The Arrogance of Power (118 page)

Hughes loan in '60:
(main sources)
The Reporter,
Aug. 16, 1962; James Phelan article, Schemmer, unpub. ms., op. cit., p. 216–; Maheu, op. cit., p. 83–; int. Robert Maheu; (RN panicked) int. Noah Dietrich, Higham Collection, Mary Norton Clapp Library, Occidental College; (RN decision) Klein, op. cit., p. 415; int. Herb Klein; (“sucker”)
The Reporter,
Aug. 16, 1962; NY
Post,
Nov. 1, 1960, Gladwin Hill,
Dancing Bear,
New York: World Publishing, 1968, p. 175; (Pearson provoked) articles Oct. 25, 27, 1960, Box G281, DPP; (Don N.) Oct. 30, 1960 statement, File 804, Box 104, WSPF, NA; (accountant re. decisions) NY
Post,
Nov. 1, 1960; (RN on effect) Haldeman and DiMona, op. cit., p. 45, Drosnin, op. cit., p. 519–, citing Rebozo Watergate testimony (RFK too)
NYT,
Nov. 13, 1960 and see Maheu, op. cit., p. 85.

“filthy lying”:
Goodwin, op. cit., p. 105.

election day:
(surge/ebb) Arthur Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
Boston: Houghton\Mifflin, 1965, p. 74; (Gallup/Cone)
Time,
Oct. 31, 1960; (Election Day)
Time,
undated on election;
JA,
p. 288–;
Good Housekeeping,
Mar. 1962; Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 377–; (Chotiner/Rebozo) ibid., p. 393;
Life,
July 31, 1970; Klein, op. cit., p. 36; (never conceded) Leonard Reinsch Oral History,
supra.,
p. 29; Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 390;
TW60,
p. 24; (Pat grief) ibid.,
NYT,
Sept. 13, 1970; (bony arm) FB to Paul Ziffren, recounting Wilma Bassett int., in Ziffren int, FBP and
FB,
p. 432–; (RN prowled) ibid, citing James Bassett; (election result)
TW60,
pp. 350, 386.

Vote fraud?:
(Illinois) Earl Mazo and Stephen Hess,
President Nixon,
London: MacDonald, 1968, p. 242–;
Look,
Feb. 14, 1961; (“With. . . help”) Benjamin Bradlee,
Conversations with Kennedy,
New York: Pocket, 1976, p. 33; (“mafiosi” role documented) Richard Mahoney,
Sons & Brothers,
New York: Arcade, 1999, p. 80–; (Blakey) ibid., p. 83; (“If it wasn't”) Judith Exner with Ovid Demaris,
My Story,
New York: Grove Press, 1977, p. 194; (Chuck) Sam and Chuck Giancana, op. cit., p. 290; (“I know”) Cohen with Nugent, op. cit., p. 236; (Republicans cheated?) Parmet,
Nixon,
op. cit., p. 355; Bradlee, op. cit., p. 33; Wicker, op. cit., p. 252; (“The point”) ibid.; (Dems. worried) Brandon, op. cit., p. 155; Matthews, op. cit., p. 184;
(“could not subject”)
MEM,
p. 224 and see Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 413; (“finest hour”) e.g., Miller,
Stealing from America,
op. cit., p. 341; (“RN was bitter”) int. Ralph de Toledano by FB, FBP,
FB,
p. 433 and see de Toledano,
One Man Alone,
op. cit., p. 309–; (“not really”) Crowley,
Off the Record,
op. cit., pp. 114, 147.

RN reaction:
(“He started”) int. Leonard Hall by FB, FBP; (“depressed”) Mathews, op. cit., p. 183; (“difficult to speak”) Klein, op. cit., p. 373.

RN/JFK after election:
(meeting) ibid.; Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 404, RN cited by AP, Apr. 12, 1984; (JFK denied) Matthews, op. cit., p. 186; (“just as well”) Kenneth P. O'Donnell, David F. Powers with Joe McCarthy,
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,
Boston: Little, Brown, 1970, p. 227–; (“I've saved”) Matthews, op. cit., p. 188; (“I had the wisdom”)
MEM,
p. 226; (“Dick blew”/“never cut out”)
TW60,
p. 317.

