One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon (54 page)

“I’m going to go home to read”: These words were reported in newspapers around the world. “Whether we shall continue” and Doyle’s remark are in James Doyle,
Not Above the Law
(New York: William Morrow, 1977), pp. 197–200.

“All our intelligence said”: Minutes of a Cabinet meeting, Oct. 18, 1973, Washington, DC, in
FRUS
XXXVIII: Part 1, Foundations of Foreign Policy.

“The switchboard just got a call from 10 Downing Street”: Transcript of telephone conversation between Kissinger and Scowcroft, 7:55 p.m., Oct. 11, 1973, Washington, DC, in
FRUS
XXV: Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1973.

“If you don’t do something”: Armstrong oral history, FAOH.

“The Soviets were shipping warheads”: Ransom oral history, FAOH.

“Nixon was in his family quarters”: Sonnenfeldt oral history, FAOH.

“The Brezhnev letter” … “
what do we do?”
: Moorer Diaries; CJCS Memo M-88-73, “SUBJ: NSC/JCS Meeting, Wednesday/Thursday, 24/25 October 1973,”
FRUS
XXV: Arab-Israeli Crisis and War.

“One of the things that I recall”: Eagleburger oral history, FAOH.

“A government of laws”: Elliot Richardson,
The Creative Balance
(New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976), pp. 46–47.

“to kill the President”: Kissinger,
Years of Upheaval
, p. 581.

“You are absolutely free…?”: Hearings, Special Prosecutor, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 93rd Cong. 1st Sess., p. 570.

“a wild hare” and “Nixon lied to me”: Saxbe oral history, Nixon Library.

“I for the first time realized”: Jaworski oral history, Baylor University, Waco, TX. Online at
http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/ref/collection/buioh/id/1591
.

“The answer—
fight
”: Nixon,
RN
, p. 970.

25:
United States v. Richard Milhous Nixon

“Above all else”: Nixon,
RN
, p. 971.

“the so-called Watergate affair”: State of the Union Address, Jan. 30, 1974.

“The biggest danger” … “the way he really feels”: Nixon,
RN
, pp. 975–76.

“I meant that the whole transaction was wrong”: The president’s news conference, March 6, 1974.

“It is almost like we have a death wish”: March 13, 1973, NWHT, Oval Office.

“all the additional evidence”: The President’s Address to the Nation, April 29, 1974.

“Deplorable, disgusting, shabby, immoral”: Scott quoted in Christopher Lydon, “Senator Brands Conduct as ‘Immoral,’”
New York Times
, May 8, 1974.

“The great tragedy”: Nixon,
RN
, p. 1007.

“He came out to greet Chancellor Kreisky”: White oral history, FAOH.

“The Egyptians, as I saw”: Houghton oral history, FAOH.

“Wasn’t that Nixon…?”: Nixon,
RN
, p. 1013.

“He stopped being the Secretary of State”: Saunders oral history, FAOH.

“Who was going to be”: Suddarth oral history, FAOH.

“a face carved out of wood”: Goodby oral history, FAOH.

“My god, he really thinks”: June 19, 1973, NWHT, telephone tapes.

“SALT—this is the most difficult”: Memorandum of conversation, June 28, 1974, Moscow,
FRUS
XV: Soviet Union, June 1972–August 1974.

“We suggest that the U.S.”: Memorandum of conversation, June 30, 1974, Oreanda,
FRUS
XV: Soviet Union.

“Sophisticates in the press”: Memorandum of conversation, July 2, 1974, Moscow,
FRUS
XV: Soviet Union.

“For example, I am indicted”: April 17, 1973, NWHT, Oval Office.

“I suppose it could be said”: Nixon,
RN
, pp. 1050–51.

“
End career as a fighter
”: Ibid., pp. 1056–57.

“Mr. President,” Saxbe said: Saxbe interview with Stanley B. Kutler, May 15, 1987, cited in Kutler,
The Wars of Watergate
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990), p. 542.

