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“Looks like high risk”: Liddy, Will, 238.
“The Big Man wants the operation”: Hunt, Undercover, 233.
“Take all the men”: Liddy, Will, 237.
Nixon had a full nineteen-point lead: Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger, 400.
At the beginning of June: President Richard Nixon’s Daily Diary, June 1–15, 1972, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/virtuallibrary/documents/PDD/1972/077%20June%201–15%201972.pdf.
The entire reelection apparatus: Associated Press, “GOP War Chest Bulging: Big Givers for Nixon,” San Francisco Examiner, June 13, 1972, http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Watergate/Watergate%20Items%2000001%20to%2000180/Watergate%2000004.pdf.
On June 14 she predicted: United Press, “Martha Says It’s Teddy,” San Francisco Examiner, June 15, 1972, http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Watergate/Watergate%20Items%2000001%20to%2000180/Watergate%2000006.pdf.
“They were a collection”: Anderson, The Anderson Papers, 129.
“Private business”: Ibid.
“This is getting too deep”: Hunt, Undercover, 237.
Frank Wills, a Savannah, Georgia, native: Booker, “Untold Story of Black Hero of Watergate!”
The truth, however, uncovered in 2012: Craig Shirley, “The Bartender’s Tale: How the Watergate Burglars Got Caught,” Washingtonian, June 20, 2012, https://www.washingtonian.com/2012/06/20/the-bartenders-tale-how-the-watergate-burglars-got-caught/.
“I must admit that when I saw”: Fred Blumenthal, “What Happened to the Cop Who Arrested the Watergate 5?,” Parade (Washington Post), June 16, 1974, http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Watergate/Watergate%20Items%2015448%20to%2015717/Watergate%2015492.pdf.
“I’ll be in touch tomorrow”: Hunt, Undercover, 3.
As a reward for his vigilance: Booker, “Untold Story.”
“I hate to wake you up”: Hunt, Undercover, 244–46.
“Anything wrong?”: Liddy, Will, 246.
“Why did you fellows”: Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 341.
No one was ever charged: Strober and Strober, Nixon, 323.
Jeb Magruder and John Dean have both explained: John Dean, Blind Ambition: Updated Edition: The End of the Story, (Palm Springs, CA: Polimedia Publishers, 2009), 512–26.
Indeed, in later testimony, Hunt says: Dean, Blind Ambition: Updated Edition, 522.
During a January 3, 1973, conversation: Kutler, Abuse of Power, 196.
“The purpose of the second Watergate break-in”: Liddy, Will, 237.
“We wouldn’t be sitting around”: O’Sullivan, Dirty Tricks, 388.
John Dean argues the Oliver bugging: Dean, Blind Ambition: Updated Edition, 524.
“the implication of Colodny and Gettlin’s narrative”: G. Gordon Liddy, When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2002), 182.
When Silent Coup was published: Howard Kurtz, “Watergate Book Opens to Tough Audience,” Washington Post, May 21, 1991: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/05/21/watergate-book-opens-to-tough-audience/af81c5e7-a6d6-41d2-86b5-13a7185f0074/
The Washington Post at various times: George Lardner, Jr., “Watergate Libel Suit Settled,” Washington Post, July 23, 1997. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1997/07/23/watergate-libel-suit-settled/baa27e24-a13f-4ed6-b357–6426381e772c/.
Another lawsuit: ABC News, “Liddy Defamation Case Dismissed,” January 6, 2006. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121924&page=1.
Greek journalist Elias Demetracopoulos: James Barron, The Greek Connection: The Life of Elias Dematracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate (Brooklyn: Melville House, 2020).
Christopher Hitchens, in his book: Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger (New York: Verso, 2001), 167–86.
One of the top officials at the Greek embassy: Barron, The Greek Connection, 361–62, 366; Kissinger’s role in discouraging the inquiry was reported in 1975 by writer Nick Thimmesch, “Birth of a Salesman,” New York Times Magazine, October 26, 1975, and then later also reported in Hersh, Price of Power, 648.
“McCord did not come”: Martinez, “Mission Impossible.”
“This secret CIA operation”: Anthony Marro, “Deep Throat, Phone Home,” Washington Post, November 25, 1984, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1984/11/25/deep-throat-phone-home/db691af1-8ed7-42d1-85f6-53634cf0b59d/.
“Nixon and [CIA Director Richard] Helms”: Kutler, The Wars of Watergate, 201.
