The Arrogance of Power (113 page)

Ike response to Checkers:
(watched) Robert Humphreys to Sherman Adams, Feb. 17, 1959, Humphreys papers, DDEL; (Mamie wept)
MEM,
p. 105; (telegram lost)
PAT,
p. 124;
MO,
p. 839; (Chotiner intercepted) Pat Hillings with Howard Seelye,
Irrepressible Irishman,
privately published: Harold Dean, 1993, p. 61;
MO,
p. 840–; (“You're my boy”)
MEM,
p. 106; (RN endorsed)
MEM,
p. 107; (RN weeps) ibid.; (drama coach) Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 106 and John Rothmann, unpub. ms., p. 36—coach was Albert Upton; (“amazing”) int. Bryce Harlow in eds. Miller Center, op. cit., p. 7.

Dog:
(collars, etc.) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 125; (lived on) Madeleine Edmondson and Alden Duer Cohen,
The Women of Watergate,
New York: Pocket, 1975, p. 102;
NYT,
July 3, 1968; (exhume?) CNN Website, citing AP and
U.S. News
&
World Report,
Apr. 28, 1997; (Order of . . . Tooth) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 125; Arnold, op. cit., p. 23;
Colliers,
July 9, 1954, James Bassett unpub. ms., Apr. 9, 1954; Bassett Papers.

RN reminded:
PAT,
p. 126, Crowley,
Winter,
op. cit., p. 19.

“truth on my side”:
Monica Crowley,
Nixon Off the Record,
New York: Random House, 1996, p. 63.

press on fund:
New Republic,
Oct. 6, 1952.

problems with RN's answers:
(needed home) New York
Post,
Sept. 18, 1952; (no maid) ibid.,
MO,
p. 757; ($20,000)
U.S. News
&
World Report,
Oct. 3, 1952;
MO,
p. 653; (decorator) ibid.;
PAT,
p. 111; (RN admitted) Costello, op. cit., p. 110; (acquired maid)
New Republic,
Sept. 29, 1952; (increased prosperity) New York
Post,
Oct. 31, 1952; (could not have been charged)
MO,
p. 856; (RN told newsman) Costello, op. cit., p. 95; (speech fees)
Look,
Feb. 24, 1953; (sheet on desk)
MO,
p. 762, citing int. Leo Katcher; (two accounts?) memo to DP, Oct. 20, 1952, citing Jiggs Donohoe, and AP, Oct. 18, 1952, memo citing Judge Thurman Clark, Box G 281, DPP; (three funds) Washington
Daily News,
Feb. 26, 1953.

fund contributors:
(“We've been paying”)
MO,
p. 762; (Chotiner) Lurie, op. cit., p. 127; (“Who's Who”)
MO,
p. 636; (millionaires) DP column “Why?,” fall 1952, not run in local papers, Box G 272, DPP; (“We realized”) article by Richard Donovan, one of three journalists who developed fund story,
The Reporter,
Oct. 14, 1952; (within a week)
MO,
p. 632; (Woodward/Anderson) Pilat, op. cit., p. 302; DP broadcast, Nov. 2, 1952, Box G 281, DPP;
MO,
p. 650; (Ghormley) ibid. and see Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 190–; (Crail) Costello, op. cit., p. 216–; (Adams/Rowan bros.)
New Republic,
Sept. 29, 1952—Adams does not appear in
U.S. News
&
World Report,
Oct. 3, 1952 version of contributors list; (“Never . . . a phone call”)
U.S. News
&
World Report,
Oct. 3, 1952; (Hammond call) DP column, “Did Nixon's Angels benefit?” Box G 281, DPP.

Dana Smith:
(friend/host) int. Jean Smith Goodrich, Smith's daughter; (IRS problem)
NYT,
Sept. 24, 1952; AP wire copy, Sept. 23, 1952, Box G 281, DPP; St. Louis
Post
-
Dispatch,
Oct. 30, 1952.

