32. Fraser insisted Ibid.
33. “There were times” Author interview with former Mike Douglas producer Robert LaPorta.
34. Fraser had a clear vision Douglas, I’ll Be Right Back, 26–27.
35. “You can’t ignore New York” Harris, Mike Douglas, 114.
36. The show expanded Harris, Mike Douglas, 104, 109. See also Mike Douglas Archive of American Television Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QP0oRay9eY&list=PL065F0DF2B108C359.
37. A good-natured For the Rolling Stones, Cosby, and King, see Douglas, I’ll Be Right Back, 56–57, 97–98, 187–89.
38. “We wrote him simple questions” Author interview with Larry Rosen.
39. Ailes and Fraser began Harris, Mike Douglas, 121.
40. According to Ailes Harris, Mike Douglas, 60, 105.
41. “We had to write” Author interview with Larry Rosen.
42. For the first few years Harris, Mike Douglas, 105.
43. The company was gaining “NBC to Make Trade with Westinghouse,” United Press International, June 3, 1965.
44. Collier smoothed over Harris, Mike Douglas, 121.
45. In August 1965 Harris, Mike Douglas, 110, 112, 116; Inga Saffron, “Channeling TV History,” Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 4, 2011.
46. Within two years “Television: Mommy’s Boy,” Time, Oct. 6, 1967.
47. Douglas’s agent soon Douglas, I’ll Be Right Back, 36.
48. “Mike was really controlled by Woody” Author interview with Deborah Miller.
49. “The reason was very simple” Author interview with Launa Newman-Minson.
50. In Douglas’s memoir Douglas, I’ll Be Right Back, 217–19. (Woody Fraser, who now works for Fox News, declined to be interviewed for this book.)
51. “Give us the lowdown” Author interview with Larry Rosen.
52. “He became friends” Author interview with Launa Newman-Minson.
53. “It was a kind of game” Harris, Mike Douglas, 66.
54. Debbie Miller and a friend Author interview with Deborah Miller.
55. Ailes was his replacement On July 18, 1966, Broadcasting announced that “Roger E. Ailes, associate producer of The Mike Douglas Show, named executive producer, replacing Forrest L. Fraser, who becomes manager of talent and program development of WBC productions, New York.”
56. Officially, Fraser had been moved Harris, Mike Douglas, 120–21. Fraser told Harris, “Westinghouse did move me upstairs, because they were trying to hold on to me, but it didn’t last long. I only stayed to kind of cover myself monetarily. Westinghouse is very fair in one respect. When they let someone go, it’s in a much nicer fashion than many other big corporations.” Fraser returned to The Mike Douglas Show in 1973.
57. In 1967, Fraser left Author interview with Kenny Johnson; “New Morning TV Show in March,” The Record Newspapers, Troy, New York, Jan. 20, 1968; “Upbeat in Variety Talk Syndication,” Broadcasting, Feb. 26, 1968, 19–20.
58. “That was a real palace coup” Author interview with Launa Newman-Minson.
59. Larry Rosen was Author interview with Larry Rosen.
60. One producer Author interview with a former Mike Douglas producer.
61. In his book Roger Ailes and Jon Kraushar, You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are (New York: Crown Business, 1988), 128–29.
62. Within days of Fraser’s ouster Author interview with Larry Rosen.
63. On the wall, he hung Author interview with Robert LaPorta. In an interview with Broadcasting, Ailes refers to putting the quote on his office walclass="underline" “Week’s Profile: How to Change Debate Loser to Arena Winner,” Broadcasting, Nov. 11, 1968, 101. See also McGinniss, The Selling of the President, 67.
64. Theodore Roosevelt’s Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizen in a Republic” (speech, Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910), http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html.
65. Ailes fired Debbie Miller Author interview with Deborah Miller.
66. Larry Rosen and Launa Newman Author interview with Launa Newman-Minson.
67. “Roger always used to say” Author interview with Robert LaPorta.
68. “Roger weighed 160 pounds” Author interview with Robert LaPorta.
69. Ailes made sure Harris, Mike Douglas, 54.
70. “He gave me a wide berth” Author interview with Launa Newman-Minson.
71. At one point Harris, Mike Douglas, 53–54.
72. During one production Author interview with Kenny Johnson. Later in his career, Johnson broke into Hollywood and co-wrote and directed the CBS television movie Senior Trip, about a small-town class trip to Manhattan, which featured a hugely ambitious hemophiliac character named Roger Ellis, played by Scott Baio. “I’m gonna make it. Big—and in New York … where it counts,” Ellis declares in one scene.
73. “I want everyone” Roger Ailes memo, Aug. 10, 1966.
74. Ailes contacted classical music buff Author interview with International Piano Library cofounder Gregor Benko.
75. The show had gone color “Douglas Show to Make Color Debut,” Billboard, Feb. 11, 1967. The article notes that the show would begin taping in color on February 20 in Cypress Gardens, Florida, and would be made available on March 6.
76. Once, when Barbara Author interview with Barbara Walters.
77. In September 1967 “People,” Sports Illustrated, Sept. 18, 1967, 86.
78. “Roger got on the phone” Author interview with Robert LaPorta.
79. Kenny Johnson Author interview with former Mike Douglas producer Kenny Johnson.
80. “We called Roger ‘Ralph’ ” Author interview with Robert LaPorta.
81. In the fall of 1967 Indenture filed in the Deed Book in the Recorder of Deeds Office, Media, Pennsylvania, Book 2287, 560–61. They took out a $31,000 mortgage for the house (see Book 2786, page 411). The cul-du-sac is Oak Valley Road.
82. Ailes was making $60,000 “Nixon’s Roger Ailes,” Washington Post (Q&A), Feb. 13, 1972, http://www.scribd.com/doc/53543922/Roger-Ailes-I-Dont-Try-to-Fool-Voters. In an author interview, Kenny Johnson, who followed Ailes as executive producer, said that the figure was commensurate with his own salary as executive producer.
83. Bob LaPorta was Author interview with Robert LaPorta.
84. During this period McGinniss, The Selling of the President, xi.