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10/28/1969
Campaign
Memo
Copy of memo from Harry Dent to Ken Cole
RE: Murray Chotiner's suggestion on special
Congressional elections and Jim Allison's
impression of Donald Rumsfeld as a
candidate. 1 pg.
5
23
10/29/1969
Campaign
Memo
Copy of memo from Gordon S. Brownell to
Harry Dent RE: the Philadelphia Society's
dissatisfaction with the RN administration. 1
pg.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Page 1 of 1
October 28, 1969
FOR:
Ken Cole
FROM:
Harry Dent
This is in regard to the Murray Chotiner suggestion
on special Congressional elections.
Jim Allison, Deputy Chairman RNC, was dispatched to
the Rumsfeld Congressional District to make a
special report. He found a good candidate with a
good campaign manager. This is the most attractive,
articulate, and able candidate we have had in any of
these special elections. He leans to the right
considerably, and this is his major limitation.
Therefore, Jim recommended that Don Rumsfeld publicly
endorse him to give him the benefit of Don's liberal
and popular image. After much reluctance, Don is now
in the process of doing SO.
As to this and other elections, we are moving to make
necessary changes at the Congressional Campaign
Committee. Bob Wilson is coming to see me today, and
other members of the Campaign Committee are coming to
see me Wednesday. Our problem is, as the President says:
candidate recruitment and campaign management. