Watergate, page 80
In the final days of 1971: Caulfield, Caulfield, 78.
Chapter 9 The Committee to Re-Elect
“planting of our operatives”: Liddy, Will, 190.
“My sense of purpose”: Ibid., 193, 196.
Magruder, in his telling of the story: Magruder, An American Life, 173.
“The poll results suggested”: Ibid., 154.
As Nixon geared up for the reelection: Reeves, President Nixon, 423.
The team had agreed to largely forgo: Lukas, Nightmare, 7.
“He was the white-collar hustler”: Theodore H. White, Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon (New York: Atheneum, 1975), 144.
“The committee was afloat”: White, The Making of the President 1972, 301.
The vast resources were necessary: Lukas, Nightmare, 2–3.
“The victory over Humphrey had been far too close”: Nixon, RN, 357.
“I vowed that I would never again”: Ibid., 226.
Jeb Stuart Magruder had come into White House orbit: Magruder, An American Life, 1–53.
“The possible threat”: The Antitrust Improvements Act of 1975: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, 94th Congr. 442 (1975), https://books.google.com/books?id=mcs2gJlNfpUC.
“a tiny, enclosed fraternity”: Spiro T. Agnew, “Television News Coverage, Des Moines, IA,” November 13, 1969, American Rhetoric, https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/spiroagnewtvnewscoverage.htm.
“Nixon found Agnew a shallow malcontent”: Tom Wicker, One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream (New York: Random House, 1991), 636.
“Gangbusters!”: Buchanan, Nixon’s White House Wars, 74.
A native of Pine Bluff, Arkansas: Winzola McLendon, Martha: The Life of Martha Mitchell (New York: Random House, 1979), 45.
She and John had fallen deeply: Ibid., 53.
One oft-told story: Ibid., 57.
Scotch became such a regular part: Ibid., 60
“being a Cabinet wife”: Ibid., 66
Her national profile had begun to rise: Ibid., 157
“She suddenly became this folk hero”: Ibid., 109
“No woman in public life”: Ibid., 108
“It was not that she drank too much”: Anna Chennault, The Education of Anna (New York: Times Books, 1980), 182.
“My heart went out to her”: Magruder, An American Life, 164.
“The Vietnam War stinks”: Associated Press, “Martha Mitchell Raps Viet War, Fulbright,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 7, 1970, http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Nixon%20Administration/Nixon%200291.pdf.
“She’s the best thing”: McLendon, Martha, 100.
“John and I have the perfect arrangement”: Ibid., 171.
“[potential recruits] must believe”: Liddy, Will, 190.
At dinner in California: Ibid.
Between them, Hunt bragged: Ibid., 192.
At the end of their conversation: Ibid., 196.
“I knew exactly what had to be done”: Ibid., 193.
Once passing a Vietnam War protester: Ibid., 137.
“an Einsatzgruppe”: Ibid., 196–200.
“I frequently found it necessary”: Kleindienst, Justice, 46.
“Excuse me for saying this”: Dean, Blind Ambition, 87.
“Bob, this stuff is incredible”: Ibid.
“Liddy’s a romantic”: Ibid., 79.
“I wanted the leading Democrats”: Nixon, RN, 774.
After Hunt started working with Liddy: The Final Report, 189.
“Mitchell’s attitude struck me”: Magruder, An American Life, 166.
The RUBY operation: Ibid., 150, 165.
“political hobgoblin”: Tom Hamburger, “Dick Tuck, Democratic Prankster Who Targeted Nixon, Dies at 94,” Washington Post, May 30, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/dick-tuck-democratic-prankster-who-targeted-nixon-dies-at-94/2018/05/29/0cd03c2e-63b1–11e8–99d2–0d678ec08c2f_story.html.
“Dick Tuck, you’ve done your last advance”: Ibid.
“glorious improvisations”: William F. Buckley, Jr., “Subpoena Dick Tuck in Watergate Caper Probe,” Beaver County (PA) Times, December 14, 1972, https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ErIiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RbMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=782,3638007.
arranging for garbage trucks: Hamburger, “Dick Tuck, Democratic Prankster”; Dylan Smith, “Nixon’s Nemesis: Political Prankster Dick Tuck Dead at 94,” Tucson Sentinel, May 29, 2018, http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052818_dick_tuck/nixons-nemesis-political-prankster-dick-tuck-dead-94/.
