1. David G. McCullough, Truman (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992), p. 468.

2. Time , March 10, 1947.

3. Donald R. Matthews, U.S. Senators and Their World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960), p. 110.

4. Quoted in Fletcher Knebel and Dan Fowler, "He Would Rather Be Right and President," Look , April 5, 1955, p. 44.

5. Tom Wicker, One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream (New York: Random House, 1991), p. 45.

6. Quoted in Leo Katcher, Earl Warren: A Political Biography (New York: McGrawHill, 1967), pp. 203-4.

7. Quoted by Murray Chotiner in "Fundamentals of Campaign Organizations," pp. 8-9 (a speech delivered to Republican state chairmen during a training session in Washington, D.C., September 7-10, 1955), National Archives, Southwest Division, Laguna Niguel, California.

8. Roger Morris, Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician (New York: Henry Holt, 1990), p. 29.

9. Nation , July 2, 1955.

10. Fortnight , November 4, 1946, pp. 18-21; quoted in Royce D. Delmatier, Clarence F. McIntosh, and Earl G. Waters, The Rumble of California Politics, 1848-1970 (New York: John Wiley, 1970), p. 311.

11. Quoted in PIC , June 1948.

12. Oliver J. Carter, oral history, interview by James R. Fuchs, February 26, 1970, p. 44, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri.

13. David M. Oshinsky, A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy (New York: Free Press, 1983), p. 53.

14. Philip J. Wolman, "The Oakland General Strike of 1946," Southern California Quarterly 57 (1975): 157.

15. Bob Ash, "Alameda County Central Labor Council during the Warren Years," in "Labor Leaders View the Warren Era," interview by Mariam Stein and Amelia Fry, 1970, p. 29, Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley.