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Madeleine Brown, and Jim Johnson spoke about Sid Richardson and Clint Murchison. Former AG William Rogers was interviewed on H.’s relations with Eisenhower. H.’s vacationing at Del Charro was discussed by Allan Witwer, former agents Harry Whidbee, Erwin Piper and Frenchie LaJeunesse, hoteliers Arthur and Mara Forbes, Donald King, former SAC Richard Auerbach, Billy Byars, Jr., Effie Cain, and others. John Connally described H.’s connections with oilmen, and Peter Sprague, Leland Redline, Henry Darlington, Robert Morgenthau, William Hundley, John Dowd, and William Pennington discussed his oil investments. Cornelius Gallagher was interviewed about H. and Roy Cohn, as was David Schine. H.’s broadcast on behalf of McCarthy is documented in Nichols to T., Apr. 5, 1949, and transcribed in FBI 94–37708. Wm. Sullivan’s comments are in part from notes of an Arthur Schlesinger int., Jul. 26, 1976. David Kraslow allowed quotation from contemporaneous notes of his Oct. 13, 1971 meeting with H. George Allen’s ‘juice’ quote is from Washington Exposé, by Jack Anderson, Washington, DC, Public Affairs Press, 1967, pp. 209ff. I used notes of ints. with Allan Witwer by Drew Pearson, in the Pearson Papers, Texas Oilmen file, G300, LBJL, and by Wm. Lambert, in his collection. The Director’s Daily Log proved the length of his vacations. Official findings on diversion of Recreation Fund money are from AG Griffin Bell’s US Recording Report, Jan. 10, 1978. I cited the Valuation of Securities, Estate of Clyde Tolson, Apr. 14, 1975, in TSF9. Myer Schine’s admission of a deal with the mob is from the Schine transcript, Sen. Special Cttee. to Investigate Org. Crime in Interstate Commerce, 1950, Pt. 2.

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John Williams, citing Allard Lowenstein, reported the meeting of worried US senators. Henry Eakins quoted Sen. Mundt on H. as ‘most dangerous.’ Former agent Harold Leinbaugh, Peter Eikenberry, Leon Friedman, and Ralph Salerno discussed Rep. John Rooney. Robert Winter-Berger was interviewed about John McCormack, and Jack Anderson about Thomas Dodd. Curtis Lynum described the Zero file system. Judge George McKinnon, Edna Daulyton, Julius Knutson, Quentin Burke, and Joseph Shimon provided information on Rep. Knutson. Former agents Amos Teasley, Joseph Woods, John Tierney, Paul Ertzinger, Conrad Trahern, Alfred Nicholas, Joseph Purvis, and Harold Charron, talked about the Official and Confidential files. I interviewed Gordon Liddy, and former CIA Director Richard Helms, about H.’s pressure on politicians. David Gelman recalled the NYP contact with Rep. Celler. I interviewed Arthur Murtagh, Walter Trohan, and former Sen. George Smathers. Sullivan’s comments drew on an unpub. int. by DES investigator Robert Fink, May 2, 1976. The Washington Pay-off, by Robert Winter-Berger, Secaucus, NJ, Lyle Stuart, 1972, was a main source on congressional corruption. I used the McCormack Papers, Boston University, and the Keenan Papers, Harvard Law School Library, to document those politicians’ relations with H., and Above the Law, by James Boyd, NY, New American Library, 1968, and FBI file 58–6157, OC 92 on Thomas Dodd. For the passage about Emmanuel Celler, I used the Celler Papers, LC, and a letter from Dorothy Schiff of Mar. 30, 1988. Arthur Murtagh’s congressional testimony of Nov. 1975 is at IC3, pp. 1047, 1068.

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I drew on interviews with former AG Laurence Silberman, Sen. Ralph Yarborough, Abigail McCarthy, and – on Rep. Boggs – with Thomas Boggs, Thomas P. O’Neill, Gary Hymel, Henry Reuss, Charles Percy, and Birch Bayh. I discussed Sen. Long with his former aide Robert Bevin, with Bernard Fensterwald, and former FBI Assistant Director Cartha DeLoach. The Gallagher affair was reported on the basis of multiple interviews with Cornelius Gallagher and his family, with Charles Joelson, William Lambert, Russell Sackett, Elizabeth May, Joseph Zicarelli, Jr., Larry Weisman, former AG Ramsey Clark, former Justice Dept. official Mitchell Rogovin, and FBI agents John Lelwica, John Connors, Lincoln Stokes, and Victor Carelli. Former Justice Dept. official