Watergate, page 79
“He saw the president as above the law”: Graves, Nixon’s FBI, 29.
“The hippie did this”: Sullivan, The Bureau, 211.
“At some point Hoover has to be told”: Curt Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets (New York: Norton, 1991), 658.
“Even though the Huston plan was dead”: Intelligence Activities, Senate Resolution 21: Hearings Before the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, 94th Congr. 2:71 (1976), https://books.google.com/books?id=IxrSnLa-C98C.
“doing whatever you goddamn lawyers do”: John W. Dean, Blind Ambition: The White House Years (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976), 17.
“In an almost fatherly way”: Ibid., 12–13.
“It was just too good”: Strober and Strober, Nixon, 61.
“Bob hasn’t decided”: Dean, Blind Ambition, 30.
For his first assignment: Ibid., 33.
“He was extremely ambitious”: Strober and Strober, Nixon, 281.
“He was a snake”: Ibid., 282–83.
“He lived a little fancier”: Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin, Silent Coup: The Removal of a President (New York: St. Martin’s, 1991), 97.
“lived beyond his salary”: Ibid., 97.
“Word soon got around”: Dean, Blind Ambition, 39.
“Richard M. Dixon”: Ibid., 40.
One day, in the White House bunker: Ibid., 29.
Early on, Caulfield recruited: Tony Ulasewicz with Stuart A. McKeever, The President’s Private Eye: The Journey of Detective Tony U. from N.Y.P.D. to the Nixon White House (Westport, CT: Macsam, 1990), 177.
“the most mysterious figure”: Everett R. Holles, “Next Watergate Witness: Herbert Warren Kalmbach,” New York Times, July 16, 1973, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/07/16/90452811.html?pageNumber=22.
“If you have business with Washington”: Lukas, Nightmare, 120.
“He handled Mr. Nixon’s 1969 acquisition”: Holles, “Next Watergate Witness.”
When the Nixon administration took office: Lukas, Nightmare, 119–21.
In 1970, the cash had been used: William Claiborne, “Wallace Primary Foe’s Aides Admit Getting GOP Funds,” Washington Post, October 8, 1973, http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20%20Files/Watergate/Watergate%20Items%2006858%20to%2007095/Watergate%2007050.pdf.
Ulasewicz promptly created: Ulasewicz, The President’s Private Eye, 183.
One day in July 1969: Caulfield, Caulfield, 72.
“It doesn’t matter who you were”: Lukas, Nightmare, 12.
Alexander P. Butterfield was one of the nation’s: Bob Woodward, The Last of the President’s Men (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), 1–17.
“Alex is the perfect buffer”: Ibid., 64.
One December evening in 1969: Ibid., 56.
Butterfield studiously learned: Ibid., 61.
The room had been decorated: Michael Dobbs, King Richard: Nixon and Watergate—An American Tragedy (New York: Knopf, 2021), 21.
The Washington establishment: Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 311.
“We knew Henry as the ‘hawk of hawks’ ”: Haldeman, The Ends of Power, 94.
“Anytime that anything gets used”: Woodward, The Last of the President’s Men, 78–81.
From February 16, 1971: Hughes, Chasing Shadows, ix.
Inside John Mitchell’s Justice Department: G. Gordon Liddy, Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy (New York: St. Martin’s, 1980), 144.
The court cases stemming: Aryeh Neier, “How the ACLU Won the Largest Mass Acquittal in American History,” ACLU, January 17, 2020, https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/rights-protesters/how-aclu-won-largest-mass-acquittal-american-history.
“Live bomb found suspended”: Reeves, President Nixon, 320.
“I’ll do it,” Colson said: Dean, Blind Ambition, 43.
“Best of luck”: Reeves, President Nixon, 321, https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_War_Within/F_ldCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=oranges.
“Damn Colson thing”: “Excerpts from White House Tape of a Nixon-Haldeman Talk in May 1971,” New York Times, September 24, 1981, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1981/09/24/024537.html?pageNumber=108.s
Chapter 5 Burglarizing Brookings
“I want a look at any sensitive areas”: Ken Hughes, ed., “Richard Nixon and H. R. ‘Bob’ Haldeman on 3 July 1971,” Conversation 536–016 (PRDE Excerpt A), Presidential Recordings Digital Edition, https://prde.upress.virginia.edu/conversations/4006745.
“Don’t worry about his trial”: Stanley I. Kutler, Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes (New York: Free Press, 1997), 6.
“They have a lot of material”: Ibid.
“Helms says he’s ruthless”: Reeves, President Nixon, 339.
“I have no such recollection”: Christopher Matthews, “ ‘Break In and Take It Out! You Understand?,’ ” Chicago Tribune, November 22, 1996, https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996–11–22–9611220111-story.html.
“Did they get the Brookings Institute raided”: Kutler, Abuse of Power, 8.
“I think you need a team”: “ ‘You Need a Team,’ ” Tape 534–012 A, Miller Center, https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/secret-white-house-tapes/you-need-team.
“The FBI won’t get into this”: “ ‘I Really Need a Son of a Bitch,’ ” Tape 534–002 C, Miller Center, https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/secret-white-house-tapes/son-of-a-bitch.
“Nixon did have reason to believe”: Hughes, Chasing Shadows, 3.
Overall, Hunt was not well liked: Szulc, Compulsive Spy, 74.
In fact, lost in the later shorthand biographies: Ibid., 47–51.
His family, by tradition: Ibid., 104.
He immersed himself in Washington: Hunt, Undercover, 138.
during the May Day Tribe protests: Ibid., 143.
“Ellsberg’s deed seemed the culmination”: Ibid., 155.
“Colson’s phones were constantly”: Ibid., 150.
“The way Hunt went about”: Szulc, Compulsive Spy, 41.
As a New Yorker unfamiliar: Ulasewicz, The President’s Private Eye, 232.
“The security on that vault”: Dean, Blind Ambition, 45.
“Chuck, that Brookings thing”: Ibid., 47.
“I flew to California”: “Transcript of a Recording of a Meeting Among the President, John Dean, and H. R. Haldeman in the Oval Office, on March 21, 1973, from 10:12 to 11:55 AM,” Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/forresearchers/find/tapes/watergate/trial/exhibit_12.pdf.
On his way west: Dean, Blind Ambition, 46.
“You talk about wearing flags”: Sally Quinn, “Patriotic Mardian Placed Loyalty to Others First,” Enquirer and News (Battle Creek, MI), July 29, 1973, https://www.newspapers.com/image/204656344/.
“Mardian,” Sullivan later reported: Sullivan, The Bureau, 223.
“[The FBI] is the nearest”: Graves, Nixon’s FBI, 88
Adding to the embarrassment: Felt, The FBI Pyramid, 88.
“We emperors have our problems”: Christopher Lydon, “J. Edgar Hoover Made the F.B.I. Formidable with Politics, Publicity and Results,” New York Times, May 3, 1972, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/05/03/82222873.html?pageNumber=52.
Tolson, who was ailing himself: Jack Anderson, “Inflation-Boom Debate Sizzles,” Bismarck (ND) Tribune, July 1, 1971, https://www.newspapers.com/image/345463050/.
“Re: grand jury—dont worry”: Emery, Watergate, 46.
“He was very upset”: Strober and Strober, Nixon, 209.
White House records don’t show: President Richard Nixon’s Daily Diary, July 1–15, 1971, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/virtuallibrary/documents/PDD/1971/055%20July%201–15%201971.pdf.
Once back in Washington: “William Safire Part 06 of 06,” FBI Records: The Vault, 50, https://vault.fbi.gov/William%20Safire/William%20Safire%20Part%2006%20of%2006/view.
Nixon had Ehrlichman take custody: Timothy S. Robinson, “Nixon Ordered Tap Files Safeguarded, Aide Says,” Washington Post, December 2, 1975, http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/H%20Disk/Helperin%20Milton%20H%20Dr/Item%2012.pdf.
Chapter 6 The Plumbers
“We seek friendly relations”: “Richard Nixon Announces He Will Visit China, July 15, 1971,” USC US-China Institute, transcript, https://china.usc.edu/richard-nixon-announces-he-will-visit-china-july-15–1971.
Young was Kissinger’s boy wonder: Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 303.
“bureaucratic genius”: Thomas, Being Nixon, 339.
After, Ehrlichman, a longtime family friend: Krogh, Integrity, 17.
“He serves as my Bob Cratchit”: Ibid., 20.
As a starting point, Ehrlichman said: Ibid., 22.
“[This case] involved the security”: Ibid., 24.
