Chapter Eighteen: To the First Ladies of America!

  1.     Ross H. Perot, interview with the author, March 15, 2015.

  2.     Senator John McCain, in conversation with the author, March 10, 2016.

  3.     H. Ross Perot, in conversation with the author, March 15, 2015.

  4.     Ibid.

  5.     Carole Hanson Hickerson, email message to author, April 11, 2018.

  6.     Ibid.

  7.     Carole Hanson Hickerson, in conversation with the author, July 10, 2015.

  8.     Carole Hanson Hickerson, email message to author, May 12, 2018.

  9.     “President Nixon’s Toast to Returned Prisoners of the Vietnam War, May 24, 1973,” C-SPAN, accessed August 6, 2018, www.c-span.org/video/?313093-1/president-nixons-toast-returned-prisoners-vietnam-war.

  10.   Paul Galanti, in conversation with the author, December 15, 2016.

  11.   Ken Khachigian, in conversation with the author, March 12, 2017.

  12.   Dr. Roger Shields, in conversation with the author, April 23, 2018.

  13.   “President Nixon’s Toast to Returned Prisoners,” C-SPAN; Senator John McCain, in conversation with the author, March 10, 2016.

  14.   Dr. Henry Kissinger, in conversation with the author, October 15, 2015.

  15.   “Revised Schedule of Events for Navy Returnees and Their Guests,” U.S. Department of State, May 23–25, 1973, 4, PPGPC.

  16.   White House Gala menu, White House Social Secretary, collection of Ted Sienicki.

  17.   Nixon Gala footage, Nixon Library and Archive.

  18.   Ken Khachigian, in conversation with the author, March 3, 2017.

  19.   Ellen Robertson and Jeremy Slayton, “Jane Maury Denton Dies at 81,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 3, 2007.

  20.   Phyllis Galanti, index card speech, n.d., card 12, PPGPC.

  21.   Various papers, PPGPC.

  22.   Ross Mackenzie, eulogy at Phyllis Galanti Memorial Service, First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, VA, April 29, 2014.

  23.   Andrea Rander, email to the author, August 8, 2018.

  24.   Andrea Rander, in conversation with the author, June 29, 2018.

  25.   Patricia Sullivan, “Donald J. Rander Dies; Was POW in Vietnam for 5 Years,” Washington Post, May 1, 2005.

  26.   Andrea Rander, in conversation with the author, May 7, 2018.

  27.   Cheryl J. Cease, “The Mulligans: Life After Hanoi,” Tidewater Virginian: Business Magazine of Southeastern Virginia, August 1986, 45.

  28.   Louise Mulligan, email message to author, May 14, 2018.

  29.   Lynn Boroughs Amwake, in conversation with the author, February 27, 2017; Merriann Boroughs Lynch, in conversation with the author, July 20, 2017.

  30.   Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 448.

  31.   Sybil Stockdale, “Reflections of a POW Wife” speech, JSSP.