The Arrogance of Power (121 page)

de Gaulle:
(“Great Man”) Michael Beschloss in
WP,
May 1, 1994; (revered)
JA,
p. 336; Richard Nixon,
Leaders,
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. 40; C. L. Sulzberger,
The World and Richard Nixon,
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1987, p. 150–; (Paris base) Witcover, op. cit., p. 43; (paying court '63)
MEM,
p. 248; Nixon,
Leaders,
op. cit., p. 61–;
JA,
p. 318; (first met) Nixon,
Leaders,
op. cit., p. 42; (Elysee '63)
JA,
p. 318– and see Sulzberger, op. cit., p. 160; (JFK funeral) Nixon,
Leaders,
op. cit., p. 52; (every trip) ibid., p. 62; (emissary)
NYT,
Sept. 21, 1968— RN emissary was Gov. William Scranton; (respect mutual) Kissinger,
White House Years,
op. cit., p. 387; (“equal”) eds. Strober,
Nixon,
op. cit., p. 84; (“awe”) int. H. R. “Bob” Haldeman, 1989; (RN writing on de G.) esp. Nixon,
Leaders,
op. cit., p. 40–; (RN Library)
JA,
p. 377; (“as if royalty”) Dickerson, op. cit., p. 36; (Finch) ibid., p. 157 and see int. Robert Finch by FB, FBP and Safire, op. cit., p. 691; (Haldeman)
HD,
pp. 59, 230; (“giant”) Kissinger,
White House Years,
op. cit., p. 107; George W. Johnson, ed.
The Nixon Presidential Press Conferences,
New York: Earl Coleman Enterprises, 1978, p. 31; (RN “not a giant”) int. James Schlesinger.

RN travel:
('63 “vacation”)
JA,
p. 318–;
MEM,
p. 248; (“As we were talking”) AP story, July 24, 1963; (Wheeler) London
Sunday Telegraph,
Feb. 18, 1996; (Moscow '65)
WP,
May 25, 1972;Safire, op. cit., p. 6;
AP
stories, Apr. 11, 12, 17, 18, 1965; (“stupid”) Witcover, op. cit., p. 112; (225,000 miles) Thimmesch, op. cit., p. 92; (Japan)
JA,
p. 329; (phlebitis)
PAT,
p. 223; (“shoestring”) RN brief for press responses, undated, Gil Troy papers; (Rebozo companion) e.g., Witcover, op. cit., p. 101; Hong Kong
Standard,
Aug. 11, 1966; (
Reader's Digest
/Pepsi) Thimmesch, op. cit., p. 92, Louis and Yazijian, op. cit., p. 114; (“paid off in end”) int. Hugh Sidey in eds. Miller Center, op. cit., p. 303; (photographs)
Saturday Evening Post,
Feb. 25, 1967; Whalen, op. cit., p. 25.

'66 campaign:
(48-hour period) Hess and Broder, op. cit., p. 142; (victory) Witcover, op. cit., p. 169; Klein, op. cit., p. 148.

'68 campaign:
(tight-lipped)
Saturday Evening Post,
Feb. 25, 1967, Witcover, op. cit., p. 177.

mother's death:
(stroke)
JA,
p. 338–;
MEM,
p. 287; int. Evlyn Dorn by FB, FBP; (last conv.)
MEM,
p. 288–; Nixon,
Arena,
op. cit., p. 94; (father's death) see Chap. 14, p. 159–,
supra
.

decision to run:
(Christmas '67)
MEM,
p. 294;
PAT,
p. 234; (“depressed”)
PAT,
p. 233; (“Mother needed”) ibid., p. 227; (“Miss Ryan”/“failure”?) ibid; (“flatly”)
PAT,
p. 230; (“never been anybody”) int. Ed Nixon.

Scarney:
Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 21; int.John Ehrlichman.

“I was looking for wife”:
int. Arnholt Smith, San Diego
Reader,
Mar. 26, 1992.

