The Arrogance of Power (115 page)

Frank Nixon death:
(“Dear Dad”) int. Evlyn Dorn by FB, FBP; (rupture)
PAT,
p. 159; (“I shall always”) Nixon,
Arena,
op. cit., p. 91, but see
MEM,
p. 176 for another version; (carpet) int. Nathaniel George by FB, FBP; (pie) ed. Sevareid, op. cit., p. 105; (“I could hear”) int. James Bassett by FB, FBP; (“strictly personal”) ed. Sevareid, op. cit., p. 106; (Buffalo)
NYT,
Oct. 16, 17, 1956; (“I remember my father”) Woodstone, op. cit., p. 42.

Strange RN behavior 1956:
(“Get me away”) int. James Bassett by FB, FBP,
FB,
p. 425; ed. Sevareid, op. cit., pp. 80, 98; (vomited) int. Herb Klein for BBC/History Channel; (punched in face) Woodstone, op. cit., p. 39; (disoriented) Woodstone, op. cit., p. 39–; (nonexistent crowd) ed. Sevareid, op. cit., p. 97; (Reston) Woodstone, op. cit., p. 40; (“Before gray-colored draperies”) Haldeman and DiMona, op. cit., p. 45; (rambling typical) ibid. and int. John Ehrlichman; (“What scares the hell”) int. James Bassett by FB, FBP.

Hutschnecker:
ints. Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker.

“I have a feeling”:
RN to Rebozo, Sept. 8, 1956, Series 320, Box 622, Rebozo file, VP, NA.

Biscayne trip:
AMI,
p. 422.

“Does a man enjoy?”:
Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. xv.

foreign gifts:
NYT,
UPI, June 4, 1957.

50 plus countries:
ed. Sevareid, op. cit., p. 126.

Far East trip:
(“What . . . doing?”)
AMI,
p. 318; (briefings/meetings) ed. Sevareid, op. cit., p. 123–;
MEM,
p. 120;
AMI,
p. 319;
JA,
p. 228; (RN would recall)
MEM,
p. 134; (Indonesia) ibid., p. 120; (Kuwait gift) int. Joseph Dmhowski; (“vanity”)
MEM,
p. 121; (uniforms) Dickerson, op. cit., p. 164; (Nehru/Gandhi)
MEM,
p. 131;
AMI,
p. 325; (cad) Costello, op. cit., p. 250;
AMI,
p. 325; (Khan)
MEM,
pp. 133, 256; (“not printable”) Kissinger,
White House Years,
op. cit., pp. 848, 878; (despised) Michael Genovese,
The Nixon Presidency,
New York: Greenwood Press, 1990, p. 157 and see Dickerson, op. cit., p. 164; (1971 “tilt” to Pakistan) research paper
for author by Greg Murphy; (RN considered nuclear weapons)
Time,
July 29, 1985 and see Kissinger,
White House Years,
op. cit., p. 909; (Formosa visit)
MEM,
p. 126; (no recognition) Costello, op. cit., p. 250; (“Someday”) James Humes,
Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter,
Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1997, p. 137; (Shah personal friend) AP, July 5, 1979; (Op. Ajax) Andrew, op. cit., p. 203–; (no consultation) Washington
Spectator,
Oct. 15, 1976; secret House Intelligence Committee report, published in
Village Voice,
Feb. 16, 1976; Wicker, op. cit., p. 663, but see Henry Kissinger,
Years of Renewal,
op. cit., p. 583; (alcoholic) Ball, op. cit., p. 454–; (gifts “missing”)
WP,
Aug. 22, 1977; (Marcos contributions) Kutler, op. cit., p. 207; Nathan Miller,
Spying for America,
New York: Paragon House, 1989, p. 385fn, NY
Observer;
(Joe Conason column), Oct. 21, 1996; Russell Howe and Sarah Trott,
The Power Peddlers,
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977, p. 481–, but see Stans, op. cit., p. 371–; (“buying influence”) “Insights with Robert Novak,” America's Voice—Net cable, May 19, 1998.

