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From Failor to Anderson and Chapin RE: the compilation of voter information on Election Day. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 10/16/1972
From Joanou to Chapin RE: Election Eve telecasts. Handwritten notes added by Haldeman. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/21/1972
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46
35
10/16/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Failor to Anderson and Chapin RE: the
compilation of voter information on Election
Day. 2 pgs.
46
35
9/21/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Joanou to Chapin RE: Election Eve
telecasts. Handwritten notes added by
Haldeman. 2 pgs.
46
35
9/20/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Chapin to William Codus and Parker
RE: Haldeman's information on use of the
First Family in the campaign. Duplicate
attached. 6 pgs.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Page 1 of 1
Committee for the Re-election of the President
DETERMINED TO BE AN
KING
MEMORANDUM
E.O. 12000 Custom 6-102 October 16, 1972
By
EV
7-7-82
CONFIDENTIAL/EYES ONLY
MEMORANDUM FOR:
MR. STANTON D. ANDERSON
MR. DWIGHT CHAPIN
FROM:
E. D. FAILOR
SUBJECT:
Election Day Compilation
CONCEPT
In the course of our Election Day activities we desire to compile election
information which can be used by our spokesmen when they have press con-
ferences, issue statements in writing and/or verbally and are interviewed
by the electronic media. Our goal is to influence the vote by getting
out a larger Nixon vote and leading voters to vote for Nixon and other
Republican candidates. The election information we would obtain, in
addition to the information which will be obtained by the media is as
follows:
A. Voter Turnout. Information on voter turnout would be obtained
during election day and compared to the turnout in the same time
frame for four years ago. This information would be obtained in
key cities and areas as selected by Bob Teeter. This can be done
through contact with newspapers that do these comparisons each
election year.
B. Election Returns.
1. Bellwether Counties
2. Demographic Precincts
a. Italians
b. Polish
C. Jewish
d. Irish
e. German
f. Blacks
g. Spanish-Americans
h. Youth
CONFIDENTIAL/EYES ONLY
-2-
i. Elderly
j. Income Groups
3. Selected Precincts
a. McGovern's home precinct
b. Shriver's home precinct
C. Agnew's home precinct
d. E. M. Kennedy's home precinct
e. L. O'Brien's home precinct
4. Key Senate Returns
It is to be noted we will use the comparison figures which will be of
the greatest advantage to our goal.
The election returns will be obtained by having our people in place at
the precincts selected by our demographic expert Arthur J. Finkelstein.
These returns with the voter turnout information will feed in telephoni-
cally to our election control center at the Shoreham Hotel.
CT.H
Committee for the Re-election of the President
September 21, 1972
memorandum
DETERMINED TO BE AN
ADMINISTRATE MARKING
CONFIDENTIAL
E.O. 12085, Section 6-102
By
Er NAR_, Date 7-7-82
TO:
DWIGHT CHAPIN
FROM:
PHIL JOANOU
SUBJECT:
Election Eve
The purpose of this memo is to discuss election eve
telecasts.
Background
Following is the network schedule and our estimate of
audience share for this evening:
ABC
NBC
CBS
8-8:30
Rookies 25
Laugh-In 30
Gunsmoke 37
8:30-9
Rookies 25
Laugh-In
30
Gunsmoke 37
9-9:30
NFL
34
Movie (3) 30
Lucy
35
9:30-10 NFL
34 Movie
30
Doris Day 32
10-10:30 NFL
35 Movie
29
Cosby (1) 31
10:30-11 NFL
36 Movie
27
Cosby (2) 30
(1) Available to Democrats
(2) Available to Republicans
(3) Entire Movie time unit available on 50/50 basis
to both parties.
As the preceeding table indicates, it is possible to
schedule time prior to the NFL game on ABC, and against
it on NBC and CBS and reach 70-80%+ of total viewers.
It is our understanding that the objective for election
eve is to allow for a 10-minute live address, and provide
for the last minute option of a 1/2 hour address.
itis No to provide and for 10 20 address min min live film
-2-
10-Minutes
One option is to negotiate for 10-minute time units on
all three networks. Laugh-In on NBC is easily edited
to fit this slot, as would be the NFL pre-game show.
