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    "description": "This file contains:\n\nFrom Colson to Dent lamenting Weicker's vote, recommending Sibal for GOP Senate nomination in Connecticut. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 2/12/1970\n\nFrom 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",
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    "ocrText": "Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nContested Materials Collection\nFolder List\nBox Number\nFolder Number\nDocument Date\nNo Date\nSubject\nDocument Type\nDocument Description\n4\n3\n2/12/1970\nCampaign\nMemo\nMemo from Colson to Dent lamenting\nWeicker's vote, recommending Sibal for\nGOP Senate nomination in Connecticut. 1 pg.\n4\n3\n1/30/1970\nCampaign\nMemo\nMemo from Dent to Harlow, Timmons,\nChotiner, Colson, Allison re: Weicker voting\nagainst RN, losing support of financial\nbackers to Lupton in Connecticut Senate\nrace. 1 pg.\nWednesday, August 18, 2010\nPage 1 of 1\nFebruary 12, 1970\nFOR:\nHARRY DENT\nFROM:\nCHUCK COLSON\nThis is in response to your memo of January 30th. I agree completely\nthat Lupton cannot make it in Connecticut and in view of Weicker's\nvote, I am not sure that we want him. I hope you have looked into\nAb Sibal as a. candidate. I am a little prejudiced because Ab is a\nformer law partner of mine. He is an outstanding politician and\nwas one of the first Connecticut Republicans to announce for Nixon\nearly in 1968. He would be a loyalist in the Senate and it is my\nunderstanding that he is running in the same poll you referred to\nahead of all other Republican candidates. I don't know what Ether-\nington's announcement does to this but I am personally convinced\nthat Sibal could win and would be an Administration supporter in the\nSenate.\nAs for Weicker's reaction to the pressure, I generated it. His father\nis Chairman of the Board of Bigelow-Sanford, which is the biggest\nsingle beneficiary of our recent Wilton and velvet carpet decision.\nFrankly, it doesn't bother me a bit if he is upset. What bothers me\nis that he didn't have tense enough to vote with us.\nDETERMINED TO BE AN\nADMINISTRATIVE MARKING\nJanuary 30, 1970\nBy ints NARS, Date 7/14/80\nE.O. 12065, Section 6-102\nCOMP IDENTIAL\nTO:\nBRYCE HARLOW\nBILL TIMMONS\nMURRAY CHOTINER\nCHUCK COLSON»\nJIM ALLISON\nFROM:\nHARRY DENT ASP\nLowell Weicker, Jr., has been hurt with the big\nfinancial backers in Connecticut because of his\nfailure to support the President on the veto. Al\nCole of Readers Digest, Jerry Milbank, Gerrish\nMilliken, Gordon Reed, etc., are now going to back\nLupton for the Senate. They say Weicker also\nvoted against the President on ABM. A recent\nOpinion Research telephone poll in Connecticut\nshowed Weicker to be running ahead of Dodd, and\nthe same is true of Lupton. Lupton is considered\nto be rather conservative and it is Weicker's\nposition that Lupton cannot make it in a state\nlike Connecticut.\nWeicker was particularly disturbed that his\nfather, the owner of a carpet mill, had been called\nand asked to put pressure on Weicker about his vote.\nHe said this locked him in to vote against the\nPresident. I really think he was just disturbed\nthat he realized he had lost his big financial\nsupporters over this vote. They all called him\nand got after him prior to the vote.\nCONF IDENTIAL\nCONF IDENTIAL"
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