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This file contains: Letter to M. Zinsmeyer, President of Zinsco Electrical Products, from John Vaughn RE: an appeal to Zinsmeyer to offer a willing contact within his company who could distribute information re: candidates. 1pg. [Letter], 6/21/1962 Thank you letter from Dan Waters. Thanking the company for cooperating with the Win With Nixon program by offering a group of volunteer employees. 1pg.. [Letter], 8/1/1962 Memo to all WIN Committee Chairmen from John Vaughn RE: How to insure the election of Dick Nixon! 2pgs. [Memo], n.d A checklist of suggested activities and programs for WIN volunteer company committees. 1pg. [Form], n.d An outline of the WIN WITH NIXON volunteer support program, given to the county chairman detailing how the program works. 4pgs. [Form], n.d Unmarked card certifying an individual as an Official Representative of the Nixon For Governor Win Program. 1pg. [Form], n.d An unmarked card indicating contact information for the Win With Nixon Volunteer Company Contact Committee. 1pg. [3 duplicates, not scanned] [Form], n.d Win With Nixon Volunteer Support Program brochure, indicating what the program is and what the WIN committee does. 1pg. [2 ducplicates, not scanned] [Brochure], n.d Nixon's name positioned within a cut out of California. 1pg. [3 duplicates, not scanned] [Other Document], n.d A bumper sticker reading: "NIXON GOVERNOR." 1pg. [1 duplicate, not scanned] [Other Document], n.d A blank form from the WIN with Nixon Contact Division. Indicating names, addresses, and telephone numbers to contact. 1pg. [Form], n.d A blank form of Undecided Voters from the WIN with Nixon Committee. 1pg. [Form], n.d

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This file contains: Letter to M. Zinsmeyer, President of Zinsco Electrical Products, from John Vaughn RE: an appeal to Zinsmeyer to offer a willing contact within his company who could distribute information re: candidates. 1pg. [Letter], 6/21/1962 Thank you letter from Dan Waters. Thanking the company for cooperating with the Win With Nixon program by offering a group of volunteer employees. 1pg.. [Letter], 8/1/1962 Memo to all WIN Committee Chairmen from John Vaughn RE: How to insure the election of Dick Nixon! 2pgs. [Memo], n.d A checklist of suggested activities and programs for WIN volunteer company committees. 1pg. [Form], n.d An outline of the WIN WITH NIXON volunteer support program, given to the county chairman detailing how the program works. 4pgs. [Form], n.d Unmarked card certifying an individual as an Official Representative of the Nixon For Governor Win Program. 1pg. [Form], n.d An unmarked card indicating contact information for the Win With Nixon Volunteer Company Contact Committee. 1pg. [3 duplicates, not scanned] [Form], n.d Win With Nixon Volunteer Support Program brochure, indicating what the program is and what the WIN committee does. 1pg. [2 ducplicates, not scanned] [Brochure], n.d Nixon's name positioned within a cut out of California. 1pg. [3 duplicates, not scanned] [Other Document], n.d A bumper sticker reading: "NIXON GOVERNOR." 1pg. [1 duplicate, not scanned] [Other Document], n.d A blank form from the WIN with Nixon Contact Division. Indicating names, addresses, and telephone numbers to contact. 1pg. [Form], n.d A blank form of Undecided Voters from the WIN with Nixon Committee. 1pg. [Form], n.d
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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 67 7 6/21/1962 Letter Letter to M. Zinsmeyer, President of Zinsco Electrical Products, from John Vaughn RE: an appeal to Zinsmeyer to offer a willing contact within his company who could distribute information re: candidates. 1pg. 67 7 8/1962 Letter Thank you letter from Dan Waters. Thanking the company for cooperating with the Win With Nixon program by offering a group of volunteer employees. 1pg.. 67 7 n.d Memo Memo to all WIN Committee Chairmen from John Vaughn RE: How to insure the election of Dick Nixon! 2pgs. 67 7 n.d Form A checklist of suggested activities and programs for WIN volunteer company committees. 1pg. 67 7 n.d Form An outline of the WIN WITH NIXON volunteer support program, given to the county chairman detailing how the program works. 4pgs. 67 7 n.d Form Unmarked card certifying an individual as an Official Representative of the Nixon For Governor Win Program. 1pg. Thursday, November 08, 2007 Page 1 of 2 Box Number Folder Number Document Date Document Type Document Description 67 7 n.d Form An unmarked card indicating contact information for the Win With Nixon Volunteer Company Contact Committee. 1pg. [3 duplicates, not scanned] 67 7 n.d Brochure Win With Nixon Volunteer Support Program brochure, indicating what the program is and what the WIN committee does. 1pg. [2 ducplicates, not scanned] 67 7 n.d Other Document Nixon's name positioned within a cut out of California. 1pg. [3 duplicates, not scanned] 67 7 n.d Other Document A bumper sticker reading: "NIXON GOVERNOR." 1pg. [1 duplicate, not scanned] 67 7 n.d Form A blank form from the WIN with Nixon Contact Division. Indicating names, addresses, and telephone numbers to contact. 