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Memo from Bob Haldeman to Roy Ash. RE; Miscellaneous. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Peter Flanigan. RE: Spitzer--Agriculture Department. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo from Larry Higby to Bob Haldeman. RE: Page Boy Units. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Tom Whitehead. RE: Access to Budget Bureau & Defense Departments. 4 pgs with attachments. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Dwight Chapin. RE: RN Appointments & Calls. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Pat Buchanan. RE: RN Remarks in CA. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Len Garment. RE: Personnel. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo with questions and answers for HRH. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo from Larry Higby to Bob Haldeman. RE: Hotel Accommodations Fro Inauguration. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Stan Blair. RE: Aides to Vice President. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 12/1/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Dwight Chapin. RE: RN Appointments. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 12/1/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Dwight Chapin. RE: RN Phone Conversations with Congressmen and Senators. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/1/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Frank Lincoln. RE: White House Staff: John Wardlow. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/1/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Frank Lincoln. RE: White House Staff: Security Clearance. 2 pgs. [Memo], 12/1/1968
Memo from H.R. Haldeman to Stece Bull, John Brown, Ken Cole, and Jay Wilkinson. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/1/1968
Memo from H.R. Haldeman to J. Keogh, P. Buchanan, R. Price. RE: Inauguration Address. 1 pg. [Memo], 11/29/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to John Ehrlichman. RE: Conflict of Interests; Transition Employees. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 11/30/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to John Ehrlichamn. RE: Conflict of Intersets. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 11/27/1968
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This file contains:
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Roy Ash. RE; Miscellaneous. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Peter Flanigan. RE: Spitzer--Agriculture Department. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo from Larry Higby to Bob Haldeman. RE: Page Boy Units. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Tom Whitehead. RE: Access to Budget Bureau & Defense Departments. 4 pgs with attachments. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Dwight Chapin. RE: RN Appointments & Calls. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Pat Buchanan. RE: RN Remarks in CA. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Len Garment. RE: Personnel. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo with questions and answers for HRH. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo from Larry Higby to Bob Haldeman. RE: Hotel Accommodations Fro Inauguration. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/2/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Stan Blair. RE: Aides to Vice President. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 12/1/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Dwight Chapin. RE: RN Appointments. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 12/1/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Dwight Chapin. RE: RN Phone Conversations with Congressmen and Senators. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/1/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Frank Lincoln. RE: White House Staff: John Wardlow. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/1/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Frank Lincoln. RE: White House Staff: Security Clearance. 2 pgs. [Memo], 12/1/1968
Memo from H.R. Haldeman to Stece Bull, John Brown, Ken Cole, and Jay Wilkinson. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/1/1968
Memo from H.R. Haldeman to J. Keogh, P. Buchanan, R. Price. RE: Inauguration Address. 1 pg. [Memo], 11/29/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to John Ehrlichman. RE: Conflict of Interests; Transition Employees. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 11/30/1968
Memo from Bob Haldeman to John Ehrlichamn. RE: Conflict of Intersets. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 11/27/1968
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Richard Nixon Presidential Library
White House Special Files Collection
Folder List
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
32
15
12/02/1968
Memo
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Roy Ash. RE;
Miscellaneous. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned.
32
15
12/02/1968
Memo
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Peter
Flanigan. RE: Spitzer--Agriculture
Department. 1 pg.
32
15
12/02/1968
Memo
Memo from Larry Higby to Bob Haldeman.
RE: Page Boy Units. 1 pg.
32
15
12/02/1968
Memo
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Tom
Whitehead. RE: Access to Budget Bureau &
Defense Departments. 4 pgs with attachments.
32
15
12/02/1968
Memo
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Dwight
Chapin. RE: RN Appointments & Calls. 1 pg.
32
15
12/02/1968
Memo
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Pat Buchanan.
RE: RN Remarks in CA. 1 pg. Duplicate not
scanned.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Page 1 of 3
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
32
15
12/02/1968
Memo
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Len Garment.
RE: Personnel. 1 pg.
32
15
12/02/1968
Memo
Memo with questions and answers for HRH.
1 pg.
32
15
12/02/1968
Memo
Memo from Larry Higby to Bob Haldeman.
RE: Hotel Accommodations Fro
Inauguration. 1 pg.
32
15
12/01/1968
Memo
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Stan Blair.
