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Sheet laying out the White House position on billboard advertisements in Massachusetts urging voters to vote against the Republican Governor and Senate candidate. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], 10/6/1970
From Colson to Charles H. Morin RE: an attached document. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 8/21/1971
From unknown to Colson RE: an attached document. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], no date
From unknown to Colson RE: tips for Bill McCarthy to use in his bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator for Massachusetts. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 5 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], no date
From Albert N. Leman to Colson RE: the power of the Kennedy family in Massachusetts. 1 pg. [Subject: Domestic Policy] [Letter], 9/18/1970
From Barry M. Locke to Colson and Chotiner RE: the contest for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator in Massachusetts. Handwritten note added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 7/14/1970
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Sheet laying out the White House position on billboard advertisements in Massachusetts urging voters to vote against the Republican Governor and Senate candidate. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], 10/6/1970
From Colson to Charles H. Morin RE: an attached document. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 8/21/1971
From unknown to Colson RE: an attached document. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], no date
From unknown to Colson RE: tips for Bill McCarthy to use in his bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator for Massachusetts. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 5 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], no date
From Albert N. Leman to Colson RE: the power of the Kennedy family in Massachusetts. 1 pg. [Subject: Domestic Policy] [Letter], 9/18/1970
From Barry M. Locke to Colson and Chotiner RE: the contest for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator in Massachusetts. Handwritten note added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 7/14/1970
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Richard Nixon Presidential Library
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3
74
10/6/1970
Campaign
Other Document
Sheet laying out the White House position on
billboard advertisements in Massachusetts
urging voters to vote against the Republican
Governor and Senate candidate.
Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg.
3
74
8/21/1971
Campaign
Letter
From Colson to Charles H. Morin RE: an
attached document. 1 pg.
3
74
>
White House Staff
Memo
From unknown to Colson RE: an attached
document. 1 pg.
3
74
>
Campaign
Memo
From unknown to Colson RE: tips for Bill
McCarthy to use in his bid for the
Republican nomination for U.S. Senator for
Massachusetts. Handwritten notes added by
unknown. 5 pgs.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Page 1 of 2
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
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Subject
Document Type
Document Description
3
74
9/18/1970
Domestic Policy
Letter
From Albert N. Leman to Colson RE: the
power of the Kennedy family in
Massachusetts. 1 pg.
3
74
7/14/1970
Campaign
Letter
From Barry M. Locke to Colson and
Chotiner RE: the contest for the Republican
nomination for U.S. Senator in
Massachusetts. Handwritten note added by
unknown. 1 pg.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Page 2 of 2
Colson
I am advised that certain individuals in Massachusetts have
purchased billboard space calling upon the Massachusetts
voters to express their support for the President by not voting
Repullian
for the Republican Governor and the candidate for the Senate.
The White House repudiates this totally. It is misguided and
was done not only without our authority, but over our very
strenuous objections. The President totally supports the
Massachusetts Republican ticket.
NON-ATTRIBUTION
I am afraid Mr. Molesworth, who I understand is a very prominent
collector of Colonial stamps has apparently, like some of his
old stamps, come unglued.
10-6-79 Part
5ml
August 21, 1970
PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL
Mr. Charles H. Morin
Gadsby and Hannah
75 Federal Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Dear Charlie:
The attached should be treated with the greatest of sensitivity,
at least the source from which it has come. It was put together
by one of our bright guys here who knows Massachusetts politics
well and was formerly a reporter with the BOSTON HERALD.
I really think he has got the basis of a very very good idea.
Best personal regards.
Sincerely,
Charles W. Colson
Special Counsel to the President
P.S. I think that any newspaper ad in the month of August
is a total, absolute, and complete waste of money. People
aren't around to read it and they tend to forget. Your media
money should be spent in the ten days immediately prior to the
primary, Who was the old Irishman who once said, "hold your
fire until you see the white of their eyes"? The ad is good, but
save your resources.
Attachment.
bcc: Paul Costello
OFFICE OF THE
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
Date
TO :
ChuckColson
FROM :
FYI
PLEASE HANDLE
PLEASE REVIEW AND SEE ME
YOUR RECOMMENDATION
Attached are the
thoughts Imentioned,
mightgive you achockle
OTHER:
PUC.
MEMORANDUM FOR CHUCK COLSON
Acknowledging at the outset that this Adminis-
tration is remaining neutral in the Massachusetts
senatorial primary fight, the following thoughts come
to mind as to what could be effectively done to help
win the primary election for Bill McCarthy and to hurt
the incumbnet U.S. Senator:
(1) The cornerstone of the economy in Mass. is
brain power. The belt of electronic industries along route
This
128, as well as countless other support industries through-
the ny
Substiners TOID
out the Commonwealth
thriving today largely because
these industries can draw upon the intellectual and, in
some cases, physical resources of the scientific and
research facilities that have been put together at the
great universities in the metropolitan Boston area.
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"we and to wedhold our economier guingr brain-
(2) The research complexes and the brain power
attracted
which they have
from all over the world is
the envy of every out-of-state college or university
administrator in the country. These complexes could not
power
have been sustained, however, in the absence of Federal
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grants. It is common knowledge in the scientific world that
at a university
once the expertise has been assembled with the aid of Federal
research funds that still additional Federal funds will be
established
forthcoming because of the capability which the institution
has.
I am certain that with very little effort, statistics
either from
can be gathered/ through the associated industries of
Massachusetts, fm the Massachusetts State Department of
Commerce and Development, or the Federal catalogue on
Government grants by states which would show the reliance
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which the Commonwealth's economy places upon its brain
power institutions and also corollary support which
"brain power"
Government contracts to Massachusetts industries play
the
in sustaining that state's economy. Similarly, I am
confident that a case can be made by researching our files
on Senator Kennedy that would show he has taken a public
stance against legislation and other policies that would
sustain this state's pre-eminence as a Federally supported
research me center. Certainly he can be identified
withhextreme left opposed to McCarthy
which has energetica protested Defense
Dept-funded reseaveh on massachusetts
camposes.