Smith/Nixon? and Cuba:
(RN to Embassy) AP wire copy, Oct. 29,
NYT,
Oct. 30, 1952, DP column, Oct. 29, 1962, with detail from embassy files, and see
MO,
p. 941n., p. 649; (“routine”)
NYT,
Oct. 30, 1952; (office insisted)
Look,
Feb. 24, 1953; (RN reported in Cuba) St. Louis
Post
-
Dispatch,
Oct. 30, 1952; (demands retraction) RN to Ted Bates agency, Nov. 3, 1952, cited in full in Harrington telegram to DP, Box G 281, DPP; (claims Hawaii)
Look,
Feb. 24, 1953;
MEM,
p. 108; (Link background)
NYT,
Feb. 15, 1974; int. Theodore Link, Jr.; (Free- man/5 witnesses) memo to DP, Box G 281, DPP; (“Nixon agreed”) Messick,
Lansky,
op. cit., p. 190; (Culbertson) ed. Tyler Abell,
Drew Pearson Diaries, 1949–1959,
New York: Holt, Rhinehart & Winston, 1974, p. 335, entry for Oct. 27, 1954; (other Rothman ints.) FBI summaries, “Norman Rothman, Internal Security—Cuba,” June 26/27, director to Asst. AG Byron White, July 25, 1961, and SAC Miami to director, FBI 97-4030-20 in FBI Cosa Nostra files supplied to House Select Cttee. on assassinations, released 1998, JFK Collection, NA; (Rothman covered up?) ibid. and ed. Abell, op. cit., p. 335.

mob in Cuba:
(controlled) Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, op. cit., p. 253–; Sifakis, op. cit., p. 29–; (Sans Souci described) briefing in Box G 281, DPP; (Lansky control) Legat, Havana to director, Jan. 14, 1948, FBI 62-75147-210-102; Gus Russo,
Live by the Sword,
Baltimore, MD: Bancroft Press, 1998, p. 50; memo to DP, Sept. 26, 1952, Box G 281, DPP, and Eisenberg, et al., op. cit., Ch. 30.

Lansky and Smith, RN:
Eisenberg, et al., op. cit., p. 258; (Danner) Jeff Gerth article,
Penthouse,
July 1974.

Horner:
int. Norman Casper.

Clarke:
int. Jack Clarke.

“Italian money”:
Moore to Belmont, Jan. 9, 1959, FBI 109-480-1542.

Alo:
(background) Sifakis, op. cit., p. 7; Ed Reid,
The Grim Reapers,
New York: Bantam, 1970, p. 92; Lacey, op. cit.; (responses on RN) int. Vincent Alo.

Lansky:
(“impressed”) Messick,
Lansky,
op. cit., p. 190; Messick contacts with author, 1991; (Stacher) Eisenberg, et al., op. cit., p. 232.

Giancana:
Sam and Chuck Giancana,
Double Cross,
New York: Warner, 1992, p. 193.

Arvey:
Peter Dale Scott,
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK,
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993, pp. 77, 158–, 179, 200.

Cohen refused:
FBI report, originating Los Angeles, Dec. 29, 1958, FBI 92-3156-122.

RN innocent victim of smears?:
e.g.,
AMI,
p. 295–.

“The top officials”:
RN in call for resignation of RNC Chairman Guy Gabrielson, Oct. 8, 1951, DP column, Box G 281, DPP.

