1. Rumsfeld, "Confidential Memo - 1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination," August 8, 1968.

2. Rumsfeld, "Confidential Memo - 1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination," August 8, 1968.

3. Rumsfeld, "Confidential Memo - 1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination," August 8, 1968; Rumsfeld, interviewed by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober, February 18, 1994, transcript.

4. Rumsfeld, "Confidential Memo - 1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination," August 8, 1968.

5. Rumsfeld, "Confidential Memo - 1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination," August 8, 1968.

6. Rumsfeld, "Confidential Memo - 1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination," August 8, 1968.

7. "Now the Republic," Time, August 16, 1968.

8. "Nixon Picks Agnew as Running Mate," Chicago Tribune, August 9, 1968.

9. Rumsfeld, statement, "Concerning Activity in the City of Chicago, Illinois, During the Democratic National Convention," October 1, 1968.

10. Jeffrey Kimball, Nixon's Vietnam War (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998), p. 32.

11. Rumsfeld, [No Subject], October 15, 1968.

12. Rumsfeld, [No Subject], October 15, 1968.