RE: Aides to Vice President. 1 pg. Duplicate
not scanned.
32
15
12/01/1968
Memo
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Dwight
Chapin. RE: RN Appointments. 1 pg.
Duplicate not scanned.
32
15
12/01/1968
Memo
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Dwight
Chapin. RE: RN Phone Conversations with
Congressmen and Senators. 1 pg.
32
15
12/01/1968
Memo
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Frank Lincoln.
RE: White House Staff: John Wardlow. 1 pg.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Page 2 of 3
Box Number Folder Number
Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
32
15
12/01/1968
Memo
Memo from Bob Haldeman to Frank Lincoln.
RE: White House Staff: Security Clearance.
2 pgs.
32
15
12/01/1968
Memo
Memo from H.R. Haldeman to Stece Bull,
John Brown, Ken Cole, and Jay Wilkinson. 1
pg.
32
15
11/29/1968
Memo
Memo from H.R. Haldeman to J. Keogh, P.
Buchanan, R. Price. RE: Inauguration
Address. 1 pg.
32
15
11/30/1968
Memo
Memo from Bob Haldeman to John
Ehrlichman. RE: Conflict of Interests;
Transition Employees. 1 pg. Duplicate not
scanned.
32
15
11/27/1968
Memo
Memo from Bob Haldeman to John
Ehrlichamn. RE: Conflict of Intersets. 1 pg.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Page 3 of 3
MEMORANDUM
December 2, 1968
TO:
ROY ASH
FROM:
BOB HALDEMAN
RE:
MISCELLANEOUS
This memo will cover a number of odds and ends.
RN would like you to concentrate on two personnel areas for the
immediate future: 1) The Director of the Budget; and 2) Deputy
Secretary of Defense.
One suggestion for Budget came from Governor Shafer of Pennsyl-
vania, and the man is his present Budget Director in the state. His
name is Arthur Sampson. He was formerly at G.E.; he is 43 years
old, and a very strong man.
RN thinks that probably our first choice for Budget would be the
man from Continental Bank in Chicago who headed up the President's
Budget Task Force. I think he mentioned this to you. As a second
choice, he is now thinking about Henry Loomis who is currently
working with us as Executive Director of our whole Task Force
program. It would probably be a good idea to look into the back-
grounds of these two men.
RN did talketo Tex per your request and I will fill you in on that if
he does not.
In regard to Deputy Secretary of Defense, one of the qualifications is
that the man must be a Nixon Republican. The prime qualification will
be absolutely top managerial ability, and hopefully some familiarity
with the operations of the Defense Department.
We are running into the conflict problem, not in the same way as yours,
but of equal importance, in connection with other potential appointees.
Perhaps the lawyer that you talked with in Washington could be of help
to us in some of these other cases. In any event we should talk to John
Ehrlichman about this.
MEMORANDUM
December 2, 1968
TO:
PETER FLANIGAN
CC:
BRYCE HARLOW
FROM:
BOB HALDEMAN
RE:
SPITZER AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
CONFIDENTIAL
RN mentioned last night that it will probably be necessary to
put Spitzer in the Agriculture Department as an Assistant
Secretary.
MEMORANDUM
December 2, 1968
TO:
BOB HALDEMAN
FROM:
LARRY HIGBY
RE:
PAGE BOY UNITS
The White House Signal Corps is now investigating small
page boy units that will simply signal, causing you to phone
into a switchboard.
These will be smaller than the present page boys, but will
not be as small as you had requested. They are now re-
questing Motorola to attempt to design a truly miniaturized
receiver to fit your purposes.
More deatils when available.
MEMORANDUM
December 2, 1968
TO:
TOM WHITEHEAD
FROM:
BOB HALDEMAN
RE:
ACCESS TO BUDGET BUREAU & DEFENSE DEPARTMENTS
Sorry to have delayed the answer to your memo of November 19th,
but as you can well imagine we are trying to get some of the basic
decisions made before we move into the follow-up work that you
outlined.
It is felt that for the next few days at least it would still not be
wise to establish access for you to the Budget Bureau and Defense
Department until we have set up top level liaison with the depart-
ments. We expect to be doing this in the very near future, and
at that time would certainly want to get you going on a more effec-
tive basis than you have been able to work up to now.
Thanks very much for your suggestions.