Malaxa:
(Pearson/TV) transcript broadcast, Nov. 2, 1952, Box G 281, DPP; (GSA) Compliance Division report, Dec. 29, 1949, Box G 172, DPP; (U.S. concern) DP memo to editors re. CIA/State, June 5, 1962, Box G 192, DPP;
WP,
Nov. 16, 1979; Seymour Hersh,
The Dark Side of Camelot,
Boston: Little, Brown, 1997, p. 158–; (20 drawers)
Saga,
Nov. 1962; (Goering bros.) ibid.; Howard Blum,
Wanted
:
The Search for Nazis in America,
New York: Quadrangle, 1977, p. 117; Charles Higham,
American Swastika,
New York: Doubleday, 1985, p. 211; (captured cable) German minister, Bucharest to Berlin, Jan. 8, 1941 cited at DP to editors, June 5, 1962, and in letter, Rep. Frank Kowalski to AG Robert F. Kennedy, Apr. 9, 1962, Box G 192, DPP; (1941 coups) I. Glickman, sec. of United Romanian Jews of America to Rep. Jacob Javits, May 14, 1953, Box G 192, DPP;
Saga, supra.,
Higham, op. cit., p. 211 and Elizabeth W. Hazard,
Cold War Crucible,
New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, p. 223–; (simply refusing) Kowalski to AG Kennedy,
supra.

Malaxa/Nixon:
(lawyers call)
Saga, supra.; MO,
p. 647 and deposition of Thomas Bewley in
Malaxa v. Pearson,
Washington, D.C. District Court, Civil Action, No. 5549-55, Box G 192, DPP; (Bewley backed RN)
MO,
pp. 369, 379, 528; (pure chance) ibid. and Walter Land memo, Oct. 9, 1952, Box G 192, DPP; (RN/Western Tube offices) Bewley deposition,
supra.;
Pearson draft entitled “Nicolae Malaxa,” Box G 192, DPP, G. T. Vincent to DP, Oct. 26, 1952, Box G 281, photo of office directory, Box G 192, DPP; (never produced)
NYT,
Oct. 7, 1962; (“paper shuffling”) DP memo to editors, June 5, 1962,
supra.,
and blind memo citing Bewley deposition, p. 48, Box G 192, DPP; (Shelley)
NYT,
Oct. 7, 1962; (private bill) Blum, op. cit., p. 119; (“important, strategically”) RN and William Knowland to Manley Fleischman, Sept. 14, 1951, Box G 192, DPP; (massive advantages) Loftus and Aarons, op. cit., pp. 224, 558 and blind memo,
supra.;
(RN telephone) ibid., p. 558; Blum, op. cit., p. 120; (RN/Hillings) Kowalski to AG Kennedy,
supra.;
(Rogers) blind memo,
supra.,
Blum, op. cit., p. 121.

alleged bribe:
(DP notes) handwritten notes/witness list, Box G 192, DPP; (Wisner/Romania) Evan Thomas,
The Very Best Men,
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995, p. 20–; (Pearson/CIA report) “Friendly Questions for DP,” document prepared for lawsuit, Box G 192, DPP; (Cadillacs/jewelry)
Saga,
Nov. 1962; (Wisner/recruitment) Thomas, op. cit., p. 35; (recruited Malaxa?) Loftus and Aarons, op. cit., p. 559n.33.

Gordon Mason:
int. Gordon Mason and Hazard, op. cit., p. 223–; Hersh, op. cit., p. 158.

Visoianu widow:
int. Mrs. Constantine Visoianu.

Malaxa in US:
(5th Ave.)
Saga,
Nov. 1962; (death) Blum, op. cit., p. 122.

Election 1952:
(vanished) Klein, op. cit., p. 49; (
Time
), Ralph de Toledano,
Nixon,
New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1960, p. 149; (vacation)
NYT,
Miami
Herald,
Nov. 11, 21, 1952, Nixon to Rebozo, Nov. 28, 1952, Rebozo file, Series 320, Box 622, VP, NA; (fish) Rebozo to RN, Dec. 5, 1952, Michael Ewing Collection; int. P.R. man John Tassos.

