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    "ocrText": "(2)\nplurality in several Southern states. This, of course, did not just\nhappen but was planned, organized and financed, just as the Agnew\nright wing candidacy was planned, organized and financed at the expense\nof you and your followers.\nI hereby tighten up my original estimate, projecting the national pop-\nular vote for the Wallace-LeMay ticket to be 24% to 25%. This increases\nthe probability that neither of the major party tickets will achieve\na\nmajority of the Electoral College with its share of the remaining 75%\nor 76% reflected in state-by-state electoral votes. Indeed, the poss-\nibility of the Nixon-Agnew ticket ticket achieving an electoral vote\nmajority is greatly reduced if the 46 electors from New York cast their\nvotes for Nelson Rockefeller in fear of a Wellace-Nixon deal to estab-\nlish an electoral vote majority.\nThe original projection of Wallace's finishing voter strength and strat-\negy was achieved by predicting the right wing \"law and order\" emphasis\nof Nixon strategy, the Southern right wing success in imposing a right\nwing vice-presidential nominee, the military-industrial-political complex\nmoney and strategy behind Wallace, and the planned impact of Complex\nsecret support for ultra left wing disorder upon the white back-lash\nvote.\nI correctly foresaw in the \"Assassinations study that the assassina-\ntions of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, if indeed they were\nthe result of a military-industrial-political complex conspiracy,\nwould be followed up by election-related ultra left wing violence and\nblack revolutionist terrorism. These predictions of the study were\nborne out at Chicago and Cleveland respectively. It has become obvious\nthat the Complex objective was a provoked white back-lash vote in\nsupport of both the Wallace and the Nixon nominees. There need be\nno\ninference here that Nixon himself participated in such strategy to see\nhim as the prisoner of this strategy. Your own final drive to stop\nNixon on the first ballot made him a prisoner of the Thurmond-Agnew\nstrategy of buying the vice presidency with first ballot votes.\nSo fars so good for the projections. However, I erred in projecting\nthat the frustration of the followers of Robert F. Kennedy and Eugene\nMcCarthy might result in the formation of a substantial fourth party\nfor the 1968 election. I did not, however, err in predicting that\nthe military-industrial-political complex would infiltrate and secretly\ncontrol the fourth party. It was because I felt that a fourth party\nsubstantial vote potential could be snatched from the imminent control\nof the Complex by a strong \"new politics\" national union ticket that\nI\nmade the proposal of September 5th to you. Nationally known vots-\ngetting nominees would dominate the New Party machinery rather than\nvice versa.\nYour good judgment in supporting the Republican ticket combined with\nthe good judgment of Democrats who supported Eugene McCarthy and the\nlate Robert F. Kennedy and established a New Democratic Coalition\nwithin the Democratic Party has frustrated the Complex objective of\nneutralizing a large bloc of votes by\nling the New Party."
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