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Authors: James MacGregor Burns
[“
Vanguarditis
”]: Carl Oglesby, “Notes on a Decade Ready for the Dustbin,”
Liberation,
August-September 1969, p. 6. [“
A weapon
”]: Miller, p. 285.
[
SDS Chicago convention
]: Sale, pp. 557-79; Karin Ashley et al., “You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows,” in Harold Jacobs, ed.,
Weatherman
(Ramparts Press, 1970), pp. 51-90; Andrew Kopkind, “The Real SDS Stands Up,” in ibid., pp. 15-28; Zaroulis and Sullivan, pp. 251-55.
[“
A peculiar mix
”]: Sale, p. 562.
422
[
Flacks on disintegration of the New Left
]: Flacks,
Youth and Social Change
(Markham, 1971), p. 101.
[“
Go for broke
”]: Nixon,
Memoirs,
p. 393.
[“
Once the summer was over
”]
: ibid.
[
Administration deadline threats and plans for major offensive
] : see Hersh,
Price,
ch. 10
passim;
Szulc, pp. 149-56; Morris, pp. 163-68; Nixon,
Memoirs,
pp. 393-96, 405-7
passim
; Kissinger,
White House Years,
pp. 284-86, 303-4.
[
Moratorium day
]:
New York Times,
October 16, 1969, pp. 1, 18-22;
Time,
vol. 94, no. 17 (October 24, 1969), pp. 16-20; Zaroulis and Sullivan, pp. 264-73; Schell, pp. 52-55; Nixon,
Memoirs,
pp. 400-3.
423
[“
Flame of life
”]: quoted in
New York Times,
October 16, 1969, p. 19.
[“
This is my son
”]: quoted in
Newsweek,
vol. 74, no. 17 (October 27, 1969), p. 32.
[
Nixon
’
s address
]: November 3, 1969, in
Nixon Public Papers,
vol. 1, pp. 901-9, quoted at pp. 908, 909; see also Schell, pp. 62-66; Nixon,
Memoirs,
pp. 407-11. [
November 1969 demonstrations
]:
New York Times,
November 14, 1969, pp. 1, 20-21;
ibid.,
November 15, 1969, pp. 1, 26-27;
ibid.,
November 16, 1969, pp. 1, 60-61; Zaroulis and Sullivan, pp. 276-300
passim; Time,
vol. 94, no. 21, (November 21, 1969), pp. 23-26.
424
[
Lon Nol coup
]: see Shawcross, ch. 8; Hersh,
Price,
ch. 15; Kissinger,
White House Years,
pp.457-65; Norodom Sihanouk and Wilfred Burchett,
My War with the CIA
(Pantheon, 1973).
[
North Vietnamese Cambodian
“
sanctuaries
”]: Shawcross, ch. 1
passim,
pp. 64-72; Duiker, pp. 283-84; see also Roger M. Smith,
Cambodia
’
s Foreign Policy
(Cornell University Press, 1965).
424
[
Invasion of Cambodia
]: Shawcross, ch. 9, pp. 150-51, 171-75; Herring, pp. 234-37;Karnow, pp. 606-10; Szulc, pp. 244-49, 252-75, 279-84; Nixon,
Memoirs,
pp. 448-51; Duiker, pp. 285-88; Hugh Sidey, “Anybody See
Patton
?” in Lloyd C. Gardner,
The Great Nixon Turnaround
(New Viewpoints, 1973), pp. 183-86; Kissinger,
White House Years,
pp. 467-75, 483-509, 517-20; Hersh,
Price,
ch. 16.
[“
If, when the chips are down
”]: April 30, 1970, in
Nixon Public Papers,
vol. 2, pp. 405-10, quoted at p. 409; see also Shawcross, pp. 146-49; Schell, pp. 89-95.
424-5
[
Protests against invasion
]:
New York Times,
May 2, 1970, pp. 1, 9;
ibid.
, May 5, 1970, pp. l, 17-18;
Time,
vol. 95, no. 19 (May 11, 1970), pp. 19-25;
ibid.,
vol. 95, no. 20 (May 18, 1970), pp. 6-15; Zaroulis and Sullivan, pp. 318-31; Sale, pp. 635-42; Shawcross, pp. 152-53; Kissinger,
White House Years,
pp. 509-17; U.S. President’s Commission on Campus Unrest,
Report
(Arno Press, 1970), pp. 233-465; James A. Michener,
Kent State: What Happened and Why
(Random House, 1971); I. F. Stone,
The Killings at Kent State: How Murder Went Unpunished
(New York Review, 1971); Nixon,
Memoirs,
pp. 456-59.
425
[“
You see these bums
”]; quoted in
New York Times,
May 2, 1970, p. 1; see also Nixon,
Memoirs,
pp. 453-56.
[
Veterans
’
occupation of Statue of Liberty
]:
New York Times,
December 27, 1971, pp. 1, 21;
ibid.,
December 29, 1971, p. 32; see also John Kerry and Vietnam Veterans Against the War,
The New Soldier,
David Thorne and George Butler, eds. (Macmillan, 1971); Zaroulis and Sullivan, pp. 354-58; Vietnam Veterans Against the War,
The Winter Soldier Investigation
(Beacon Press, 1972).