“Hunt was presented to me”: Thomas, Being Nixon, 344.
They kept track of their assignments: Lukas, Nightmare, 81.
“an exceptionally articulate man”: Emery, Watergate, 55.
When they first met: Krogh, Integrity, 36.
In recalling his childhood: Liddy, Will, 2.
he later found his dreams: Ibid., 52.
according to family lore: Ibid., 5.
Upon starting as a political appointee: Ibid., 131.
he tried for numerous senior: Ibid., 144.
“He projected a warrior-type charisma”: Krogh, Integrity, 36.
He liked to boast: Thomas, Being Nixon, 343; Liddy, Will, 60.
“He seemed decisive”: Hunt, Undercover, 156.
They lunched together: Lukas, Nightmare, 95; Lukas misidentifies the City Tavern Club as the Tavern Inn.
“They were narcissists”: Jim Hougan, Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA (New York: Random House, 1984), 44.
Hunt especially loved: Szulc, Compulsive Spy, 135.
“Our organization had been directed”: Liddy, Will, 147.
“I am helping the president stop some leaks”: John W. Dean, The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It (New York: Viking, 2014), 662.
“A mood of manic resolve”: Krogh, Integrity, 41.
Krogh and Young, meanwhile: Statement of Information, 7:52.
When they showed Nixon: Krogh, Integrity, 46.
“The SIU was now operating”: Ibid., 54.
“We felt a covert operation”: Ibid., 67.
Sunday night, in a surprise: Roger Lowenstein, “The Nixon Shock,” Bloomberg, August 4, 2011, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011–08–04/the-nixon-shock.
“We unhesitatingly applaud”: “Call to Economic Revival,” New York Times, August 16, 1971, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/08/16/79403542.html.
Chapter 7 The Enemies List
“I’m sure he must have forgotten”: Thompson, The Nixon Presidency, 81.
The efforts had begun at the White House: Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 274.
“Am I wrong to assume”: Reeves, President Nixon, 298.
“Attached is a list of opponents”: Impeachment Inquiry: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary Pursuant to H. Res. 803, 93rd Congr. 2:1260 (1974), https://books.google.com/books?id=reKw3tMcnkgC.
“how we can maximize the fact”: The Final Report of the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities Pursuant to S. Res. 60, 93rd Congr. 7 (1974), https://books.google.com/books?id=IvCbAAAAMAAJ.
The very next day, CBS reporter: Freedom of the Press: Hearing Before the Committee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, 92nd Congr. 989 (1972), https://books.google.com/books?id=9lUf41OsnqcC.
“We just ran a name check”: “Transcript Prepared by the Impeachment Inquiry Staff for the House Judiciary Committee of a Recording of the President’s Work-Day, June 4, 1973,” Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/forresearchers/find/tapes/watergate/wspf/442–001–069.pdf.
These Nixon folks seemed far too comfortable: Felt, The FBI Pyramid, 135.
Liddy penned a long update: Liddy, Will, 160.
“pretty much carte blanche”: Summary of Information: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary Pursuant to H. Res. 803, 93rd Congr. 36 (1974), https://books.google.com/books?id=g6AnAAAAMAAJ.
“I’ve been charged with quite a highly sensitive mission”: Szulc, Compulsive Spy, 123.
“[Hunt] was different”: Eugenio Martinez, “Mission Impossible: The Watergate Bunglers,” Harper’s, October 1974, https://harpers.org/archive/1974/10/heroes-and-fools-3/.
“We did not think he had come to Miami”: Ibid.
“To me this was a great honor”: Ibid.
he’d “restrain” Hunt: “Excerpts from Testimony Before the Senate Watergate Committee,” New York Times, August 4, 1973, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/08/04/106108385.html?pageNumber=11.
“On the assumption that the proposed undertaking”: United States v. Ehrlichman, 546 F.2d 910 (D.C. Cir. 1976), https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-ehrlichman-2.
“For God’s sake, don’t get caught!”: Liddy, Will, 165.
“Get clothes for two or three days”: Martinez, “Mission Impossible.”
“There was nothing of Ellsberg’s”: Ibid.
“was so relieved that nothing”: Liddy, Will, 168.
“looked as if it had been fingered”: Statement of Information, 7:1294, https://books.google.com/books?id=bvyYJ-aNWOEC.