“There was a hush as he went up to the podium”: Ransom oral history, FAOH.

“I remember my old man”: Nixon remarks on departure from the White House, Aug. 9, 1974, Public Papers of Richard Nixon.

Epilogue

“He just flat-lined”: Steve Bull interview by Timothy Naftali for the Richard Nixon Presidential Oral History Project, June 25, 2007.

“Richard! Wake up, Richard!”: This account of Nixon’s brush with death is taken from the memoir of the physician who treated him, John C. Lungren, MD,
Healing Richard Nixon
(Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2003), pp. 83–89.

“What history says”: Nixon/Frost interview, recorded May 4, 1977.

“As people look back on the Nixon administration”: Nixon interview on NBC’s
Meet the Press
, April 10, 1988.

“You have to, in some cases, sacrifice a lot of virtue”: Ray Price interview by Timothy Naftali for the Richard Nixon Presidential Oral History Project, April 4, 2007.

Index

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Abplanalp, Bob

Abrams, Creighton

Agnew, Spiro T.

Akins, Jim

Albert, Carl

Allende, Salvador

ambassadors

bombing and

campaign funds and

Anderson, Jack

Annenberg, Walter

Antippas, Andrew

antiwar protests

Cambodia and

Nixon talks with

Apollo program

Arab-Israeli conflict

Argentina

Armstrong, Anne

Armstrong, Scott

Armstrong, Willis C.

Arroyo Márquez, Nicolás

Assad, Bashar

Assad, Hafiz

Austria

Baker, Howard

Bangladesh

Barker, Bernard “Macho”

Bayh, Birch

Bay of Pigs invasion

Beam, Jacob

Beecher, William

Begin, Menachem

Bennett, Donald

Bernstein, Carl

Black, Hugo

black-bag jobs

Black Panthers (Thai regiment)

blacks

Blind Ambition
(Dean)

Blood, Archer

Bolz, Charles

Bork, Robert

Breakfast Plan

Brennan, Peter J.

Brezhnev, Leonid

summit of 1972 and

summit of 1973 and

summit of 1974 and

Yom Kippur War and

Brookings Institution

Brown, Dean

Brown, Frederick Z.

Buchanan, Pat

Buchanan, Wiley

Buchwald, Art

Buffum, William

Bui Diem

Bull, Steve

Bundy, McGeorge

Bunker, Ellsworth

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

Bureau of the Budget

Burger, Warren

Bush, George H. W.

Bush, George W.

Bush v. Gore

Butterfield, Alexander

Buzhardt, J. Fred

Byrd, Robert

Byrne, William Matthew, Jr.

Cabinet

Calley, William L.

Cambodia

bombing of

Congress and

fall of

funding and

invasion of

records falsified

campaign contributions

ambassadorships and

Checkers speech and

post-Watergate

slush funds and

Camp David

tape system in

Carlucci, Frank

Carswell, G. Harrold

Carter, Jimmy

Casey, William

Castro, Fidel

Caulfield, Jack

Ceauşescu, Nicolae

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

budget of

Cambodia and

Chile and

Diem and

FBI investigation and

India-Pakistan war and

Iran and

Laos and

Nixon reshapes

NSC and

secret cash and

surveillance and

Thailand and

U-2 and

Vietnam and

Watergate burglars and

Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN)

Chambers, Whittaker

Chang Wenjin

Chapin, Dwight L.

Cheek, James R.

Cheney, Dick

Chennault, Anna

Chen Yi

Chiang Kai-shek

Chile

China

India and

Kissinger and

Nixon visit to

Shanghai communiqué and

Soviets and

Vietnam and

Chisholm, Shirley

Church, Frank

Churchill, Winston

Clifford, Clark

Clinton, Bill

Clinton, Hillary Rodham

Colby, William

Cold War

Colson, Charles W. “Chuck”

FBI and

Hunt and

indictment of

Nixon and

Senate Watergate Committee and

Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP)

indictments and

Senate Watergate Committee and

Watergate break-in and

communism

Conein, Lucien

Congressional Record

Connally, John

Corporate Security Consultants International

Costa Rica

Cox, Archibald

Cromwell, Oliver

Cuba

missile crisis

Cuban Americans

Dash, Sam

Davydov, Boris N.