[
Pentagon Papers publication
]:
New York Times,
June 13, 1971, pp. 1, 35-40;
The Pentagon Papers: The Defense Department History of United States Decisionmaking on Vietnam,
4 vols., and index vol. (Senator Gravel, ed.: Beacon Press, 1971-72); Neil Sheehan et al.,
The Pentagon Papers: As Published by the New York Times
(Bantam, 1971); George McT. Kahin,
“The Pentagon Papers:
A Critical Evaluation,”
American Political Science Review,
vol. 69, no. 2 (June 1975), pp. 675-84; H. Bradford Westerfield, “What Use Are Three Versions of the Pentagon Papers?,”
ibid.,
pp. 685-96; Stewart Burns interview with Randy Kehler, August 1976; Peter Schrag,
Test of Loyalty: Daniel Ellsberg and the Rituals of Secret Government
(Simon and Schuster, 1974), pp. 35-37, 45-65, 80-100; Hersh,
Price,
pp. 325-32; Schell, pp. 151-54; David Halberstam,
The Powers That Be
(Knopf, 1979), ch. 22
passim;
Harrison E. Salisbury,
Without Fear or Favor:
The New York Times
and Its Times
(Times Books, 1980).
[
Ellsberg
]: Stewart Burns interviews with Daniel Ellsberg, October 29, 1976, December 16, 1977, October 5, 1978; Ellsberg talk in Santa Rita county jail, Pleasanton, Calif., June 26, 1983; Robert Ellsberg, “On Daniel Ellsberg; Remembering the Pentagon Papers,”
1976 Peace Calendar
(War Resisters League); Daniel Ellsberg,
Papers on the War
(Simon and Schuster, 1972); Schrag, pp. 24-54
passim.
426
[“
Concept of enemy doesn
’
t exist
”]: Janaki Tschannerl, quoted in Daniel Ellsberg talk at Isla Vista, Calif., May 13, 1975.
[“
Guilt-ridden, fanatic extremists
”]: “An Interview with Daniel Ellsberg,”
WIN,
November 1, 1972, quoted at p. 7.
[“
Lots of people around the world
”]: transcribed in
Liberation & Revolution: Gandhi
’
s Challenge,
Report of the Thirteenth Triennial Conference of the War Resisters’ International (War Resisters’ International, 1969), p. 107.
[“
Our best, our very best
”]: Anthony Lukas, “After the Pentagon Papers: A Month in the Life of Daniel Ellsberg,”
New York Times Magazine,
December 12, 1971, pp. 29, 95, 98-106, quoted at p. 106.
[
Supreme Court decision on Pentagon Papers
]:
New York Times Co.
v.
U.S.,
403 U.S. 713 (1970); see also Schrag, pp. 92-100.
[
Nixon
’
s war on Ellsberg
]: Anthony Lukas,
Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years
(Viking, 1976), ch. 4
passim;
Hersh,
Price, ch.
28; Schrag, pp. 100-24 and
passim;
Schell, pp. 161-68; Nixon,
Memoirs,
pp. 511-15; Jim Hougan,
Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA
(Random House, 1984), ch. 3;
Nixon Impeachment: Report,
pp. 36, 157-70. [“
Tailor-made issue
”]: quoted in
Nixon Impeachment: Report,
p. 158.
Songs of the Sixties
426
[
Woodstock
]: Cook,
Beat Generation,
pp. 230-39, quoted at p. 230; Robert S. Spitz,
Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969
(Viking, 1979), pp. 389-486; Andrew Kopkind, “Woodstock Nation,” in Jonathan Eisen, ed.,
The Age of Rock: Sights and Sounds of the American Cultural Revolution
(Random House, 1969-70), vol. 2, pp. 312-18.
[Life
on Woodstock
]: “The Big Woodstock Rock Trip,”
Life,
vol. 67, no. 9 (August 29, 1969), pp. 14B-23, quoted at p. 14B.
[
Roots of rock
’
n
’
roll
]: Ed Ward, “The Fifties and Before,” in Ward, Geoffrey Stokes, Ken Tucker,
Rock of Ages
(Rolling Stone Press (Prentice-Hall, 1986), pp. 17-248; Carl Belz,
The Story of Rock
(Oxford University Press, 1969), chs. 2-3; Howard Junker, “The Fifties,” in Eisen, vol. 2, pp. 98-104; Charlie Gillett,
The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll
(Outerbridge and Dienstfrey, 1970), ch. 1; Nik Cohn,
Rock from the Beginning
(Stein & Day, 1969), chs. 1, 4.
[
Black originals and white covers
]: Arnold Shaw,
The Rockin
’ ’
50s
(Hawthorn, 1974), ch. 14; on racism in music, see Steve Chappie and Reebee Garofalo,
Rock
’
n
’
Roll Is Here to Pay: The History and Politics of the Music industry
(Nelson-Hall, 1977), ch. 7.
