George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography - Get a Free Blog

48. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 1042.
49. Fitzhugh Green, p. 135.
50. The Final days, p. 368.
51. The Final Days, p. 369.
52. For the "smoking gun" transcript of June 23, 1972, see Washington Post, August 6, 1974.
53. H. R. Haldeman, The Ends of Power (New York, 1978), p. 64.
54. The Final Days, p. 374.
55. Available accounts of Nixon's last cabinet meeting are fragmentary, but see: RN: The Memoirs of
Richard Nixon, p. 1066; The Final Days, pp. 386-389; Theodore H. White, Breach of Faith: The Fall of
Richard Nixon (New York, 1975), p. 24; Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, pp. 1202-1203; J. Anthony
Lukas, Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (New York, 1976), pp 558-559. These have been
collated for the account offered here.
56. The ostensible full text of this letter is found in Nicholas King, George Bush: A Biography (New York,
1980), p. 87. Vic Gold gives only seven lines of excerpts. Fitzhugh Green, in his post November 1988
hagiography, liquidates the matter in fewer than five lines. In each case the calculating eye of the public
relations man is observing the reader like the sucker in a medicine show. Apparently Bush's handlers
concluded that there was less and less to gain from distancing their candidate from Nixon; perhaps their
polls were showing that popular resentment of Nixon had somewhat declined.
57. Maurice H. Stans, The Terrors of Justice: The Untold Side of Watergate, p. 66.