85. “Roger and I” Author interview with Joe McGinniss.
86. Politically, Ailes Ibid.
87. When a crew member Author interview with a friend of Roger Ailes.
88. A year after Author interviews with Bob LaPorta and Kenny Johnson.
89. He formed Author interviews with Robert LaPorta and Kenny Johnson. According to Pennsylvania state filings, Bounty Enterprises was created on July 8, 1968. Project Five Productions, Inc. was created on August 12, 1968. Roger Ailes’s profile in Broadcasting on November 11, 1968, mentions Bounty Enterprises.
90. “He had so much” Author interview with Robert LaPorta.
91. Ailes filmed a couple Author interviews with Robert LaPorta and Kenny Johnson.
92. For Larry Rosen, the trigger came Author interview with Larry Rosen.
93. nominated for two Emmys “The Complete Emmy List: Over 160 Nominations Are Made in 33 Categories with CBS Leading,” Broadcasting, May 8, 1967, 82–83. Alyssa McGovern of PMK*BNC confirmed on behalf of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences that Larry Rosen was listed as the producer on the nomination for the program achievement award. Mike Douglas was also nominated for an Emmy in Individual Achievements in Daytime Television.
94. “Roger wanted only” Author interview with Larry Rosen.
95. As it happened Robert E. Dallos, “ ‘Death of a Salesman’ Wins Emmy as Best Drama,” New York Times, June 5, 1967. Mike Douglas took the prize for Individual Achievement.
96. A few weeks later Author interview with Larry Rosen. His departure was noted on page 68 of the October 2, 1967, issue of Broadcasting. “Larry Rosen, producer of Mike Douglas Show, appointed producer for Screen Gems in Hollywood,” the magazine reported. Screen Gems produced The Outcasts.
97. “When Roger took over” Harris, Mike Douglas, 121.
THREE: THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
1. During a 1968 segment Author interview with Kenny Johnson.
2. During George Wallace’s appearance Ibid.
3. “I’d operate like a third base coach” Harris, Mike Douglas, 60.
4. “Roger was really gunning for him” Author interview with Kenny Johnson.
5. One morning in the summer Author interview with Launa Newman-Minson.
6. After losing a run Peter Kihss, “Nixon, Happy as New Yorker, Says Job Is Law, Not Politics,” New York Times, Dec. 29, 1963.
7. Newman thought Nixon Author interview with Launa Newman-Minson.
8. Kenny Johnson recalled one conversation Author interview with Kenny Johnson.
9. Nixon was scheduled Memo from Nixon aide Dwight Chapin, Oct. 6, 1967.
10. The day before the interview Memo from Clint Wheeler, Feeley & Wheeler advertising agency, Jan. 8, 1968.
11. At 9:45 Daily agenda for Richard Nixon, Jan. 9, 1968.
12. The earliest account McGinniss, The Selling of the President, 63.
13. “I remember being 27” Marshall Sella, “The Red-State Network,” New York Times Magazine, June 24, 2001. Ailes also repeated this account to the journalist Zev Chafets, who wrote his 2012 authorized biography, Roger Ailes: Off Camera. On page 32, Chafets quotes Ailes: “We had Little Egypt on the show that day. She was an exotic dancer who performed with a boa constrictor. I figured I better not put her and Nixon in the same greenroom.”
14. The guests during Mike Douglas Show talent log for the week of Jan. 8, 1968. The dance duo John Brascia and Tybee Arfa, who were regulars on the talk show circuit and opened for the likes of Frank Sinatra and Lena Horne, had been scheduled to come into the studio on January 9, but were bumped back a day according to a talent log for that week’s shoots. Tybee, as she was known, was certainly exotic. But she never performed under the name Little Egypt. And the snake? “No one has any recollection of Tybee ever dancing with a boa,” recalled John Brascia’s daughter, Christina, in an author interview.
15. Mike Douglas later told an interviewer Archive of American Television interview with Mike Douglas conducted by Karen Herman on March 31, 2005, Part 1 of 7, 30:47 mark.
16. Kenny Johnson was standing Author interview with Kenny Johnson.
17. The meeting lasted See also “Nixon’s Roger Ailes,” Washington Post. Ailes told the interviewer: “I spent an hour with him personally.”
18. As it happened In a note to Mike Douglas on January 16, 1968, Nixon writes “my sincerest thanks to you and your staff for the birthday cake.”
19. “We went to commercial” Archive of American Television interview with Mike Douglas conducted by Karen Herman on March 31, 2005, Part 3 of 7, 16:00 mark.
20. After the broadcast Daily agenda for Richard Nixon, Jan. 9, 1968.
21. A few days later “Week’s Profile: How to Change Debate Loser to Arena Winner,” Broadcasting, Nov. 11, 1968, 101.
22. “The name of the game” Author interview with Dwight Chapin, a former aide to Richard Nixon.
23. Soon after, on an afternoon Author interview with Raymond Price, a former speechwriter for Richard Nixon.
24. A rare moderate Leonard Garment, Crazy Rhythm: From Brooklyn and Jazz to Nixon’s White House, Watergate, and Beyond (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo, 1997), 106.
25. “Asia After Viet Nam” Richard M. Nixon, “Asia After Viet Nam,” Foreign Affairs, Oct. 1967, Vol. 46, No. 1.
26. The campaign’s television production Alfred M. Scott was born on Oct. 6, 1914. “Cornell Alumni News” (Feb. 17, 1938, Vol. 4, No. 18, page 259) mentions his early work as an NBC sound technician. In the 1960s, he became head of the international broadcasting division of J. Walter Thompson (see Broadcasting, June 25, 1965, page 39). He worked as a television adviser under Harry Treleaven on the 1968 campaign. “Al Scott was a terrific guy,” said Dwight Chapin. “He was a guy of the old television age. He was shuttled to the side as I recall. What happened was Roger.” After the election, Scott continued to work with the Nixon administration. He died in 1989.
27. “Roger was not at all awed” Author interview with Fred Malek, a former adviser to Richard Nixon.
28. Ailes was hired Robert Windeler, “Nixon’s Television Aide Says Candidate ‘Is Not a Child of TV,’ ” New York Times, Oct. 9, 1968.
29. “He’s got guts” Nyhan, “Roger Ailes: He Doctors a Politician’s TV Image.”
30. “Nixon’s a doer” Nyhan, “Roger Ailes: He Doctors a Politician’s TV Image.”
31. Ailes would later tell “Nixon’s Roger Ailes,” Washington Post.
32. In New Hampshire Theodore H. White, The Making of the President 1968 (New York: HarperCollins, 1969), 155.
33. winning the primary “Nixon in New Hampshire: Granite State Saved Nixon’s Political Life,” Manchester (New Hampshire) Union Leader, April 23, 1994.