“public really best served”: “The Anderson Files,” NYT (April 24, 2006), A18; “rifling Anderson’s corpse”: “Secrecy Extends Beyond the Grave,” Austin American-Statesman (April 22, 2006), A22; “rest in peace”: “The FBI’s Paper Chase,” Chicago Tribune (May 11, 2006), editorial page; “although seriously dead”: Molly Ivins, “Jack Anderson Investigation,” Portland Oregonian (April 30, 2006), E6.
“any truth” to “all the Andersons”: transcript, Senate Judiciary Committee hearings (June 6, 2006); forced the administration to back off: Lara Jakes Jordan, “FBI No Longer Seeks Leaked Documents,” AP (Jan. 4, 2007).
anti american traitor: e-mail, G. Gordon Liddy to James Grady (Nov. 20, 2006), JAP.
film footage: John Roberts, “Battle over Secrets,” CNN (April 20, 2006) and Bob Orr, “FBI and Family,” CBS Evening News (April 19, 2006); memoir excerpts: Peter Edidin, “One Man’s Secret Is Another Man’s Scoop,” NYT (April 23, 2006), D5; “Back in the day”: “The FBI’s Fishing Trip,” San Francisco Chronicle (April 25, 2006), B6; “their fight continues”: “Release the Anderson Files,” Deseret Morning News (April 22, 2006), editorial page.
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PRIMARY SOURCES
Oral history interviews with author
Tyler Abell, Dotti Ackerman, Hank Adams, Gordon Anderson, Jack Anderson, Jodi Anderson, Kevin Anderson, Olivia Anderson, Teri Anderson, Warren Anderson, Scott Armstrong, Inderjit Badhwar, David Bagley, F. Don Bailey, Robert G. “Bobby” Baker, Bernard Barker, Dick Bast, Mike Binstein, James Boyd, Benjamin C. Bradlee, Jeff Brindle, Laurie Bruch, John E. Byrne, Tony Capaccio, Dwight Chapin, Garry Clifford, Jack Cloherty, Faye Cohen, Sheldon Cohen, Anita Collins, I. Irving Davidson, Lynne Davidson, Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, Sally Denton, Richard Dudman, Thomas Eagleton, Daniel Ellsberg, Ray Fritsch, Frank Gibbons, Daryl Gibson, Seymour Glanzer, Barbara Godfrey, Victor Gold, Don Goldberg, Lucianne Goldberg, Peggy Gooding, James Grady, Bob Greene, Bill Gruver, Bill Haddad, Margaret Herring, Seymour Hersh, Stephen Hess, Clark Hoyt, Brit Hume, E. Howard Hunt, Dennis Hyten, Robert Jackson, Sanford Jorgensen, Marvin Kalb, Michael J. Kelley, Mike Kiernan, Darwin Knudsen, Howard Kurtz, Melvin Laird, Lilly Fallah Lawrence, George Lardner, Terry Lenzner, Lee Levine, Jerome Levinson, Ernest Linger, Cheri Loveless, Robert Maheu, Scott Maier, Frank Mankiewicz, Robert Mardian, Geneva Mayfield, Earl Mazo, Colman McCarthy, Frank McCulloch, George McGovern, Alan McSurely, James Mintz, Morton Mintz, Jack Mitchell, Linda Morgan, Alan B. Morrison, Alvin Moscow, Bill Moyers, Sarah Muncy, Samantha Neider, Tanya Neider, Jack Nelson, Joy Nelson, Barbara Newman, Robert Novak, Wayne Omer, Ronald Ostrow, Bob Owens, Walter Pincus, Kerry Plumer, Viola Pomponio, J. Stanley Pottinger, Charles Radford, Tonne Radford, Dan Rather, Robin Reynolds, Ira Rosen, Howard Rosenberg, Tom Rosenstiel, Gary Rubens, Morley Safer, Michael Satchell, Philip Scheffler, Mike Shanahan, David Shapiro, Earl Silbert, Marc Smolonsky, Linda Spear, Valerie Stewart, W. Donald Stewart, Betty Murphy Southard, Michael Sullivan, Joseph Trento, Wallace Turner, Warren Unna, Dale Van Atta, Vicki Warren, Les Whitten, Barbara Booke Whittle, Jules Witcover.
Oral history interviews conducted by others
Jack Anderson interview with Deke DeLoach
Timothy Chambless interview with Jack Anderson and Warren Anderson
Len Colodny interviews with Jack Anderson, Mary Gore Dean, John Ehrlichman, David Fleming, Melvin Laird, Robert Mardian, John Mitchell, Thomas Moorer
Joe B. Frantz interview with Drew Pearson
Robert Gettlin interviews with Charles Radford, Robert Welander
Daryl Gibson interviews with Jack Anderson, Joe Spear, Les Whitten
Cheri Loveless videotaped interview with Jack Anderson and Warren Anderson
James Rosen interviews with David Fleming, Alexander Haig, Richard Kleindienst, Robert Mardian
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Martin Luther King Library, Atlanta, GA: Martin Luther King papers
Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS: Sen. John C. Stennis papers
National Archives:
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Impeachment of Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, House Judiciary Committee Report, 93rd Congress, 2nd Session (Aug. 20, 1974)—referred to as “House Impeachment Report”
Memo, David R. Young to President Richard Nixon, “Chronology of Events Relating to Investigation into Disclosure by Jack Anderson” (ND), Young #23, NARA—referred to as “Young Report”
Nomination of Louis Patrick Gray III, of Connecticut, to Be Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, 93rd Congress, 1st Session (March 9, 1973)—referred to as “Gray hearings”
Nomination of Richard G. Kleindienst, of Arizona, to Be Attorney General, Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, 92nd Congress, 2nd Session (March 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 26, 29, 1972)—referred to as “ITT hearings”
Statement of Information, House Judiciary Committee hearings, Nixon Impeachment (May�
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“Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence,” Box IV, Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, United States Senate, 94th Cong., 2nd session (April 23, 1976)—referred to as “Church Report”
Transmittal of Documents from the National Security Council to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Senate Armed Services Committee hearings (Feb. 6, 1974; Feb. 20–21, 1974; March 7, 1974; May 7, 1974; Dec. 19, 1974)—referred to as “Stennis hearings”
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