RN on dictators:
Nick Thimmesh int. in
LAT
, undated, 1978.

“go on . . . offensive”:
MO,
p. 629.

Vietnam:
(Bao Dai)
MEM,
p. 122; (“outpost of freedom”) ibid., p. 124; (“husks”) ibid., p. 125; (80 percent costs) Neil Sheehan,
A Bright Shining Lie,
London: Jonathan Cape, 1989, p. 172; (advisers) Manchester, op. cit., p. 918;
MEM,
p. 150; (“The boys”)
WP,
June 15, 1997, citing Eisenhower Oval Office recording, Feb. 24, 1955; (RN “if . . . take the risk”) Manchester, op. cit., p. 685; Cook, op. cit., p. 7.

European papers:
Lurie, op. cit., p. 186; (RN's real view) Apr. 16, 1954 journal entry, James Hagerty Papers, DDEL;
MEM,
p. 152; Nixon Oral History, Feb. 21, 1966, John Foster Dulles Oral History Collection, Princeton University;
AMI,
p. 345; (Bassett) JB to Wilma Bassett, Apr. 16–17, 1954, Bassett Collection; (“own baby”) Bassett unpub. ms., p. 89; (Op. Vulture) Dulles to Eisenhower, Apr. 23, 1954, DDEL, Parmet, Eisenhower, op. cit., p. 364; Hoopes, op. cit., p. 210–; ed. Cttee of Concerned Asian Scholars,
The Indochina Story,
New York: Pantheon, 1970, p. 19, Bernard Brodie,
War and Politics,
New York: Macmillan, 1973, p. 144–; (LeMay)
FB,
p. 322; (“Stone Age”) Stanley Karnow,
Vietnam,
London: Random House, 1994, p. 48; (Ike “must be crazy”) Brendon, op. cit., p. 290; (RN nuclear attitude) Cook, op. cit., p. 7; John Prados to author, Jan. 24, 1997, and see
AMI,
p. 344,
FB,
p. 322; (not necessary to mention)
MEM,
p. 154; (“guts”) Bassett unpub. ms., p. 96, entry for Apr. 21, 1954; (“sun . . . shining”) ibid., p. 117, on cong. leadership meeting, May 3, 1954; (Zeibert's) ibid., p. 119–, entry for May 5, 1954; (Ike notified France) Ranelagh, op. cit., p. 431; (RN/promote invasion) Cook, op. cit., p. 7; (“folly”) ibid.; (JFK sends advisers) Karnow, op. cit., p. 270; (RN long supports war)
AMII,
pp. 43–, 142–; Shawcross, op. cit., p. 85.

Latin American visit:
(main sources) Marvin Zahniser and Michael Weis,
Diplomatic History,
Vol. 13, Spring 1989, p. 163–; Mazo, op. cit., p. 206–; (Mazo covered the trip as a reporter),
MEM,
p. 185–; Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 183–; Vernon Walters,
Silent Missions,
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978, p. 313; (“weird . . . character”) ibid., p. 204; (“unable to wear”) RN to Eisenhower, May 12, 1958, Ann Whitman Administrative file 28, DDEL; (“hailed”)
MEM,
p. 188; (relations suffered) Zahniser and Weis, op. cit., p. 178; (“splotches”)
MEM,
p. 189; (“French Revolution”) Manchester, op. cit., p. 831; (RN on Caracas ambush) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 217–; (looked like Eisler) Mazo, op. cit., p. 233; (damage/wounds) ibid.; Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 219; Nixon,
Arena,
op. cit., p. 206; Walters, op. cit., p. 330; (“heard attacker”) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 219; (On advice) ibid., p. 220; Walters, op. cit., p. 332; (Pat calm) ibid., p. 333; (Woods) int. Robert Cushman by FB, FBP;
JA,
p. 252; (relaxing) Walters, op. cit., p. 234, Mazo, op. cit., p. 237; (Molotov cocktails) ibid., p. 235; U. E. Baughman,
Secret Service Chief,
New York: Harper, 1962, p. 248–; (“I don't think”) ibid., p. 246–; (Esterline) int. Jacob Esterline; (Op. Poor Richard) Manchester, op. cit., p. 833; Zahniser and Weis, op. cit., p. 182; (placards) ibid., p. 184; (Rock and Roll)
LAT,
May 26, 1958 and club papers, corr. files, Series 320, Box 649, VP, NA; (showed courage) int. former Assistant Secretary of State Roy Rubottom, Jr.; Walters, op. cit., p. 337; (RN on Peru) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 198; (“terrible test”) ibid., p. 204; (analytical)
FB,
p. 369; (“When someone”) ibid.; (“Those who hate you”)
MEM,
p. 1089; (“felt . . . urge”) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., pp. 204, 207; (“both barrels”) ibid., p. 216; (Hughes)
JA,
p. 253; (RN made no move)
AMI,
p. 473; (defying S.S. rule) Baughman, op. cit., p. 247; (“can't be helped”) ibid., p. 248; (“command decision) Alsop, op. cit., p. 75; (“worn out”) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 205; (“wrung-out”) Mazo, op. cit., p. 238; (“My reaction”) Alsop, op. cit., p. 198; (“avoidable”) Baughman, op. cit., p. 249; (Esterline) ints. Jacob Esterline; (“damn nose”) James Blight and Peter Kornbluh,
Politics of Illusion,
Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998, p. 23; (“political decision”) Grose, op. cit., p. 455; (“not qualify”) Alsop, op. cit., p. 76; (“self-bamboozlement”)
AMI,
p. 482; (“melee”) Baughman, op. cit., p. 249–; (San Jose)
MEM,
p. 492–; ed. Strober,
Nixon
, op. cit., p. 25; (“like Caracas”) ibid.

Moscow 1959:
(arrival) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 246–; (“hope”) ibid., p. 243; (Hungary)
MEM,
p. 181; (“Butcher”) ibid., p. 179; (“ready”) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 245;
(preparations) ibid., pp. 235–, 240; (no sleep) ibid., p. 248; (“shit”)
MEM,
p. 207, but see Salisbury, op. cit., p. 302; (“Go fuck”) Louis and Yazijian, op. cit., p. 93; (Safire) Safire, op. cit., p. 3; (RN/Khrushchev/exhibit) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 256–; (gesturing) Safire, op. cit., p. 4–; (“remarkably able”) Salisbury, op. cit., p. 302–; (RN disgraced self) Michael Beschloss,
Mayday,
New York: Harper & Row, 1986, p. 183, citing ints. Milton Eisenhower and Vladimir Toumanoff and see Safire, op. cit., p. 5; (“businessman”) Salisbury, op. cit., p. 174; (“S.O.B.”)
FB,
p. 391; (help JFK?) Pilat, op. cit., p. 260; (“stick fist”) Bobst, op. cit., p. 274.

Hughes:
(“Mr. Thomas”) int. Don Hughes; (suggestion) Parmet, op. cit., p. 409;
HD,
p. 397; (record) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 246; New Orleans
Times
-
Picayune,
Aug. 8, 1959; (publicity) ibid., Aug. 8, 9, 17, 19, 20, 1959; (Thomas) ibid., Aug. 17, 1959.

PepsiCo:
(Pepsi Moscow) int. Donald Kendall; Louis and Yazijian, op. cit., p. 92; Parmet, op. cit., p. 396–; London
Guardian,
undated ?Jan. 1969.

RN foreign policy:
(“Tell . . . them”)
AMI,
p. 520; (“To me . . . the concept”) RN's radio television address from Moscow, Aug. 1, 1959, reprinted in Speeches and Statements of the Vice President of the United States, Richard Nixon in Connection with His Visit to the Soviet Union and Poland, 1959, JFRP; (for home consumption) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 319.

