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229 For Cronkite's half hour with BMG, see transcript in RAC, Box 10/763. On the Mark Hopkins Hotel, see “Goldwater Reserves 51 Rooms in Hotel for GOP Convention,” NYT, September 6, 1963. For Dr. Schwarz, see Fred J. Cook, “The Ultras: Aims, Affiliations, and Finances of the Radical Right,” special issue,
The Nation,
June 30, 1962. For Kleindienst's conclusions, see Gilbert A. Harrison, “Way Out West: An Interim Report on Barry Goldwater,” TNR, November 23, 1963. For Saltonstall, see
Boston Traveler
clip in scrapbook in WAR, Box 154/7.

230 For BMG tour, see Jack Bell AP report,
Dallas Times Herald,
September 2, 1963, and September 16, 1963; NBC documentary “The Loyal Opposition,” transcript in RAC, Box 10/765.
“You leave me alone”:
White with Gill,
Suite 3505,
223; George H. Mayer,
The Republican Party 1854-1966
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1967), 531.

230 For the Ogle County Fair, see Novak,
Agony of the GOP,
224; NBC, “The Loyal Opposition”; and White with Gill,
Suite 3505,
209. For NFRW convention, see ibid., 211; and Carol Felsenthal,
Sweetheart of the Silent Majority: The Biography of Phyllis Schlafly
(New York: Doubleday, 1981), 168.

230 For fund-raising, see White with Gill,
Suite 3505,
191-92. For Youth for Goldwater: ibid., 209; and author interview with Carol Dawson.

231 For Dodger Stadium rally:
Time,
September 27, 1963; Edwards,
Goldwater,
151; and author interview with Robert Gaston. For sabotage attempt, see Royal to Kitchel, May 21, 1963, AHF, Box 13/29.

231
“Almost everybody in Washington”:
James Reston, NYT, September 26, 1963.
Mary McGrory followed Goldwater back to Washington: Time,
September 27, 1963.

231 On the American friendship with the atom, see Allan M. Winkler,
Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety About the Atom
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 27-28. For airborne test broadcast, see ibid., 91. For Project Plowshare, see Dan O'Neill,
The Firecracker Boys
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994). 231 For public awareness of nuclear fallout, see Winkler,
Life Under a Cloud,
84-108; Ralph E. Lapp, “Civil Defense Faces New Perils” (1954), and W.K. Wynant Jr., “50,000 Baby Teeth” (1959), both in Robert C. Williams and Philip L. Cantelon, eds.,
The American Atom: A Documentary History of Nuclear Policies from the Discovery of Fission to the Present, 1939-1984
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991). Conservatives tended to dismiss the fallout problem as Communist propaganda. See Barry Goldwater,
Conscience of a Conservative
(Shepherdsville, Ky.: Victor Publishing, 1960), 113.

232 For test-ban negotiations and signing, see Reeves,
Question of Character,
396. BMG's speech is reprinted in White with Gill,
Suite 3505,
425-28.

232 For BMG's California advisory committee, see LAT, September 20, 1963, and September 21, 1963. White's visit with Goldwater: White with Gill,
Suite 3505,
214-15.

232 For Lippmann, see Eric Alterman,
Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics
(New York: HarperPerennial, 1992), 21-44; and, for Scopes “monkey trial,” see Ronald Steel,
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1980), 216-19.

233 For Eichmann, see Anthony Grafton, “Arendt and Eichmann at the Dinner Table,”
American Scholar
(Winter 1999); and Hannah Arendt,
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
(New York: Viking, 1963).
“The most essential criterion”:
Dennis H. Wrong,
The Modern Condition: Essays at Century's End
(Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998), 35.

233 For this interpretation of Warren's
All the King's Men,
see Alan Brinkley, “Robert Penn Warren, T. Harry Williams, and Huey Long,” in Brinkley,
Liberalism and Its Discontents
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998). The quote on the Stevenson demonstration is in Theodore H. White,
The Making of the President 1960
(New York: Atheneum, 1961), 182.

233
“Each party is like some huge bazaar”:
Daniel Bell, “Interpretations of American Politics,” in Daniel Bell, ed.,
The New American Right
(New York: Criterion Books, 1955).
Goldwater's candidacy “strikes at the heart”: Newsweek,
August 5, 1963.

