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From Colson to Buchanan RE: Lou Harris. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/18/1972
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From Colson to Buchanan RE: liberal columnist Shannon's negative appraisal of McGovern and the use of his article in the campaign. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 7/3/1972
From Colson to Buchanan RE: using Shriver's comments about his family's role in the Civil War to rally African-American voters against him. Handwritten note added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/25/1972
Copy of a memo from Colson to Buchanan RE: strategies to use against Democratic vice presidential hopefuls. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/5/1972
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8/18/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Colson to Buchanan RE: Lou Harris. 1
pg.
1
26
7/5/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Colson to Buchanan RE: using
McGovern's comments on J. Edgar Hoover's
death. Handwritten notes added by
unknown. 1 pg.
1
26
7/3/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Colson to Buchanan RE: liberal
columnist Shannon's negative appraisal of
McGovern and the use of his article in the
campaign. Handwritten notes added by
unknown. 1 pg.
1
26
8/25/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Colson to Buchanan RE: using
Shriver's comments about his family's role in
the Civil War to rally African-American
voters against him. Handwritten note added
by unknown. 1 pg.
Monday, September 13, 2010
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RE: strategies to use against Democratic vice
presidential hopefuls. 3 pgs.
1
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8/5/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Colson to Buchanan RE: strategies to
use against Democratic vice presidential
hopefuls. 3 pgs.
Monday, September 13, 2010
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LI [Item tem N-1]
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 18, 1972
TO:
PAT BUCHANAN
FROM:
CHUCK COLSON
Don't be put off by your old impression of Lou
Harris. There is a new Harris and he is ours !
[Item N-3]
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 5, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
PAT BUCHANAN
FROM:
CHARLES COLSON
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There is an extraordinary segment of the McGovern interview in
Life dealing with J. Edgar Hoover. McGovern almost suggests that
he was happy that Hoover died. When I read it the first time I
couldn't believe that that's the way it was intended. I re-read it and
it is perfectly obvious that McGovern is saying that Hoover had lived
more than the normal useful life.
This is the typical mindset of the master, big brother, bureaucratic
planner. When people outlive their usefulness, get rid of them. It
is utterly incredible and I would think that a neat little piece could be
written really tracing out all of the implications of what McGovern is
saying. Not only would it infuriate the pro-Hooverites, reflect very
poorly on McGovern's obvious bad taste, but it could also frighten a
hell of a lot of people. It is the kind of thing that I would think Human
Events would love to run or National Review. We could then get re-
prints and distribute them out to law enforcement officers as to whom
Hoover was something of a folk hero, other friends of Hoover and
conservatives generally. This kind of an article could bring out the
little old ladies in their tennis shoes that we need this year.
If you think well of this, is it something that perhaps could be handled
in your shop? I don't think anyone else can write it with the same bite
you could. Maybe this is one that we could farm out to Jeffrey Hart
and possibly even publish under his byline.
[Item N-4]
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
File
July 3, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
PAT BUCHANAN
FROM:
CHARLES COLSON
As part of your research effort on McGovern, you should read
the Shannon piece in yesterday's New York Times Magazine.
It is utterly devastating if used with the right people. I am
sure you have already seen it and probably came to the same
conclusion I did. Shannon is a member of the liberal
establishment and regards McGovern as a phony.
Howard K. Smith was so impressed with it he called me to be
sure that I read it. He said he thought it would turn an awful lot
of people off. The responsible moderate liberals might turn
very sour on the guy if the one thing he has going for him,
supposed credibility, is tarnished and the Shannon piece really
does tarnish it.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 25, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
PAT BUCHANAN
FROM:
CHARLES COLSON
Note the New York Times article attached in which Shriver
talks with some pride of how his forebearers all fought on
the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War. That
probably went over fine with the hometown crowd in
Louisiana, but could sure raise hell with the Blacks.
Only red necks brag about their family having fought
in the Civil War. One need only recall the issues in
the Civil War to realize how preposterous it is for a
candidate for national office to be bragging about this.
It would seem to me we should get out some attack material
and have perhaps some prominent Republican Blacks attack
Shriver and demand he say whether he is proud of the fact
that his ancestors fought to prevent slavery. In my opinion
this is not a good national issue, but is a pretty damn good
special appeal to Black groups and the Black media.