1pg. 67 7 n.d Form A blank form of Undecided Voters from the WIN with Nixon Committee. 1pg. Thursday, November 08, 2007 Page 2 of 2 Dartell Laboratories Inc. 1226 SOUTH FLOWER STREET LOS ANGELES 15, CALIFORNIA JOHN V. VAUGHN PRESIDENT June 21, 1962 Mr. M. Zinsmeyer, President Zinsco Electrical Products 729 Turner Street Los Angeles 12, California Dear Mr. Zinsmeyer: This is a personal appeal for your help in the interest of good government in California. In November, California will face a crossroad. Between now and then, every voter must reach a decision as to which road he wants his State to take -- the road leading toward a government-dominated economy, or the one of individual liberty and free enterprise. To arrive at the right decision, he must be fully informed; he must have a clear understanding of the records, the principles, and the administrative abilities of the candidates. / To accomplish this, we are asking you, as the executive head of a major California company, to cooperate in a program of employee education by furnishing us with the names of one or more of your employees who would be willing to serve as a "contact" in your company. Our objective is to establish a "clearing house" committee in each large company, to receive and pass on to fellow employees, in- formation which will help them to become fully informed about the candidates and the issues which face our state. Won't you please help us to help your employees by promptly returning the enclosed information form? Of course, your employees would be acting voluntarily as individuals and their activities would be limited by your direction and company policy. Very truly yours, John V. Vaughn, Chairman Contact Division, Los Angeles County NIXON for Governor Campaign NIXON FOR GOVERNOR 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161 August 1962 DANIEL C. WATERS Director of Contact Division Thank you for your response to John Vaughn's letter to you of June 21 requesting your cooperation in establishing the WIN WITH NIXON program in your company with the assistance of a group of volunteer employees. Your response indicated a need for further information regarding the program, so we are enclosing the attached memorandum from John Vaughn and a brochure on the WIN program. We are terribly sorry that due to the press of campaign activities we have not been able to get around to talking with you by phone. However, if after reading the enclosed material, you wish to discuss the program, please call me. If we have not heard from you within a week, we'll call you to see how you are progressing with the program and what assistance we may give you with it. WIN WITH NIXON: Sincerely, Dan Dan Waters, Director Waters Contact & WIN Division Enclosures 1 INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM NIXON FOR GOVERNOR TO: All WIN Committee Chairmen FROM: John Vaughn SUBJECT: How to insure the election of Dick Nixon! DISTRIBUTION: All other WIN Committeemen in your company First, our appreciation to those of you who took the time to attend the "kick-off" luncheon on July 27. We hope that you were inspired and stimulated by the remarks of Dick Nixon, Senator Hiram Fong and others. To those who were unable to attend this meeting, we will try in this letter to outline the steps you should take to implement the WIN Program in your respective companies. Second, we must tell you how pleased and encouraged we are with the overwhelming responses we have received from companies such as yours to the WIN Program idea. Well over 150 of the largest firms in California have established "contact" individuals or committees representing several hundred thousand employees. In the days immediately ahead, these numbers should double, The "machinery" is thus provided and all that now remains is to make certain that each committee "crank up the motor" and start down the road that has been charted in the enclosed "Win With Nixon" leaflet. Third, although we recognize that each company committee will want to "tailor" its activities to fit company policy and conditions, we urge that you adhere to the following as closely as possible: 1. Expand your committee. Enlist additional WIN Volunteers. Try to get a representative from each department, branch, job classifica- tion or work unit in your company. (Be sure to send us these names promptly so they may be added to our master file and so we may mail to them their official "WIN VOLUNTEER CARD.) 2. Discuss with the proper official of your company the "ground rules" he would Tike you to follow in working with your fellow employees. We do not want to encourage any activities that would not be in the best interests of your company and its employees. Certainly the WIN Program, to achieve maximum results, must be carried out in an unofficial way without employer participation or pressure. It is simply a man-to-man, employee-to-employee program designed to seek out, disseminate and discuss the facts about the candidates and issues, primarily gubernatorial, in the forthcoming election in California. 