RN enemies:
(Harriman/Douglas campaign) Douglas, op. cit., p. 324; (Harriman/dinner)
FB,
p. 244; Rudy Abramson,
Spanning the Century,
New York: William Morrow, 1992, p. 412; (topic) ibid., p. 686; (Eleanor Roosevelt)
FB,
p. 244–; (J. F. Kennedy) Douglas, op. cit., p. 325; (Kent/Stevenson) Mazo, op. cit. p. 8; (Celler) ibid. and see Toledano,
Nixon,
op. cit., p. 151; (Lippmann)
Radical History Review,
Fall 1994, p. 138; (Ball) George Ball,
The Past Has Another Pattern,
New York: Norton, 1982, p. 128; (Pepper) Claude Pepper with Hayes Gorey,
Pepper: Eyewitness to a Century,
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987, p. 240; (Redlich) cited in Boston
Phoenix,
Aug. 13, 1974.

Truman:
(re: “traitors”) Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 213;
MEM,
p. 112; Miller,
Plain Speaking,
op. cit., 178; (“crooks”)
The Reporter,
Apr. 19, 1956; (“Goddamn liar”) Miller,
Plain Speaking,
op. cit., p. 178–: (“doesn't understand”) ibid., p. 335.

Rich:
NYT,
Apr. 24, 1994.

RN response to 1952 attacks:
(“My instinct”)
MEM,
p. 109; (Stripling)
Esquire,
Nov. 1975.

RN temper:
(“The hotter”)
Saturday Evening Post,
Sept. 6, 1952; (“blowing . . . stack”) ed. Sevareid, op. cit., p. 80; Alsop, op. cit., p. 153; (Klein/Hillings) Klein, op. cit., p. 133–;
JA,
p. 223; (“obligation”) ed. Sidney Kraus,
The Great Debates,
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1962, p. 397; (slap) notes of int. Zita Remley by FB, FBP,
FB,
p. 236—name is Zita, not Vita, as rendered by FB (Remley to DP, Oct. 7, 1952, Box G 281, DPP).

1952 violence:
(Oregon) Mazo, op. cit., p. 117–; (Long Beach) ed. Abell, op. cit., p. 229; (Rogan) Los Angeles
Sun News,
Nov. 2, 1952; (“When we're elected”) Costello, op. cit., p. 6; (Heavey)
Weekly News Letter,
CA State Federation of Labor, Nov. 3, 1954; Robert Allen to DP, Nov. 13, 1953, Box G 281, DPP; Chotiner to Agent Paul Paterni, Feb. 2 and to William Rogers, Feb. 10, and complaint for damages, 443705, Superior Court of California, (San Francisco) Nov. 26, 1954, summary of incident, Bogen/Pearman (police) Heckler Report, Oct. 29, 1954; Nelson to RN, Dec. 7, 1954, William Rogers Papers, DDEL;
NYT,
Oct. 30, Nov. 27, 1954.

RN depression/weeping:
(“He almost needed”)
MO,
p. 763; (“the full weight”) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 87; (“irritable”)
MO,
p. 793; (“sponge”) ibid., p. 799; (Drown)
PAT,
p. 120; (“blow up”)
MO,
p. 793; (Mother message/Hillings) Hillings with Seelye, op. cit., p. 60;
Good Housekeeping,
June 1960, but see Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 192–; (tears after Checkers) Matthews, op. cit., p. 84; Mazo, op. cit., p. 131; (tears on plane) ibid., p. 134; (tears/Knowland)
MO,
p. 849; (“Dick's state of mind”) Kornitzer, op. cit., p. 193; (tried frantically) int. Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker.

Pat in '52 campaign:
(doubts) see Ch. 12,
supra.; MEM,
p. 86; (prattled)
American Weekly,
Aug. 24, 1952; (Pat on campaigning) Los Angeles
Herald
&
Express,
July 25, 1952; (she urged)
MEM,
p. 98;
PAT,
p. 120; (“Of course you can”)
MEM,
p. 103; (“great”)
PAT,
p. 124; (total silence)
MEM,
p. 108; (“Why . . . keep taking?”) Mazo, op. cit., p. 119; (“kitten”)
PAT,
p. 119; (“So much pain”) ibid., p. 126; (“would hate politics”)
MEM,
p. 108.