Chapter 13 “A Crime That Could Destroy Us All”
As investigators and prosecutors rushed: Liddy, Will, 248–49.
“This was a crime”: Magruder, An American Life, 220.
“This thing has all kinds”: Felt, The FBI Pyramid, 196.
In Silent Coup, Len Colodny: Colodny and Gettlin, Silent Coup, 172.
Watergate historians have already supposed: Haldeman, The Ends of Power, 4.
Nixon, on the other hand: Woodward, The Last of the President’s Men, 105.
“I’m sure it was Dean”: Colodny and Gettlin, Silent Coup, 148.
“I know—there’s no way”: Liddy, Will, 252.
“Henry, I don’t know what”: Kleindienst, Justice, 145–46.
While Kleindienst says he recalls: John M. Crewdson, “Kleindienst Talk with Liddy Cited,” New York Times, March 29, 1974, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1974/03/29/91437164.html?pageNumber=17.
“I never solved any of them”: Angelo Lano, “Watergate: Forty Years Later,” Grapevine, June/July 2014, https://fbistudies.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Watergate_Angelo_Lano.pdf.
“They clearly didn’t look like ordinary knuckleheads”: Ibid.
“That’s the $64,000 question”: O’Sullivan, Dirty Tricks, 218.
Interviewed by another Spanish-speaking agent: Graves, Nixon’s FBI, 166.
“Neither Stan nor I knew”: Lawrence F. O’Brien, No Final Victories: A Life in Politics from John F. Kennedy to Watergate (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 297.
“One of the men had $814”: Bernstein and Woodward, All the President’s Men, 18.
“Though I had failed the tryout”: Bob Woodward, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate’s Deep Throat (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 31.
“Bernstein also had an unnerving habit”: Leonard Downie, Jr., The New Muckrakers: An Inside Look at America’s Investigative Reporters (Washington, D.C.: New Republic, 1976), 5.
“As we read it over”: Sussman, The Great Cover-Up, 17.
“Nothing was more un-chic”: Harrison E. Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor: The New York Times and Its Times (New York: Times Books, 1980), 419.
Instead, one of the paper’s young minority interns: Philip Nobile, “Extra!,” Esquire, May 1, 1975, https://classic.esquire.com/article/1975/5/1/extra.
“That Watergate thing is a hell of a thing”: Gray, In Nixon’s Web, 61.
“Those were the last decent words”: McLendon, Martha, 7.
“They had me at a brunch”: Vivian Cadden, “Martha Mitchell: The Day the Laughing Stopped,” McCall’s, July 1973, http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Watergate/Watergate%20Items%2004357%20to%2004655/Watergate%2004358.pdf.
“The person involved is the proprietor”: Testimony of Witnesses, 212.
On the other side of the country: Associated Press, “White House Reaction: Nixon ‘Ignoring’ Demo Incident,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 20, 1972, http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Watergate/Watergate%20Items%2000001%20to%2000180/Watergate%2000017.pdf.
According to Pat Gray’s 2008 memoir: Gray, In Nixon’s Web, 69.
“We had one hundred and some days”: Thompson, The Nixon Presidency, 136.
Back at the Post: Downie, The New Muckrakers, 15.
Bernstein’s colleagues knew him: Sussman, The Great Cover-Up, 54.
“I didn’t really think a lot”: Alicia C. Shepard, Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007), 16.
Bernstein by comparison: Sussman, The Great Cover-Up, 54.
That night, Woodward drove out: Bernstein and Woodward, All the President’s Men, 20–22.
Early Monday morning: Sussman, The Great Cover-Up, 18.
With that, Hunt left the White House: Hunt, Undercover, 255.
“Good God!”: Bernstein and Woodward, All the President’s Men, 24.
Confoundingly, Hunt in his memoir: Hunt, Undercover, 249.
“command presence”: Woodward, The Secret Man, 17.
“like two passengers sitting”: Ibid., 19.
“I peppered him”: Ibid., 21.
“original back-room boys”: Robert B. Semple, Jr., “Seldom-Seen Aides Protect Nixon’s Political Flank,” New York Times, June 22, 1970, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1970/06/22/98370993.html?pageNumber=33.
Chapter 14 “Boys Will Be Boys”
“Gordon, let’s face it”: Magruder, An American Life, 223–24.
“Chuck sounded like he hardly knew”: Dean, Blind Ambition, 93.
