- RA Chapter Two AND Seventies Chapter One
- Some quotes:
One instruction that Haldeman noted from his boss: “Keep Anna Chennault working on SVN” — South Vietnam.
One intercepted message from Chennault to the South Vietnamese embassy was said to be from “her boss,” and it read, “Hold on, we are gonna win.”
To his dying day, Nixon insisted he had nothing to do with efforts to sabotage the 1968 peace talks. “My god,” he told Johnson on Nov. 3, 1968, “I would never do anything to encourage [South Vietnam] not to come to the table.” Farrell argues that that too was a lie, writing in the Times that "given the human lives at stake and the decade of carnage that followed in Southeast Asia, [his efforts to hurt the peace talks] may be more reprehensible than anything Nixon did in Watergate."
President Nixon to White House Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman (April 1969)- "You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks," Nixon told him. "The key is to devise a system that recognises that while not appearing to."
Lee Atwater, former chair of the Republican National Committee (1981)- "You start out in 1954 by saying, 'Nigger, nigger, nigger'. By 1968 you can't say 'nigger' – that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing [and] states' rights. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites … obviously sitting around saying, 'We want to cut this' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'nigger, nigger'."