Halsey:
The New Republic,
undated 1958, sent to Harry Truman by Paul Butler, Apr. 9, 1958, Richard M. Nixon, general corr. file, Box 109, postpresidential papers, Truman Library.

RN unbalanced:
(“How did you ever?”) eds. Strober,
Nixon,
op. cit., p. 302, citing Colson; (“sick”/“unsound”) Bradlee, op. cit., pp. 32n, 116; (“not know who was”) J. K. Galbraith citing JFK,
Esquire,
LXXXI, 1974.

Hutschnecker:
int. Hutschnecker citing female patient who knew Joseph Kennedy; Kitty Kelley,
His Way,
New York: Bantam, 1986, p. 530; “Nixon on the Couch,” article ms. by Irving Wallace, FBP.

pressure: (“when he broke”)
TW60,
p. 315 and see ed. Sevareid, op. cit., p. 108, re. “black spells”; (“I have faith”) int. Hannah Nixon,
This Week,
Sept. 18, 1960.

JFK inauguration:
(“trying”) Bobst, op. cit., p. 276; (night drive), Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 417,
MEM,
p. 227,
Good Housekeeping,
Mar. 1962.

“terrible blow”:
int. Fletcher Knebel, citing JFK, JFK Oral History Program, JFKL.

“cannot imagine”:
letter, Mar. 16, 1960, ed. Buckley, op. cit., p. 287.

“He can't help it . . .”:
Ladies' Home Journal,
Nov. 1962.

Pat after 1960:
(“banshee”) Cheshire with Greenya, op. cit., p. 111, citing Kelly; (“I've given up”) David, op. cit., p. 73; (“mother took”)
McCall's,
Oct. 1973 and see ibid, May 1971; (“We won”)
Ladies' Home Journal,
Mar. 1975 and see Bobst, op. cit., p. 275; (“turning point”)
PAT,
p. 204; (“one of her ‘moods' ”) James Bassett to wife, Wilma, Sep. 4, 1960, Bassett Papers.

Nixon after '60:
(Bahamas '61) Nassau
Daily Tribune,
Jan. 20, 1961; Nassau
Guardian,
Jan. 23, 24, 25, 31, 1961; Bobst, op. cit., p. 276; (cut short/“shallow talk”) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 423; (“limbo”)
PAT,
p. 203; (“bachelor apt.”)
MEM,
p. 231; (grand address) Hoyt, op. cit., p. 289–; Nixon lived first at the Statler, then the Gaylord.

new L.A. house:
(move)
PAT,
p. 204,
Good Housekeeping,
Mar. 1962; (described)
Newsweek,
June 26, 1961;
Esquire,
Feb. 1962; (price/ownership)
WP,
Dec. 16, 1973.

Murchison:
(owner) ibid., Jane Wolfe,
The Murchisons,
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989, p. 316; (contributor) ibid.; James Conaway,
The Texans,
New York: Knopf, 1976, p. 81; (gifts) e.g., “12 quarts of chili”—Rose Mary Woods to Bessie, Feb. 26, 1957, cited at Bruce Adamson,
Oswald's Closest Friend,
Aptos, CA: self-published, 1993, vol. 5, p. 89; (hosted) Wolfe, op. cit., p. 316; (Teamsters' financing)
LAT,
May 17, 1962,
Esquire,
Feb. 1962; Nancy Manella memo to Joe Wershba, (
60 Minutes
) June 4, 1973, FBP.

RN income:
(“After 8 years”)
Atlantic Monthly,
Aug. 1983; (Adams) Hoyt, op. cit., p. 286– and
MO
refs; full name of firm was Adams, Duque, & Hazeltine; (writing contracts)
Good Housekeeping,
Mar. 1962;
Esquire,
Feb. 1962; (butler) ibid.; (car)
Good Housekeeping,
Mar. 1962; (more in a year)
PAT,
p. 204;
Esquire,
Feb. 1962; (“Hallelujah”) David, op. cit., p. 74.

