. 1964 Senate narcotics hearings; (FBI bug) Cleveland FBI report, June 21, 1965, FBI 92-3229-59, and see Louis Mastriana testimony, Sept. 18, 19, 1973; Sen. Permanent Subcttee. on Investigations, Cttee on Govt. Ops., U.S. Senate, 93rd Cong., 1st Sess., Pt. II, p. 181–; (Berg)
Newsday,
Oct. 13, 1971, int. Donald Berg,
Village Voice,
Aug. 30, 1973,
Nation,
Nov. 12, 1973; (associate of Lansky/Hoffa) Allen Friedman and Ted Schwartz,
Power and Greed, Inside the Teamsters,
New York: Franklin Watts, 1989, p. 155; ed. Weissman, op. cit., pp. 264, 267—the associate was Arthur Desser; (Secret Service)
Newsday, supra.;
(Berg/RN 1994) int. Donald Berg.

Stolen stocks case:
Newsday,
Oct. 9, 1971;
LAT,
Sept. 12, 1970; ints. Ron Kessler, Jake Jernigan;
WP,
Oct. 25, 1973—major report by Ron Kessler but see Rosen to Sullivan, Sep. 12, 1970, FBI 87-102621-18, SA [name redacted] Miami to SAC Miami, Sep. 11, 1970 and other corr. in FBI 87-102621 and 62-112-974; (Salerno/Beckley) ibid., Messick,
Lansky,
op. cit., p. 193; Sifakis, op. cit., p. 314; (King)
WP,
Oct. 25, 1973;
Penthouse,
July 19, 1974; ed. Weissman, op. cit., p. 263–; (Kotz) int. and corr. Alvin Kotz; (Teresa) closing memo, Oct. 16, 1975, WSPF (H-R); Vincent Teresa with Thomas Renner,
My Life in the Mafia
:
The True Confessions of a Mob Leader,
London: Grafton, 1974, p. 288–; (Mastriana) testimony, Sept. 18, 19, 1973, Hearings of Perm. Subcttee. on Investigations, Cttee. on Govt. Ops., U.S. Sen., 93rd Cong., 1st. Sess.; (Alo/Lansky) Teresa, op. cit., p. 220–; Lacey, op. cit., p. 290– and see SAC Dallas to director, Aug. 20, 1971, FBI 92-128-23-5; (long-held suspicions) Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, op. cit., p. 258; Messick, Lansky, op. cit., p. 187–; (Gallinaro) ints. William Gallinaro.

“non-member associate”:
ints. and corr. Michael Ewing, former congressional investigator of organized crime and Watergate; Ewing was given the designation by former FBI Agent Charles Stanley.

RN promise re: crime:
LAT,
Oct. 21, 1968.

Newsday series:
Oct. 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 1971; (reaction/reprisals) McDermott to Jenkins, June 25, 1974, FBI 74575-150; Henry Ruth to Clarence Kelley, Feb. 27, 1974, FBI 62-112974; Wise,
American Police State,
op. cit., p. 129 and Wise,
The Politics of Lying,
op. cit., p. 324–, Joseph Spear,
Presidents and the Press,
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984, p. 130; Donner, op. cit., p. 351, Hunt,
Undercover,
op. cit., p. 183; Caulfield testimony, E, Bk. 22, p. 10368–; (agents' surveillance)
WP,
June 28, 1974; (“worse than foolish”) Safire, op. cit., p. 615.

RN “resented”:
Pierpoint, op. cit., p. 82.

Smathers:
int. George Smathers.

Finch:
int. Robert Finch by FB, FBP.

“nails pulled out”:
ed. Miller,
Breaking of a President,
op. cit., Vol. IV, p. 511.

“never going to blab”:
Safire, op. cit., p. 615.

“All you have got to do”:
U.S. News
&
World Report,
Oct. 3, 1952.

“end is power”:
Hess and Broder, op. cit., p. 143.

hero/preacher:
Mazo, op. cit., p. 85.

“A few friends”:
MO,
p. 629.

Eisenhower meetings:
(1949)
MO,
p. 507; (1950/51) ibid., pp. 577, 644–.

“prat boy”:
RN in Frank Gannon int. transcript, CBS
60 Minutes,
Apr. 8, 1984; Wicker, op. cit., p. 160.

