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From Colson to Buchanan RE: McGovern's last weeks on the national stage and RN's goal of giving power back to the people. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 10/19/1972
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From Colson to Buchanan RE: volatile statements made by McGovern and the press's double standard on the subject of critiquing Republican speakers such as Agnew, but not Democrats. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/20/1972
From Colson to Buchanan RE: Shriver's comments about his Confederate ancestors who participated in the Civil War. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/25/1972
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10/19/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Colson to Buchanan RE: McGovern's
last weeks on the national stage and RN's
goal of giving power back to the people. 1 pg.
3
14
10/10/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Colson to Buchanan RE: America's
thorough rejection of McGovern in 1972. 1
pg.
3
14
9/20/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Colson to Buchanan RE: volatile
statements made by McGovern and the
press's double standard on the subject of
critiquing Republican speakers such as
Agnew, but not Democrats. 1 pg.
3
14
8/25/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Colson to Buchanan RE: Shriver's
comments about his Confederate ancestors
who participated in the Civil War. 1 pg.
Monday, October 04, 2010
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8/22/1972
Campaign
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From Colson to Buchanan RE: Connally's
plans to hit McGovern as partisan and
Communist. 1 pg.
3
14
8/25/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Colson to Buchanan RE: Sargent
Shriver's time in Germany. 1 pg.
Monday, October 04, 2010
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October 19, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
PAT BUCHANAN
FROM:
CHARLES COLSON
Some of the press comments in recent days suggest to me
that the establishment is going down for its last dying gasp;
as one of our better analysts put it, the last "burp" of
the establishment, as they are trying to digest McGovern.
Maybe we could get some columns started through the
Buckleys and Kilpatricks along the lines of how this is the
establishment's last ditch effort to put their views through
their hand-picked candidate, McGovern, across to the
American people. They are about to be soundly repudiated
and they are giving it their last breath, but it's too late.
1 think it is terribly important to the President that in the
second term it be made clear that he won on the issues and
because of his record and leadership. It is also important
to the country because we may at long last have a chance to
strip the establishment of the power that it has had for so
long.
Can you do something in this area?
October 10, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
PAT BUCHANAN
FROM:
CHARLES COLSON
The line building in the liberal media is that McGovera's going
to be soundly defeated because of his own ineptness the
Eagleton affair, mistakes he has made, internal squabbling
in the McGovern camp, etc. etc. Note what Mary McGrory
has been doing. She has been eviscerating McGovern personally.
The liberal media cannot possibly allow this election to be
interpreted as the plebiscite that it is. John Roche did a neat
column on what this election is all about, very much taking our
line that it is really a referendum on the major issues of the
day and that Nixon's view represent the views of the vast
majority of the American people and that McGovera has simply,
as Yankelovich pointed out, misjudged the mood of the country.
I think it is important that our side of this case be told. What
about a Buchanan op ed piece? What is really the issue here is
the establishment and its views. The Eastern Establishment is
about to be repudiated by the You could
write this brilliantly and I'm sure that some of your friends on
the conservative side would love to be talking about this and
writing about it. In fact, Phillips could do a magnificent piece
on this.
What do you think?
September 20, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
PAT BUCHANAN
FROM:
CHARLES COLSON
What George McGovern said yesterday about the press is a hell
of a lot more vicious than anything ever attributed to Vice
President Agnew. Agnew also singled out elements of the
media, the networks and the Washington Post in the New York
Times. McGovern, of course, singled out the so-called
conservative columnists. The point is the same, however.
There is the same amount of intimidation. If, in fact, there
is any intimidation at all. Why isn't there the same howl
across the country now than there was when the Vice President
said what he said about the press? Couldn't someone start
writing about the double-standard? Certainly Buckley and
Kilpatrick can. How about others? Do you think you can
push this along?
Maybe if the Vice President were to say that he has a great deal
of sympathy with McGovern, knows how he feels, but of course,
had he said what McGovern said the roof would have fallen in,
the Vice President, If he did this in a cute way, could escalate
the McGovern comments and also get McGovern and the Vice
President on the same level -- not a bad touch.
ce: Ken Clawsor
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.
ce: Bob Brown
Stan Scott
August 22, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
PAT BUCHANAN
FROM:
CHARLES COLSON
John Connally is going on Issues and Answers this
weekend. He would like some of our best attack
material and talking points. I would suggest that
we particularly hit hard on McGovern's refusal
to accept any briefings either with Kissinger
or, for example, yesterday from Carlucci on the
Wilkes-Barre situation.
Also, we should hit the McGovern interview last week-
end which was a complete sell-out to the Communists.
Connally is the perfect guy to do this. Christian
will be in the Connally suite at the Madi son this
Saturday and will be expecting to receive briefing
materials and current attack material from us.
Would you please mele sure this gets done?
August 25, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
PAT BUCHANAN
FROM:
CHARLES COLSON
As reported in the New York Times on August 6, Sargent
Shriver was a member of the "America First" movement
on the Yale campus. I have also learned that he, after
graduation from Yale, spent a considerable amount of
time in Europe, specifically in Germany, where he showed
distinctly pro-German sentiments. Of course, so did
Joseph Kennedy, his future father-in-law. It seema to
me this point is worth some exploration and then an evalua-
tion as to how, if at all, it could be used. It certainly ought
to shake up the Jewish community a little bit. When
McGovern goes around charging the President with being
a modern day Adolf Hitler, one might remind George McGovern
that his own Vice Presidential candidate was a sympathizer
with Hitler-The murderer of 6 million Jews.