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From Nixon to Haldeman Re: Call to California. 1 pg. [Memo], 9/2/1968
From Nixon to Mitchell Re: Launching Democrats for Nixon committee. 1 pg. [Memo], 9/2/1968
From Nixon to Haldeman Re: Calling major publishers. 1 pg. [Memo], 9/2/1968
From Nixon to Haldeman Re: Increase in television appearances and radio shows. 1 pg. [Memo], 9/2/1968
From Buchanan to Nixon Re: Nixon position on Fortas from Herb Klein. 1 pg. [Memo], n.d.
Re: Call to Ezra Taft Benson. 1 pg. [Memo], 8/12/1968
From DC to Haldeman Re: Thank-you's and gifts for Convention people. Also, memo from Haldeman to Ehrlichman, Timmons, Bob & Pat Hitt, Mitchell, Flanigan, Shakespeare, Ellsworth and Kleindienst Re: List of people to thank for Convention. 2 pg. [Memo], 8SlA
From Keogh to Nixon Re: Potential additions to R & W team. 2 pg. [Memo], 8/14/1968
From DC to Haldeman Re: Dates for Billy Graham. 2 pg. [Memo], 7/2/1968
Handwritten note Re: Keogh meeting. Also, memo from Buchanan to Nixon Re: Proper use of research staff. 4 pg. [Other Document], n.d.
From Nixon to Haldeman Re: Meeting after balloting. 1 pg. [Memo], 8/7/1968
Handwritten note Re: Nixon memos from October through end of campaign. 1 pg. [Other Document], n.d.
On article from New York Magazine "Learning to Live with Nixon" by Gloria Steinem Re: Reporters dislike of Nixon. 1 pg. [Report], 10/28/1968
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Rockefeller statement on negotiations between VC and SVN. 1 pg. [Memo], 11/3/1968
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Scranton's statement on Paris talks. 1 pg. [Memo], 11/4/1968
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Scranton follow-up to Meet the Press show. 1 pg. [Memo], 11/3/1968
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Gallop, Harris and Bucci polls. 1 pg. [Memo], n.d.
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Republican leaders' reaction to bombing halt. 2 pg. [Memo], 11/3/1968
From Ellsworth to Haldeman Re: Bucci polls. 1 pg. [Memo], 11/3/1968
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Michigan vote. 1 pg. [Memo], 11/3/1968
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Effect of bombing halt on Pennsylvania vote.1 pg. [Memo], 11/3/1968
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Oklahoma poll. 1 pg. [Memo], 11/3/1968
From Ellsworth to Haldeman Re: Summary of calls to Rockefeller, Romney, Goldwater, and Scranton. 1 pg. [Memo], 11/3/1968
Excepts from AP report on effect of SVN's refusal to attend Paris talks on Presidential candidates. Also, memo from Ellsworth Re: Requests for Nixon reaction to Thieu statement. 1 pg. [Report], n.d.
Summarized from New York Times Re: Lack of Humphrey endorsement by Senator Eugene McCarthy. 1 pg. [Report], n.d.
From Glenn Olds to Nixon Re: Report on Frank Lindsay's Cambridge Study Group on transition and tasks of new administration. Also, memo from Glenn Olds & Hal Booth to Frank Lindsay, Phil Areeda & Ernest May Re: Notes from Sept. meeting. 2 pg. [Memo], 9SlAs
From Ellsworth to Nixon & Mitchell Re: Bucci poll on Ohio, Connecticut, Indiana, Delaware & Pennsylvania. 4 pg. [Memo], n.d.
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From Nixon to Haldeman Re: Call to California. 1 pg. [Memo], 9/2/1968
From Nixon to Mitchell Re: Launching Democrats for Nixon committee. 1 pg. [Memo], 9/2/1968
From Nixon to Haldeman Re: Calling major publishers. 1 pg. [Memo], 9/2/1968
From Nixon to Haldeman Re: Increase in television appearances and radio shows. 1 pg. [Memo], 9/2/1968
From Buchanan to Nixon Re: Nixon position on Fortas from Herb Klein. 1 pg. [Memo], n.d.
Re: Call to Ezra Taft Benson. 1 pg. [Memo], 8/12/1968
From DC to Haldeman Re: Thank-you's and gifts for Convention people. Also, memo from Haldeman to Ehrlichman, Timmons, Bob & Pat Hitt, Mitchell, Flanigan, Shakespeare, Ellsworth and Kleindienst Re: List of people to thank for Convention. 2 pg. [Memo], 8SlA
From Keogh to Nixon Re: Potential additions to R & W team. 2 pg. [Memo], 8/14/1968
From DC to Haldeman Re: Dates for Billy Graham. 2 pg. [Memo], 7/2/1968
Handwritten note Re: Keogh meeting. Also, memo from Buchanan to Nixon Re: Proper use of research staff. 4 pg. [Other Document], n.d.
From Nixon to Haldeman Re: Meeting after balloting. 1 pg. [Memo], 8/7/1968
Handwritten note Re: Nixon memos from October through end of campaign. 1 pg. [Other Document], n.d.
