Nixon, Richard (continued), 250, 251n3, 251n5, 252nn6–7, 255n64, 291–292, 342–344, 347, 374–385, 415

and William F. Ackerman, 191

and Spiro Agnew, 199

and Ray Bliss, 168, 215

and Edmund “Pat” Brown, 192

and Pat Buchanan, 198

and Whittaker Chambers, 191

and Colbert Coldwell, 191

and Roy Crocker, 191

and William Crocker, 191

and Richard Daley, 199

and Charles de Gaulle, 193

and Thomas Dewey, 191, 344

and Ngo Dinh Diem, 193

and Dwight Eisenhower, 191, 196, 198, 208n58

and Robert Finch, 200

and Gerald Ford, 221

and Barry Goldwater, 194–195, 199–201, 209nn65–66, 213, 216, 342

and Walter Haas, 191

and Alger Hiss, 191

and Herbert Hoover, 191

and Hubert Humphrey, 199–201

and Lyndon Johnson, 194, 198, 200

and John F. Kennedy, 192–193, 197

and Robert Kennedy, 199, 292

and Martin Luther King Jr., 199

and Bill Knowland, 223

and Henry Cabot Lodge, 192

and Eugene McCarthy, 199

and George McGovern, 199

and John Mitchell, 197

and Ronald Reagan, 198–199, 221, 223–224

and Nelson Rockefeller, 193, 195, 199

and George Romney, 195, 199

and Franklin Roosevelt, 197

and William Safire, 198

and William Scranton, 195

and John Sears, 220

and Adlai Stevenson, 190

and Robert Stripling, 191

and Robert Taft, 192

and George Wallace, 199–201

and Earl Warren, 223

non-opportunists, 99, 101

Obama, Barack, 214, 259, 291, 299–303, 311, 313–321, 325–333, 334n5, 335n14, 336n23, 336n25, 336n28, 344, 348

Palin, Sarah, 299, 330, 332, 336n27

Panic of 1893, 167, 174

Paulson, Henry, 331

Perot, Ross, 68, 108n15, 113n23, 219, 239–240, 417

Pierce, Franklin, 81–82, 86, 139

Plouffe, David, 325, 336n23

politician-centered party, 27, 252n12

Polk, James K., 1–15, 19, 24, 30nn2–5, 31nn9–12, 32nn13–19, 45, 51, 67, 72–73, 81, 86, 106n4, 107n11, 116, 133, 139–140, 147, 156n31, 167, 172, 181, 218, 266–269, 291, 340, 342, 413

and John Quincy Adams, 2

and Robert Armstrong, 7–8