Fielding’s filing cabinet today: Owen Edwards, “The World’s Most Famous Filing Cabinet,” Smithsonian, October 2012, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worlds-most-famous-filing-cabinet-36568830/.
The next morning as the Cubans: Magruder, An American Life, 173.
“To prove we had not spent”: Strober and Strober, Nixon, 223.
“Hang onto those tools”: Liddy, Will, 169.
“Too expensive”: Ibid., 172.
“The appointment of W. Mark Felt has prompted”: Robert M. Smith, “F.B.I. Man’s Promotion Raises Question of Hoover Successor,” New York Times, August 21, 1971, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/08/21/79148573.html?pageNumber=8.
“Some had dubbed him”: Max Holland, Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012), 21.
Days later, a column by Evans: Rowland Evans, Jr., and Robert Novak, “Hoover’s Bailiwick Is in Sad Disrepair,” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 11, 1971, https://www.newspapers.com/image/180042882/.
“It did not cross my mind”: Felt, The FBI Pyramid, 178.
“No go”: Haldeman, The Haldeman Diaries, 357.
“It was a little bit like killing”: Thompson, The Nixon Presidency, 139.
“He oughta resign”: Graves, Nixon’s FBI, 117.
Krogh, in turn, tasked Liddy: Liddy, Will, 172–80.
“Sullivan was the man who executed”: Robert L. Jackson and Ronald J. Ostrow, “Nixon Discussed Use of ‘Thugs,’ New Tapes Show,” Los Angeles Times, June 5, 1991, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991–06–05-mn-216-story.html.
“How can we get J. Edgar Hoover”: Cartha DeLoach, Hoover’s FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover’s Trusted Lieutenant (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1995), 412.
“We may have on our hands”: “Transcript of a Recording of a Meeting in the Oval Office Between President Nixon and John Ehrlichman, October 25, 1971, from 12:35 to 2:05 p.m.,” Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/forresearchers/find/tapes/watergate/wspf/601–033.pdf.
“That’s a very good fellow”: Ibid.
Chapter 8 Sandwedge
a storied dark-arts investigative firm: Frank J. Prial, “Concern Fights Crime in Business, New York Times, July 26, 1970, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1970/07/26/90613166.html?pageNumber=103.
“Should this Kennedy mafia”: Presidential Campaign Activities of 1972, Senate Resolution 60: Executive Session Hearings Before the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, 93rd Congr. 21:9990 (1974), https://books.google.com/books?id=32iki2YW9egC.
SANDWEDGE would help: Colodny and Gettlin, Silent Coup, 104–5.
Caulfield received $50,000: “Evidence: Texts of 3 Memos on ‘Political Matters’ from Strachan to Haldeman,” New York Times, July 12, 1974, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1974/07/12/79582680.html?pageNumber=21.
“intelligence shouldn’t receive a greater allocation”: Statement of Information, App. 3, 9, https://books.google.com/books?id=HJrVn5X-T80C.
“I sensed that an Irish cop”: Dean, Blind Ambition, 74.
“I want a hold on it”: Ibid.
“How about Gordon Liddy?”: Ibid., 76.
“He bristled with energy”: Ibid.
“Dean tells me there’s plenty”: Hunt, Undercover, 186. Exactly how Liddy’s conversation with Dean unfolded is a point of departure between Liddy and Dean. However, both Liddy and Hunt’s recollection come the closest to overlapping.
In December, journalist Jack Anderson: “Jack Anderson of United Features Syndicate,” Pulitzer Prizes, https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jack-anderson.
“I even stopped reading newspapers”: Colodny and Gettlin, Silent Coup, 5.
While the Plumbers hadn’t been able: Ibid., 40.
Nixon quickly decided it would be better: Ibid., 51.
“I tell you, Mr. President”: Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 307.
“I’d never seen fingernails”: Ibid., 307.
“Damn, you know, I created”: Mark Feldstein, Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), 197.
“I would just like to get a hold of this Anderson”: Ibid., 202.
“it would have taken”: Rosen, The Strong Man, 176.
“the first irreversible step”: Krogh, Integrity, 77.
“It was like a culture”: Jonathan Aitken, Nixon: A Life, 419.
“SANDWEDGE has been scrapped”: “03. Book I: Events prior to the Watergate break-in, December 2, 1971-June 17, 1972,” Santa Clara Law Digital Commons, https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=watergate.
