Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 1 page
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Source Description
This file contains:
From Colson to Dent lamenting Weicker's vote, recommending Sibal for GOP Senate nomination in Connecticut. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 2/12/1970
From Dent to Harlow, Timmons, Chotiner, Colson, Allison re: Weicker voting against RN, losing support of financial backers to Lupton in Connecticut Senate race. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 1/30/1970
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
26144641
label
WHSF: Contested, 4-3
core
doc
dtoType
document
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
26144641
sourceUrl
contentType
document
title
WHSF: Contested, 4-3
description
This file contains:
From Colson to Dent lamenting Weicker's vote, recommending Sibal for GOP Senate nomination in Connecticut. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 2/12/1970
From Dent to Harlow, Timmons, Chotiner, Colson, Allison re: Weicker voting against RN, losing support of financial backers to Lupton in Connecticut Senate race. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 1/30/1970
citationUrl
collections
Richard M. Nixon's Returned Materials Collection
Contested Materials Files
imageCount
1
hasImages
yes
source
import
hasTranscription
no
Source extras
naId
26144641
levelOfDescription
fileUnit
recordType
description
ocrSource
nara-archive
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
document
mediaId
c3c194eae848f3cb
ocrText
Richard Nixon Presidential Library
Contested Materials Collection
Folder List
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
4
3
2/12/1970
Campaign
Memo
Memo from Colson to Dent lamenting
Weicker's vote, recommending Sibal for
GOP Senate nomination in Connecticut. 1 pg.
4
3
1/30/1970
Campaign
Memo
Memo from Dent to Harlow, Timmons,
Chotiner, Colson, Allison re: Weicker voting
against RN, losing support of financial
backers to Lupton in Connecticut Senate
race. 1 pg.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Page 1 of 1
February 12, 1970
FOR:
HARRY DENT
FROM:
CHUCK COLSON
This is in response to your memo of January 30th. I agree completely
that Lupton cannot make it in Connecticut and in view of Weicker's
vote, I am not sure that we want him. I hope you have looked into
Ab Sibal as a. candidate. I am a little prejudiced because Ab is a
former law partner of mine. He is an outstanding politician and
was one of the first Connecticut Republicans to announce for Nixon
early in 1968. He would be a loyalist in the Senate and it is my
understanding that he is running in the same poll you referred to
ahead of all other Republican candidates. I don't know what Ether-
ington's announcement does to this but I am personally convinced
that Sibal could win and would be an Administration supporter in the
Senate.
As for Weicker's reaction to the pressure, I generated it. His father
is Chairman of the Board of Bigelow-Sanford, which is the biggest
single beneficiary of our recent Wilton and velvet carpet decision.
Frankly, it doesn't bother me a bit if he is upset. What bothers me
is that he didn't have tense enough to vote with us.
DETERMINED TO BE AN
ADMINISTRATIVE MARKING
January 30, 1970
By ints NARS, Date 7/14/80
E.O. 12065, Section 6-102
COMP IDENTIAL
TO:
BRYCE HARLOW
BILL TIMMONS
MURRAY CHOTINER
CHUCK COLSON»
JIM ALLISON
FROM:
HARRY DENT ASP
Lowell Weicker, Jr., has been hurt with the big
financial backers in Connecticut because of his
failure to support the President on the veto. Al
Cole of Readers Digest, Jerry Milbank, Gerrish
Milliken, Gordon Reed, etc., are now going to back
Lupton for the Senate. They say Weicker also
voted against the President on ABM. A recent
Opinion Research telephone poll in Connecticut
showed Weicker to be running ahead of Dodd, and
the same is true of Lupton. Lupton is considered
to be rather conservative and it is Weicker's
position that Lupton cannot make it in a state
like Connecticut.
Weicker was particularly disturbed that his
father, the owner of a carpet mill, had been called
and asked to put pressure on Weicker about his vote.
He said this locked him in to vote against the
President. I really think he was just disturbed
that he realized he had lost his big financial
supporters over this vote. They all called him
and got after him prior to the vote.
CONF IDENTIAL
CONF IDENTIAL