On article from New York Magazine "Learning to Live with Nixon" by Gloria Steinem Re: Reporters dislike of Nixon. 1 pg. [Report], 10/28/1968
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Rockefeller statement on negotiations between VC and SVN. 1 pg. [Memo], 11/3/1968
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Scranton's statement on Paris talks. 1 pg. [Memo], 11/4/1968
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Scranton follow-up to Meet the Press show. 1 pg. [Memo], 11/3/1968
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Gallop, Harris and Bucci polls. 1 pg. [Memo], n.d.
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Republican leaders' reaction to bombing halt. 2 pg. [Memo], 11/3/1968
From Ellsworth to Haldeman Re: Bucci polls. 1 pg. [Memo], 11/3/1968
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Michigan vote. 1 pg. [Memo], 11/3/1968
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Effect of bombing halt on Pennsylvania vote.1 pg. [Memo], 11/3/1968
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Oklahoma poll. 1 pg. [Memo], 11/3/1968
From Ellsworth to Haldeman Re: Summary of calls to Rockefeller, Romney, Goldwater, and Scranton. 1 pg. [Memo], 11/3/1968
Excepts from AP report on effect of SVN's refusal to attend Paris talks on Presidential candidates. Also, memo from Ellsworth Re: Requests for Nixon reaction to Thieu statement. 1 pg. [Report], n.d.
Summarized from New York Times Re: Lack of Humphrey endorsement by Senator Eugene McCarthy. 1 pg. [Report], n.d.
From Glenn Olds to Nixon Re: Report on Frank Lindsay's Cambridge Study Group on transition and tasks of new administration. Also, memo from Glenn Olds & Hal Booth to Frank Lindsay, Phil Areeda & Ernest May Re: Notes from Sept. meeting. 2 pg. [Memo], 9SlAs
From Ellsworth to Nixon & Mitchell Re: Bucci poll on Ohio, Connecticut, Indiana, Delaware & Pennsylvania. 4 pg. [Memo], n.d.
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Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
35
12
09/02/1968
Memo
From Nixon to Haldeman Re: Call to
California. 1 pg.
35
12
09/02/1968
Memo
From Nixon to Mitchell Re: Launching
Democrats for Nixon committee. 1 pg.
35
12
09/02/1968
Memo
From Nixon to Haldeman Re: Calling major
publishers. 1 pg.
35
12
09/02/1968
Memo
From Nixon to Haldeman Re: Increase in
television appearances and radio shows. 1 pg.
35
12
n.d.
Memo
From Buchanan to Nixon Re: Nixon position
on Fortas from Herb Klein. 1 pg.
35
12
08/12/1968
Memo
Re: Call to Ezra Taft Benson. 1 pg.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Page 1 of 4
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
35
12
08/16/1968
Memo
From DC to Haldeman Re: Thank-you's and
gifts for Convention people. Also, memo
from Haldeman to Ehrlichman, Timmons,
Bob & Pat Hitt, Mitchell, Flanigan,
Shakespeare, Ellsworth and Kleindienst Re:
List of people to thank for Convention. 2 pg.
35
12
08/14/1968
Memo
From Keogh to Nixon Re: Potential additions
to R & W team. 2 pg.
35
12
07/02/1968
Memo
From DC to Haldeman Re: Dates for Billy
Graham. 2 pg.
35
12
n.d.
Other Document
Handwritten note Re: Keogh meeting. Also,
memo from Buchanan to Nixon Re: Proper
use of research staff. 4 pg.
35
12
08/07/1968
Memo
From Nixon to Haldeman Re: Meeting after
balloting. 1 pg.
35
12
n.d.
Other Document
Handwritten note Re: Nixon memos from
October through end of campaign. 1 pg.
35
12
10/28/1968
Report
On article from New York Magazine
"Learning to Live with Nixon" by Gloria
Steinem Re: Reporters dislike of Nixon. 1 pg.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Page 2 of 4
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
35
12
11/03/1968
Memo
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Rockefeller
statement on negotiations between VC and
SVN. 1 pg.
35
12
11/04/1968
Memo
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Scranton's
statement on Paris talks. 1 pg.
35
12
11/03/1968
Memo
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Scranton follow-
up to Meet the Press show. 1 pg.
35
12
n.d.
Memo
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Gallop, Harris
and Bucci polls. 1 pg.
35
12
11/03/1968
Memo
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Republican
leaders' reaction to bombing halt. 2 pg.
35
12
11/03/1968
Memo
From Ellsworth to Haldeman Re: Bucci
polls. 1 pg.
35
12
11/03/1968
Memo
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Michigan vote. 1
pg.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Page 3 of 4
Box Number Folder Number Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
35
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11/03/1968
Memo
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Effect of bombing
halt on Pennsylvania vote. 1 pg.
35
12
11/03/1968
Memo
From Ellsworth to DC Re: Oklahoma poll. 1
pg.