3. Enlist the help of your personnel manager. Perhaps he will under- take to mail out literature and an appropriate letter from your committee to all employees, or release the addresses of all employ- ees to your committee. In either case, you should point out that such mailings, including the envelope, should not bear the company name, as we should avoid any semblance of company sponsorship. INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM - 2 - NIXON FOR GOVERNOR 4. Now, plan your activities, what you are going to do, how you are going to do it and when. See the enclosed check-list of sugges- tions. Choose which things you think would be the most effective and practical to use with your fellow employees and set up a time- table for doing them. 5. Now is the time to enlist the help of the Nixon Headquarters Staff. Within the next few days you will be contacted by phone or in per- son by one of the Volunteer or staff workers in the Contact Division He will discuss with you your plans and program, he will see that you receive whatever quantity of literature, campaign material or forms you will need, he will try to answer your questions and help to work out any problems. Briefly, he will be available to assist your committee in every way possible to build an effective employee communications program. 6. Finally, we urge you to take the initiative to keep us posted on your activities. Don't hesitate to ask for help or advice. Phone Dan Waters, Contact Director, Nixon Headquarters, DUnkirk 5-9161. With support such as yours in helping to get the message to fellow- employees, we can all WIN with Nixon. Sincerely, Vaughn John V. Vaughn, Chairman Southern California Contact and WIN Program Enclosures CHECK LIST OF SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS for WIN VOLUNTEER COMPANY COMMITTEES Company volunteer WIN Chairman should consult with his committee and then fill out this form. Return completed form to Dan Waters, Contact and WIN Director, Nixon Headquarters, 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California (telephone DUnkirk 5-9161). Check one or more of the following: We will obtain mailing list (home addresses) of all employees -OR Arrange with Personnel Office to do mailing of literature for us. We are planning the following mailings: 1. Letter from employee committee to go out on (date). * 2. to go out on (date). (describe literature) * 3. to go out on (date). (describe literature) For the above mailings we will require pieces of literature Our committee members will personally circulate "Pledge of Support forms to sign up as many fellow employees as possible. We will need "Pledge of Support" forms for this purpose. Our committee will compile a list of "Undecided Voters" and forward to Nixon Headquarters for special follow-up. We will need forms for this purpose. (Company Name) (Compiled by) * NOTE: There will be at least two different brochures available for general mailing purposes. One will be a general campaign brochure, and the second will be a special brochure on campaign "issues". Please refer to these two pieces as "general" and "issue" WIN WITH NIXON VOLUNTEER SUPPORT PROGRAM COUNTY CHAIRMAN'S OUTLINE Richard Nixon believes WIN is a key to victory in November. WIN operates through the WIN State Director in Los Angeles, to each County and Community WIN Chairman, Occupational Director, Company Captain and their Workers. It is the Company Captains and their Workers who make per- sonal contacts among their fellow employees or fellow tradesmen and encourage them to work and vote for Dick Nixon. WIN provides that.each undecided voter receives a personal letter from Dick Nixon asking for support in November. WIN also provides that each Nixon supporter is guided into the local Nixon organization or recruited to help in this program. WIN can produce the necessary votes to elect Nixon. HOW The County Chairman will appoint a County WIN Chairman. IT County WIN Chairmen will recruit Community WIN Chairmen for WORKS each city or town in the county. Community WIN Chairmen recruit Occupational Directors rep- resenting all business categories in the city (see suggested Occupational Category list attached). Occupational Directors recruit Company Captains in each business category -- providing one for each place of business. Company Captains recruit sufficient workers in their place of employment so that each employee may be properly contacted. Suggested ratio of WIN workers to employees is one(1) WIN worker for each ten(10) employees (a company employing 250 persons should have 25 WIN workers) -2- The Company Captains and their WIN Workers canvass their friends and fellow employees and personally ask them to vote for Dick Nixon; tell them the reasons for so voting; and suggest they support Dick Nixon actively. This personal appeal is the most important function of WIN. REFER Persons contacted who express interest in volunteering SUPPOR- their services in the Nixon campaign should be asked to join TERS TO the Company WIN Team. Their names should be referred to appro- NIXON priate Nixon headquarters in their home community. County HEAD- Chairmen should provide WIN Chairmen with a list of all local QUARTERS Nixon headquarters in the County. Each Company WIN Captain reports to his Occupational Dir- REPORTS ector the total number of persons contacted in his firm, the number for Nixon, the