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From Gordon S. Brownell to Harry Dent RE: Francis Knight's message about John Rooney of the State Department and his friends Idar Remstead, Jules Bassin and Frank Meyer. Handwritten routing note to Peter Flanigan. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 9/4/1969
From Gordon S. Brownell to Harry Dent RE: Copies of a magazine article and memo from the D.O.T. concerning the civil rights movement. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/2/1969
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From Gordon S. Brownell to Harry Dent RE: Francis Knight's message about John Rooney of the State Department and his friends Idar Remstead, Jules Bassin and Frank Meyer. Handwritten routing note to Peter Flanigan. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 9/4/1969
From Gordon S. Brownell to Harry Dent RE: Copies of a magazine article and memo from the D.O.T. concerning the civil rights movement. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/2/1969
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9/4/1969
White House Staff
Memo
Memo from Gordon S. Brownell to Harry
Dent RE: Francis Knight's message about
John Rooney of the State Department and his
friends Idar Remstead, Jules Bassin and
Frank Meyer. Handwritten routing note to
Peter Flanigan. 1 pg.
5
16
9/2/1969
Campaign
Memo
Memo from Gordon S. Brownell to Harry
Dent RE: Copies of a magazine article and
memo from the D.O.T. concerning the civil
rights movement. 1 pg.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Page 1 of 1
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SEPTEMBER 4, 1969
TO: HARRY S. DENT
FROM: GORDON S. BROWNELL
GSB
FRANCIS
Florence Knight asked me to relay this to you. She has heard :
John Rooney has too much control in the State Dept. and his hand-picked friends
have too much power. One of them, Idar Remstead, is going to be Ambassador
to Geneva. Jules Bassin, another Rooney Democrat, is going along with Remstead.
A new position is being created--Ass't Secretary of State for Budget--which is
also slated ot go to a Rooney man, Frank Meyer. Florence says we should head
off Rooney by not creating this position.
She also said that the transfer of the work of the Passport Office to the banks
is upsetting many people.
OR19 to: 9/8/69 Peter Hawigan
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SEPTEMBER 2, 1969
TO: HARRY S. DENT
FROM: GORDON S. BROWNELL
GSB
Attached are two copies of the magazine article you asked me to get
for you and the memoranda which were submitted to you for your con-
sideration.
I have marked the main points of the memoranda and the article and
also am attaching an unmarked copy of the article if you want it for
anything.
The memoranda submitted from D.O.T. I felt were too ideologically
bound to a liberal affinity for the civil rights movement to represent
a sound political approach to the problems posed in the article. I feel
instead that an approach governed by the passages I have underlined
in the article can best solidify the President's consiturncy and increase
his chances for re-election in 1972 and future success for the Party in
later years. The memoranda submitted by D.O.T. would basically rep-
resent a policy that would be inconsistent to a successful "Southern--
Sun Belt" strategy for a breed national victory in '72. I think you would
agree.
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