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This file contains: From Hallett to Colson RE: Governor Warren's endorsement and Congressman James Howard's decision to distance himself from McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/1/1972

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Richard Nixon Presidential Library Contested Materials Collection Folder List Box Number Folder Number Document Date No Date Subject Document Type Document Description 3 47 9/1/1972 Campaign Memo From Hallett to Colson RE: Governor Warren's endorsement and Congressman James Howard's decision to distance himself from McGovern. 1 pg. Monday, October 25, 2010 Page 1 of 1 MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON 1 September 1972 MEMORANDUM FOR CHARLES W. COLSON FROM DOUG HALLETT pett Congressman James Howard, Democrat of New Jersey, has withdrawn all his campaign literature. His new literature has no mention of the word "Democrat", none of McGovern, and in several cases cites Howard votes in support of the President, according to a friend of mine who knows Howard's A.A. Howard used to be a strong supporter of McGovern. This might be of interest to the President. It was told to me by Bill Mailliard's former A.A. who claims he was told it in 1965. In 1950, as you will remember, Governor Warren was reluctant to endorse the President in his Senate race against Helen Gahagan Douglas. Accordingly, the Nixon people has somebody follow Mrs. Douglas around and bait her, finally getting her to blast away at Warren and endorse his opponent, Jimmy Roosevelt, I believe. This information was quickly relayed to Warren, who, as it happened, immediately endorsed the President in very favorable terms. According to Mailliard's former A. A., Mailliard, who was then Warren's executive secretary, had been carrying around hins his pocket an edidorsement of the President he had written. As soon as news of Mrs. Douglas' endorsement of Jimmy Roosevelt got to the Warren camp, he pulled the endorsement out of his pocket, got Warren's uimmmediate approval to release it, and thereby in some sense helped get the President Warren's then much-coveted backing.