Dewey:
(“a possibility”) Mazo, op. cit., p. 90; (“you can be President”)
MEM,
p. 84; Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 299; (tempted Nixon?)
Frontier,
Apr. 1962;
MO,
p. 684–.

Warren:
(questionnaire)
FB,
p. 253; Vernon O'Reilly unid. article, Sept. 26, 1952, Box G 281, DPP; (at convention) ed. Sevareid, op. cit., p. 76; Costello, op. cit., p. 86; James to Wilma Bassett, July 9, 1952, Bassett Papers, courtesy of Cynthia Bassett; Leo Katcher, Earl Warren,
A Political Biography,
New York: McGraw Hill, 1967, p. 290–; Earl Warren,
The Memoirs of Earl Warren,
New York: Doubleday, 1977, p. 252–;
MO,
pp. 691, 719–; Arnold, op. cit., p. 29–; (The most distasteful”) int. John Rothmann and see Louis Kohlmeier, Jr.,
God Save This Honorable Court,
New York: Charles Scribner's, 1972, p. 93; (“ ‘Tricky' . . . despicable”) William Buckley column, Mar. 20, 1975,
National Review
and see Jack Harrison Pollack,
Earl Warren,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1979, p. 142.

1952 convention:
(Ike's list) Sherman Adams,
Firsthand Report,
New York: Harper, 1961, p. 34; Eisenhower press conference, May 31, 1955, James Hagerty Papers, DDEL; (smoke-filled rooms) Manchester,
The Glory and the Dream,
op. cit., p. 619; (RN picked)
MO,
p. 732; Richard Norton Smith,
Thomas Dewey and His Times,
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982, p. 596; (“Surprised”) ibid., p. 597; (argued with Pat)
PAT,
p. 114–;
MEM,
p. 85–; (Pat surprised)
Saturday Evening Post,
Sept. 6, 1952; (platform) Smith,
Thomas Dewey,
op. cit., p. 597; (photographers)
Time,
Feb. 29, 1960;
PAT,
p. 117; (Ike irritated) Lurie, op. cit., p. 116–; (
Time
)
Time,
Aug. 25, 1952.

scandals:
(Truman plagued)
MO,
p. 642–; (“When we are through”) Nathan Miller,
Stealing from America,
New York: Marlowe, 1996, p. 331.

Fund Crisis:
(
Post
) New York
Post,
Sept. 18, 1952; (tip etc.) Washington
Sunday Star,
Sept. 21, 1952; Robert Humphreys to Sherman Adams, Feb. 7, 1959, DDEL;
MO,
p. 757–; ed. Sevareid, op. cit., p. 88, but see Katcher, op. cit., p. 294; (use of money) New York
Post,
Sept. 18, 1952;
U.S. News
&
World Report,
Oct. 3, 1952; (“all wrong”) Mazo, op. cit., p. 107; (“just . . . fund”)
MO,
p. 759; Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 73–; (“nothing to worry”) ibid., p. 78; (Edson story) Chicago
Daily News,
Sept. 18, 1952; (Ike response)
MO,
p. 770; (“hounds tooth”)
NYT,
Sept. 21, 1952; (“Hiss crowd”)
MO,
pp. 772, 774–; (call to withdraw)
MO,
p. 780–; (Dewey/resign)
MO,
p. 803; (Ike called Nixon)
MO,
p. 807.

Checkers speech:
(no rehearsal?) Nixon,
Six Crisis,
op. cit., p. 112;
MEM,
p. 103;
Look,
Feb. 24, 1953; (witness) James Kearns in St. Louis
Post
-
Dispatch,
Sept. 28, 1952; (delayed?)
Variety,
Sept. 21, 1954 and draft article, both in Box G 281, DPP; (60 million) Barry Goldwater,
With No Apologies,
New York: William Morrow, 1979, p. 67;
MO,
p. 827; (text of speech)
U.S. News
&
World Report,
Oct. 3, 1952; (Pat sat close)
Westporter Herald,
Sept. 25, 1952; (Lincoln quote) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 103; Wills, op. cit., p. 104; (hands reaching)
MEM,
p. 104; (hurled notes)
Look,
Feb. 24, 1973; Mazo, op. cit., p. 131;
PAT,
p. 124; (“I was a failure”)
JA,
p. 218; (euphoric)
MO,
p. 844; (fur coats) Washington
Times-Herald,
Sept. 30;
Wall Street Journal,
Oct. 10, 1952; (RN “stripped”) Wicker, op. cit., p. 107.