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NOTES
CHAPTER ONE
p. 4
ALL MIDDLE CLASS CITIZENS OF:
Smith,
Thomas Dewey and His Times,
p. 554.
5
TOM DEWEY HAS NO REAL:
Patterson,
Mr. Republican,
p. 269.
6
THE BAREFOOT BOY FROM WALL:
Smith, p. 306.
6
THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER:
Smith, p. 487.
6
IF YOU READ THE
CHICAGO:
Smith, p. 35.
6
COLD—COLD AS A FEBRUARY:
Smith, p. 299.
6
HE STRUTS SITTING DOWN:
Patterson, p. 547.
7
THOSE CONGRESSIONAL BUMS:
Smith, p. 513.
7
CAMPAIGNING FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION:
Smith, p. 529.
7
SMILE, GOVERNOR:
Smith, p. 26.
7
HE HAD FORBIDDEN ONE OF:
Smith, p. 471.
7
YOU CAN’T SHOOT AN IDEA:
Smith, p. 487.
7
GOING AROUND LOOKING UNDER BEDS:
Smith, p. 507.
8
HIS FACE WAS SO SMALL:
Interview with Herbert Brownell.
8
HIS PLATFORM, SAID SAMUEL ROSENMAN:
Smith, p. 504.
8
TO THESE HISTORIC FOUR SENTENCES:
Patterson, p. 425.
9
INTO THE WRONG WAR:
Caute,
The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower,
p.41.
10
COMMUNISM AND REPUBLICANISM:
Caute, p. 26.
10
PARTY LABELS DON’T MEAN ANYTHING:
Morris,
Richard Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician,
p. 745.
10
WHEN I TOOK UP MY:
Chambers,
Witness,
p. 741.
10
WHO GOES OUT EVERY MORNING:
Patterson, p. 477.
10
I WATCH HIS SMART-ALECK:
Thomas and Isaacson,
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made,
p. 547.
11
SHAVE IT OFF:
Caute, pp. 42–43.
11
MY MOTHER’S ENTHUSIASM FOR THE:
McLellan and Acheson,
Among Friends: The Personal Letters of Dean Acheson,
p. 2.
11
WAS NOT A MODERN, CENTRALIZED:
McLellan, p. 189.
12
IF YOU AND ALGER ARE:
Weinstein,
Perjury: The Hiss Chambers Case,
p. 10.
12
DON’T WORRY LITTLE ONE:
Weinstein, p. 8.
12
AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN, ONE OF:
Cooke,
A Generation on Trial,
pp. 107–8.
13
LET’S WASH OUR HANDS OF:
Cooke, p. 15.
13
NIXON HAD HIS HAT SET:
Cooke, pp. 16–17.
13
I AM AN OUTCAST:
Chambers, pp. 148–49.
13
THERE WAS NO ONE WHO:
Interview with Murray Kempton.
15
AS
1949
WENT ON:
Goldman,
The Crucial Decade,
p. 104.
15
THERE WAS A STRONG DESIRE:
Cooke, p. 9.
16
EACH GOT THE OTHER WRONG:
Interview with Murray Kempton.
16
THAT, ACCORDING TO ONE OF:
Hiss,
Laughing Last,
p. 132.
16
HE RECKLESSLY LUMPS SOCIALISTS, PROGRESSIVES:
Weinstein, p. 519.
17
WE KNEW THAT AT YALTA:
Theoharis,
The Yalta Myths,
p. 93.
17
IT SEEMS THAT THE ONLY:
Theoharis, pp. 78–79.
17
I DO NOT INTEND TO:
Goldman, p. 134.
18
CHRIST’S WORDS SETTING FORTH COMPASSION:
Goldman, p. 134.
18
HAD HE, MUSED SCOTTY RESTON:
McLellan, p. 221.
18
A TREMENDOUS AND UNNECESSARY GIFT:
Goldman, pp. 134–35.
18
ONE MUST BE TRUE TO:
McLellan, p. 227.
18
WE HAVE GOT TO UNDERSTAND:
Goldman, p. 125.