234
“It is interesting to watch him”: Time,
September 27, 1963.
“A fascinating political biological process”:
“TRB from Washington: The New Goldwater,” TNR, September 23, 1963. Other lemmings: “Goldwater's Trend to the Center,” SFC, September 21, 1963; Robert S. Boyd, “Barry Softens His Conservatism,”
Detroit Free Press,
September 17, 1963; “I, too, am a middle-of-the-roader,” editorial cartoon,
Detroit Free Press,
October 6, 1963; and James MacGregor Burns on David Susskind's
Open End,
October 20, 1963, WPIX-TV, transcript in RAC, Box 10/770.

234 For correction, see
Congressional Record,
October 1, 1963.
“Profits are the surest sign of responsible behavior”:
ibid., September 20, 1963.
“Barry Goldwater could give Kennedy”: Time,
October 4, 1963.
Look ran the banner JFK COULD LOSE: Look,
December 18, 1963. For reaction to Lasky book, see “Man or Myth?,”
Newsweek,
September 23, 1963.
At a party celebrating the opening:
O'Donnell to Hinman, November 11, 1963, RAC, Box 12/948.

234 For JFK's “conservation trip,” see White with Gill, Suite 3505, 233; and “NonPolitical Tour,” political cartoon, WS, September 26, 1963. For speeches, see PPP: JFK, 707-49.

235
The Democratic National Committee had filled:
WP, October 2, 1963. Frank Church speech is in Time, September 27, 1963. Midwestern States meeting is in
Detroit News,
October 6, 1963. For Shriver's political errands, see White with Gill,
Suite 3505
, 241. Martin Luther King's concerns are in Branch,
Parting the Waters,
863.

236 For JFK's plunging fortunes, see “The Polls: Kennedy As President,”
Public Opinion Quarterly
(Summer 1964): 334-35. For Hicks and Boston: Lucas,
Common Ground,
128-30 (for quote); and Formisano,
Boston Against Busing,
22-30.

236
Evans and Novak called her victory:
NYHTEN, October 3, 1963. For DNC registration drive, see White,
Making of the President 1964
, 309. For pro- and anti-integration demonstrations in New York, see Diane Ravitch,
The Great School Wars
(New York: Basic Books, 1974), 250-73.

236 For Albany protests and NAR quote, see interview in USNWR, September 23, 1963. For the examples of de facto discrimination in building trades, see Samuel G. Freedman,
The Inheritance: How Three Families and the American Political Majority Moved from Left to Right
(New York: Touchstone, 1996), 205-8.

237 For Paul Johnson's victory, see Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
162. George Wallace's appearance at Harvard is in Carter,
Politics of Rage,
196-99. On the Berkeley Jaycees, see Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
494. For Berkeley activism, see Heirich,
Spiral of Conflict,
85. For “Willis Wagons,” see Royko,
Boss,
142-43.

237 The October 31, 1963, press conference is at MTR, T83:0538.

237 The November 12, 1963, JFK campaign meeting is noted in Arthur Schlesinger Jr.,
A Thousand Days
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), 1018. For Norris Cotton, see transcript of
Capital Cloakroom,
October 20, 1963, RAC, Box 10/769; and
Open End,
RAC, Box 10/770. For Pennsylvania rally, see White with Gill,
Suite 3505
, 220-22.
“Barry Goldwater represents a valuable”:
“Barry Goldwater's Foreign Policy: Let's Hear More,”
Life,
November 1, 1963.

238
“Except for civil-rights troubles”: Newsweek,
October 21, 1963.
A Look feature was headlined: Look,
November 18, 1963. “
‘God willin'I won't vote”: Time,
September 27, 1963.

238 For Heller's poverty program, see Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
175.

238 For Diem coup, see Winters,
Year of the Hare,
91-113. For
New York Times
exposé, see review of Max Frankel,
The Time of My Life,
in
The Nation,
April 22, 1999.

239 For JFK's unpopularity in Texas, see White with Gill,
Suite 3505,
244. For fund-raising trip plans, see Jane Jarboe,
Lady Bird: A Comprehensive Biography of Mrs. Johnson
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999), 214-17.