[“
Little men with cigars
”]: quoted in Jerry Hopkins,
The Rock Story
(Signet, 1970), p. 24; on the rock industry, see Michael Lydon, “Rock for Sale,” in Eisen, vol. 2, pp. 51-62; Chappie and Garofalo, ch. 2 and
passim.
427-8
[“
Stem the tide
”]: A. M. Meerio, quoted in Hopkins, p. 31.
428
[
Boston Catholic leaders and San Antonio city council
]:
ibid.
[“
I need it
”]: “Honey Love,” quoted in
ibid.,
p. 18, words and music by Clyde McPhatter and J. Gerald, copyright 1954, Progressive Music Publishing Co., Inc. [“
Wop-bop-a-loo-bop
”]: “Tutti Frutti,” recorded by Little Richard, words and music by Richard Penniman, D. LaBostrie, and Joe Lubin, Venice Music, Inc., Specialty Records.
[“
Shared with adults
”]: Cohn, p. 15.
[“
Something in common
”]: Janet Podell, ed.,
Rock Music in America
(H. W. Wilson Co., 1987), p. 5.
[“
Culturally alienated
”]: Jeff Greenfield, “They Changed Rock, Which Changed Culture, Which Changed Us,”
New York Times Magazine,
February 16, 1975, pp. 12-13, 37-46, quoted at p. 38.
[
Folk music
]: R. Serge Denisoff,
Great Day Coming: Folk Music and the American Left
(University of Illinois Press, 1971); Denisoff and Richard A. Peterson, eds.,
The Sounds of Social Change: Studies in Popular Culture
(Rand McNally College Publishing Co., 1972
), passim;
Wayne Hampton,
Guerrilla Minstrels: John Lennon, Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan
(University of Tennessee Press, 1986).
[
Dylan
]: Wilfrid Howard Mellers,
A Darker Shade of Pale: A Backdrop to Bob Dylan
(Oxford University Press, 1985); Robert Shelton,
No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan
(Morrow, 1986); Lawrence Goldman, “Bobby Dylan—Folk-Rock Hero,” in Eisen, vol. 1, pp. 208-13; Ellen Willis, “The Sound of Bob Dylan,”
Commentary,
vol. 44, no. 5 (November 1967), pp. 71-78; Hampton, ch. 6; Cohn, ch. 17.
[“
Hungry, restless
”]: Goldman, p. 211. [“
Greatest holiest
”]: quoted in Hampton, pp. 152-53.
[“
Blowing in the Wind
”]: quoted in Willis, p. 73, initially recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary, words and music by Bob Dylan, copyright 1962, M. Witmark and Sons, Warner Brothers Records.
429
[“
Established topical song
”]:
ibid.,
p. 73.
[“
Musical great white hope
”]: Denisoff,
Great Day Coming,
p. 181.
[
Dylan at Newport, 1965
]: Shelton, pp. 301-4, “Play folk music!” quoted at p. 302; Hampton, pp. 176-78; Paul Wolfe, Dylan’s Sellout of the Left,” in Denisoff and Peterson, pp. 147-150.
[“
If Whitman were alive
”]: quoted in Willis, p. 77.
[
Release of forty-eight Dylan originals
]: Hopkins, p. 83.
[
The Beatles
]: Hunter Davies,
The Beatles,
rev. ed. (McGraw-Hill, 1978); Wilfrid Howard,
Twilight of the Gods: The Music of the Beatles
(Schirmer Books, 1973); Geoffrey Stokes,
The Beatles
(Times Books, 1980); Jon Wiener,
Come Together: John Lennon in His Time
(Random House, 1984); Hopkins, ch. 15; Ned Rorem, “The Music of the Beatles,”
New York Review of Books,
vol. 10, no. 1 (January 18, 1968), pp. 23-27.
429
[“
Most persistent noises
”]:
Newsweek,
quoted in Hopkins, p. 70.
430
[“
Not even for kings and queens!
”]:
ibid.
[“
You really do believe
”]: quoted in Davies, p. 198.
[“
Mainstream of mass culture
”]: Willis, p. 76.
[“
Twentieth century working-class songs
”]: Hopkins, p. 79; on the Rolling Stones, see David Dallon,
The Rolling Stones: The First Twenty Years
(Knopf, 1981); Stanley Booth,
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
(Vintage, 1985); Hopkins, pp. 79-80.
[“
Asked for their pants
”]: Hopkins, p. 79.
[
Reagan
’
s pop music appreciation
]: see Fred Bruning, “The Reagans and the Beach Boys,”
Maclean
’
s,
vol. 96, no. 18 (May 2, 1983), p. 13.
[
San Francisco rock
]: Hopkins, ch. 7; Belz, pp. 197-208; Cohn, ch. 12; Lar Tusb, “West Coast Then … and Now,” in Eisen, vol. 2, pp. 251-56.
[“
LSD experience without the LSD
”]: Hopkins, p. 92.
[“
1-2-3 What are we fightin
’
for
”]: “I Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag,” quoted in
ibid.,
pp. 97-98, recorded by Joe McDonald, words and lyrics by Joe McDonald, copyright 1965, Alkatraz Music Co.