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Campaign
Memo
From Len Garment to Chapin RE:
Democratic Convention. 1 pg.
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Campaign
Memo
From Timmons to Chpain RE: Democratic
Convention Coverage. 3 pgs.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Page 1 of 1
DRAFT
FOR DWIGHT CHAPIN
FROM: LEN GARMENT
4
I really have little to say about the highlights (?) of night 2.
Askew Attractive man, a fledgling political version of Billy Graham.
Good, not outstanding keynote speech (I don't know what that would take
this year). Too oratorical, overlong. Good lines but a platitudinous
quality, i.e. a sustained piece of better than average but fairly stock
stemwinding.
Wallace. The best point in the whole evening was the CBS interview
from his hotel suite. A very credible restrained, articulate performance
(certainly not a plus for the New Democratic. Party). Crippled, Wallace
no longer seems at all menacing. Can be a big force this fall, and will
be with us for years to come.
Platform, A blur and a bore - but from the Democrats standpoint happily
buried in the soggy proceedings. A crisp prime-time convention would have
killed them.
Overall, of the Convention so far I can't dope out what the campaign will
be like or how they figure it will work. I remember thinking the same thoughts
in 1964 and then finding out that the Goldwater group didn't have any thoughts
either. The McGovern speech and the VP choice will furnish the first clues.
FoR : DWIGHT CHAPIN
FROM: BiLL Timmons
SUBJECT: DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION COVERAGE
REFERENCE YOUR MEMO TO HRH ON
SAME SUBJECT. MY COMMENTS-
No2. WE HAVE ALREADY PLANS FOR
EXTENSIVE "ALTERNATE PROGRAMMING"
DURING CONVENTION SESSIONS. FROM
DRAFT PROGRAM WE'VE DINDOINTED
SCACK TIMES & ARE CONSIDERING
SPOKESMEN FROM CITIZENS, DELEGATES,
CELEBRITIES, SURROGATES AND ADMINISTRATION
OFFICIALS. WE HAVE DISCUSSED AN
OPERATING COMMITTEE TO RUN THIS
FUNCTION WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM
MOST WH F CAMPAIGN SECTIONS. IN
SHORT, WE DON'T NEED TO FIGURE OUT
A PATTERN SiNCE iT's ALREADY IN
THE WORKS. I TOCD YOU THIS
OPERATION is IN GOOD HANDS &
WILL GO WELL IF TOO MANY cooks
DON'T SCREW IT op!
No4. WE ARE ALREADY DOING AN
ANALYSIS OF CONVENTION DELEGATES
PRESERVATION COPY
2
AND ALTERNATES APPROPRIATE VOING
BLOC AND/OR POLITICAL GROUPS
ARE FOLLOWING up. THIS information
MAY BE BASIS OF SPECIAL INTEREST
CAUCUSES. AS FAR AS "BALANCE &
MIX" IS CONCERNED WE CANNOT
COMPARE with THE McGOVERN
REFORMS. WHAT THE HELL DO you
THINK I'VE BEEN DOiNG SINCE you
STUCK ME with THIS LOUSY JOB?
NO.6. It's A MATTER OF OPINION BUT
I FEEL DIMMING HOUSE LIGHTS DETRACT
FROM APPLAUSE & ENTHOSIASM OF
DELEGATES - AND IN FACT WORKS AGAINST
iT.
No.9. WE ARE NOT GOING TO PUT THE
U.S. SEAL ON THE podium OF OUR
CONVENTION. ARE you BLIND? LOOK
AGAIN TONIGHT.
No.11. MICKEY MOUSE!
No.-. I'm AMAZED THAT YOUR REPORT
CONTAINED NOTHING ON THE ALMS.
PRESERVATION COPY
3
WHAT THE *?!=!E* you GUYS
doing up THERE? THE BIGGEST
NEWS FROM YOUR commiTTEE's
POINT of VIEW SHUD BE THE
VERY, VERY POLITICAL USE OF
Fiem DURING THE O'BRIEN TACK.
THIS HAS TO SET PRECEDENT FOR
OUR FILM. RIGHT? EXCEPT
THEIRS WAS LOUSY. WILL OURS
BE ANY BETTER?
No.-. I COULD REPORT MUCH MORE
BUT CONSUELO BAILEY & I ARE
GOiNG TO NEGOTIATE ON THE GOP
READING CLERK NOW! I'm GOING
TO SEE IF MARK GOODE CAN'T BE
THE NEW POINT of CONTACT.
PRESERVATION COPY