“Am I correct in assuming”: Liddy, Will, 255.
“That goes without saying”: Ibid., 256–60.
Afterward, Liddy called Hunt: Hunt, Undercover, 257.
Within forty minutes, Dean called: Liddy, Will, 255–61.
“Mickey Mouse operation”: Washington Post Service, “Bugging Called Bungled Job,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 1972, http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Watergate/Watergate%20Items%2000001%20to%2000180/Watergate%2000012.pdf.
One New York Times journalist: Tad Szulc, “Democratic Raid Tied to Realtor,” New York Times, June 19, 1972, http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Watergate/Watergate%20Items%2000001%20to%2000180/Watergate%2000009.pdf.
“the ugliest questions”: United Press and Associated Press, “Demo HQ ‘Bugging’ Try—Nixon Aide Is a Suspect,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 1972, http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Watergate/Watergate%20Items%2000001%20to%2000180/Watergate%2000010.pdf.
He swiftly filed a million-dollar civil suit: “Demos Sue Nixon Unit on Break-In,” San Francisco Examiner, June 20, 1972, http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Watergate/Watergate%20Items%2000001%20to%2000180/Watergate%2000020.pdf.
“I foresee no difficulty”: Ed Montgomery, “Acting FBI Head Plays Tough Role in Press Parley,” San Francisco Examiner, June 20, 1972, https://sfexaminer.newspapers.com/image/460675335/.
Ron Ziegler continued to dismiss: Associated Press, “White House Reaction.”
“McCord, Hunt, Liddy—none of these names”: Strober and Strober, Nixon, 215.
When they brought in Colson: Dean, Blind Ambition, 103.
At the end of the day, Ehrlichman finally: Haldeman, The Ends of Power, 23.
That scheme, though, quickly grew: Ibid., 23–27.
Later, when Haldeman passed along: Ibid., 28–29.
“Burglary is bad enough”: Patricia Sullivan, “Robert Mardian: Attorney Caught Up in Watergate Scandal,” Washington Post, July 21, 2006, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/robert-mardian-attorney-caught-up-in-watergate-scandal/2012/05/31/gJQARJ6vFV_story.html.
“I was learning what the job really meant”: Dean, Blind Ambition, 107.
Mitchell’s wife, still in California: Rosen, The Strong Man, 304.
As the deputy campaign director later recalled: Ibid., 309.
Chapter 15 “Stay the Hell Out of This”
“Bob Dole and I were talking”: Bernstein and Woodward, All the President’s Men, 29.
“To this day, I believe that I was right”: Rosen, The Strong Man, 312.
Far from Washington, in Brooklyn: “Elizabeth Holtzman,” New York Times, June 22, 1972, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/06/22/90716963.html?pageNumber=46.
“The primary election between Holtzman and Celler”: Jimmy Breslin, How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer (New York, Viking, 1975), 93.
Liddy, meanwhile, scoured his life: Liddy, Will, 262.
James McCord’s wife: Jack Anderson, “Watergate Forces Retirement at CIA,” Washington Post, April 2, 1974, https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84-00499R000200010002-2.pdf.
Around two-thirty that afternoon: “Transcript of a Meeting Between the President and Charles Colson on June 20, 1972, from 2:20 to 3:30 P.M.,” Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/forresearchers/find/tapes/watergate/wspf/342–027.pdf.
Liddy promised that everyone: Hunt, Undercover, 264.
“His was the one name”: Shepard, Woodward and Bernstein, 34.
“As it happened, what often seemed”: Sussman, The Great Cover-Up, 55.
“He was well ahead of me”: Graham, Personal History, 463.
“John Dean is going to be handling”: Gray, In Nixon’s Web, 63.
“None of us in the FBI”: Ibid., 65.
For his part, Henry Petersen: Dean, Blind Ambition, 121.
“We just could not see”: “04. Book II, Vol. 1: Events following the Watergate break-in, June 17, 1972-February 9, 1973,” Santa Clara Law Digital Commons, https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=watergate.
“[The head of the FBI Washington Field Office]”: Lano, “Watergate: Forty Years Later.”
“The way to handle this”: “The ‘Smoking Gun’ Transcript,” Los Angeles Times, July 21, 1990, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990–07–21-mn-345-story.html.
“The scheme… relied on Nixon’s cherished powers”: Wicker, One of Us, 685.