Exlon
November 19, 1968
Memo: Budget Analysis Opportunities
To:
Bob Haldeman
From: Tom Whitehead
There are opportunities for budget analysis that we
should take advantage of as soon as possible. A low-level
effort now of the right kind would have significant payoffs
in a month or two when strategy for the State of the Union
and Budget Messages must be decided and when new departmental
Secretaries take office.
What should be done now is the preliminary work of:
(1) Pulling together, assessing the quality, and
reconciling the scattered government information on programs
and budget options.
(2) Analyzing this and other information so that
it can be related to the major policy issues likely to be
raised by the new Administration.
It is important to realize that this is not systematically
done in the Budget Bureau or elsewhere. The "Transition
Papers" will be useful primarily as background for the
incoming Administration officials--not for defining issues
or for analyzing decision options.
I have been doing much of this on my own and have
received reports prepared at my suggestion (on a very
personal basis) within the Budget Bureau and the Defense
Department. The need to be so very discreet, however, puts
very real limits on this mode of operation.
-2-
Although there are many other pressing problems
right now, I suggest that I and perhaps one or two others
be authorized official access to the Budget Bureau and the
Defense Department specifically to extend this preliminary
work. There is enough important information there and
nowhere else that I think such a move is justified at
this time. Some relevant points are:
(1) It is possible in the next few months to
make significant improvements in the kind of information
available to the White House staff and the President for
major program decisions and overall budget strategy; and
to do much of it in time for the State of the Union and
Budget Messages.
(2) This can be done on a staff-to-staff basis
without making it a formal liaison function and gets
useful work started before the Budget Director and
departmental Secretaries are selected and start functioning.
(3) It buys time for those key appointments
and will help us to help them when they are appointed.
(4) It can be done with or without public
announcement, although it seems useful to announce what
is going on without naming who is doing it.
(5) It gets substantive work started and
involves no post-inaugural commitments on positions.
It can be made believably clear that this staff does
not speak for the new Administration on policy, but is
there only to do preliminary staff work.
-3-
(6) It would ease the apprehension in Washington
about why Mr. Nixon is taking so long to begin substantive
contact and help convey a sense of initiative and competence.
(7) The work can be limited to the Budget Bureau
and the Defense Department since the Bureau has good enough
information on all agencies except Defense. I know a number
of officials and can function well (and quietly) in both
places.
(8) These are very busy times in the Executive
Branch, so it is important to get the information and
get the work done with burdens on the agency people and
false starts held to a minimum.
(9) All that appears to be required is certification
through the Frank Lincoln-George Murphy channel that I
am authorized to undertake this project and what the
ground rules are to be. The Budget Bureau is prepared
to talk about everything except major policy decisions
for the Johnson FY70 budget once they are given the O.K.
through that channel.
T
MEMORANDUM
December 2, 1968
TO:
DWIGHT CHAPIN
FROM:
BOB HALDEMAN
RE:
RN APPOINTMENTS & CALLS
RN said that he will see Walter Lippman at an early opportunity.
He also says he will call Arthur Krock, Dave Lawrence and
Raymond Moley.
MEMORANDUM
December 2, 1968
TO:
PAT BUCHANAN
FROM:
BOB HALDEMAN
RE:
RN REMARKS IN CALIFORNIA, December 5 and 6
RN would like you to give him some general thoughts regarding
his remarks to the Cardinal McIntyre dinner on Thursday night,
December 5th, and his remarks to the Republican Governors'
Conference on Friday night, December 6th.
In each case RN will speak for no more than five minutes, and
his remarks will be in the form of greetings on Thursday night
and response to a toast from Governor Reagan on Friday night.
Please check Chapin for background on these two events, and
have your thoughts in to RN by Wednesday noon.
MEMORANDUM
December 2, 1968
TO:
LEN GARMENT
FROM:
BOB HALDEMAN
RE:
PERSONNEL
If you have not already, would you please check Bishop
Jackson regarding his recommendations for potential Negro
staff members.
RN wants to be sure that Jackson is consulted at an early
time.
file
12/2
\
HRH would like answers to the following:
Rob Kundren 1.
There is some input concerning moving Reynolds
to Secretary of Labor. Who is it from?
Meany
2.
Carter Burgess, current Ambassador to Argentina -
is he a Democrat? - did he support HHH?
yes b Democrate ford
Reclued
in 68.