Pat happy?:
PAT,
p. 204.

“If you ever”:
notes of int. Adela St. Johns by FB, FBP.

McGuire/Hopkins:
(Bahamas) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit., p. 418; (Southern Air)
NYT,
Sept. 1, 1973; (Hopkins) Louis and Yazijian, op. cit., p. 170.

Bay of Pigs:
(Dulles)
MEM,
p. 233; (“JFK called”) ibid., p. 234; (RN/JFK meeting) ibid., p. 234–; (“shit”)
JA,
p. 295; (JFK/assurances) Schlesinger,
1,000 Days,
op. cit., pp. 250, 295;
MEM,
p. 234 and see James Binder,
Lemnitzer
:
A Soldier for His Time,
Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1997, p. 270; (“worst experience”) ed. Kornbluh,
Bay of Pigs,
op. cit., p. 3; (RN calls) Wills, op. cit., p. 31; (“should not start”)
MEM,
p. 236; (“Jack handled”)
Newsweek,
Oct. 9, 1961; (“doomed”)
MEM,
p. 233; (“Do you think?”) Crowley,
Nixon in Winter,
op. cit., p. 302; (Ike/“down drain”) Roger Morris,
Uncertain Greatness,
New York: Harper & Row, 1977, p. 174; (“I was hard-line”) Witcover int. in
Saturday Evening Post,
Feb. 25, 1967; (U.S. force 60,000?) ed. Kornbluh,
Bay of Pigs,
op. cit., p. 322, re. contingency plan; (option excluded) ibid., pp. 111, 274; (“find legal cover”)
MEM,
p. 234; (CIA damned?) e.g., Hunt,
Give Us This Day,
op. cit., Chap. 16; Summers,
Not in Your Lifetime,
op. cit., p. 177.

Esterline on RN/Bay of Pigs:
(“It is very wrong”, et seq.) int. Jacob Esterline, 1975 conducted by CIA historian Jack Pfeiffer for CIA in-house history, leaked transcript, pp. 12–, 39–, and ints. by Gus Russo, 1996, 1998, provided to author; (RN re. JFK “never . . . accountable”) Crowley,
Nixon in Winter,
op. cit., p. 302; (“Bay of Pigs Thing”) WHT, June 23, 1972.

RN activity '61:
(“I found”)
MEM,
p. 232; (weekly report) int. Stephen Hess in eds. Miller Center, op. cit., p. 364; (speeches)
Good Housekeeping,
Mar. 1962.

Six Crises:
(“7th crisis”) Nixon,
Six Crises,
op. cit. [Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962], p. xii; (“barricaded”) Neil Morgan article,
Esquire,
Feb. 1962; (1990 Introduction) Richard Nixon,
Six Crises,
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. xii; (“I was hired”) int. Alvin Moscow; (Adela St. Johns) cited by (former Whittier College president) Paul Smith in ed. Schulte, op. cit., p. 169; (“written for him”) conv. Seymour Hersh, citing RN spokesman Jack Brennan, corroborated in. int. John Sears; ($345,000) estimate with
Life
serial included,
Esquire,
Feb. 1962; (“wisdom”) circular letter by Doubleday chairman Douglas Black, Feb. 1, 1962, Box G281, DPP; (sent to writers) int. Jack Langguth.

advice on '62 run:
(Bobst) Bobst, op. cit., pp. 277, 324; (Chambers) Chambers to RN, Feb. 2, 1961 and Rose Woods memo, Aug. 1, 1961, found in Box 36, FBP; (Dewey) Dewey to RN, Nov. 13, 1961, Thomas Dewey Papers, Series 8, Box 26A, University of Rochester; (colleagues)
MEM,
p. 237–;
PAT,
p. 205; (Klein) San Diego
Reader,
July 28, 1994, citing Klein to RN, June 28, July 10, 1961; (Bassett) int. James Bassett by FB, FBP.