35
12
11/03/1968
Memo
From Ellsworth to Haldeman Re: Summary
of calls to Rockefeller, Romney, Goldwater,
and Scranton. 1 pg.
35
12
n.d.
Report
Excepts from AP report on effect of SVN's
refusal to attend Paris talks on Presidential
candidates. Also, memo from Ellsworth Re:
Requests for Nixon reaction to Thieu
statement. 1 pg.
35
12
n.d.
Report
Summarized from New York Times Re:
Lack of Humphrey endorsement by Senator
Eugene McCarthy. 1 pg.
35
12
09/12/1968
Memo
From Glenn Olds to Nixon Re: Report on
Frank Lindsay's Cambridge Study Group on
transition and tasks of new administration.
Also, memo from Glenn Olds & Hal Booth
to Frank Lindsay, Phil Areeda & Ernest May
Re: Notes from Sept. meeting. 2 pg.
35
12
n.d.
Memo
From Ellsworth to Nixon & Mitchell Re:
Bucci poll on Ohio, Connecticut, Indiana,
Delaware & Pennsylvania. 4 pg.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Page 4 of 4
F call June
September 2, 1968
MEMORANDUM
(fle) Memo to
TO:
HALDEMAN
FROM:
RN
Marge Acter Finch. for
George Jessel talked to Ed with regard to
the California situation and wanted to talk to me.
I would suggest that you give him a call, or have Finch
follow up in the event that you are unable to reach
him, prior to our taking off.
;
# # #
September 2, 1968
MEMORANDUM
TO:
MITCHELL
fine
FROM: RN
I can't emphasize the importance I attach to
lining up as many prominent Democrats as we can in the
next two weeks to join our Democrats for Nixon Committee
when it is launched. This is probably the only time we
are going to be able to make a significant breakthrough
in this area. Of course, if we don get enough big
names, we won't launch the Committee nationally, but we
can still with even minor league names have one in each
of the major states. You can check with Danner on the
status of the Lausche deal and any other names he might
have come across.
# # #
file
September 2, 1968
MEMORANDUM
TO: HALDEMAN
FROM: RN
on our second visit to L.A., I think calls both
to George Hearst and to Otis Chandler as well as Norman
should be scheduled. Also, in each of the cities that
we visit, I think calls to major publishers who may bee
friends of RN's should be scheduled during the half hour
that we make calls.
# # #
E
September 2, 1968
MEMORANDUM
TO:
HALDEMAN
FROM:
RN
One area where I think we are dropping the
ball is with regard to the appearances on the Television
and Radio Q & A Shows. The reason the Democrats dominate
these shows is because we do not systematically offer the
program producers names of attractive Republicans who will
go on in our behalf. Now here, I think it is time for
you to get hold of Ellsworth and whoever handles this kind
of thing at the National Committee and see that on a con-
sistent, regular basis we feed in the names of Surrogate
candidates and others to all slots on these shows that may
be open. I have mentioned this to Shakespeare but, obviously,
he has not had time to follow up on it.
To recap, what we need to do first is to find out
what shows go on, on a weekly basis, both nationally and
locally, and, second, we bug the producers to put on people
for our side whom we will select.
# # #
(te
Fele
MEMO TO RN
From Buchanan
I talked with Austin of Time tonight. He wanted to
know if RN's position had shifted on the Fortas thing. I said
not a centimeter since Fortas was named. He said that Herb Klein
had led either him or someone to believe that RN's statement about
opposing all filibusters was something of a movement toward the
appointment. I don't know what Herb has been told to say, but
if I were RN, I would sit right where we are. We have already
gotten the benefit of our position and paid the price. Why take
a new position on this thing?
Buchanan
file
Eltrevath RN
kwith
August 16, 1968
Harlow-mata
+ Land.
DC
shld RVds?
Fred Schluter strongly recommends a call be made to Ezra Taft
Benson. Some of the people in Idaho have started to put forth his
name to run as VP on the Wallace ticket.
Schluter says Benson says he will do anything to help his country
and to help Nixon -- but I gather he does-need a call.
rmw does not have enough background to know whether there is any
use making a call -- so just pass it along for RN's decision.
No report - from intel M. Stams
L. follow
Jule
August 16, 1968
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Bob Haldeman
FROM:
DC
I want you to take the responsibility to get
our people to list the people who should be thanked in connection with
the convention and the period prior to it.
Follow through on this with Mitchell and all the
others. Have Pat Hitt figure something out for the women who helped --
if we are sending cuff links to the men we cannot ignore the women.
(Bob -- I think each of these people should submit a list -- with the
address and first name bit and then we should get a lot of letters out to
the people who really deserve them and who will be working just that
much harder between now and November. We also should have one of
these fellows work up the list of RNC people and others who participated
in the convention program, etc. SO we don't leave anyone out. rmw)
August 18, 1968
TO: John Ehrlichman
Bill Timmons
Bob Hitt.
Pat Hitt
John Mitchell
Peter Flanigan
call tomorry
Prank Chakespeare
Rober Ellsworth
Richard Kleindienst
Brooke
-
be
at
Butler
FROM: Bob Haldeman
As a follow-up to the great job done by all at the
convention - and in the pre-convention period - RN has
asked that you give him a list of those people who should
receive a personal note of thanks from him.
Obviously, time is of the essence - so will you please
forward to me as quickly as possible (hopefully this week -
and certainly no later than September 1st) a complete list
of those you feel should be included.
It is essential that you provide full name and address
and indicate the appropriate salutation for RN. Be sure we
don't leave anyone out.
Thanks.
August 14, 1968
file
MEMORANDUM
TO:
RN
FROM:
Jim Keogh
We're going to need two or three more writers on
the R & W team. After considerable discussion among the
group, we have come up with a list of possibilities. We
don't know yet which of them will be available, but I
thought you should have a look at the list and see if there
are any that you would feel like vetoing.
The list of possibilities:
Hugh Morrow, an old hand on the Rockefeller staff,
who also did some very good work for Ken Keating a few years
ago. You may know him.
Douglas Bailey, also on the Rockefeller staff, who
is highly recommended.
poly proby best
Jonathan Moore, a Rockefeller expert on foreign
policy, who has worked largely as a research man but has
writing capability.
Lee Huebner, president of the Ripon Society, who
has been working for Rockefeller.
-2-
James Reichley, political writer for Fortune,
who used to work for Scranton.
Jeffrey Hart, of Reagan's staff, who is said
to be pretty far right but has a reputation as a good
phrase-maker. Bob Finch thinks that with editing - which
should be no great problem for me - Hart could do very
well for us.
We have some feelers out now but will not make
any commitments until we get your reaction.
JK
Whitoker.s Convation
Timinom
July 2, 1968
CONFIDENTIAL
TO:
HALDEMAN
FROM:
DC
In the schedule planning, I would like to have
and
in mind some dates for Billy Graham.
I would like him to give the invocation on the
night of the Acceptance Speech.
On September 8, if it workds into our shedule,
I would like to be in Pittsburgh when he is closing (the
sked
is a Sunday night) his Crusade there on a national tele-
you
vision broadcast. If I happen to be there, I would be
1 ntroduced, and he would speak about me rather my speaking
at the meeting.
If we schedule a visit to North Carolina, it
shed/
would be well to have either lunch or dinner at his home
on that occasion.
For your confidential information, he is also
prepared to state before the election that he plans to vote
strategy
for RN, that he wants us to evaluate the situation to see
whether we feel that would be helpful or on balance harmful
at that time in that it might raise some objections in
certain quarters.
With further reference to Graham, I think you
H-call
should follow up with Conlon, the State Senator from Arizona.
- 2 -
My guess is that he could be pretty effective
with this group.
Also, if we have any kind of a televised general
sked
I
meeeting in the South -- any place like Atlanta -- Graham
should be invited to give the invocation on that occasion.
# # #
JWT
&
hold for Keogh
meeting/ - if
we being him in
File
Bob Haldeman
File
MEMO TO RN
From Buchanan
April 17, 1968
pn ngreen
RESEARCH
I have given some thought to our research situation and it
seems to me that our answer lies somewhere along these lines. First,
let us recognize that we have a very small staff, that we cannot expec
it to do first tier research in depth where some great breakthrough.
What we can expect is that they will be equiped to brief us on any-
thing we want. We can expect that they will act as harvesters of
the available material.
HOW TO USE RESEARCH.
Given our situation, with this small staff, we must concentrate
upon relevant research, which is quite precisely what RN wants and
what RN himself can use. That has got to be our first priority. And
the only one who can determine that is RN himself. Thus Buchanan
recommends that either Buchanan or Chapin or someone designated get
from RN on a regular basis just what RN wants research to do for him.
Right now, research is not getting the necessary guidance, and the
necessary guidance can only come from RN. If RN asks for a great
deal, then research can expand according to RN's needs, or we can set
RN's demands in front of him and have him list priorities.
This sounds elementary, but the problem in research is that they
are flying blind; they are too small to turn out everything one assoc-
iates with a national campaign, positions papers from A to Z, etc. etc.
Their first purpose is to service the candidate, and only the can-
didate can know precisely what he wants done.
Now, forthe second purpose.
When no demands are being made, research should yet be moving,
contiuning to gather and winnow material, and working in anticipation
of future needs. For this also, however, Research needs guidance from
RN as to just what areas to concentrate in.
(let me put it this way. The Research Effort we have today is
nothing more than an expansion of the one-man operation we ran with
in 1966, The research I did was a) specifically what Riv requested
for his speech material and b) the regular reading and gaterhing and
filtering through. I realize the Big Show requires a hell of a lot
more but the needs of the candidate still come first and only the
candidate can know them
exactly, and he is the one who can best
project what he will need)
RECOMMEND: That RN on a regular basis tell
Chapin or Buchan-
an or whomever he designates to be the pipeline just what he wants from
the Research people and when---and I will have Shelly keep a check
list on the road.
Secondly, that RN tell research, or tather tell the pipeline to
research what priorities he wants set on long-range projects in what
areas he wants them done.
