60. Jeffrey Kimball, Nixon's Vietnam War (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998), 2829 and 25556.

61. "DCI Richard M. Helms and President Richard Nixon," October 8, 1971, OVAL 587007a, nixontapes.org,

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62. Hunt, a retired CIA officer who worked as a "security consultant" for the Nixon White House, organized the botched break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel. Police found an address book on one of the burglars containing Hunt's name and a White House phone number. It was the first of many clues that led to the unraveling of the Nixon presidency.

63. Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon, 3067; Richard Reeves, President Kennedy: Profile of Power (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993), 577.

64. Colson denied it, saying he had been "misunderstood" by Hunt. See Martin Arnold, "Hunt Says Colson Ordered Forged Data in Diem Death" and "Colson Issues Denial," New York Times, May 8, 1973. Given Colson's role in many Nixon White House dirty tricks, it might be best not to take this denial at face value.

65. Interview with John Dean, June 2, 2013; Bernard Gwertzman, "Hunt Was Given Access to 240 Vietnam Cables," New York Times, May 9, 1973.

66. Richard Nixon, "Farewell Address, August 8, 1974," PBS American Experience,

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67. Stephen Ambrose, Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 197390 (New York: Touchstone, 1991), 196.

68. Richard Nixon to John Ehrlichman, March 4, 1973, President's Personal Files, Box 4, Folder, "Memos-March 1973," Richard Nixon Library, Yorba Linda, California. Recently released documents show that the Kennedys did in fact authorize the use of unlawful wiretaps from time to time to spy on journalists in order to uncover their sources. For example, in the summer of 1963 Bobby Kennedy pressured CIA director John McCone into bugging the home and office telephones of Paul Scott, a syndicated columnist who had raised uncomfortable questions about Cuba during a press conference with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Scott's son has attempted for years to force the CIA to reveal all that it knows about the operation codenamed Mockingbird. The agency has only partially complied with the younger Scott's requests. See Ian Shapira, "Long-ago Wiretap Inspires a Battle with the CIA for More Information," Washington Post, March 2, 2013,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/long-ago-wiretap-inspires-a-battle-with-the-cia-for-more-information/2013/03/02/8ebaa924-77bo-ne2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html?hpid=z3

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69. Richard Nixon to Alexander Haig, July 7, 1973, President's Personal Files, Box 4, Folder, "Memos-July 1973," Richard Nixon Library, Yorba Linda, California.

70. Nixon had claimed separately that he was bugged while running for California governor in 1962, presumably by the Kennedys. See the Nixon Tapes Transcripts, Watergate Collection, Friday, September 15, 1972, 5:24 P.M.6:17 P.M., Oval Office, Miller Center website, University of Virginia,

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71. Richard Nixon, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978), 62829 and 872.

72. Bruce Kehrli to Ron Ziegler, February 27, 1973, President's Office Files, Box 20, Folder "President's Handwriting, January 1973," Richard Nixon Library, Yorba Linda, California; Nixon, RN, 910.

73. Interview with John Dean, June 2, 2013; Ambrose, Ruin and Recovery, 417.

74. Ford actually entitled his memoirs A Time to Heal (New York: Harper and Row, 1979).

75. Ford, Time to Heal, 180.

76. Ibid., 76.

77. Ibid., 22930.

78. Rockefeller Commission Report, chapter 19, page 269, "Allegations Concerning the Assassination of President Kennedy," History Matters website,

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79. David R. Wrone, The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK's Assassination (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003), 969.

80. Rockefeller Commission Report, chapter 19, p. 262, "Allegations Concerning the Assassination of President Kennedy," History Matters website,

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81. Republican senator John Tower of Texas was the vice chair.

82. "Historical Minute Essays, 1964Present," United States Senate website,

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83. The general public first became aware of the plots to kill Castro when the Church Committee released Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Performance of the Intelligence Agencies (also known as the Schweiker-Hart Report). "With the public disclosure of these plots, the idea that Castro 'struck back' gained prominence with many at the time." See Book V, The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Performance of the Intelligence Agencies, Assassination Archives and Research Center website,

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84. See "More Disclosures by Kennedy Friend Promised," New York Times, December 20, 1975; William Chapman, "Sinatra Seen Link Between Woman, Kennedy," Washington Post, December 19, 1975; and Bill Hazlett, "John Kennedy's Mystery Woman Tells Her Story," Los Angeles Times, December 18, 1975. Two years later, Campbell published a tell-all account of her affair with JFK entitled My Story (New York: Grove Press, 1977).

85. Ben Bradlee of Newsweek magazine, for example, never disclosed what he knew about JFK's extramarital affairs. See my book Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics (New York: Free Press, 1991), 42. In 1975, Bradlee published Conversations with Kennedy, which hinted at a darker side of Camelot without offering any specifics. The Newsweek review of Bradlee's book included this memorable line: "[JFK] swore like a bosun, and-at least from a wishful distance-admired a well-turned ankle." Bradlee knew full well that JFK did not just admire women's ankles from a distance. See Peter Goldman, "A Fond Memoir of JFK," Newsweek, March 17, 1975, p. 24.

86. In 1976, Joan and Clay Blair, Jr., published The Search for J.F.K., which included, among other things, information on the Kennedys' cover-up of JFK's health problems and the president's vigorous womanizing. Thomas C. Reeves, A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy (New York: Free Press, 1991), 78.

87. "John F. Kennedy's Secret Sex Life While President," Library of Congress website,

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010646178/

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