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From Butterfield to MacGregor RE: McGovern's plans to visit a U.S. Naval Hospital on Veterans Day. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 10/21/1972
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Memo
From Butterfield to MacGregor RE:
McGovern's plans to visit a U.S. Naval
Hospital on Veterans Day. 1 pg.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Page 1 of 1
October 21, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
MR. CLARK MacGREGOR
FROM:
ALEXANDER P. BUTTERFIELD
SUBJECT:
Planned Visit by Senator McGovern
to the U.S. Naval Hospital at
Philadelphia
Senator McGovern's staff has just informed the Department of
Defense that on Monday, Veterans Day, he (McGovern) will
visit the U.S. Naval Hospital at Philadelphia
"strictly as
a U.S. Senator".
Without question, this is a violation of the rules of the game.
True, he is a U.S. Senator and going to a large Department of
Defense Hospital on Veterans Day is something Senators some
times do, but there is just no way three weeks before the general
election the principal challenger for the Office of the Presidency
can be anything other than a politician seeking office. There is
nothing he can do that isn't political.
I am not a strategist -- but my suggestion is that we let him go
to the defense facility and do his thing (so long as he does not
take with him an unreasonable entourage of reporters, photo-
graphers, etc.). Then, afterwards -- if the President and
First Family members have not, during this campaign period,
done the same thing -- we can hit him with both barrels for
the gross impropriety.
I will leave the matter to you
and get back to your office
only if I hear of changes in the plan, or of significant developments,
fromthe Deparntent of Defense.