They also recruited a man named Roger Greaves: The Final Report, 190.
recruited some hostile picketers: John M. Crewdson, “Sabotaging the G.O.P.’s Rivals: Story of a $100,000 Operation,” New York Times, July 9, 1973, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/07/09/99155189.html.
Herb Porter enlisted Stone: The Final Report, 192–94.
“Whether it’s a peccadillo”: Anderson, The Anderson Papers, 17.
At one point, he’d gotten into a high-profile flap: Mark Feldstein, “The Last Muckraker,” Washington Post, July 28, 2004, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19730–2004Jul27.html.
The CIA that month: Timothy S. Robinson, “CIA Elaborately Tracked Columnist,” Washington Post, May 4, 1977, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/05/04/cia-elaborately-tracked-columnist/46eef9eb-c74d-44a9-b3ee-671bb5820c48/.
Chapter 10 The Dita Beard Memo
He had been learning on the job: Kleindienst, Justice, 63.
“When the attorney general”: Anderson, The Anderson Papers, 26.
Some of the department’s early moves: Ibid., 27.
Mitchell and Kleindienst additionally seemed: Strober and Strober, Nixon, 246.
“Mitchell knew that it was his manifest destiny”: Ibid., 252.
“He’s been running it”: McLendon, Martha, 166.
“the greatest attorney general”: Fred P. Graham, “Mitchell Quits; Nomination Goes to Kleindienst,” New York Times, February 16, 1972, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/02/16/79421286.html?pageNumber=1.
“We encountered the curious phenomenon”: Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger, 368.
That public warning: E. W. Kenworthy, “What’s Good for a Corporate Giant May Not Be Good for Everybody Else,” New York Times, December 16, 1973, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/12/16/91056098.html?pageNumber=233.
CEO Howard “Hal” Geneen’s vision: “Business: In the Dough,” TIME, May 31, 1968, http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,844559,00.html
Growth largely came: Anderson, The Anderson Papers, 32.
“If [the] Antitrust [Division]”: Robert M. Smith, “McLaren Memo on I.T.T. Merger Revealed,” New York Times, May 2, 1972, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/05/02/79467315.html?pageNumber=29.
He asked for permission to seek: Gene Smith, “I.T.T.-Hartford Deal Is Voted,” New York Times, November 11, 1969, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/11/11/79435836.html?pageNumber=61.
For the better part of two years: Anderson, The Anderson Papers, 32; Kenworthy, “What’s Good for a Corporate Giant.”
“I immediately smelled a rat”: Edward M. Kennedy, True Compass: A Memoir (New York: Twelve, 2009), 324.
“aura of scandal”: Jack Anderson, “Presidential Hopefuls Seek Tainted Funds,” Daily Journal (Vineland, NJ), December 9, 1971, https://www.newspapers.com/image/281342665/.
“Our noble commitment”: Anderson, The Anderson Papers, 43–44.
“[Kleindienst] insisted that he had never talked”: Kennedy, True Compass, 325.
Robert Mardian called Mark Felt: Anderson, The Anderson Papers, 81.
“I did not like the assignment”: Felt, The FBI Pyramid, 137.
“Falstaffian”: Michael Kernan and Dorothy McCardle, “Dita Beard,” Washington Post, November 26, 1971, http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/K%20Disk/Kleindienst%20Richard%20G/Item%20071.pdf.
“But that would be a lie”: Anderson, The Anderson Papers, 55.
When Beard finally resurfaced: Ibid., 98.
Colson dispatched Hunt: Hunt, Undercover, 202.
“forgery, a fraud, and a hoax”: Anderson, The Anderson Papers, 102.
“Don’t we have some spurious stuff”: Feldstein, Poisoning the Press, 281.
“Do we have anything on Hume?”: Ibid., 236.
“I assumed, as I usually do with Colson”: “After the Coup: Hunt, Barker & Phillips,” http://the-puzzle-palace.com/files/nodule20.htm.
Hunt immediately teamed up: Liddy, Will, 210.
“I know it violates the sensibilities”: G. Barry Golson, ed., The Playboy Interview: Volume II (New York: Perigee Books, 1983), 353.
