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Letter from John Dinkelspeil and Caspar Weinberger to Nixon Club Chairmen in Northern California. Campaign Check List. 4 pgs. [Letter], 7/29/1960
Letter from Thomas Pike to County Nixon Chairmen. Subject: Campaign Co-Ordination with GOP Leadership. 2 pgs. [Letter], 6/17/1960
Letter from Thomas Pike to Operation Telephone Leadership. RE: Listing of telephone volunteers. 2 pgs. [Letter], 1960
Letter to Nixon Club Chairmen in Northern California and others concerned with operation telephone. 1 pg. [Letter], 6/6/1960
Letter to Nixon Club Chairmen in Northern California. Subject: Operation Telephone. 3 pgs. Duplicate not scanned. [Letter], 5/25/1960
Letter from H.R. Haldeman to Campaign idea file. RE: Use of choral groups in major city campaign appearances. 1 pg. [Letter], 4/6/1960
Letter from H.R. Haldeman to Campaign idea file. RE: Film for club use. 1 pg. [Letter], 4/6/1960
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Letter from John Dinkelspeil and Caspar Weinberger to Nixon Club Chairmen in Northern California. Campaign Check List. 4 pgs. [Letter], 7/29/1960
Letter from Thomas Pike to County Nixon Chairmen. Subject: Campaign Co-Ordination with GOP Leadership. 2 pgs. [Letter], 6/17/1960
Letter from Thomas Pike to Operation Telephone Leadership. RE: Listing of telephone volunteers. 2 pgs. [Letter], 1960
Letter to Nixon Club Chairmen in Northern California and others concerned with operation telephone. 1 pg. [Letter], 6/6/1960
Letter to Nixon Club Chairmen in Northern California. Subject: Operation Telephone. 3 pgs. Duplicate not scanned. [Letter], 5/25/1960
Letter from H.R. Haldeman to Campaign idea file. RE: Use of choral groups in major city campaign appearances. 1 pg. [Letter], 4/6/1960
Letter from H.R. Haldeman to Campaign idea file. RE: Film for club use. 1 pg. [Letter], 4/6/1960
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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
52
37
07/29/1960
Letter
Letter from John Dinkelspeil and Caspar
Weinberger to Nixon Club Chairmen in
Northern California. Campaign Check List. 4
pgs.
52
37
06/17/1960
Letter
Letter from Thomas Pike to County Nixon
Chairmen. Subject: Campaign Co-Ordination
with GOP Leadership. 2 pgs.
52
37
1960
Letter
Letter from Thomas Pike to Operation
Telephone Leadership. RE: Listing of
telephone volunteers. 2 pgs.
52
37
06/06/1960
Letter
Letter to Nixon Club Chairmen in Northern
California and others concerned with
operation telephone. 1 pg.
52
37
05/25/1960
Letter
Letter to Nixon Club Chairmen in Northern
California. Subject: Operation Telephone. 3
pgs. Duplicate not scanned.
52
37
04/06/1960
Letter
Letter from H.R. Haldeman to Campaign
idea file. RE: Use of choral groups in major
city campaign appearances. 1 pg.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Page 1 of 2
Box Number Folder Number Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
52
37
04/06/1960
Letter
Letter from H.R. Haldeman to Campaign
idea file. RE: Film for club use. 1 pg.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Page 2 of 2
Basic Campaign
JOHN WALTON DINKELSPIEL
CASPAR W. WEINBERGER
NIXON
Co-Chairmen
Rdea file
J.F. SULLIVAN, JR., Chairman
Executive Committee
IN '60
JEAN BATES
Lafayette
COMMITTEE
MARJORIE H. E. BENEDICT
Berkeley
THOMAS F. BREWER
Stockton
OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
HARRY J. BOYLE
870 Market St., San Francisco 2, Calif. SU 1-3751
Hillsborough
AUDREY BROWN
Sacramento
AYLETT B. COTTON
July 29, 1960
Burlingame
ALVIN F. DERRE
San Francisco
FRED G. DUPUIS
Tiburon
Campaign Check List
DONALD D. DOYLE
Walnut Creek
To: Nixon Club Chairmen in Northern California
J. MARCUS HARDIN
Oakland
LLOYD A. HARNISH
Fresno
The time for intensive campaign action is now upon us!