Third, that the Research people be taken out of the Issue Mail
Area if at all possible
Fourth, that the Research People submit to RN on a regular basis
a brief prograss report of what they are working on and where they are
going, so that RN can cut off this or that project and tell them to
move in this or that direction.
Let me add here a number of important points. We delude our-
selves I think if we are expected the Research group we have, which
is quality in my view and competent, to come up with position papers
on a thousand different subjects. Basically what we have here is a
mine-
small strong arm for the candidate to use as he sees fit.
If we do not keep in communication with it, if we do
not
provide guidance (which comes directly from RN's demands) then the
research effort will be flying blind, and
they will miss
the mark time after time. I think, however that wth constant instruct-
ion from the plane we can get valuable service out of them.
We must ramember I think that the only research that amounts to
)
a
damn is what gets into the public print and what gets into
the public print is going to come nine times out of ten out of RN.
I think it would be a mistake to have a massive operation going
here independent of RN and working on great research papers which are
never going to get us anything which RN is never going to say. The
important thing is that seven paragraphs that is all that is going to
be run.
This does not preclude the need for morepeople which exists. It
does not preclude the need for more writers which exists It just argues
for effective use of what we have.
PRESCHAL AND CONFIDENTIAL
August 7, 1938
MIMORANDUM
TO:
Bob Holdeman
FROM:
Richard Nixon
RM
: would appreciate 15 if yee could meet
with me tonight as soon as possible after the end of the
balloting.
Please come to the Solarfum Briefing
Room on the Penthouse Floor (18) at the Hilton Plaza.
21 you have any trouble, please check
with Mr. Hamilton 200 the Reception Deck on the 15th Floor.
So as to avoid any possible confusion, please bring this
memorandum with you.
Private
RN memos
Octo ber them
End of Campaign.
L - dowe
have raply
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
OCTOBER 28, 1968
"Learning to Live
from
?
With Nixon"
(by Gloria Steinem)
The Press: In fact, the reporters don't like Richard
Nixon. As far as I've been able to find out, only two members
of the 90-odd press corps are likely to vote for him: the U. S.
News and World Report man, who was also for Nixon in 1960, and
the Voice of America correspondent, who is thought to be Republican
because he
doesn't join in anti-Nixon bull sessions
and smokes an
unlit pipe. A few, notably Washington columnist Joe Kraft, are
not against Nixon because they feel he's what the rest of the
country wants and/or deserves. The rest seem to waver around
between Cheerful Resignation and Silent Despair
to
&
ta her
This be your
give your me (for your ofter
November 3, 1968
MEMORANDUM
Gile
TO:
DC
FROM: Ellsworth
Rockefeller will "see what he can do" about getting a statement
out right away so as to be in the Monday morning papers.
Substantively on the situation, he says the VC should never be
sitting at the table, that he doubts if the SVN people would ever have
even hinted at going to Paris if they had thought the VC were going to
be at the table, that Harriman is undoubtedly the guy who engaged in
the doubletalk necessary to convince Johnson it was all set, that the
first thing Nixon ought to do Wednesday when he gets elected is to tell
LBJ to get Harriman out of there immediately, that all Harriman is
interested in is getting a deal put together for his glory, that if
the SVN are forced into these negotiations with the VC it will end up
with an imposed coalition government and -- say -- two years from now
when the whole thing turns Communist Dick will take the heat for having
sold out, not Harriman.
NB: Rockefeller was very appreciative for the call.
November 4, 1968
TO:
DC
FROM:
ELLSWORTH (The following is the text of Scranton's statement which
went on the wire in Scranton at 8:30 A.M. today (PST):
Since President Johnson's announcement of the halt in the
bombing, significant difficulties with the plan have arisen. Whether
because of haste to make the announcement or for other reason, apparently
the plan was not fully cleared with both Hanoi and Saigon.
South VietnNam's President Thieu's statement indicated he was
led to believe that if the Viet Cong was to sit at the Paris Conference table,
it was not as an independent fourth-voice representation. Hanoi, on the
other hand, has been juiliantly claiming "a major victory" and making
alarmingly bellicose statements. Others, at home and abroad, see political
intention and ramifications, especially in the timing of the announcement
and of the next after-election talk in Paris. The Johnson credibility gap
remains wide and deep.
In all this, Richard Nixon has demonstrated exemplary states-
manship, for which he deserves great credit. He has supported the President.
Although the candidate of the opposition party in a vital election campaign,
he has refused to succumb to partisan criticism and attack, an easy
reaction under these muddled circumstances. Most commendable of all, he
has made a most helpful suggestion to get us out of the muddle and moving
toward peace again: that the Paris talks go on this week and settle the
seating arrangements, and he has volunteered, whether he wins or loses the
election, to help solidify public opinion behind the President's effort in
the critical days ahead.