“He was a strong and vigorous-looking man”: Felt, The FBI Pyramid, 167.
Gray handed the FBI executive an envelope: Ibid., 167–72.
“[Beard] was a crusty, fast-talking woman”: Kennedy, True Compass, 326.
Two Denver doctors later said: Anderson, The Anderson Papers, 106.
Back at the White House, a worried Colson: “Text of Memo from Colson to Haldeman on Kleindienst Nomination,” New York Times, August 2, 1973, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/08/02/90460600.html?pageNumber=18.
“I want something clearly understood”: “Transcript Prepared by the Impeachment Inquiry Staff for the House Judiciary Committee of a Recording of a Telephone Conversation Between the President and Richard Kleindienst on April 19, 1971, from 3:04 to 3:09 P.M.,” Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/forresearchers/find/tapes/watergate/wspf/002–001_002–002.pdf.
“the only people who were falling”: Anderson, The Anderson Papers, 106.
“[ITT] was the true beginning”: Kennedy, True Compass, 328.
“He wrote that a private investigator”: Anderson, The Anderson Papers, 129.
Chapter 11 “He’s Our Hitler”
“He had been serving in the administration”: Dean, Blind Ambition, 105.
“I don’t know why they have to be here”: Magruder, An American Life, 195.
“Why don’t you guys get off the stick”: Lukas, Nightmare, 186.
“pipsqueak”: Liddy, Will, 213.
“bantam rooster”: Magruder, An American Life, 174.
“Well, you’d better watch”: Ibid., 175.
A final falling-out: Ibid., 191; Liddy, Will, 212.
“He did a good job”: Strober and Strober, Nixon, 253.
“Liddy’s a Hitler”: Magruder, An American Life, 193.
“There was no question”: McLendon, Martha, 167.
“How do we know that these guys”: Magruder, An American Life, 195.
“It was another of what I called [Mitchell’s] throwaway decisions”: Ibid.
It was, in some ways, the ultimate example: Ibid., 196.
“Once you accept the premise”: Ibid., 175.
“It was agreed that Liddy”: Ibid., 195.
It seems just as likely: Colodny and Gettlin, Silent Coup, 125.
“Magruder reports that 1701”: Rosen, The Strong Man, 278.
“Basically, the guy that’s lying”: Ibid., 273.
“more loophole than law”: Lyndon B. Johnson, “Statement by the President Upon Signing the Foreign Investors Tax Act and the Presidential Election Fund Act,” November 13, 1966, American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-the-president-upon-signing-the-foreign-investors-tax-act-and-the-presidential.
In early 1972, Congress finally passed: R. Sam Garrett, “The State of Campaign Finance Policy: Recent Developments and Issues for Congress,” Congressional Research Service, June 23, 2016, https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/4163270/Congressional-Research-Service-Campaign-Finance.pdf.
By that point, the president’s Newport Beach lawyer: Lukas, Nightmare, 122.
By the time all was said and done: Warren Weaver, Jr., “ ’72 Election Set Spending Record,” New York Times, April 25, 1976, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/04/25/79752740.html?pageNumber=35.
Nixon’s top ten contributors: Fred Wertheimer, “Citizens United: Watergate Redux,” Politico, June 14, 2012, https://www.politico.com/story/2012/06/citizens-united-watergate-redux-077436.
On November 18, 1970: President Nixon’s Daily Diary, November 16–30, 1970, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/virtuallibrary/documents/PDD/1970/040%20November%2016–30%201970.pdf.
his airline was in the midst of a merger: Christopher Lydon, “Cabinet Units Split on Plan to Merge 2 Major Airlines,” New York Times, September 1, 1971, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/09/01/79150785.html?pageNumber=1.
“Anybody who wants to be an ambassador”: George Lardner, Jr., and Walter Pincus, “Nixon Set Minimum Contribution for Choice Diplomatic Posts,” Washington Post, October 30, 1997, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/nixon/103097envoy.htm
Sometimes—illegally—the trade was specific: Lukas, Nightmare, 150.
The payoff was fast: Statement of Information, 6:768, https://books.google.com/books?id=zyApJ5AQQSoC.
“We couldn’t even pick up”: Lukas, Nightmare, 152.
All told, they collected: Ben A. Franklin, “5-Million Given for Nixon in 2 Days Predating Law,” New York Times, September 30, 1973, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/09/30/90985116.html?pageNumber=61.