Marianna Liu:
(“affair” reported)
NYT,
June 22, 1976; (
Enquirer
)
National Enquirer,
Aug. 10, 24, 1976; (“One of my contacts”) int. Dan Grove and see Summers,
Official
&
Confidential,
op. cit., p. 371–; (surveillance)
SF Examiner,
Feb. 8, 1981; (RN visits)
NYT,
June 22, 1976; Hong Kong
Standard,
Feb. 8, Mar. 21, Apr. 6, 8, 1964, Sept. 2, 3, 1965, Aug. 9, 11, 12, 1966, Apr. 8, 1967; (Liu sued)
SF Examiner
and
SF Chronicle,
Feb. 8, 1981;
LAT,
Sept. 18, 1976 and int. Marianna Liu; (Liu 1996) int. for author by Kari Huus, then with
Far Eastern Economic Review,
and Huus report to author; (RN/Chinese women)
Ladies' Home Journal,
June 1970; (“had too much to drink”) int. Mickey Ziffren by FB, FBP.

Christmas debate:
(“resigned”)
MEM,
p. 292; (“volunteer”)
LAT,
Feb. 11,
Newsweek,
Dec. 2, 1968 and see
SF Chronicle,
Aug. 15, 1968; (applauding self) Joe McGinniss,
The Selling of the President,
New York: Penguin, 1969, p. 157; (not introduced)
PAT,
p. 241; (“Mr. Nixon publicly”) John Osborne,
The Last Nixon Watch,
Washington, D.C.: New Republic Book Co., 1975, p. 3; (“I love it”) Wills, op. cit., p. 22; (“what their readers want”)
LAT,
July 1, 1968; (Steinem)
New York,
Oct. 28, 1968;
Writers Digest,
Feb. 1974, int. Gloria Steinem.

“I am inclined to believe”:
Walt Rostow, special asst. for national security to President Johnson, memo for record, May 14, 1973, in “X Envelope,” Chennault, Anna–South Vietnam and U.S. Policy folder, LBJL.

'68 campaign:
(“DC”) Whalen, op. cit., p. 34; Strober,
Nixon,
op. cit., p. 16–; Stans,
Terrors,
op. cit., p. 134; (preparations/HQ) Garment, op. cit., p. 121–; Raymond Price,
With Nixon,
New York: Viking, 1977, p. 10–; Whalen, op. cit., p. 10–; (men in suits) Garment, op. cit., p. 122 and photo section; (Haldeman/Ehrlichman) ibid., James Reichley,
Conservatives in an Age of Change,
Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1981, p. 60, Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 22; (Chotiner) int. E. C. Mueller, stepson;
NYT,
Jan. 14, 1970; Whalen, op. cit., p. 53; Vera Glaser column, undated, end '68, Box G281, DPP.

Mitchell:
(background)
NM,
p. 4–; article by Martha Mitchell and Winzola McClendon,
Ladies'
Home Journal, Dec. 1974;
MEM,
p. 279; (DeBoer contacts) WPLG News special report, Aug. 2, 1973, transcript cited in memo, John Sablich to Moerdler, Fidelifacts (corporate investigators) p. 1537, author's collection, Linda Noonan to Paul Michel re: Richard Stearns, Nov. 15, 1974, Analysis Hughes-Rebozo, Box 113, WSPF, NA, Michael Hershman blind memo, Aug. 7, 1973, Box B 343, E, NA; (“understated”) Kleindienst, op. cit., p. 46; (blank)
Mayday,
Jan. 3, 1969; (“leader against crime”)
NM,
p. 5; (jail) ed. Eleanora Schoenberg,
Profiles of an Era,
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1979, p. 445.

Primaries:
TW68,
Chap. 5, Witcover, op. cit., p. 233–; int. Sandy Vanocur, (“very troubled”) Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 24–; int. John Ehrlichman in eds. Miller Center, op. cit., p. 121–; int. John Ehrlichman; (“New” RN) e.g., Witcover, op. cit., p. 244–;
TW68,
p. 170; (“runs as President”) ibid., p. 149.

