Chapter Ten: “Nixon’s the One!”
1. Jason L. Riley, “Martin Luther King: ‘We Can’t Keep Blaming the White Man,’” Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2018, A-15.
2. Andrea Rander, in conversation with the author, May 7, 2018.
3. Dr. Frank Ochberg, “There Is Reason in Action,” in Mapping Trauma and Its Wake: Autobiographical Essays by Pioneer Trauma Scholars, ed. Charles R. Figley (New York: Routledge, 2006), 135; Dr. Frank Ochberg, in conversation with the author, February 28, 2017.
4. Dr. Luke Nichter, in conversation with the author, April 25, 2018.
5. John A. Farrell, Richard Nixon: The Life (New York: Doubleday, 2017), 4.
6. Will Swift, Pat and Dick: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014), 26.
7. Ibid., 12.
8. Farrell, Richard Nixon, 1–8; Evan Thomas, Being Nixon: A Man Divided (New York: Random House, 2015), 7–14.
9. Richard Nixon, The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978), 27.
10. Thomas, Being Nixon, 28–29.
11. Farrell, Richard Nixon, 7.
12. “Selections from the Collection, April 17 to June 7, 2015,” Nixon Library and Museum, accessed January 9, 2018, www
13. Dr. Irwin Gellman, in conversation with the author, October 17, 2017.
14. Nixon, The Memoirs, 30.
15. “Nixon, Richard Milhous,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress online, accessed April 26, 2018, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000116.
16. Farrell, Richard Nixon, 293.
17. Nixon, The Memoirs, 224.
18. Ibid., 228.
19. Ibid., 252–55.
20. William Safire, “The Way We Live Now: 5-21-00: On Language; Secret Plan,” New York Times, May 21, 2000.
21. Nixon, The Memoirs, 258.
22. Dr. Luke Nichter, in conversation with the author, April 25, 2018.
23. Thomas, Being Nixon, 174.
24. Ibid.
25. Dr. Luke Nichter, in conversation with the author, April 25, 2018.
26. Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 103, box 11, folder 22, SBSP.
27. Ibid.
28. Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 104, box 11, folder 22, SBSP.
29. Andrea Rander, in conversation with the author, May 7, 2018.
30. Sybil Stockdale, oral history interview with Steven L. Smith, June 8, 2000, 4, in Smith, “Reluctant Sorority”; Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 104, box 11, folder 22, SBSP.
31. Richard Nixon, Roger Shields, and Henry Cabot Lodge to Phyllis Eason Galanti, telegrams, January 30, 28, and 29, 1969, folder 7, PEGP.