MARCO F. HELLMAN
San Francisco
HELEN HOLLENBECK
We have the basic organization for a full-fledged, intensive
Oroville
campaign to elect Dick Nixon President of the United States
ROSE MARIE HOLT
Carmel
on November 8th. Let's put that organization to work and get
OLIEVE HORAN
moving fast. Here is a check list of things you should be
Oakdale
LUCILE HOSMER
doing and plans you should be making, RIGHT NOW. (Check them
San Carlos
off as you complete them.)
PETER HOWARD
Oakland
GARDINER JOHNSON
1. Membership. Expand your organization of Nixon clubs
San Francisco
WALTER S. JOHNSON
to every community of your county. An effective
San Francisco
campaign organization requires a working force in
LUTHER H. LINCOLN
Lafayette
every crossroads and hamlet. Your county organization
JOHN E. LONGINOTTI
is not sufficient to do the job, no matter how well
San Jose
GEORGE W. MILIAS, JR.
it is set up. Send in names of your community
Gilroy
chairmen so we can begin sending them the basic
A. H. MOFFITT, JR.
Alameda
materials they will need to do the job.
SUSAN MOORE
Porterville
JAMES L. MURPHY
2. Democrats. Capitalize on the breakage of the Democratic
San Francisco
national convention by signing up Democrats who don't
ALAN H. NICHOLS
San Francisco
like their candidate (and properly so!) or who don't
CHARLES O'GARA
approve of the Democratic platform. There are
Monterey
EMILY PIKE
thousands upon thousands of them. Use these names
San Francisco
for a committee of Democrats for Nixon and make sure
ROBERT H. POWER
Vacaville
you get good publicity on it.
ROBERT PRIOR
Eureka
C. WARREN REED
3. Coordinating Committee. This campaign will be a
San Francisco
cooperative one. Be sure you have a coordinating
INEZ B. ROBIE
Auburn
committee representative of all groups in the County
WILLIAM R. RODGERS
interested in the election of Dick Nixon. At the very
Porterville
GEORGE C. ROEDING, JR.
minimum this committee should include representatives
Niles
of the Republican County Central Committee, Republican
PORTER SESNON
San Francisco
Assembly, Federation of Republican Women, and Young
ROBERT H. STEELE
Republicans, as well as Nixon club leadership.
San Francisco
JAMES STOCKMAN
Schedule weekly meetings (or at the very least bi-
Santa Rosa
weekly) so you can eliminate wasteful duplication of
RUTH N. WATSON
Berkeley
effort and be in a position to profit from all possible
ideas.
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4. Headquarters. There must be a separate Nixon headquarters in
every county--and additional ones where there are two or more major
cities or areas in a county. Try to open your headquarters shortly
after the first of August and have it in full scale operation by
the day after Labor Day. Have a well publicized opening (and be
sure you have a crowd by getting a crew busy on the telephone a
few days in advance.) Your headquarters will cooperate fully with
the Republican headquarters, of course, but we must have a place
where Democrats and independents can join in working for Nixon.
Try to get a place where there will be sufficient room to set up a
battery of telephones for your get-out-the-vote effort just prior
to the election.
5. Finance. Appoint a finance chairman, who will have the responsibility
of raising sufficient funds for this campaign from your area.
Your finance chairman should have a close working relationship with
the Republican fund raising organization in your county, but he
should be prepared to contact non-Republican money sources as well.
Budget figures are now being prepared and will be made available
on a county-by-county basis in the very near future.
6. Precinct Organization. Appoint a precinct chairman, who will work
with the precinct organization of your Republican County Central
Committee. The Vice President has asked that we man every precinct
in California with not one but TWO precinct workers. Where there
is an effective Republican precinct organization, augment that
organization to the extent necessary to cover the county completely.
Where there is no effective precinct operation, set up one--in
cooperation with the Republican County Chairman.
