Episode Bibliography

Books:

• Richard Nixon: the life, by John Farrell, 2017

• Grassroots: The Autobiography of George McGovern, by George McGovern, 1977

• The Liberals’ Moment, by Bruce Miroff, 2007

• Nixonland, by Rick Perlstein, 2008

• Almost President, by Scott Farris, 2013

• The Eighteen-Day Running Mate, by Joshua Glasser, 2012

• Right from the Start, by Gary Hart, 1973

• The Long Shot, by Gordon Weil, 1973

• Political Legacies of Barry Goldwater and George McGovern, by Jeffrey Volle, 2010

Articles:

• POLITICO Magazine, “When a Candidate Conspired With a Foreign Power to Win An Election,” August 2017

• POLITICO Magazine, “Anna Chennault: The Secret Go-Between Who Helped Tip the 1968 Election,” December 2018

• New York Times, “Vietnam Breakthrough,” October 1968

• New York Times, “Thieu Says Saigon Cannot Join Paris Talks Under Present Plan,” November 1968

• New York Times, “Nixon Tried to Spoil Johnson’s Vietnam Peace Talks in ’68, Notes Show,” January 2017

• Miller Center at the University of Virginia, “Richard Nixon: Foreign Affairs”

• Miller Center at the University of Virginia, “Vietnamization”

• State Department Office of the Historian, “Strategic Arms Limitations Talks/Treaties (SALT) I and II”

• POLITICO, “U.S. military draft ends, Jan. 27, 1973,” January 2012

• Vanity Fair, “Fresh from the Archives: More Dirty Tricks,” September 2009

• Washington Post, Watergate Coverage, June 1972 – August 1974

• New York Times, “’We Have A Whole New Can of Worms,’” October 1973

• Washington Post, “George Meany, 85, Giant of U.S. Labor Movement,” January 1980

• Salon, “George McGovern, He Deserved Better,” October 2012

• New York Times, “Eagleton Says Allegation of Drunken Driving Is Lie,” July 1972

• New York Times, “Hasty and Ruinous 1972 Pick Colors Today’s Hunt for a No. 2,” July 2012

• The New Republic, “‘Acid, Amnesty, and Abortion’: The Unlikely Source of a Legendary Smear,” October 2012

• New York Times, “McGovern Names Jet The ‘Dakota Queen 2,’” September 1972

• New York Times, “McGovern With Tears,” November 1972

• Washington Post, “When Did Black Americans Start Voting So Heavily Democratic?” July 2015

• New York Times, “Desertion Rate Doubles,” November 1972

• New York Times, “Renewed Strife of the Democrats,” December 1972

• Cato Institute, “Was Clinton More Conservative Than Bush?” July 2002

• Christian Science Monitor, “Why Bill Clinton Could Never Be the Democratic Nominee Today,” February 2016

• The Atlantic, “The Emerging Democratic Majority Turns 10,” November 2012

• New York Times, “Nixon's Popularity in Gallup Poll Declines to 31%, the Lowest Point for an American President in 20 Years,” August 1973

• New York Times, “George McGovern Dies at 90, a Liberal Trounced But Never Silenced,” October 2012

Studies and Other Primary Sources:

• Gallup, Iraq Vs. Vietnam: a Comparison of Public Opinion, August 2005

• History in Pieces, Nixon’s Presidential Approval Ratings

• White House Memo, Dividing the Democrats, October 1971

• Committee for the Re-election of the President Memo, The McGovern Campaign, by Ken Rietz, June 1972

• Arthur Miller, Warren Miller, Alden Raine, Thad Brown, American Political Science Review, A Majority Party in Disarray: Policy Polarization in the 1972 Election. American Political Science Review, 1976

• Brookings Institute, Average Ideology of the House and Senate 1947-2014, July 2013

• Center for American Progress, State of Change, June 2019

• David Knoke and Michael Hout, American Sociological Review, Social and Demographic Factors in American Political Party Affiliations, 1952-72, 1974

• Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, Gender Differences in Turnout

Oral Histories:

• Miller Center, George McGovern Oral History

Historical speeches, news footage, and other archival tape excerpted in the episode were gathered from:

• Alexander Street Media

• Center for Sacramento History

• CSPAN

• LBJ Presidential Library

• Miller Center at University of Virginia

• Museum of the Moving Image

• Ronald Reagan Library

• UC Berkeley

• Vanderbilt Television News Archive

• Washington Post

• YouTube