CBS would be more of a problem but I believe we could
work out an acceptable arrangement.
We recommend a 10-minute taped telecast done from the
Oval office in the White House. This would serve to
remind voters of the incumbency and all that implies.
It would provide a good contrast with the opposition
who most likely will be speaking from a studio, his home
or a rally. - Telethone
Tape would be necessary in order to slot the telecast
in different time segments on different networks.
To provide for a 1/2 hour option, we can place a hold on
this time unit on the networks, and negotiate cancella-
tion date options.
We believe this would prove more satisfactory than
scheduling a 1/2 hour show, and using 20 minutes of a
combination of documentaries, rallies, etc. followed
by an address. However, if this is the decision, we
would like to know as quickly as possible in order to
prepare a quality product.
Also, if the 10-minute segment idea is acceptable, we
should begin network negótiations right away to determine
its feasibility.
CC: Pete Dailey
a
CONFIDENTIAL
you The porneaing
proctice
15 Faming
September 20, 1972
EYES ONLY
MEMORANDUM FOR?
MR. WILLIAM CODUS
MR. DAVID PARKER
FROM:
DWIGHT L. CHAPIN
SUBJECT:
Mrs. Nixon, Nixon Daughters
and Surrogates
The following is guidance which I have received from Bob
Haldeman. Please see that it is enacted promptly.
1.
Connie is to move in and cut off an a and A which Mrs.
Nixon finds herself confronted with. She should move
just like Ziegler, go up, and turn off an questioner.
2.
Chapin has covered this subject with Connie. She understands
the point.
3.
The First Family should do absolutely no speeches -- they
should only do events. We must not have the Family political
in any way. They should not be involved in any partisan
activities. They should do events and they should always
be friendly-type events.
Mrs. Nixon should be with the President whenever possible
and should only do people-type events. She should not do
substantive events. This would argue against her doing
BART in San Francisco.
We need to re-evaluate everything that Mrs. Nixon is doing,
as well as what Julie and Tricia are doing.
4.
The Vice President should be kept out of the line of fire.
He is to be kept wishy-washy since that is the best strategy
for us at this point in time. We should realize that our
strategy may change later on but for right now we should
2.
keep a friendly profile and not one of charging off attacking
McGovern.
5.
We are to end all national publicity for the surrogates.
Chapin has covered this subject with Jeb Magruder and
Bart Porter. It has also been covered with Al Abrams
via Dick Howard.
6.
The Family is to be sent to easy States and they are to do
"easy events". They are to do happy things. We are to keep
them out of controversy or any kind of trouble.
7.
We should recognize the point that McGovern is now the issue.
This is the best development we have had in the campaign.
We should make sure that the President does not become the
issue, nor the Vice President, nor any member of the Family.
This is the key point in all of the items listed in this memorandum.
8.
Both Connie Stuart, Dave Parker and Bill Codus should realize
the point that Mrs. Nixon is superb in dealing with people. She
is more ill at ease in speeches and a and A. We should put her
where she is good, get the cameras to cover her, and stay
away from the activities where she is not good. Chapin has
covered this point with Connie.
9.
Chapin is to work with Colson to see that MONDAY refrains
from publishing any further surrogate schedules.
10. We should reexamine the whole surrogate schedule. We should
cut back for the next week or two. We will slack off -- we can
always add on. We need to see where we are and play it carefully.
11.
The President feels that perhaps we should not be doing a press
conference in Boston or Atlanta. We should not let the press
be determining what we are going to say to the public. We
can still plan to go to Boston but we need to come up with some
other events. Also we can plan to go to Atlanta. One thought
is to go in, motorcade, have the reception, and do a radio speech.
That would be our only event. We should staff out this thought.
3.
Parker, I want you to talk to Moore and th e others who
attend the 4:00 p.m. meeting to see what they think of this.
Arrange to go to the 4:00 p.m. meeting on Wednesday, if
possible.