Young business and professional men offer an excellent source of
people for precinct work. Large numbers of them have become
interested in politics through the "school of politics" programs
of the Chamber of Commerce and other organizations. Your goal
should be at least one personal call upon every voter--Republicans
and Democrats alike--before November 8th.
7. Special Groups. Appoint chairmen to organize special groups, such
as doctors, lawyers, veterans, minorities, etc. Check carefully
with leaders of the groups concerned to make sure you have the
right person. These groups can be very helpful in making available
campaign workers, contributions, and carrying the story of their
support of Nixon to the public through appropriate news stories.
8. Publicity. Appoint a publicity chairman and plan for a coordinated
and continuing release of news. Among ideas which deserve news
space are announcements of local chairmen and committees, meetings,
rallies, organization of special groups, statements by chairmen or
others on political developments. These are only a few suggestions.
An active and competent publicity chairman, preferably with newspaper
background, can constantly make available the news of Dick Nixon and
your club for your local press.
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9. "Operation Telephone". Experience in the primary election
demonstrated that volunteers manning an organized battery of
telephones in the four days prior to the election paid dividends
in turning out the vote for Nixon. Plan now to set up telephone
batteries covering every precinct in your county for the general
election. We will have a detailed bulletin on this in the very
near future.
10. Mailing. Plans for the campaign include a Nixon mailing piece to
be sent to all Democratic voters just prior to the election.
(Money being scarce, we're counting on the Republican Central
Committee to mail to Republican voters on behalf of the ticket.)
Plan now for volunteer crews to address envelopes for this mailing
during the months of September and October.
11. Speakers' Bureau. Select a speakers' bureau chairman and issue
a news release offering speakers to any organization desiring a
presentation on the presidential campaign. Make certain that your
speakers are adequately briefed on the basic issues. The best way
to do this is to have a meeting of persons volunteering to speak
and conduct a "school" on issues--using the kit of material sent
to you by the Nixon Volunteers in Washington. (Anyone who has not
received this material please contact this office.) We suggest
emphasis on the following major issues:
A. Strong foreign policy. Nixon is the man who has demonstrated
he can stand up to Khrushchev. He will not be an appeaser.
B. Sound and economical government. Nixon believes in giving
the working man control of the maximum proportion of his own
paycheck and not in visionary, bureaucratic programs which
inevitably increase taxes and cut take-home pay.
12. Fair Booths. Make arrangements for a Nixon booth at your county
or district fair. See Action Memo of Nixon Volunteers entitled
"Fair Time--U.S.A."
13. Materials. Additional materials will be available shortly after
the national convention, and initial supplies will be distributed
automatically. In the meantime, send in your requests for any
needed quantities of the following:
Enrollment cards
Nixon pictures
Brochures
Nixon posters
Windshield stickers
Book - "Richard Nixon" by
Lapel buttons
Earl Mazo (20c per copy)
14. College Youth for Nixon. Contacts are being made with youth leaders
throughout the State to activate Nixon clubs on every college and
university campus immediately upon the start of classes in September.
Please send names and addresses of any college students who would
be interested in working for Nixon on their campuses.
15. Films. Copies of two Nixon films are available for use at meetings,
showing at fair booths. etc. Others will be added to the list in
the near future. The two which may be obtained at this time are:
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"Ambassador of Friendship", 21 minutes; showing the Vice
President as our Nation's representative in dealing with
world leaders.
"What I Saw in Russia, 28 minutes; a CBS film showing
highlights of the Vice President's trip to Russia.
Please send requests for these films as far in advance as possible.
It will be necessary to arrange locally for a 16 millimeter sound
projector and screen.
16. Campaign Kickoff. You are cordially invited to participate in the
opening of public headquarters of the Nixon for President Committee
of Northern California.
Date: Monday, August 15th
Place: 902 Market Street, San Francisco.
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Come and help make this a rip-roaring, spectacular event to start
off the general election campaign.
Remember, the time is short! Let's get all of the preliminaries out of
way so you can be operating at full steam at the earliest possible date.
Let us know how you are doing and how we can help. Share your ideas--
what works well in your community may be helpful somewhere else.