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An opportune spot to kick off such a political
strategy would be through address -- perhaps even
paid radio or television -- in New Bedford where it
could be argued that the most distressed economic area
of this state -- one of the worst in the nation -- is
in the southeastern Massachusetts section which has not
had the benefit of a major educational-research center
s
in
its
environments.
Now, at a point where Southeastern
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is beginning to
assemble the rudiments of an intellectual-research
complex, Senator Kennedy and his supporters are working
to reduce Federal grants for research.
that have
While specifically Senator Kennedy been attack-
ing Defense Department research, it also is common
knowledge in the academic world that the Department of
Defense has been used as a convenient covermfor financing
much basic research which has no direct connection with
the Department of Defense mission.
As a follow-up to such an address, McCarthy then
(Rt.128)
should hit every plant along electronics row, as well as plantsiv
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other industrial communities throughout Massachusetts,
zeroing-in his remarks at rallies to the pocket book
a
impact which/vote for Senator Kennedy would have upon
both scientists, blue collar workers, and white collar
workers whose employment is contingent upon the success
of industries that have located in Massachusetts because
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of the state's brain power.
Research into the 1962 senatorial primaries and
general elections in Massachusetts also will show the
flip-flop that Senator Kennedy has taken in embracing
virtually everyposition which independent candidate
H. Stuart Hughtes advocated in his losing bid for the
Senate. This, too, could be effectively used in the
campaign tie Kennedy to the unwashed who are
BURNING down Harvard square. A political opportunist.
McCarthy should completely ignore Cy Spaulding,
brushing him off as simply a stooge or straw for
Senator Kennedy -- a puppet in the Republican ranks
being manipulated by Senator Kennedy, a character right
out of"The Last Hurrah", the epitome of an old-time
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Massachusetts Democratic politics. There might be some
advantage in having the film "The Last Hurrah" shown
in Massachusetts so that viewers might identify Spaulding
with the blue-blood fire commissioner who comes across
soft as a grape in the film.
me Carthy could also visit CONSTRUCTION
Sites around BOSTON to warn that collapse
of the state's research-oriented industries
INevitably would mean a return to the
old Boston where onlytice the only
New CONSTRUCTION iN the 30-years following
the collapse of the states and textile reconomy
were two insurance building The havd hats
would get this message. They might even vote
could & M alter the results of the Democratic
Republican iN the primary, which of course
ubernatovial primary. It wouldn't be too at the hard
to "stage" a noontime vally in Copley square
JohN Hancock CONSTRUCTION site.
Incarraing out such a whistle sto campaign,
mcCarthy should Not give out his schedule inadvance.
Just move fast each day. The press entourage
would follow just to see what he was up to next
ALBERT N. LEMAN
2 Gott Street
Rockport, Massachusetts 01966
September 18,1970
Dear Chuck:
You probably still keep tabs on Bay State stews
now that you are a Pennsylvania Avenue sockdolager. But here are
some items your sleuths may have missed:
L) The continuing stream of pulp magazine picture and tripe
persists inkeeping the Kennedy family name alive on the news stands
and Boston political writers are nearly all abased syncophants
of the Kennedy clan.
2.) There is a feeling among some newspaper people that the
Boston Herald is terror-stricken lest Kennedy had the power to
influence the current Federal Communications Commission to take
away the paper's TV license (Station 5) and thereby out off the
station's revenuse now sustaining Herald survival.
Hence both the Herald and its lucrative partner practically
ignore Si Spaulding and print abput everything the Madison Avenue
image-makers write for Ted to say. I cannot see how a Democrat
Kennedy has such powre over a commission in a Republican era but,
evidently, the teeth-chattering Herald thinks so.
3.) How can a smart Republican Administration allow a naval
craft named Kennedy to dock in Boston and stage unprecedented
celebrations in the midst of a Republican political campaign?
4.) With an Administration as full of Massachusetts big shots
as a wharf rat is of fleas, they let Ted generate anti-Nixon
propaganda all the time and keep mum on rebuttal.
Sincerely
all Leman
Form DOT F 1320.1 (1-67)
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Memorandum
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
EYES ONLY
DATE:
July 14, 1970
In reply
SUBJECT:
refer to
FROM
:
Barry M. Locke
B
Charles Colsom
TO
Murray Chotiner
wass Fib
There is a growing feeling in Massachusetts that the Administration
is supporting John McCarthy against Si Spaulding in the primary
race for the Republican nomination to the U. S. Senate.
The Boston Globe is pushing this theory and it will in turn
be picked up by the Boston Herald columnist, Tom Gallagher, who
is a McCarthy advocate and an influential political writer.
It should be remembered that Spaulding won the endorsement
at the Party's State Convention. It should also be noted that
McCarthy while having a smaller organization probably will be
the more colorful candidate. The point here is that if the
Administration allows an expression of the feeling that it supports
McCarthy and McCarthy loses the primary contest to Spaulding
then we will indeed be embarrassed. It will allow the liberal
Boston press to cackle that the Administration could not even put
over its own man and would strengthen Kennedy's position.
In order to avoid such embarrassment I think it is important that
at all times we strongly stress publicly our neutrality in this
particular race. My prognosis is that while McCarthy is going
to be a more interesting candidate and might indeed be a more viable
opponent for Ted Kennedy, that Spaulding will take the nomination
on the basis of his organization and Party loyalty to the nominee.
EYES ONLY