“most violent attack”: Robert T. Hartmann, “Ordeal in Venezuela,” Los Angeles Times, May 26, 1958.
“Haldeman said that the ‘bugging’ affair”: Statement of Information, 2:380, https://books.google.com/books?id=GNlFYAKTRNMC.
“I’m just following my instructions”: Haldeman, The Ends of Power, 37–39.
“I had been in Washington”: Vernon A. Walters, Silent Missions (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978), 588–89.
“I was totally aware”: Dean, Blind Ambition, 202.
“Holy shit”: Lukas, Nightmare, 247–48.
“I distinctly recall”: “Excerpts from Testimony.”
Gray seemed to understand he was doing something wrong: Sanford J. Ungar, FBI: An Uncensored Look Behind the Walls (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976), 532.
Chapter 16 “Keep My Mouth Shut”
“I would have understood it”: McLendon, Martha, 11.
The United Press article: United Press, “What Martha Said She Told John,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 1972, http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Watergate/Watergate%20Items%2000001%20to%2000180/Watergate%2000031.pdf.
Steve King: Quoted in “Steve King’s non-denial denial,” Xoff Files, August 5, 2006, archived at: https://web.archive.org/web/20160819063954/ http://thexofffiles.blogspot.com/2006/08/steve-kings-non-denial-denial.html
“They pulled down my pants”: McLendon, Martha, 15.
“If you could see me”: Ibid., 18.
The next day’s Daily News: Cadden, “Martha Mitchell.”
SOMEONE IN THE FBI: Gray, In Nixon’s Web, 74.
Decades after the fact: Holland, Leak, 35.
“warning to Gray”: W. Mark Felt and John D. O’Connor, A G-Man’s Life: The FBI, Being ‘Deep Throat,’ and the Struggle for Honor in Washington (New York: PublicAffairs, 2007), 198.
“The facts set forth”: Lano, “Watergate: Forty Years Later.”
“Keep my mouth shut”: Liddy, Will, 268.
“The longer you wait”: Summary of Information, 42.
“A hell of a lot of people”: Ibid.
“Investigation today turned up no evidence”: Robert B. Semple, Jr., “Mitchell Quits Post, Putting Family First,” New York Times, July 2, 1972, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/07/02/170545052.html.
“If my own investigation had turned up”: Robert B. Semple, Jr., “Mitchell Relaxes in New Office Only 50 Paces from His Old,” New York Times, July 8, 1972, http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Watergate/Watergate%20Items%2000001%20to%2000180/Watergate%2000057.pdf.
“She spent a million dollars”: Rosen, The Strong Man, 326.
Dean promptly called Felt: Inquiry Into the Alleged Involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Watergate and Ellsberg Matters: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Intelligence of the Committee on Armed Services, 94th Congr. 221 (1975), https://books.google.com/books?id=bgPSAAAAMAAJ.
The article on Hunt’s safe: Holland, Leak, 39.
Chapter 17 The Arrival of Mr. Rivers
“I was rumored to be”: Hunt, Undercover, 262.
“a story of deceit”: Szulc, Compulsive Spy, 159.
“Kalmbach gulped”: Dean, Blind Ambition, 123.
Bittman received an anonymous phone call: Hunt, Undercover, 269.
“Dean thinks you’re the man”: Ulasewicz, The President’s Private Eye, 251.
“Kalmbach was still the President’s attorney”: Ibid.
“I didn’t trust Dean”: Ibid.
Dorothy Hunt provided: Hunt, Undercover, 271.
Liddy received his own coded call: Liddy, Will, 270.
The private eye found himself: Ulasewicz, The President’s Private Eye, 258.
Columnist Joseph Kraft reminded: Joseph Kraft, “Wherein Dirty Work Is Encouraged,” Boston Globe, June 26, 1972, newspapers.com/image/435492927/.
“The story died like a fourth of July skyrocket”: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 422.
“I would’ve gone in a song”: Jeff Himmelman, Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee (New York: Random House, 2012), 151.
With his family, Woodward tried: Adrian Havill, Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing, 1993), 75.
“I had a long association with the President”: Inquiry Into the Alleged Involvement, 158.
“Dick Walters and I feel”: Presidential Campaign Activities of 1972, Senate Resolution 60: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. Vols. 7–9. 93rd Congr. 9:3462 (1973), https://books.google.com/books?id=2hf15pdgu78C.