Ungnia who worked 6° but do 80
5.
to
MEMORANDUM
December 2, 1968
TO:
BOB HALDEMAN
FROM:
LARRY HIGBY
EW:
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS FRO INAUGURATION:
RN, FRIENDS AND STAFF
With regard to hotel rooms during the inauguration period,
John Ehrlichman has instructed Bob McCune to block 100
rooms at the Statler Hilton for RN staff and close personal
friends, as well as RN himself.
Bob will be happy to reserve for you whatever number of rooms
you feel you will need. Please advise.
MEMORANDUM
December 1, 1968
TO:
STAN BLAIR
Office of the Vice President-elect
FROM:
BOB HALDEMAN
RE:
AIDES TO VICE PRESIDENT
It is my understanding through Colonel Hughes, Mr. Nixon's
Military Aide, that the man who is now Vice President
Humphrey's Aide has made a direct request to be retained
in that post under Vice President Agnew.
It is my further understanding that the gentleman in question
intends to contact you directly on this. I would strongly urge
that you not consider this request favorable, and that we make
a clean sweep on the personal staff.
Hughes will prepare a file of candidates for you to review for
the posts of Personal Aide and Military Aide to the Vice
President, and I am sure he will have some outstanding
possibilities for you.
MEMORANDUM
December 1, 1968
TO:
DWIGHT CHAPIN
FROM:
BOB HALDEMAN
RE:
RN APPOINTMENTS: CONG. ARENDS -- B. GRAHAM
RN will see Congressman Arends on Tuesday afternoon,
December 3rd. The appointment is to be set through Bryce
Harlow.
RN will be having dinner with Billy Graham on Monday evening
at 7:30 at the apartment- just the two of them. Be sure to set
up appropriate arrangements with Manola.
MEMORANDUM
December 1, 1968
TO:
DWIGHT CHAPIN
FROM:
BOB HALDEMAN
RE:
RN PHONE CONVERSATIONS WITH CONGRESSMEN
AND SENATORS
Will you please be sure that Bryce Harlow gets a report of
every call completed to a Congressman of Senator by RN.
Will you also please go back in the record and give him a
run down of all calls completed up to date, since the election.
Harlow made it rather clear in a session with RN today that
he did not know who RN had talked with, and this obviously
creates a problem for him.
MEMORANDUM
December 1, 1968
TO:
FRMNK LINCOLN
FROM:
BOB HALDEMAN
RE:
WHITE HOUSE STAFF: JOHN WARDLOW
John Wardlow, who was RN's driver when he was Vice President,
has most recently been assigned to Senator Hayden, who is of
course retiring at the end of this term.
It is RN's desire that Wardlow be offerred a suitable position
on the White House staff at the time that he is released from
service to the Senator.
Wardlow is no longer really qualified as a driver because of
advanced age, and should therefore be given a position as
possibly addoorkeeper or in the ushers group, or something
of that sort, rather than a driving job.
I hope through the good offices of Bill Hopkins, something suit-
able can be arranged.
MEMORANDUM
December 1, 1968
TO:
FRANK LINCOLN
FROM:
BOB HALDEMAN
RE:
WHITE HOUSE STAFF: SECURITY CLEARANCE
Dear Frank:
Please advise as to the procedure you want to follow on basic
security checks for prospective White blouse staff and other
key administration appointments,
As you know, we have already announced a number of White
House appointments, and we should get the checks moving
quickly on those people. And there will be many more coming
up rapidly in the fairly near future.
As you know, the CIA has already moved in and run their
clearance procedure on a number of our key transition people,
so that they can be provided with CIA information. This,
however, does not, I presume, take the place of the FBI
check that is supposed to be made for us on all of the key
White House appointments, and I presume, the other admin-
istration appointments.
It is my understanding that checks are to be made by the FBI
Milreports delivered directly to us from Director Hoover
without being rooted via the present administration, and without
copies to the present administration. If you have any other
understanding, please let me know immediately.
Also, please let me know what information you need on each
individual to start the clearance, and whether you want it sent
to you or directly to Director Hoover, or what.