RFK death:
(“We can beat”) Whalen, op. cit., p. 96; (“We've just seen”) Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 24; (“Why does Bobby?”) Whalen, op. cit. p. 136; (welcomed) ibid., p. 97;
Oregonian,
undated, RFK Papers, '68 Pres. Campaign, National HQ files, Pres. Div., Box 11, JFKL; (“wanted to beat”) Whalen, op. cit., p. 143; (RN/King funeral) ibid., p. 148–; (“tragic”) int. Ed Nixon; (funeral/Bahamas)
MEM,
p. 306;
NYT,
Jan. 21, 1974.

Convention:
(arrival)
The New Yorker,
Nov. 16, 1968; (nomination)
TW68,
p. 287.

VP choice:
(Bush) George Bush with Victor Gold,
Looking Forward,
New York: Doubleday, 1987, p. 5; (Ford) James Cannon,
Time and Chance,
New York: HarperCollins, 1993, p. 95; (RN focused) ibid.;
MEM,
p. 312; Witcover, op. cit., p. 353; (“gasps”/“centrist”/“mediocre”) ibid., pp. 353, 355; Whalen, op. cit., p. 202;
JA,
p. 356; (Dem. commercials) Melvin Small,
The Presidency of Richard Nixon
, Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1999, p. 24; (RN knew corrupt)
JA,
p. 356.

acceptance:
ed. Bill Adler,
The Wit and Humor of Richard Nixon,
New York: Popular Library, 1969, p. 109.

campaign PR:
(RN/TV) McGinniss, op. cit., p. 33; (“3-bump”) Woodstone, op. cit., p. 106, and see Gloria Steinem in
New York,
Oct. 28, 1968; (“controlled”) McGinnis, op. cit., p. 39; (elephant) Whalen, op. cit., p. 192–; (Humphrey) int. Lawrence O'Brien, 1987, LBJL, McGinniss, op. cit., p. xiii; Joseph Califano, Jr.,
A Presidential Nation,
New York: Norton, 1995, p. 105; (Price) ibid.; (“image not man”) Whalen, op. cit., pp. 210, 212; (quits) ibid., p. 212; Garment, op. cit., p. 126.

RN campaign style:
(Sidey)
Life,
Oct. 4, 1968; (Cronkite) Cronkite, op. cit., p. 227; (“None of us”) Whalen, op. cit., p. 176; (“It hasn't changed”) ibid., p. 154.

RN and hecklers:
(“may have something”)
Time,
May 18, 1970; (told staffers) Safire, op. cit., p. 80; (“We would go in”) int. Ron Walker; (Ehrlichman) Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 33; int. Ehrlichman,
NYT,
Sept. 24, 1981; (paid cash) Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 33; (busloads) Howard Smith,
Events Leading Up to My Death,
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996, p. 343.

spy on plane:
WP,
Sept. 4, 1973; Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 32; (Dewey)
MEM,
p. 102, Manchester,
Glory and the Dream,
op. cit., p. 633; (RN registered)
TW68,
p. 5.

RN on lying:
(Sears)
LAT,
Apr. 24, 1974; (“Your never going”) Garment, op. cit., p. 115, transcript of int. Garment, CNN “Burden of Proof,” Feb. 28, 1997.

contributions '68:
(money matters) Whalen, op. cit., p. 156; (RN/Humphrey spending) Stans,
Terrors,
op. cit., p. 142; (“refused always”) ibid., p. 134;
LAT,
Oct. 27, 1973; (president admitted)
LAT,
Feb. 19, 1976—Phillips president was W. W. Keeler; (Crosby $100,000)
NYT,
Jan. 20, 1974; int. Seymour Alter; Mahon, op. cit., p. 117, and see
supra.
, Chapter 20, p. 243; (“ecstatic”) Stans,
Terrors,
op. cit., p. 135, int. Maurice Stans; (Smith)
San Diego
magazine, Nov. 1976, int. Arnholt Smith,
Ramparts,
Oct. 1973; int. former IRS agent, San Diego Dep. DA David Stutz; (Pat on Smith)
Life,
Mar. 24, 1972; (Alessio)
Time,
Nov. 25, 1972; Penthouse, July, 1974; (Alessio prison)
Life,
Mar. 1972; (Smith prison) San Diego
Union
-
Tribune,
June 10, 1976; (WH efforts) int. David Stutz, and see Summers,
Official
&
Confidential,
op. cit., p. 411; (Crosby/Rebozo) int. Seymour Alter; (Davis bros.) Paul Michel to Henry Ruth, closing memo, Hughes-Rebozo, Oct. 16, 1975, WSPF, NA, Miami
Herald,
May 17, 18, 1974.