239 On Richardson, see Richard Whalen,
Fortune,
December 1963. For UN Day, see “A City Disgraced,”
Time,
November 1, 1963; and Warren Leslie,
Dallas Public and Private
(New York: Grossman, 1964), 188-99. For H. L. Hunt broadcasts, see Jerome Tuccille,
Kingdom: The Story of the Hunt Family of Texas
(Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, 1984), 282.

240 For “Case History of a Rumor,” see LAT, February 25, 1963. For the American Legion magazine, see GRR, January 15, 1964.

240 For CORE protests, see “CORE Pickets Freed of Contempt Charges,” LAT, January 18, 1964. For Otepka developments, see White with Gill,
Suite
3505, 242; and October 31, 1963, JFK press conference, MTR, T83:0538. The bombing at the University of Alabama is described in Carter,
Politics of Rage,
238. For UNICEF boxes, see Gerald Schomp,
Birchism Was My Business
(New York: Macmillan, 1970), 98.

240 For Cuban rifle, see Michael Beschloss, ed.,
Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997), 87. JFK's Florida trip is in Branch,
Pillar of Fire,
166. For
JFK: The Man and the Myth,
see NYT
Book Review,
November 24, 1963; for
The Winning Side,
see
Publishers Weekly,
November 12, 1963.

241
“Don't let the President come”:
Pierre Salinger,
With Kennedy
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966), 1. For Nixon trip, see Christopher Matthews,
Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America
(New York: Touchstone, 1996), 235.

241 The WANTED FOR TREASON handbill is reprinted in GRR, October 31, 1964. “If
the speech is about boating ”:
Salinger,
With Kennedy,
143. For the full-page ad in the
Dallas Morning News,
see Warren Commission,
Report on the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1964), 292-96.

242
“In dictatorships,” he said:
Tuccille,
Kingdom,
282.
The Morning News was joined on the newsstand:
Theodore White, “Rushing to a Showdown That No Law Can Chart,”
Life,
November 22, 1963; White, “The Angry U.S. Negro's Rallying Cries Are Confusing His Just and Urgent Cause,”
Life,
November 29, 1963.

242 The (intended) Dallas Trade Mart speech is reproduced in PPP: JFK, 890-94. The (delivered) Fort Worth speech: ibid., 888-90.

 

 

 

 

 

247 For the scene at Draft Goldwater headquarters, I rely on an author interview with Lee Edwards, and Lee Edwards,
Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1995), 196.

247 Kitchel and Smith's cab ride is in Robert Novak,
The Agony of the GOP 1964
(New York: Macmillan, 1965), 251.

247 Nixon's cab ride is in Richard Nixon,
RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon,
vol. 1 (New York: Warner Books, 1978), 312.

247
The Voice of America's bulletin:
Arthur Krock column, NYT, November 26, 1963. Clips of
Adlai Stevenson:
Lee Edwards,
The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America
(New York: Free Press, 1999), 114.
Under the headline “DALLAS, LONG A RADICAL'S HAVEN,”
: NYHT, November 23, 1963. For John Tower, see F. Clifton White with William Gill,
Suite 3505: The Story of the Draft Goldwater Movement
(New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1967), 246.
Senator Maurine Neuberger of Oregon:
Jerome Tuccille,
Kingdom: The Story of the Hunt Family of Texas
(Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, 1984), 283.
Walter Cronkite, on the air nonstop:
Barry Goldwater,
The Conscience of a Majority
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970), 178.
A deranged gunman pumped two shots:
NYT, November 24, 1963. In
man-in-the-street interviews:
ibid.

248
“I am now satisfied that the climate of political degeneracy”: The Nation,
May 24, 1964. For Max Lerner and Bishop Pike, see Edwin McDowell, Barry
Goldwater: Portrait of an Arizonan
(Chicago: Regnery, 1964), 190.

248 For LBJ's Moscow fears and hurried convening of the Warren panel, see

Michael Beschloss, ed.,
Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997), 31, 46-72.

249
“I know that very often”:
cited in letter to the editor, CT, January 1, 1964.
“The savage nuts have destroyed the great myth”:
Douglas Brinkley, ed.,
The Fear and Loathing Letters,
vol. I (New York: Villard, 1997), xxi.
Chief Justice Warren-a prominent target:
Beschloss, ed.,
Taking Charge,
64.