Cordially,
John W. Dinkelspiel
Caspar W. Weinberger
JOHN WALTON DINKELSPIEL
CASPAR W. WEINBERGER
NIXON
Co-Chairmen
Idea
J.F. SULLIVAN, JR., Chairman
Executive Committee
IN '60
JEAN BATES
Lafayette
COMMITTEE
MARJORIE H. E. BENEDICT
fill
Berkeley
THOMAS F. BREWER
Stockton
OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
HARRY J. BOYLE
870 Market St., San Francisco 2, Catif. SU 1-3751
Hillsborough
AUDREY BROWN
Sacramento
June 17, 1960
AYLETT B. COTTON
Burlingame
ALVIN F. DERRE
San Francisco
FRED G. DUPUIS
Tiburon
TO:
COUNTY NIXON CHAIRMEN
DONALD D. DOYLE
Walnut Creek
J. MARCUS HARDIN
FROM: THOMAS P. PIKE
Oakland
LLOYD A. HARNISH
Fresno
SUBJECT: CAMPAIGN CO-ORDINATION WITH GOP LEADERSHIP
MARCO F. HELLMAN
San Francisco
HELEN HOLLENBECK
I am sending letters to all Republican County chairmen
Oroville
ROSE MARIE HOLT
thanking them for all the help they gave to the Nixon
Carmel
Primary Campaign. Also I will express the desire that
OLIEVE HORAN
Oakdale
in each county we have a Nixon chairman (yourself), and
LUCILE HOSMER
San Carlos
a Nixon finance chairman working with their counterpart
PETER HOWARD
in the GOP organization to work out the details of our
Oakland
campaign plan and arrange for its financing.
GARDINER JOHNSON
San Francisco
WALTER S. JOHNSON
San Francisco
We have an identical goal -- the election of Dick Nixon
LUTHER H. LINCOLN
as our next president. Our cooperation and unified effort
Lafayette
will carry California for the Vice President, as well as
JOHN E. LONGINOTTI
San Jose
the other Republican stalwarts on the November ballot.
GEORGE W. MILIAS, JR.
Gilroy
A. H. MOFFITT, JR.
Our first practical consideration is the financing of
Alameda
billboards within each county. We are currently
SUSAN MOORE
Porterville
negotiating for a statewide poster showing. Within
JAMES L. MURPHY
San Francisco
two weeks we expect to have a county-by-county break-
ALAN H. NICHOLS
down of costs. At this point we hope that you and your
San Francisco
finance chairman will meet with the GOP chairman and
CHARLES O'GARA
Monterey
finance chairman to work out ways and means of underwriting
EMILY PIKE
San Francisco
this expenditure.
ROBERT H. POWER
Vacaville
ROBERT PRIOR
This will set a pattern, I believe, for future budget and
Eureka
campaign problems, and lead to a unified campaign which
C. WARREN REED
San Francisco
utilizes all of the Republican organization potential as
INEZ B. ROBIE
Auburn
well as the "new faces", independents and conservative
WILLIAM R. RODGERS
Democrats recruited through Nixon clubs.
Porterville
GEORGE C. ROEDING, JR.
Niles
Cordially yours,
PORTER SESNON
San Francisco
ROBERT H. STEELE
San Francisco
JAMES STOCKMAN
Santa Rosa
Thomas P. Pike
RUTH N. WATSON
Berkeley
State Chairman
June 14, 1960
Dear County Chairmen:
It was my great pleasure to meet with your group in Los
Angeles Saturday and review the progress made to date in all
Republican contests.
You are doing a wonderful job, and I presume to offer
suggestions only for the campaign on behalf of the head of our
ticket, Vice President Nixon.
To summarize the thoughts I expressed Saturday, we would
like to see:
1. A Nixon chairman and a Nixon finance chairman for
each county working with
2. The Republican chairman and Republican finance
chairman in each county.
Together they would plan for the financing and conduct of
the Nixon campaign within each county.
We have an identical goal -- the election of Dick Nixon as
our next president. Our united and unified effort will carry
California for the Vice President, as well as the other Republican
stalwarts on the November ballot.