Dean, John Wesley, III

appointed legal counsel to Nixon

CREEP covert ops plans and

criminal lawyer and

decides to testify and resign

Ellsberg psychiatrist break-in and

FBI investigation and

federal prosecutors and proffer by

Gray and

guilty plea of

Hunt’s safe and

Huston Plan and

impeachment and

IRS and

Nixon on

Nixon conversation of September 15, 1972, with

Nixon conversation of February 27, 1973, with

Nixon conversation of March 17, 1973, with

Nixon conversation of March 21, 1973, with (“cancer on presidency”)

Nixon conversation of April 15, 1973, with

Nixon conversation of April 16, 1973, with

Nixon tapes and

Senate Watergate Committee and

Watergate break-in and trials and

Watergate report for Nixon and

Deep Throat.
See also
Felt, Mark

DEFCON alert

Defense Department (Pentagon)

Defense Intelligence Agency

de Gaulle, Charles

DeLoach, Cartha “Deke”

Democratic National Committee (DNC).
See also
Watergate break-in

Democratic National Convention

of 1968

of 1972

Democratic Party

Democrats for Nixon

de Roulet, Vincent

Diem, Ambassador.
See
Bui Diem

Diem, President.
See
Ngo Dinh Diem

Dirksen, Everett

Disraeli, Benjamin

Doar, John

Dobrynin, Anatoly

Doyle, James

Duck Hook plan

Dulles, John Forster

Eagleburger, Larry

Eagleton, Thomas

Eastland, James

East Pakistan

Eastwood, Clint

EC-121 (NSA spy plane)

Egypt

Nixon trip to

Yom Kippur War and

Ehrlichman, John D.

elections and

Ellsberg and

fired

indictment of

Joint Chiefs and

Plumbers and

Senate Watergate Committee and

Vietnam and

Watergate and

wiretaps and

Eisenhower, David

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

death of

Nixon as vice president and

Eisenhower, Julie Nixon

elections

of 1946

of 1950

of 1952

of 1960

of 1962

of 1964

of 1968

of 1970

of 1972

Ellsberg, Daniel

emergency detention

Emerson, Gloria

Environmental Protection Agency

Ervin, Sam, Jr.

Espionage Act (1917)

executive privilege

Faisal, king of Iraq

Faisal, king of Saudi Arabia

Farkas, Ruth

Farland, Joseph

Farmer, James

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

death of Hoover and

Gray nomination and

LBJ and

Watergate and

Federalist Papers

Felt, Mark

Fielding, Lewis

Foa, Sylvana

Ford, Gerald

Foreign Affairs

France

Franco, Francisco

Frost, David

Fulbright, J. William

Gandhi, Indira

Garment, Leonard

Garthoff, Ray

Gayler, Noel

Gelb, Leslie

Gemstone plan

Gillespie, Charles Anthony, Jr.

Gladstone, William

Gonzales, Virgilio

Goodby, James E.

Graham, Billy

Gray, L. Patrick

Great Society

Greek junta

Green, Marshall

Gromyko, Andrei

Guam

Habib, Philip

Haig, Alexander M.

Ellsberg and

Kissinger and

SALT and

Southeast Asia and

Watergate and

Yom Kippur War and

Haiphong harbor

Haldeman, Harry Robbins “H. R.”

antiwar protests and

Asian trip and

Cabinet and

Cambodia and

campaign contributions and

China and

CIA and

CREEP and

Deep Throat and

DEFCON and

diary of

domestic spying and

elections and

FBI and

fired

India-Pakistan war and

indictment of

IRS and

Joint Chiefs and

Kissinger and

Laos and

Nixon inner circle and

nuclear weapons and

Pentagon Papers and

Senate Watergate hearings and

Soviet summits and

Vietnam and

Watergate and