# # #
November 3, 1968
MEMORANDUM
TO:
DC
FROM:
Ellsworth
RE:
Scranton
Scranton, who is here in Los Angeles at Norton Simon's house
overnight, was highly impressed with the Meet the Press show, and is
working on a follow-up statement as follows:
Mr. Nixon has properly been quite diplomatic in his treatement
of President Johnson with regard to the arrangements for the Paris talks,
but speaking for myself, I want to say it is clear this is a major
diplomatic blunder on top of a series of diplomatic blunders. Obviously
the understanding and agreement which was fundamental to any Paris
negotiations and to the bombing halt were not worked out, this exposes
our troops to additional risks, and therefore it was all the more impor-
tant to elect Nixon on Tuesday -- Nixon who has promised to help Johnson
and whose help Johnson obviously needs.
Scranton, however, will not be able to get the statement out tonight.
He is going to work on it and call me very early in the morning.
TO:
DC
FROM:
BOB ELLSWORTH
RE:
POLLS
GALLOP
NIXON
42
Humphrey
40
Wallace
14
HARRIS
NIXON
42
Humphrey
40
Wallace
12
BUCCI (DELAWARE -- WHICH HAS BEEN WITHIN .3% OF NATIONAL
POPULAR VOTE RESULTS IN THE LAST TWO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS)
NIXON
45
Humphrey
41
Wallace
14
BUCCI - PENNSYLVANIA
NIXON
46
Humphrey
42
Wallace
12
November 3, 1968
MEMORANDUM
TO:
DC
FROM:
Ellsworth
Here are some Republican leader reactions to the bombing halt:
Jerry Ford: "I don't think we should read too much into this develop-
ment, and I would not like to believe that the timing of the bombing
halt has anything to do with Tuesday's election. This development does
indicate to me that a policy of firmness toward Hanoi -- the policy of
Johnson and Nixon -- produces better results than the policies embraced
by HHH."
Dirksen in Chicago said that RN was "one of the citizens who stood
in the President's corner and helped make this come about. This is an
end we have been striving for for many months." He cautioned not to expect
too much now. "It is only a beginning."
John Tower said the announcement of what he called "unconditional cessation
of bombing" raised questions concerning what the U.S. received in return,
the timing of the announcement and the safety of U. S. troops.
Senator Hickenlooper: "We've been wondering if this wouldn't happen on the
eve of the election for political purposes, and now it has."
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Senator Javits called the halt a "great development".
Mayor Lindsay said it was "an important breakthrough."
Governor Rockefeller said he was "deeply gratified."
Senator Percy said it was a làst-ditch effort to end the war but wondered
"what knowledge do we have of the commitment from the other side?"
George Romney expressed the hope that the bombing halt would lead to
substantive negotiations but the American people were inclined to be
skeptical and they better be on the alert against getting "brainwashed."
November 3, 1968
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Haldeman
FROM:
Ellsworth
John Bucci this evening has a significant comment on the
Presidential preference sentiment, based on his breakdown of Delaware --
which he says can be projected nationally.
Nixon has substantially more strength among Independents than
Humphrey has, and he also has considerably more strength among Democrats
than Humphrey has among Republicans. As Bucci recalls, the reverse was
true in 1960 with regard to RN-JFK.
The breakdown, based on field work completed last last night:
Dems.
Reps.
Inds.
Total
Adjusted
Humphrey
62
12
36
40.6
41
Nixon
19
76
40
41.8
45
Wallace
15
6
17
12.7
14
Don't know
4
6
7
4.9
November 3, 1968
MEMORANDUM
TO:
DC
FROM:
Ellsworth
RE:
Michigan
Elly Peterson says it is even. Movement in recent weeks has been
from Wallace to Humphrey, due to COPE work. They hope to win some Wallace
votes to us with the Agnew rally tonight. Romney has taped a 2-minute
radio spot for use Monday and has drafted a full-page ad for Monday's papers.
Romney and Milliken will be on the streets all day Tuesday. Percy will be
in the Detroit metropolitan area Monday.
If the vote is there, Peterson says they will get it out.
She says the biggest problem is the Negro vote in Detroit. We will
get virtually none of it, so the hope is for the Negro vote in Detroit to
be small. They will know by the middle of the afternoon Tuesday how the
Negro precincts are turning out.
November 3, 1968
MEMORANDUM
TO:
DC
FROM:
Ellsworth
RE:
Pennsylvania
Jack Jordan says the bombing halt announcement Thursday helped
our side and turned the corner for Nixon in Pennsylvania -- even before
Saigon's refusal to go to Paris. In Pennsylvania, there is widespread
distrust of LBJ, and it was widely regarded as a. crude political ploy.
At our behest, Shafer will issue a strong statement on Monday
praising RN and urging his election.
Jordan predicts a Nixon win in Pennsylvania by 182,000. Bucci
predicts 184,000.
(NB: After the Pennsylvania returns are reported fully, have in
mind that the Nixon ticket will still have a margin of an extra 30,000
votes from the absentee vote. There will be about 120,000 absentees all
together, of which Wallace will get 10,000, Humphrey 40,000 and Nixon
70,000. This is the result of a special little operation in Pennsylvania,
resulting, for example, in Ed Heinman of Delaware County being able to
report tonight that all 13,000 absentte ballots in his county are for Nixon.