Getty:
PAT, p. 228; ed. Miller,
Breaking,
op. cit., Vol. IV, p. 517;
WP,
May 13, 1973; closing memo, Hughes-Rebozo,
supra.
, pp. 8, 71, 84, 214–;
Rolling Stone,
May 20, 1976; Haldeman and DiMona, op. cit., p. 21; Rebozo/Getty corr., Aug. 22, 1966, Jan. 27, Mar. 8, 16, 1972, Lancing Hayes to Paul Michel, Apr. 17, 1975, and Exhibits, J. Paul Getty Contributions, 1968–1972, Box 19, WSPF, NA, Robert Lenzner,
Getty
, London: Grafton, 1987, p. 300.

cash from Hughes:
(“You must remember”) Barlett and Steele, op. cit., p. 451, citing Maheu testimony in
Maheu v. Hughes Tool Co.;
(“I am determined”) Drosnin, op. cit., pp. 47, 309; (“If we select”) ibid., pp. 47, 311; (million for LBJ) Maheu, op. cit., p. 202–; Barlett and Steele, op. cit., p. 346; ($50,000 for Humphrey) Elaine Davenport and Paul Eddy,
The Hughes Papers,
London: Andre Deutsch, 1987, p. 119–; (Humphrey denied) ibid., p. 24, but see
NYT,
Mar. 2, 1974; (“I want you to go see”) E, Report, p. 933n7; (Two demands) Davenport and Eddy, op. cit., p. 129; (helicopter losses) ibid., Bartlett and Steele, op. cit., p. 359–; (“in his debt”) Maheu, op. cit., p. 206; int. Maheu; (Danner diary) For 1968, 1970, 1973, Box 15, WSPF, NA; (RN /Rebozo asked) E, Report, pp. 934, 1053, 1055, E, Vol. 20, p. 9503; (Hughes laughed) Maheu, op. cit., p. 211; (intermediary/Democrat) ibid.—ref. to Edward Morgan; (RN “no time”) ibid. p. 212, E, Report, p. 938; (signed receipt?) ibid, p. 953; (2 $50,000 deliveries) int. Robert Maheu, Maheu, op. cit., pp. 213, 225; E, Report, p. 944–; (“laid the bundles”) Barlett and Steele, op. cit., p. 452; (participants' accounts) E, Report, p. 944–, summary at Barlett and Steele, op. cit., p. 452fn.; Davenport and Eddy, op. cit., p. 157–; (Air West) ibid., p. 160–; E Report, p. 965–; (Mitchell/anti-trust) E, Report, p. 983–; Davenport and Eddy, op. cit., p. 159–; (“obligations”) E Report, p. 988; (“house project”) ibid., p. 939; (fate of money) E Report, p. 1030–; (RN's attorney recalled) ibid., p. 1063—the attorney was Herbert Kalmbach; (brothers'/Rebozo's denial) ibid., p. 1052, 1066; (Woods denied) E, Vol. 22, p. 10279; (total much higher?) int. Terry Lenzner; Stephen Haberfield of WSPF to Leon Jaworski, Mar. 5, 1974, cited at Higham,
Howard Hughes
, op. cit., p. 304; (“go to Key Biscayne”) Maheu, op. cit., p. 222–; (Meier) Gerald Bellett,
Age of Secrets,
Maitland, Ontario, Can.: Voyageur North America, 1995, p. 46–; (Maheu/courier denied) ints. Robert Maheu, Ken Wright; (Meier background) Ehrlichman, op. cit., p. 162;
NM,
p. 66;
LAT,
Aug. 30, 1978; (“There is evidence”) E, Report, p. 946; (“Mr. Rebozo persisted”) ibid., p. 1071, and see p. 932; (“And unfortunately”) ibid.