number against Nixon, and the names and addresses of those who are undecided. Occupational Directors consolidate their Company Captains' reports and forward them to the Community WIN Chairman. Community WIN Chairmen report to County WIN Chairman. County WIN Chairman forward mailing lists of all UNDECIDED VOTERS to WIN Director, Nixon for Governor Headquarters, 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California. -2- SUGGESTED OCCUPATIONAL CATEGORIES (Cont'd.) Others Education (Public and Private) Amusements & Entertainment Universities Farmers -- All Categories High School Teachers Hotels Intermediate Teachers Restaurants Elementary Teachers Barbers Kindergartens Teachers Beauticians Trade Advertising Agencies Day School Air Express and Nurseries Teachers Freight Drivers Commercial and Travel Agencies Business Trade and Business Associations Collection Agencies Credit Houses Employment Agencies Pest Control Fraternal Orders Hauling and Trucking Moving and Storage Janitorial Services Scrap and Junk Yards Landscapers and Gardeners Printing Companies Building Material Houses Manufacturers Agents Newspapers Photographers Camera Shops Sign Companies Sporting Goods Tailors Upholsterers Venetian Blind Companies UNDECIDED VOTERS (Please Print) County County WIN Chairman City Community Chairman Occupation Company Captain Worker Please print -- last name first. Captains are to give completed forms to Community Chairmen as soon as possible and not later than September 15. Community Chairmen will immediately hand deliver to County Chair- men. County Chairmen will immediately send lists to WIN DIRECTOR, 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5. NAME ADDRESS PHONE WIN VOLUNTEER Win With Nixon in November This Certifies Name Company or Occupation Phone IS AN OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NIXON FOR GOVERNOR WIN PROGRAM JOHN V. VAUGHN, Chairman RICHARD NAIR, Chairman Southern California 111 Northern California (PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT) WIN WITH NIXON VOLUNTEER COMPANY CONTACT COMMITTEE Volunteer's name Bus. phone contact Home address City Home phone Rep. Dem. Ind. Volunteer's company job title Registration Employer's firm name & address City Company or firm category 111 Dear WIN Worker: Win I want to thank you for volunteering your time and efforts as a member of your company's WIN team. Never before in any major election has there been such a concerted effort to reach so many hundreds of thousands of voters at their place of employment than the one we will be making together during the coming weeks and months in presenting our "California realistic program of "Decisions for Progress" for a better California. with is now in Your active participation in this history- competition with the rest of the nation making undertaking will be invaluable and a vital factor in the outcome of the election. to attract the new industry we need to I will be hoping to have the pleasure of seeing you and your fellow-employees at some point provide the hundreds of thousands of along the campaign trail, In the meantime, I know you will make the most of your opportunities to get additional jobs required by our growing our message across to your fellow-workers. Let's all get together and WINI NIXON population each year. Our labor/manage- Sincerely, ment policies must maintain a balance VOLUNTEER SUPPORT PROGRAM between the bargaining power of man- agement on the one side and labor on the other. Once that balance swings too far one way or the other, the result is Win-with-NIXON labor/management strife which will STATE HEADQUARTERS drive away rather than attract new busi- 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California DUnkirk 5-9161 ness investment.' NIXON FOR GOVERNOR CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Richard M. Nixon JOHN V. VAUGHN RICHARD NAIR So. California WIN Chairman No. California WIN Chairman 3908 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD 525 MARKET STREET LOS ANGELES 5, CALIF. SAN FRANCISCO 5, CALIF. Win with What is the WIN Program? VOLUNTEER In hundreds of large companies throughout Cali- fornia, committees of employees are being organized to work in the forthcoming election campaign. Serv- ice on such committees will be volunteer and divisions and departments. NIXON SUPPORT representing all operating levels, occupation groups, In addition to the major corporations and plants participating in the WIN program, thousands of PROGRAM smaller business offices, shops, filling stations, phar- macies and professional offices are joining this cam- paign crusade. The following suggestions may be build your own by having members of your commit- applied to these smaller employee groups as well as tee circulate a "Pledge of Support" form. This list will be most valuable later on for use in recruiting possible. Perhaps the company will be willing to to larger ones. additional workers for campaign jobs and election provide envelopes and postage. This should be dis- What does the WIN committee do? day work. cussed by the committee Chairman and the appro- priate executive in their initial meeting. Each committee makes its own rules and plans its own program. The ultimate objective is to- Expand your committee 4. Get busy on finding new members for your com- Suggested activities Dick Nixon is sure to Contact all fellow workers in each company- Make sure they understand Dick Nixon's phi- mittee. Besides making sure that you have a repre- speak at a Nixon Rally somewhere in your area at sentative from each occupational group, department some time during September or October. When a losophy Provide them with campaign literature, badges, and division, you should strive for at least ONE COM- Nixon appearance is announced for your community, "talk-it-up" among fellow employees. bumper strips, etc. MITTEE MEMBER FOR EACH 10 EMPLOYEES (i.e., 250 Convince them to vote for Dick Nixon on total employees in the company should have a WIN Organize a Nixon Rally Caravan. Dress your cars up with banners. Pick up fellow workers, take them November 6. COMMITTEE consisting of at least 25 members). to the rally to see and hear Dick Nixon in person. Plan your program TV Debates and Telethons-Headquarters will What to do first All those from your company notify committees of all scheduled Nixon TV appear- officially enrolled with Nixon Headquarters as mem- 5. Now you have the solid core of workers needed ances. Committee members should plan "coffee- bers of your committee should meet to decide upon to cover your company. Arrange a meeting with hours" at their homes and invite 10 or more fellow a Chairman and perhaps one or more Co-Chairmen. your entire committee to make certain you are in employees in to watch the telecasts. 1. As soon as you have done this, please send these agreement on your aims and objectives and to dis- Bumper Strips are one of the most effective pro- names to WIN Director, Nixon Headquarters, SO they tribute to each member a kit of material and litera- motional items. Order a supply and plan a day when may be recorded. ture which Nixon Headquarters will supply. each member of your committee can station himself 2. Either the Chairman of your committee, or In smaller companies, this meeting could be held at the parking lot exits to seek approval for placing someone appointed by him, should talk with the at lunch time, during rest periods, or before or after a bumper strip on each employee's car. appropriate executive of your Company to deter- work. In larger companies and plants, it would be Undecided Voters. In talking to your fellow em- mine what ground rules he would like you to adhere advisable to hold the meeting AWAY FROM THE PLANT ployees, you will find many who have not made up to. Your activities should be carried on within com- in a centrally-located hall. their minds which way they want to vote. Fill out pany policy, but you should try to get approval for Schedule activities the "Undecided Voter" forms sent you, giving names such things as the use of company bulletin boards, and HOME addresses. Send completed forms to WIN signs in the work areas, etc. 6. Committee Co-Chairmen should have a sug- Director, Nixon Headquarters, as early as possible. 3. Try to obtain a list of names, home addresses gested action program and time-table of activities A personal letter from Dick Nixon will then be sent and telephone numbers of all fellow employees. If prepared to present to the entire committee. At least to these UNDECIDED VOTERS soliciting their support. your personnel office is unwilling to release this list, one mailing should be planned to go to the HOMES Continue your activities with increasing tempo, perhaps the Personnel Manager would be willing to of all employees. This would include a letter from from now until November 6. By person-to-person address envelopes for your mailings of letters and the committee (mimeographed) and Nixon litera- contact, letter or telephone, pass on all information literature. ture which will be provided by Nixon Headquarters you can assemble to your fellow employees and keep If a complete list of personnel home addresses is upon request. Nixon Headquarters should be noti- selling the truth-Dick Nixon and what he stands not available through any source, then you can fied of these planned mailings as far in advance as for are what California needs. ROA A XUN GOVERNOR WIN With Nixon Contact Division 3908 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles 5, California / / I suggest you contact the following employees: (Please type or print) Name Phone: Address Name Phone: Address Name Phone: Address Name Phone: Address Name Phone: Address Name Phone: Address Name Phone: Address Name Phone: Address / / I would like additional information before suggesting any names for this committee. Please phone me. / / or, please phone Mr. to discuss your request with him. / / I prefer not to cooperate with you in this program / / Comments and suggestions: Signed Company Approximate number employees UNDECIDED VOTERS (Please Print) City Company WIN Chairman Company Worker Please print -- last name first. Workers are to give completed forms to Company Chairmen as soon as possible and not later than September 20. Company Chairmen should immediately send all forms to WIN DIRECTOR, 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5. NAME ADDRESS PHONE