Our first practical consideration is the financing of
billboards within each county. We are currently negotiating
for a statewide poster showing. Within two weeks we expect to
have a county-by-county breakdown of costs. We suggest that you,
the county chairman, and your finance chairman meet with the Nixon
chairman and finance chief to work out ways and means of under-
writing this expenditure within your county.
This will set the pattern, we believe, for mutual
cooperation, and discussion of needs and goals for the Nixon
campaign, within the framework of the total Republican need
and potential in each county.
Sincerely yours,
Thomas P. Pike
RICHARD M. NIXON FOR PRESIDENT
Compaign Idea
To:
Operation Telephone Leadership
From: Thomas P. Pike, State Chairman
Re:
Listing of telephone volunteers
"Operation Telephone", it is obvious now, will be one of the
largest and most dramatic events of any political campaign,
utilizing several thousand volunteer workers.
We want to be sure that each one gets a special memento of
the campaign, and a personal thank you.
To that end, could you circulate the enclosed "ROSTER" to all
your workers and return to us at your earliest convenience.
And meanwhile, a real, heart-felt "thank you" for all you
are doing.
Operation Telephone Roster
NOTE: Please circulate to all workers, in order that they may be thanked (and thank you!)
Have you worked Did you enjoy
NAME
STREET & CITY
on political cam- this one?
paigns before?
When completed, please return to Headquarters -- 2796 West Eighth Street, Los Angeles 5
JOHN WALTON DINKELSPIEL
CASPAR W. WEINBERGER
NIXON
Co-Chairmen
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
J.F. SULLIVAN, JR., Chairman
IN '60
Executive Committee
JEAN BATES
Lafayette
COMMITTEE
MARJORIE H. E. BENEDICT
Berkeley
THOMAS F. BREWER
Stockton
OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
HARRY J. BOYLE
870 Market St., San Francisco 2, Catif. SU 1-3751
Hillsborough
AUDREY BROWN
Sacramento
AYLETT B. COTTON
Burlingame
ALVIN F. DERRE
San Francisco
FRED G. DUPUIS
Tiburon
DONALD D. DOYLE
Walnut Creek
J. MARCUS HARDIN
June 6, 1960
Oakland
LLOYD A. HARNISH
Fresno
MARCO F. HELLMAN
To: Nixon Club Chairmen in Northern California
San Francisco
HELEN HOLLENBECK
and others concerned with:
Oroville
ROSE MARIE HOLT
Carmel
"Operation Telephone"
OLIEVE HORAN
Oakdale
LUCILE HOSMER
San Carlos
PETER HOWARD
With the get-out-the-vote campaign for tomorrow's
Oakland
primary election now complete, will you please send
GARDINER JOHNSON
San Francisco
immediately to the above address a list of persons who
WALTER S. JOHNSON
San Francisco
participated in the program so that "thank you" letters
LUTHER H. LINCOLN
can be sent to them.
Lafayette
JOHN E. LONGINOTTI
San Jose
To make sure that we have all the details of your
GEORGE W. MILIAS, JR.
Gilroy
operation for use in making a final report, will you also
A. H. MOFFITT, JR.
provide the following information:
Alameda
SUSAN MOORE
Porterville
1. Number of telephone locations and number of
JAMES L. MURPHY
San Francisco
telephones in each.
ALAN H. NICHOLS
2. Number of precincts covered.
San Francisco
3. Total number of calls made.
CHARLES O'GARA
Monterey
4. Number of volunteer workers participating.
EMILY PIKE
San Francisco
5. Other get-out-the-vote activities in your
ROBERT H. POWER
area--personal calls, mailings, etc.
Vacaville
ROBERT PRIOR
Eureka
Please mail the information by Thursday of this
C. WARREN REED
San Francisco
week, June 9th.
INEZ B. ROBIE
Auburn
WILLIAM R. RODGERS
Preliminary reports indicate this was an excellent
Porterville
warm-up for the Fall. Let's get busy now and really perfect
GEORGE C. ROEDING, JR.
Niles
our organization for the big push!