Teddy White evidently made the point to both the President
and Haldeman that it is necessary for the President to articulate
exactly what he expects for the next four years. This ties in to
our getting some visionary lines out as to exactly what the
President is looking for. These could be our campaign speeches.
We can use the radio here in order to get across exactly what the
President is going to do in the next four years. We would not
do anything for television because we want the motorcades to
carry that. Remember we are only doing the speeches because
we have to, not because we want to.
Chapin wants to get Herschensohn cranked in on this also. Make
sure that you consult Bruce on any of this, Dave.
CC:
Mr. Herschensohn
Mr. Moore
Mr. Bull
September 20, 1972
EYES ONLY
MEMORANDUM FOR?
MR. WILLIAM CODUS
MR. DAVID PARKER
FROM:
DWIGHT L. CHAPIN
SUBJECT:
Mrs. Nixon, Nixon Daughters
and Surrogates
The following is guidance which I have received from Bob
Haldeman. Please see that it is enacted promptly.
1.
Connie is to move in and cut off an Q and A which Mrs.
Nixon finds herself confronted with. She should move
just like Ziegler, go up, and turn off an questioner.
2.
Chapin has covered this subject with Connie. She understands
the point.
3.
The First Family should do absolutely no speeches -- they
should only do events. We must not have the Family political
in any way. They should not be involved in any partisan
activities. They should do events and they should always
be friendly-type events.
Mrs. Nixon should be with the President whenever possible
and should only do people-type events. She should not do
substantive events. This would argue against her doing
BART in San Francisco.
We need to re-evaluate everything that Mrs. Nixon is doing,
as well as what Julie and Tricia are doing.
4.
The Vice President should be kept out of the line of fire.
He is to be kept wishy-washy since that is the best strategy
for us at this point in time. We should realize that our
strategy may change later on but for right now we should
2.
keep a friendly profile and not one of charging off attacking
McGovera.
5.
We are to end all national publicity for the surrogates.
Chapin has covered this subject with Jeb Magruder and
Bart Porter. It has also been covered with Al Abrams
via Dick Howard.
6.
The Family is to be sent to easy States and they are to do
"easy events". They are to do happy things. We are to keep
them out of controversy or any kind of trouble.
7.
We should recognize the point that McGovern is now the issue.
This is the best development we have had in the campaign.
We should make sure that the President does not become the
issue, nor the Vice President, nor any member of the Family.
This is the key point in all of the items listed in this memorandum.
8.
Both Connie Stuart, Dave Parker and Bill Codus should realize
the point that Mrs. Nixon is superb in dealing with people. She
is more III at ease in speeches and Q and A. We should put her
where she is good, get the cameras to cover her, and stay
away from the activities where she is not good. Chapin has
covered this point with Connie.
9.
Chapin is to work with Colson to see that MONDAY refrains
from publishing any further surrogate schedules.
10. We should reexamine the whole surrogate schedule. We should
cut back for the next week or two. We will slack off -- we can
always add on. We need to see where we are and play it carefully.
11.
The President feels that perhaps we should not be doing a press
conference in Boston or Atlanta. We should not let the press
be determining what we are going to say to the public. We
can still plan to go to Boston but we need to come up with some
other events. Also we can plan to go to Atlanta. One thought
is to go in, motorcade, have the reception, and do a radio speech.
That would be our only event. We should staff out this thought.
3.
Parker, I want you to talk to Moore and the others who
attend the 4:00 p.m. meeting to see what they think of this.
Arrange to go to the 4:00 p.m. meeting on Wednesday, if
possible.
Teddy White evidently made the point to both the President
and Haldeman that it is necessary for the President to articulate
exactly what he expects for the next four years. This ties in to
our getting some visionary lines out as to exactly what the
President is looking for. These could be our campaign speeches.
We can use the radio here in order to get across exactly what the
President is going to do in the next four years. We would not
do anything for television because we want the motorcades to
carry that. Remember we are only doing the speeches because
we have to, not because we want to.
Chapin wants to get Herschensohn cranked in on this also. Make
sure that you consult Bruce on any of this, Dave.
ce:
Mr. Herschensohn
Mr. Moore
Mr. Bull