The Arrogance of Power (150 page)

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“X” Envelope,
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Yalta Conference,
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Nixon first visited Dr. Hutschnecker in 1951 and consulted him sporadically as patient and friend until shortly before he died. The true nature of their relationship was long obscured, by the doctor as well as by Nixon. Dr. Hutschnecker gave the author access to his unpublished writing on Nixon and extensive interviews for this book. His involvement with Nixon is fully reported in chapter 10.

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Author's emphasis.

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Long after this detail was known, Nixon's handouts—and the approved biography of Mrs. Nixon—sought to explain that the baby had been born “near midnight” on the sixteenth and been celebrated by the happy father as his “St. Patrick's Babe in the morning” when he got home from working the late shift. This yarn too runs counter to the evidence of the birth certificate, which indicates the birth occurred at 3:25
A
.
M
. on the sixteenth.

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In fact, she was eighteen at the time.

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Victor Lasky, author and Nixon intimate.

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About $660,000 at today's values.

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Later press secretary to President Johnson.

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Hereafter referred to as HUAC.

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Later Donovan, Leisure, Newton, Irvine.

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See p.
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December 13 was also the date that the
New York World-Telegram
reported the bureau had located the typewriter.

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As described in chapter 6.

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See page
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The hundred thousand dollars, which had come from the billionaire Howard Hughes, is a key factor in the Watergate saga and will be reported more fully later.

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The Lansky factor is covered in chapter 12.

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Not quite. See p.
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Jake Arvey was a Chicago political fixer with close links to organized crime and, in Las Vegas, to Lansky.

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See full coverage in chapter 6.

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on the Howard Hughes call.

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This ploy, covered in a later chapter, was the subject of the “smoking gun” tape of June 23, 1972. Its discovery was the final straw that led to Nixon's resignation.

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Haldeman's italics.

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See earlier Lansky references.

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Dulles's italics.

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Author's italics.

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See Harold Stassen episode, p.
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For more Tuck exploits, see Chapter 9, Note 1.

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Kentriki Yperesia Pleroforion, or Central Intelligence Service.

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Leaders of the protests during the Democratic National Convention of 1968, prosecuted by the Nixon Justice Department and convicted on charges of incitement to riot. Most of the convictions were overturned on appeal. The defendants were more properly known as the Chicago Eight.

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This means $300,000. It was the latest cut-back budget.

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