PORTER SESNON
San Francisco
ROBERT H. STEELE
San Francisco
JAMES STOCKMAN
Santa Rosa
RUTH N. WATSON
Berkeley
JOHN WALTON DINKELSPIEL
CASPAR W. WEINBERGER
NIXON
Co-Chairmen
fill
J.F. SULLIVAN, JR., Chairman
IN '60
Executive Committee
JEAN BATES
paign
Lafayette
COMMITTEE
MARJORIE H. E. BENEDICT
Berkeley
THOMAS F. BREWER
Stockton
OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
HARRY J. BOYLE
870 Market St., San Francisco 2, Catif. SU 1-3751
Hillsborough
AUDREY BROWN
Sacramento
May 25, 1960
AYLETT B. COTTON
Burlingame
ALVIN F. DERRE
San Francisco
FRED G. DUPUIS
Tiburon
TO NIXON CLUB CHAIRMEN IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA:
DONALD D. DOYLE
Walnut Creek
J. MARCUS HARDIN
Oakland
LLOYD A. HARNISH
Subject: "Operation Telephone"
Fresno
MARCO F. HELLMAN
San Francisco
Here are a few last minute suggestions for carrying out
HELEN HOLLENBECK
your telephone campaign to get out the vote for Dick
Oroville
ROSE MARIE HOLT
Nixon at the June 7th primary.
Carmel
OLIEVE HORAN
Oakdale
If you haven't yet put the operation into effect in
LUCILE HOSMER
San Carlos
your area, it's still not too late to start. (See our
PETER HOWARD
memorandum of May 9th for a step-by-step procedure.)
Oakland
GARDINER JOHNSON
San Francisco
Attached is a suggested sheet of instructions to
WALTER S. JOHNSON
San Francisco
volunteers, including a standard telephone message.
LUTHER H. LINCOLN
Please do not vary this message. It has been thoroughly
Lafayette
tested and works well. It can be given in 12 seconds
JOHN E. LONGINOTTI
San Jose
time and permits a maximum number of calls to be made
GEORGE W. MILIAS, JR.
Gilroy
on each telephone. (There is not enough time to mention
A. H. MOFFITT, JR.
the names of all Republican candidates--but if votes can
Alameda
SUSAN MOORE
be brought out for Nixon, all other candidates will
Porterville
benefit.)
JAMES L. MURPHY
San Francisco
ALAN H. NICHOLS
Other suggestions:
San Francisco
CHARLES O'GARA
Monterey
1. Schedule volunteers in three-hour shifts from
EMILY PIKE
San Francisco
9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Work through the lunch and dinner hours.
ROBERT H. POWER
Vacaville
ROBERT PRIOR
2. We have been asked not to call on Sundays. To
Eureka
cover the ground, therefore, we suggest that calls be
C. WARREN REED
San Francisco
made on four days-Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday.
INEZ B. ROBIE
Auburn
Each telephone should cover 1,600 calls during that period.
WILLIAM R. RODGERS
Porterville
3. Find the number of telephones you will need by
GEORGE C. ROEDING, JR.
Niles
dividing 1,600 into the number of registered Republican
PORTER SESNON
San Francisco
voters in your area.
ROBERT H. STEELE
San Francisco
4. Have a supervisor in charge of each location and
JAMES STOCKMAN
Santa Rosa
appoint a hospitality chairman to arrange for coffee and
RUTH N. WATSON
Berkeley
sandwiches.
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5. Spend the time prior to June 2 having volunteers
look up telephone numbers and place them on the precinct lists.
6. When telephones are installed have telephone number
card in center of dial left blank so there will be no possibility
of unauthorized long distance calls.
IF YOU NEED HELP, CALL US -- SAN FRANCISCO SUTTER 1-3751.
Instruction Sheet for Telephone Volunteers
Please dial the number written by the names on the poll list given
to you. If the number called does not answer after the phone has
rung four times, hang up and call the next number. If the phone is
answered by an adult say the following:
"HELLO. I'M CALLING FOR VICE PRESIDENT NIXON TO URGE YOU
TO BE SURE TO VOTE NEXT TUESDAY. IF YOU'RE FOR NIXON FOR
PRESIDENT, THEN IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU VOTE FOR
RICHARD NIXON FOR PRESIDENT NEXT TUESDAY. THANK YOU."