November 3, 1968
MEMORANDUM
TO:
DC
FROM:
Ellsworth
RE:
Oklahoma
Today's Daily Oklahoman, which runs a scientific poll that has
an excellent reputation for accuracy, shows Oklahoma as follows:
Nixon
43.5%
Wallace
29.5
Humphrey
24
Undecided
3
On the Senate race:
Bellmon
50.3%
Monroney
43.3
3rd Candidate
1.3
Undecided
5.1
November 3, 1968
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Haldeman
FROM: Ellsworth
Tentative wrap-up on\my calls:
(1) Rockefeller as reported earlier.
(2) Romney's line is busy. Operator programmed to try every
30 minutes.
(3) Awaiting Haldeman signa (re Reagan) before I call Goldwater.
(4) Scranton as reported in separate memorandum.
AP
--
RMN was assured by President Johson that SVN
had agreed to take part in the Paris peace talks, advisers to the
Republican presidential candidate said today.
The Nixon camp reacted sharply to SVN President
Thieu's announcement that his government would not participate
in the next stage of negotiations -- triggered by Pr. J's decision
to halt the bombardment of NVN
Nixon himself had no comment on Thieu's statement.
But aides sought out newsmen and told that them
that Nixon had been assured by Pr. J., that SVN would participate
in the talks.
"We had the impression that all the ciplomatic ducks
were in position," said one aide.
He said Johsnon had given the assurance by
telephone to Nixon, and the other two presidential candidates,
Dem. VP HHH and GW t Am Ind party candidate.
He said that Nixon now believes that the Administra-
tion's credibility on the peace talks is in doubt. And the
candidate is concerned that SVN could escalate the war on its own,
or pull its troops back, the aide said.
Meanwhile, Cal JT Gov. Robt. H. Finch reported he
had called some 60 pol leaders in major states and was told the
bombardment halt was not helping HHH.
"I think this will boomerang," he said. "It was
hastily contrived."
file
From: Ellsworth
Irwin and Kenworthy, speaking for themselves and others, say they
want to know from RN what his reaction is to the Thieu statement.
They say if they cannot get it from Nixon they will -- on the basis
of the attached AP story -- write that Nixon refused to comment
himself while instructing his staff to assiduously pump out the
story that LBJ assured RN that SVN would participate.
They say Ziegler was not the source for the AP
story.
They asked that their request for a statement from
Nixon be relayed to him.
NEW YORK TIMES
SUMMARY AND INDEX (Cont.)
Efforts to push Senator Eugene McCarthy off the New
York ballot gained an unexpected ally -- the Senator himself.
The former Democratic challenger still declined to endorse
Vice President Humphrey, but his action was seen by strategists
assa help in increasing Mr. Humphrey's margin in the state.
Harold Ickes, the leader of the McCarthy campaign here, ex-
plained that "it is one thing
not to endorse
Humphrey and another thing to do something that would be des-
tructive to his candidacy.
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MEMORANDUM
To:
R.N.
Date: September 12, 1968
From: Glenn Olds
Subj: Report on Frank Lindsay's Cambridge Study Group on the transi-
tion and tasks of a new administration
After review of Frank's 30-page analysis of August 15 for R.N., dis-
cussed with R.N. in January, Hal Booth, (I now have on loan from State
Farm doing the basic analysis of manpower" need, input, and coordina-
tion) and I spent the evening with their group in Cambridge, getting
their recommendations and input. They are willing to continue to work
on this area, drawing on their rather rich resources. I worked out
an agenda of work for them that I need not burden you with now. The
agenda covered the substance of their report on (1) Personnel, (2)
Substantive program, (3) Government organization, and (4) Transitional
arrangements. (Note: see attached notes from meeting)
In the sensitive area of recommendations, however, they would like to
tap discreetly the judgment of unusually broad gauged people in the
area. It would strengthen their study if you were willing to indicate
your interest in their results. They propose the following which I
believe is both innocent, protective of you and the campaign, but use-
ful.
"Mr. Nixon is aware that we are doing this study and has indi-
cated that it could be helpful to him. However, this study
has not been commissioned by him, but rather is entirely 'self-
started' with the hope that advance work will help him and his
advisers meet the urgent problems of staffing a new administra-
tion."
Your reaction as to whether you concur or not will help me proceed in
using their help.
cc: Messrs. Haldeman
Garment
Mitchell
Keogh
To:
Frank Lindsay, Phil Areeda, and Ernest May
From:
Glenn Olds and Hal Booth
Subject: Notes from our meeting of September 5, 1968
We discussed the fourfold analysis of the paper to RN of
August 15; i.e. (1) Personnel, (2) Substantive Program, (3)
Government Organization (4) Transitional Arrangements, with
action referral under each as follows:
(1) Personnel:
(a) Move forward immediately in identification of
outstanding people from the several sources
discussed.
(b) Booth to confer with Lindsay's aid to avoid
duplication and aim at coordination
(c) Cambridge group to work at "qualitative"
criteria, and attention to the vehicle and
process of screening;
(d) Detail optional profiles with consequences
in pivotal areas, (Ex: a "policy making"or
administrative" Sec. of State
)
(e) Identify the 50 "toughest", not necessarily
the most prestigious, positions.
(f) Identify the "structure of consent", as well
as the 'structure of authority or power" in
the executive branch
(g) Identify the top civil servants in all depart-
ments;
(2) Substantive programs:
(a) Suggestions of substance or procedure re: trans-
lating policy into legislative program
(b) Assess policy options re: existing or proposed
programs.
(3) Governmental Organization:
(a) Consider small staff for program design independ-
ent of bureau or department
(b) Identify omni-competent people for major inter-
grating of ideas and policy to give coherence and
focus to the initial phases of a new administration.
(c) Identify organization "hang ups", pitfalls, and
conversely, resources and structures available for
use in implementation.
(4) Transitional arrangements:
(a) Suggest special qualities required for the key
liason person;
(b) Identify the person enjoying R.N.'s absolute
confidence & public trust to monitor the process
of transition as Clark Clifford did for Kennedy;
(c) Develop detailed information on nature, scale and
calendar of this process.
To:
RN
cc: John Mitchell
From: Ellsworth
Re:
Report from Bucci, nationally-known pollster and
Pennsylvania Republican Committee pollster
Bucci reported to me informally, in Philadelphia on
Saturday morning, following the preliminary and tentative
results on his first post-Democratic-convention survey.
The results are not final. He still has one report to come
in from a city in Ohio. Subject to that qualification, his
informal report was as follows:
1) His polling has covered Ohio, Indiana, Connecticut,
Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
On a nationwide basis, his findings accord with
the Gallup results published a week ago: approxi-
mately
Nixon
45
Humphrey
31
Wallace
18
Undecided
6
2) Pennsylvania, however, shows weaker than the rest
of the country:
Nixon
43
Humphrey
40
Wallace
10
Undecided
7
Without going into the technical details, Bucci
refines the above gross figures to predict the
actual November result in Pennsylvania, based on
what he believes the final registrations will show,
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to be as follows :
Nixon
46
Humphrey 44
Wallace 10
Detailed breakdowns as between the parties, com-
paring Bucci's current wave with his July poll,
show Pennsylvania as follows :
Republicans
Democrats
All Voters
July Sept.
July
Sept.
July
Sept.
Nixon
62
64
21
20
44
45
Humphrey
19
19
63
66
44
45
Wallace
15
10
9
8
12
10
Undecided
4
7
7
6
NB: The discrepency between the "All Voters" figures for
September (45-45-10) and the Bucci prediction for
November (46-44-10) is accounted for by the fact that
in arriving at his prediction, Bucci includes the
effect of the new registrations which closed last
Monday and which affect the voters' participation in
favor of RN, since substantially more Republicans
registered this fall than Democrats (the first time
this has happened since 1956).
Registration in Philadelphia which usually runs 2-to-1
in favor of the Democrats, this year is only about
1½-to-1.
NB: Notice the Wallace slippage since July--down from 15
to 10 among Republicans, down from 9 to 8 among Demo-
crats, and down from 12 to 10 overall.
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3) Directing attention to the reasons why Nixon is not
doing as well in Pennsylvania as he is in the rest of
the nation (he is not doing as well as in Connecticut,
for example), Bucci says--without having been able to
assemble his material to make a formal analysis--that
the basic reason is the "Depression Syndrome. " Pennsyl-
vania has not kept progress with much of the country,
and the new, fast-moving affluence, so there are still
many members of organized labor who are only marginally
employed or un-employed and whose presence and condition
affects the thinking and feeling of other, more affluent
Pennsylvanians. They fear the memory--the folk mytho-
logy, if you will--of a Republican connection with the
Depression.
On the other hand, Bucci is clear that neither Humphrey
nor Wallace (both are thought of as Democrats in
Pennsylvania) has yet offered an appealing program even
to Democrats, in Pennsylvania. He says both are regard-
ed as extremists, in terms of programs--and that Humphrey's
appeal has so far been solely on the basis of party
loyalty. Humphrey has been attempting to exploit party
loyalty, in support of unpopular and extreme programs.
Therefore, Bucci suggests that the Nixon appeal in
Pennsylvania focus on:
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1) The prospect that Nixon can and will maintain
prosperity and that he will do it while bring-
ing peace and keeping peace. Over the last
eight years, we have had prosperity but it
has been accompanied by war and this is deeply
disturbing in Pennsylvania.
2) Criticism of Humphrey but not criticism of the
Democratic Party, and especially not of
McCarthy or McCarthyites, as many of them have
absolutely no interest in Humphrey but are
beginning to take an interest in Nixon.
3) Specific emphasis on the fact that Humphrey
could not and cannot unify his own party--and
a man who cannot unify his own party cannot
govern the nation. This seems to have special
appeal in Pennsylvania.