Guatemala:
(“swore to secrecy”) Hunt, op. cit., p. 96; (CIA coup) David Wise and Thomas Ross,
The Invisible Government,
New York: Random House, 1964, p. 165; Thomas, op. cit., p. 111; Andrew,
For the President's Eyes Only,
op. cit., p. 206; (Phillips) David Phillips,
The Night Watch,
New York: Atheneum, 1977, p. 50.

Cuba:
(“Cuba, Cuba . . .”) David Phillips,
The Night Watch,
New York: Atheneum, 1977, p. 86; (1898) ed. Peter Kornbluh,
Bay of Pigs Declassified,
New York: New Press, 1998, p. 267; (“strongest . . . advocate”)
Reader's Digest,
Nov. 1964, p. 288.

“neuralgic”:
Kissinger,
White House Years,
op. cit., pp. 633, 641.

“Obsession”:
int. James Schlesinger.

RN and “Bay of Pigs” documents:
(HRH) Haldeman and DiMona, op. cit., p. 53; (“distressed”) Sept. 18, 1971, WHT, transcribed for author by Dennis Effle, 1997; (four times) June 24, July 1, 2, 27, 1971 cited in
AOP
; (“get started”) WHT, Sept. 18, 1971,
supra.;
(Ehrlichman Sept. 18 note) John Ehrlichman handwritten notes, R, Statement of Information, App. III, p. 197; (end of week)
HD,
p. 356; (vast archive) ed. Peter Kornbluh,
Bay of Pigs Declassified,
New York: New Press, 1998, p. 1; (Colonel's report) Thomas Powers,
The Man Who Kept the Secrets,
New York: Pocket, 1979, p. 327—colonel was Jack Hawkins; (“incomplete”)
MEM,
p. 515 and see Haldeman and DiMona, op. cit., p. 53.

RN/anti-Kennedy motive:
(“chance to indict”) Whalen, op. cit., p. 97; (1971 motive) June 24, July 1, 27, Sept. 18, 1971;
AOP,
pp. 4, 7, 34—see esp. RN: “We're going to expose them . . . first things I want [are] the Cuban missile crisis and . . . the Bay of Pigs”; (June 24)
MEM,
p. 513; Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 325; (1973) WHT, May 14, 1973;
AOP,
p. 494; (Buzhardt) int. Elias Demetracopoulos.

cause of RN concern:
(“need”)
MEM,
p. 650; (“concern”) ed. Strober,
Nixon,
op. cit., p. 50; (“cease/desist”) Haldeman and DiMona, op. cit., p. 53; (“to protect”) WHT, Sept. 18, 1971,
supra.;
(“what to duck”) John Ehrlichman note, Oct. 8, 1971, R, Statement of Info., App. III, p. 202; (JE puzzled) int. John Ehrlichman; π John Ehrlichman note, Sept. 18, 1971, R,
supra.,
p. 198; (“N knew more”) Haldeman and DiMona, op. cit., p. 54.

Rebozo letter:
Jan. 15, 1955, Rebozo file, VP, NA.

Batista:
(books argue) see Mario Lazo,
Dagger in the Heart,
New York: Twin Circle, 1968, pp. 92, 96–; Rufo Lopez Fresquet,
My 14 Months with Castro,
Cleveland, OH: World Publishing, 1966, p. 9–; (murders) Georgie Ann Geyer,
Guerrilla Prince,
Kansas City, MO: Andrews & McMeel, 1993, p. 121; Lacey, op. cit., p. 248; John Dorschner and Roberto Fabricio,
The Winds of December,
New York: Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1980, p. 90; Manchester, op. cit., p. 860—JFK, in his second debate with RN, Oct. 7, 1960, said twenty thousand Cubans were killed under Batista's final seven-year rule, Box 40, FBP; (Lansky deal) Dorschner and Fabricio, op. cit., p. 65–; Sifakis, op. cit., p. 179.