Offer nothing further. If the person called asks who's calling,
merely say, "I'm a volunteer for Nixon, who feels that it's
important that Vice President Nixon be elected the next President
of the United States."
If the number called is reached, place a small check () beside
the name.
Do not permit a discussion of issues, other candidates, etc., and
terminate the call as quickly as possible. The sole object of this
effort is to get Republicans to the polls.
You may be assured that the Vice President and the Nixon for President
Committee is deeply appreciative of your help.
Refer inquiries as follows:
Registrar of Voters, telephone
for location of polling
places.
County Republican Headquarters, telephone
for
transportation to the polls.
April 6, 1960
TO: Campaign Idea file
FROM: H. R. Haldeman
RE: Use of choral groups in major city campaign appearances
I met yesterday with Bill Burnham of Imperial Artists and Ralph Hunter,
the choral director from New York, to discuss this subject.
Their basic proposal was that Ralph Hunter be prepared during the cam-
paign, to go into the cities where major appearances are scheduled,
and set up a mass chorus to sing at the ralley or meeting prior to
the start of the formal program and perhaps to conclude the program
with an appropriate song. They could of course, also provide the
background for leading the entire assembly in community singing
during the warmup period.
Hunter's idea would be to go into the city well in advance and
line up the various choral groups available in the city on a
volunteer basis and provide them with music and arrangements so
their own director could rehearse their group; each group individually
to be rehearsed on the numbers to be used in the program. Then, shortly
before the appearance, Hunter would return to the city and hold rehearsals
with the massed choruses he had been able to line up, directing them him-
self and he would remain for the Ralley and would direct the chorus at
that time.
This could be done on maybe two or possibly three of the major appear-
ances each week during the campaign. I feel this kind of a thing would
be very effective. I have no particular way of judging Hunter's ability
to set it up although he is apparently a very competent choral director
and there is no reason to feel he couldn't do a good job.
This has been left on the basis that Hunter, on his own initiative, is
going to do some research into musical material that would be suitable
for this purpose, and also give some thought to laying out a basic plan
of how he would set up and operate this program. He will also run down
the estimate of costs so we have some idea of how much money is involved.
April 6, 1960
TO: Campaign Idea file
FROM: H. R. Haldeman
RE: Film for club use
John Ehrlichman suggested a device that they have used in Seattle
in elections for mayor with very good effect, that might be adaptable
to the Club operation.
His suggestion is the preparation of a film to run for whatever
length we have footage to make - not more than a half-hour - to be
shown at the initial forming meeting of each Nixon for President club,
as a means of inspiring the group to get into the campaign.
The content of the film would be a Campaign 1960 kick-off with film
clips showing the Vice President actively on the campaign trail to
dispel any feeling that there is no enthusiasm and no interest in this
campaign.
It might well start with some clips of the Chicago Dinner and excerpts
of his speech there talking about the basic points we must stress in
this campaign and showing the huge crowd and tremendous reception he
received there. We could then go on and perhaps pick up some clips
from the Milwaukee dinner where again there was a very enthusiastic
crowd. The Vice President's entry into this dinner would be a good
shot if we have it. Perhaps some clips from the Q. & A. sessions in
Detroit at the Economic Club or the Womens Colleges a few brief
shots of the Squaw Valley opening; some of the receptions in Calif-
ornia which would help to dispel the feeling that his own state is
not enthusiastically behind him; some clips from the Republican Womens
Reception Sunday if there are any where the women really packed in to
try to get to him; perhaps some clips from the Uline Arena Monday night,
with the President. Also, I think it would be very good to perhaps
conclude with some excerpts from the Nebraska speech where he points
out that we have a hard fight ahead of us and must really get in and
work.
I think this idea has considerable merit and such a film ought to be
able to be put together quickly and at not a great deal of cost. We
could then make a number of prints and ship them around to the various
clubs as they start forming.
cc: P. M. Flanigan