1. R Nixon, The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (New York, 1978), p. 544.
2. Quoted in R Reeves, President Nixon: Alone in the White House (New York, 2001), p. 364.
3. J Hanhimäki, The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy (Oxford, 2004), p. 152; Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger, p. 300.
4. M MacMillan, Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao (London, 2007), p. 1.
5. Nixon, Memoirs, p. 554; Interview with William Rusher, in D Strober and S Strober, The Nixon Presidency: An Oral History of an Era (Washington, DC, 2003), p. 132.