CC: Bob Brown
Stan Scott
August 5, 1972
MEMORANDUM TO CHARLES COLSON
(Per Dick Howard)
FROM: Pat Buchanan
The follow ing are lines we can and should use in my view in
the immediate wake of the Veep choice:
If it's SHRIVER
a) No legislative Experience Whatsoever;
b) Never held elective office in his life;
c) Tenure at OEO left the Poverty Program in an utter shambles;
d) His only claim to the Vice Presidency is the fact that he
happened to marry Ted Kennedy's Big Sister.
e) Selection indicates the desperate straits into which McGovern
candidacy has fallen -- trying to cover up his shambles of a
campaign with a little Kennedy glamour once removed;
f) Running the United States in the final third of the twentieth
century is one hell of a lot different proposition than being
Asst. General Mar ger of the Merchandise Mart. If JFK
hadn't plucked Shriver out of obscurity, and given him a
political sinecure in Washington, Shriver would still be out
there in the Merchandise Mart.
g) Utterly without experience or qualification to take over at a
moment's notice highest office in the land -- owes his nomina-
tion not to experience, nor demonstrated capacity, but to the
fact he happens to be an in-law of a famous family.
If it's O'BRIEN
a) Never held elective office in his life;
b) Political mercenary who wore the collar respectively of JFK,
then LBJ, then Bobby, then Hubert, now McGovern;
c) Political hatchet man whose appointment starts the McGovern
campaign down the low road -- his forte is attacking personali-
ties and the kind of name-calling that elected politicians could
not afford to engage in;
d) The essence of the old politics; the most notorious wheeler-
dealer on the American political scene;
e) McGovern's now making his payoff for Convention Chairman
O'Brien's "throwing" of the California delegate challenge.
O'Brien put in the fix -- by deciding the rules in favor of
McGovern and McGovern is paying O'Brien back for
handing him the nomination;
f) Act of utter political desperation -- after somewhere between
half a dozen and a dozen Senators and public officials refused
to run with George;
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g) The leading bug-out candidate has embraced as his running
mate, the man who did the political throat-cutting of the
doves for LBJ in the middle sixties: the odd couple.
Buchanan
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August 5, 1972
MEMORANDUM TO CHARLES COLSON
(Per Dick Howard)
FROM: Pat Buchanan
The following are lines we can and should use in my view in
the immediate wake of the Veep choice:
If it's SHRIVER
a) No legislative Experience Whatsoever;
b) Never held elective office in his life;
c) Tenure at OEO left the Poverty Program in an utter shambles;
d) His only claim to the Vice Presidency is the fact that he
happened to marry Ted Kennedy's Big Sister.
e) Selection indicates the desperate straits into which McGovern
candidacy has fallen -- trying to cover up his shambles of a
campaign with a little Kennedy glamour once removed;
f) Running the United States in the final third of the twentieth
century is one hell of a lot different proposition than being
Asst. General Manager of the Merchandise Mart. If JFK
hadn't plucked Shriver out of obscurity, and given him a
political sinecure in Washington, Shriver would still be out
there in the Merchandise Mart.
g) Utterly without experience or qualification to take over at a
moment's notice highest office in the land -- owes his nomina-
tion not to experience, nor demonstrated capacity, but to the
fact he happens to be an in-law of a famous family.
If it's O'BRIEN
a) Never held elective office in his life;
b) Political mercenary who wore the collar respectively of JFK,
then LBJ, then Bobby, then Hubert, now McGovern;
c) Political hatchet man whose appointment starts the McGovern
campaign down the low road -- his forte is attacking personali-
ties and the kind of name-calling that elected politicians could
not afford to engage in;
d) The essence of the old politics; the most notorious wheeler-
dealer on the American political scene;
e) McGovern's now making his payoff for Convention Chairman
O'Brien's "throwing" of the California delegate challenge.
O'Brien put in the fix -- by deciding the rules in favor of
McGovern -- and McGovern is paying O'Brien back for
handing him the nomination;
f) Act of utter political desperation -- after somewhere between
half a dozen and a dozen Senators and public officials refused
to run with George;
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g) The leading bug-out candidate has embraced as his running
mate, the man who did the political throat-cutting of the
doves for LBJ in the middle sixties: the odd couple.
Buchanan
PB:nmb