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Nixon Rides the Backlash to Victory: Racial Politics in the 1968 Presidential Campaign

2001; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 64; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1540-6563.2002.tb01487.x

1540-6563

Jeremy D. Mayer,

American Political and Social Dynamics

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1. Marvin Watson to Johnson, 12 January 1967, box 77, Confidential Files, Lyndon Johnson Library, Austin, Tex. (hereafter Johnson).2. Harry McPherson, A Political Education (Boston, 1972), 450.3. Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1968 (New York, 1969), 239.4. John P. Roche to Johnson, 6 July 1967, box 77, Confidential Files, Johnson.5. “Memorandum for the Record,” Bryce N. Harlow, 28 December 1960, notes of 15 December 1960 meeting, box 55, Papers of Bryce Harlow, Dwight David Eisenhower Presidential Library, Abilene, Kans.6. Stephen Hess and David Broder, The Republican Establishment (New York, 1967), 167‐68; Jules Witcover, The Resurrection of Richard Nixon (New York, 1970), 72‐73; Stephen E. Ambrose, Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician (New York, 1989), 57.7. Hess and Broder, Republican Establishment, 180‐81.8. Ambrose, Nixon: Triumph of a Politician, 88‐89.9. “Wallace Cuts Into GOP Votes,”Los Angeles Times, 26 February 1967; Stephen Lesher, George Wallace: American Populist (New York, 1994), 389‐402; Marvin Watson (?) to Johnson, 6 June 1967, box 77, Confidential Files, Johnson.10. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., interview with author, 9 September 1999, New York City.11. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert F. Kennedy and His Times (Boston, 1978), 843‐57; David Halberstam, The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy (New York, 1969), 12.12. White, Making of the President, 202.13. Halberstam, Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy, 89‐90.14. “Democrats Fear Dr. King Will Run for President on Peace Ticket,”Philadelphia Inquirer, 25 April 1967; David J. Garrow, Bearing the Cross (New York, 1986).15. Halberstam, Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy, 197.16. Eugene McCarthy, interview with author, 6 April 2000, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Eugene McCarthy, Year of the People (New York, 1969); Halberstam, Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy, 187.17. Matt Nimetz to Joseph Califano, 28 May 1968, box 36, James Gaither Files, Johnson; Bayard Rustin, Oral History Project, 1969, Johnson; Adam Fairclough, To Redeem the South of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. (Athens, Ga., 1987), 364, 388; Ben W. Gilbert, Ten Blocks From the White House. (New York, 1968), 197.18. Joe McGinnis, The Selling of the President (New York, 1969), 190.19. White, Making of the President, 41‐42, 160‐61, 272‐73.20. “Meet the Press,” transcript, 18 August 1968, Hubert H. Humphrey, 1968 Presidential Campaign Files, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota; “Nixon Selects Gov. Agnew, Jolts Some in Liberal Wing,”Philadelphia Inquirer, 9 August 1968; “How Nixon Courted Southern Delegates in Secret Caucus,”Boston Globe, 8 August 1968; Ambrose, Nixon: Triumph of a Politician, 162‐63; Hess and Broder, Establishment, 358.21. Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 409.22. “Wallace's Message Matches Audience,”Washington Star, 12 September 1968, A1.23. “Issues and Answers,” transcript, 6 June 1968, box 5, 1968 Presidential Campaign Files, George Wallace Collection, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Ala. (hereafter GWC).24. “Issues and Answers,” transcript, 3 November, 1968, box 5, 1968 Presidential Campaign Files, GWC; Lesher, George Wallace: American Populist, 413.25. Dan Carter, The Politics of Rage (New York, 1995), 366.26. Mike Royko, Boss (New York, 1971), 144.27. Jim Johnson, Arkansas Telecast, 3 April 1968, “Election Misc. Folder,” box 5, Presidential Campaign Files, George Wallace Collection; John J. Synon, “Speech by John J. Synon,” Wallace For President Rally, Lancaster County, Va., 19 October 1968, Synon File, box 22, GWC.28. William G. Lulloff, “An Analysis of Selected Issues in the 1968 and 1972 Presidential Campaigns and the Campaign Speaking of Candidate George C. Wallace” (master's thesis, University of Wisconsin‐Eau Claire, 1974), 26.29. Lesher, George Wallace: American Populist, 395, 405.30. “Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey as Interviewed by Bill Burns KDKA,” 14 September 1968, Pittsburgh Pa., Humphrey: 1968 Campaign Files; “Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey to Pittsburgh Area College Newspaper Editors on WTAE‐TV,” 13 September 1968, ibid.31. “Agnew Solves His Identity Problem,”Denver Post, 13 September 1968.32. “KRON TV,” interview transcript, 26 September 1968, San Francisco, Calif., Humphrey: 1968 Campaign Files; “Vice President's Press Conference on the Beach,” 13 September 1968, ibid.33. McGinnis, Selling of the President, 23, 101, 125, 251‐53.34. Bayard Rustin, Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin (Chicago, 1971), 242; “Negro Newspaper Endorses Nixon,”Washington Star, 11 August 1968; Lesher, George Wallace: American Populist, 403; Ambrose, Nixon, Triumph of a Politician, 124, 158; Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 321, 297; McGinnis, Selling of the President, 98.35. Lewis Chester et al., An American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968 (New York, 1969), 149.36. Timothy J. Thurber, The Politics of Equality: Hubert H. Humphrey and the African American Freedom Struggle (New York, 1999), 216‐19; Edgar Berman, Hubert (New York, 1979), 199; White, Making of the President, 352.37. “Red Neck New York: Is this Wallace Country?”New York, 17 October 1968, 22‐27.38. “Memorandum on Wallace Impact,” NA, N. Dak., Humphrey: 1968 Campaign Files; Bob Klein to John Stewart and all top campaign staff, Humphrey: 1968 Campaign Files; Thurber, Politic of Equality, 216; White, Making of the President, 434.39. “Nixon Assails Wallace,”St. Louis Post Dispatch, 8 October 1968, 4; “Nixon's Like‐‐‐Thurmond,”Atlanta Constitution, 24 October 1968, 1; Carter, Rage, 347, 363.40. “Nixon Admits Wallace's Existence,”Minneapolis Star, 8 October 1968, 1A.41. “Press Conference of Vice President Humphrey En Route to Las Vegas,” 24 October 1968, Humphrey: 1968 Campaign Files.42. White, Making of the President, 425; “Nixon Assails Wallace,”St. Louis Post Dispatch, 8 October 1968.43. Harry Dent to Nixon, 13 October 1969, White House Special Files, Staff Member and Office Files, Harry S. Dent, box 2, “Memos to the President” File, Nixon Project, National Archives and Records Administration, Bethesda Maryland.