As Sloan would later recall: Rosen, The Strong Man, 233.
In his role as the campaign finance committee’s counsel: Liddy, Will, 215.
At the White House on April 6: Testimony of Witnesses: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary Pursuant to H. Res. 803, 93rd Congr. 52–55 (1974), https://books.google.com/books?id=3vu3Ugfa3dMC.
“When you work in the White House”: Barry Sussman, The Great Cover-Up: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate (New York: Signet, 1974), 252.
“George McGovern was the perfect”: Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 317.
Roger Stone urged McMinoway: The Final Report, 195.
“Get in there as soon as you can”: Liddy, Will, 221.
“Al Baldwin is probably the most gauche”: Charlotte Curtis, “Mrs. Nixon’s Aide Disputes Mrs. Mitchell,” New York Times, May 5, 1973, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/05/05/90938817.html?pageNumber=16.
Mark Felt was at his desk: Felt, The FBI Pyramid, 177.
The body was readied immediately: Nan Robertson, “Hoover Lies in State in Capitol,” New York Times, May 4, 1972, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/05/04/91328106.html?pageNumber=18.
Mr. Hoover almost singlehandedly transformed: Memorial Tributes to J. Edgar Hoover in the Congress of the United States, 93rd Congr. 30 (1974), https://books.google.com/books?id=vXZNAQAAMAAJ.
“If there is such a thing as a cumulative total”: 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.
Unbeknownst to Felt: DeLoach, Hoover’s FBI, 415.
“name a man in whom he has implicit”: Robert M. Smith, “Nixon Names Aide as Chief of F.B.I. Until Elections,” New York Times, May 4, 1972, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/05/04/91328042.html?pageNumber=1.
“That’s our next job”: Hunt, Undercover, 213.
Chapter 12 Third-Rate Burglars
Under different circumstances: L. Patrick Gray III, In Nixon’s Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate (New York: Henry Holt, 2008), xx.
“The plain truth of the matter”: Ibid., 23.
From the start, Gray, mistakenly: Ibid., 51.
Gray drowned in the volume: Sanford J. Unger, FBI: An Uncensored Look Behind the Walls (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976), 514.
Felt leaked details about the thoroughness: Kevin Leonard, “The Laurel Roots of Watergate’s ‘Deep Throat,’ ” Baltimore Sun, September 4, 2018, https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/laurel/ph-ll-deep-throat-connection-0830-story.html.
When the DNC had moved: Tip O’Neill with William Novak, Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O’Neill (New York: Random House, 1987), 241.
“If it only had a tennis court”: “Problems of Watergate, ‘In’ Place of the Capital, Anger Many Residents,” New York Times, March 12, 1972, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/03/12/91322005.html?pageNumber=34.
The ambitious, grand complex: Rodota, The Watergate, 38.
The design, its Italian backers explained: Ibid., 52.
Prices ranged from $17,500: Drew Lindsay, “The Watergate: The Building That Changed Washington,” Washingtonian, October 1, 2005, https://www.washingtonian.com/2005/10/01/the-watergate-the-building-that-changed-washington/.
“a strip dancer performing”: Ibid.
After the ’68 election, the residential complex: Rodota, The Watergate, 91.
joined over time by the postmaster general: Ibid., 93.
“Republican Bastille”: Lindsay, “The Watergate.”
“this place was built like low-income housing”: Ibid.
“Intruders will have difficulty”: Rodota, The Watergate, 56.
“It’s really tragic”: Ibid., 95.
“The youth was becoming a bundle of nerves”: Hunt, Undercover, 215.
“dismissed him as a slick operator”: Ulasewicz, The President’s Private Eye, 242.
Their scouting determined: Richard Ben-Veniste and George Frampton, Jr., Stonewall: The Real Story of the Watergate Prosecution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977), 49.
On May 26, the team checked in: Liddy, Will, 231.
On Monday morning, May 29: Ulasewicz, The President’s Private Eye, 247.
“Not to my surprise”: Liddy, Will, 236.
“palpable, damnable lie”: “The Watergate Testimony So Far: Questions Remain on Eight Major Issues,” New York Times, August 12, 1973, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/08/12/90463876.html?pageNumber=46.