Pat and '62 decision:
(council) Pat article
Ladies' Home Journal,
Nov. 1962;
MEM,
p. 239;
PAT,
p. 206 and see Klein, op. cit., p. 47; (brother Tom)
PAT,
p. 205; (“trapped”) ibid., p. 207; (restaurant)
FB,
p. 454, and see
LAT,
Feb. 11, 1968.

RN/Brown race:
(“I welcome”)
SF Examiner,
Sep. 28, 1962; (RN/Communism) RN remarks, Manhattan Beach, June 1, 1962, JFRP; Hess and Broder, op. cit., p. 164; (no mess)
AMI,
p. 651; (“yokels”) John Osborne,
The Third Year of the Nixon Watch,
New York: Liveright, 1972, p. 167; (“sweat off balls”) eds. Strober,
Nixon,
op. cit., p. 12.

covenant:
Box G281, DPP and see
AMI,
p. 661; Klein, op. cit., p. 25; Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 15, RN corr. with Herman Edelsberg (Anti-Defamation League) Sep./Oct. 1956—sources differ as to whether the covenant furor applied to a Nixon home in Washington or California; perhaps homes in both places were involved.

Hughes Loan '62:
(justice officials)
NYT,
Jan. 24, 1972; (Chinatown) Herbert Baus and William Ross,
Politics Battleplan,
New York: Macmillan, 1968, p. 293; Matthews, op. cit., p. 215; Mankiewicz, op. cit., p. 27; conv. John Rothmann—sources conflict as to the location either L.A. or San Francisco; (Braden raised)
MEM,
p. 242–; transcript of Nixon/Brown discussion, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, Oct. 1, 1962, JFRP; (
Meet the Press
) program transcript, Oct. 7, 1962, p. 10; (Braden audits) int. Tom Braden by FB, FBP; (RN thought handicap)
MEM,
p. 243; (Brown/advantage) James Phelan obit.,
NYT,
Sept. 12, 1997; (Brown denied) Fairmont Hotel transcript,
supra.,
p. 10.

John Davies:
ints. Alvin Moscow and see Whitcover, op. cit., p. 36.

RN on Dem. bugging:
(“We were bugged”) WHT, Sep. 15, 1972, WSPF, NA; (“victimized”) Crowley,
Winter,
op. cit., p. 314.

Watergate names '62:
(Haldeman/Ehrlichman/Ziegler/Kalmbach/Woods) Nixon for Governor staff directory, VP, NA, (Stans) Stans, op. cit., p. 100;
NYT,
Apr. 15, 1998; (Kalmbach jail)
SF Examiner,
Mar. 26, 1985;
NM
, pp. 111n, 135n; (Chotiner) Frontier, Oct. 1962,
WP,
Feb. 23, 1969; (constituent) Mrs. Clarence Bentson to Brown, July 11, 1961, Brown Papers, Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley.

Knight:
NYT.
Sep. 29, 30, Oct. 5, 1961; Barry Lerner to DP, Nov. 20, 1961, undated clippings, Oceanside (CA)
Blade Tribune
and Longbeach
Telegram.

phoney propaganda:
statement to editors from Democratic official Don Kimball, Oct. 27, 1962, attaching false photos and rebuttal;
WP,
Feb. 23, 1969;
NYT,
Oct. 19, 1962;
SF Examiner,
Oct. 23, 1962; (mailing) Mankiewicz, op. cit., p. 63– and p. 219; reprinting Supreme Court Judgment, Case 526150, Oct. 30, 1964, “Poll Selection” facsimile, JFRP;
Nation,
May 28, 1973; (RN/“asshole”) RN to Ehrlichman, Oct. 16, 1972;
AOP,
p. 165; (Colson/RN '72) Oct. 7, 1972 entry;
AOP,
p. 156.