Kati Marton (68 page)

Many others helped me along the way. I wish to thank: Penny Adams, Roger Ailes, Jonathan Alter, Joe Armstrong, Thomas “Lud” Ashley, Jenny Lyn Bader, Richard Beattie, Paul Begala, Mike Berman, Richard Bernstein, Michael Beschloss, Soma Golden Behr (for title inspiration), Ann Blackman, Robert Boorstin, Benjamin Bradlee, Alan Brinkley, Douglas Brinkley, Tom Brokaw, William Broyles, Jr., Susan Burden, Marian Burros, Gahl Hodges Burt, Horace Busby, Barbara Bush, George Bush, Pat Caddell, Tom Caplan, Lisa Caputo, Margaret Carlson, Robert Caro, Liz Carpenter, Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, Ellen Chessler, Clark Clifford, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Richard Cohen, Joan Ganz Cooney, John Milton Cooper, Paul Costello, Edward Cox, George Crile, Lloyd Cutler, Margaret Truman Daniel, Michael Deaver, Tom Donilon, Lisa Drew, Kenneth Duberstein, Robin Duke, Barrie Dunsmore, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Paul Fay, Frances FitzGerald, Marlin Fitzwater, Linda Bird Francke, Craig Fuller, David Gergen, Mary Ellen Glynn, Ruth Goldway, Henry F. Graff, Katharine Graham, Meg Greenfield, Mandy Grunwald, Charles Guggenheim, Richard Haas, Kitty Hart, Jane Stanton Hitchcock, Barbara Howar, Maxine Isaacs, Ellen James, Linda Leroy Janklow, Morton Janklow, James A. Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, Lynda Bird Johnson, Ann Jordan, Vernon Jordan, David Kennerly, Betty King, Gwendolyn King, Henry Kissinger, Joe Klein, Thomas Knock, Steve Kroft, Raymond Lamontagne, Trude Lash, Ellen Levine, Arthur Stanley Link, David Maraniss, Patricia Mattson, Ann McDaniel, Harry McPherson, Harry Middleton, Walter F. Mondale, Brian Mulrooney, Mila Mulrooney, Bunny Murdoch, Verne Newton, Peggy Noonan, Peter Osnos, Alan J. Pakula, Anna Perez, Peter G. Peterson,
Jane Plakias, Jody Powell, Sally Quinn, Donnie Radcliffe, Gerald Rafshoon, Steven Rattner, Nancy Reagan, Richard Reeves, Nancy Reynolds, Frank Rich (for special help with my subtitle), Steven Ricchetti, Dorothy Rodham, Susan Porter Rose, Andrew Rosenthal, Dr. Mitchell Rosenthal, Winthrop Rutherfurd III, Morley Safer, Pierre Salinger, Diane Sawyer, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Doug Schoen, Rex Scouten, Donna Shalala, Brooke Shearer, Derek Shearer, Martha Sherrill, Tom Siebert, Liz Smith, Ted Sorensen, Stuart Spencer, Lesley Stahl, George Stephanopoulos, Ann Stock, Strobe Talbott, Helen Thomas, Betty Tilson, Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Jack Valenti, William J. Vanden Heuvel, Melanne Verveer, Mike Wallace, Barbara Walters, Margaret Warner, Sheila Weidenfeld, Sherrie Rollins Westin, Maureen White, Kate Roosevelt Whitney, Hal Wingo, Alex Witchel and Bob Woodward.

Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt, still unmarried, in Philadelphia, October 9, 1915. ©
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Woodrow and Edith Wilson, March 21, 1920. ©
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The Roosevelts, Easter Sunday, 1941. ©
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Franklin, Eleanor and Sarah Delano Roosevelt, circa 1920. ©
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Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, circa 1933. ©
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The Trumans in Kansas City, Missouri, December 30, 1949. ©
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Harry and Bess Truman, April 15, 1942. ©
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The Kennedys leave Otis Air Force Base Hospital in Massachusetts after the death of their son Patrick, August 14, 1963. ©
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Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy with André Malraux, May 11, 1962. ©
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Jacqueline Kennedy and her children, November 25, 1963. ©
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The Johnsons leaving Washington for their Texas ranch, August 25, 1955. ©
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Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, May 17, 1966. ©
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The Nixons in Skidway, Georgia, October 12, 1970. ©
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Richard and Pat Nixon, July 12, 1952. ©
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The Fords on their wedding day, October 15, 1948.
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Jerry and Betty Ford, December 4, 1976. ©
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The Carters on their campaign plane, October 24, 1976. ©
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Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, December 24, 1980. ©
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The Reagans at their ranch in the Malibu Mountains, California, 1956. ©
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Ronald and Nancy Reagan, September 30, 1982. ©
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The Bushes at the White House on November 4, 1992, before the election results were in. ©
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George and Barbara Bush, January 6, 1945.
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The Clintons campaigning in Independence, Missouri, September 7, 1992. ©
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Bill and Hillary Clinton, August 14, 2000. ©
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George W. and Laura Bush on Inauguration Day, 2001. ©
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Kati Marton is the author of six works of nonfiction—including
Hidden Power
,
Wallenberg
,
A Death in Jerusalem
, and
The Polk Conspiracy
—and a novel,
An American Woman
. She has written for
The New Yorker
,
The New York Times
,
The Atlantic Monthly
,
Vanity Fair
, and
The New Republic
. A former correspondent for National Public Radio and ABC News, Marton received a George Foster Peabody Award for broadcast journalism. She lives in New York City with her husband.

THE GREAT ESCAPE

ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE

HIDDEN POWER

WALLENBERG

AN AMERICAN WOMAN

THE POLK CONSPIRACY

A DEATH IN JERUSALEM