I also note that in 1961 President Kennedy had the Internal
Revenue Service make tax record checks as a supplement to the
character investigationsimomsdightedbyythe FBI. These checks
were made upon request from the FBI on designated individuals
and the required information was furnished to the FBI for trans-
mittal to the White House staff. Since under the law tax record
December 1, 1968
checks can only be made by the direct authorization of the
President, I do not know whether such checks are either feasi-
ble or desirable in the case of our new appointments. Kennedy
did, however, have some problems with tax complications
arising in the case of several of his key appointees, and this
was the reason he instituted the procedure. If we cannot do
it prior to inauguration, we will probably want to move for a
quick check immediately afterward, and that might be prefer-
able anyway.
I would appreciate your thoughts on this. Please do not initiate
any action with regard to IRS checks until you have given me a
run-down on the present procedure, and I have chance to discuss
this with RN.
All security checks of any kind regarding White House personnel
should be sent directly to me marked "personal and confidential"
with copies to no one else on our staff. As far as the checks on
key officials in other brances of the administration, you will have
to check with John Mitchell as to procedure he wants to have
followed.
Thanks very much for your help.
Cordially,
MEMORANDUM
December 1, 1968
TO:
STEVE BULL
JOHN BROWN
KEN COLE
JAY WILKINSON
FROM:
H. R. HALDEMAN
Would you please provide me with an up to date status report
by noon Monday, December 2nd, of where you stand in your
various projects.
Be sure to include any completion dates that are available.
November 29, 1968
MEMORANDUM
TO:
J. Keogh
P. Buchanan
R. Price
FROM:
H. R. HALDEMAN
RE:
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
I assume all of you, with the assistance of the other writer
and research people, are proceeding full tilt with collection of ideas
for and preparation of initial drafts of the Inaugural address and fol-
lowing that a State of the Union message which will present the new
President's legislative program.
Obviously, you don't have adequate input and guidance
at this stage for finishing these things up. but I know that RN is
going to be turning to you with the expectation that a lot of pre-
liminary thinking will have been completed. I expect this will happen
about mid-December, after he has completed the naming of the
Cabinet and is able to turn some of his attention to program development.
The best possible use of your time during this period, as I
have suggested earlier, is in this area. At this point, there is nothing
to be gained from sitting around the White House finding out what the
other people do, because all of the studies we have been able tomake
indicate that ninety percent of what they do isn't the way we are going
to do it.
Various key policy appointments will be made in the very
near future and, as they are, these people should be able to sit down
with you and start work productively on policy and program development
Obviously, this will require coordination with the task forces and their
input, but there's a lot to be done on the basis of the campaign promises,
the Republican platform and your own recommendations as to the nature
and thrust of the new President's program.
H. R. H.
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MEMORANDUM
November 30, 1968
TO:
JOHN EHRLICHMAN
FROM:
BOB HALDEMAN
RE:
CONFLICT OF INTERESTS; TRANSITION EMPLOYEES
I understand we may have a fascinating conflict of interests
problem.
Apparently a number of people who were on the campaign
payroll were told that they would be continued through
November orthhrough December, and therefore are being
paid at the same rate they earned during the campaign
through this current period.
Since the base payroll for this period is now being picked
up by the Federal Government I assume these people are
now Federal employees. My question is then, can they
also accept outside income under the conflict of interests
regulations?
Some specific pieces of particular interest arise, such as
Roger Ailes, whomas apparently promised continuation
through December at a fantiastically high rate. To my
knowledge Ailes is doing nothing for us at the present time,
and I presume he is, or will be, out earning money at
some other station.
Another interesting case is that of Hugh Sloan who works
with Dwight Chapin, and who has been given a sort-of
terminal leave arrangement with the Republican National
Finance Committee, which includes keeping him on the
payroll through December. He has also been added to the
Nixon Transition Committee payroll at the same rate, so that
in effect during the time he is working here throught the end
of the year, he is receiving double pay. He seems to think
this is perfectly all right because he is entitled to the terminal
arrangement as part of his base compensation at the National
Committee.
ES
MEMORANDUM
November 27, 1968
TO:
JOHN EHRLICHMAN
FROM:
BOB HALDEMAN
RE:
CONFLICT OF INTERESTS
I know you are working on the question of conflict of interests.
We badly need a basic policy document for reference as we
are bringing in sub-cabinet officers. It should spell out in
complete detail what methods can and cannot be used to meet
the conflict requirements.
The problem is urgent because there are a number of potential
appointments that cannot proceed in further discussion until
we have some basis for telling them what proble ms they face
on conflict.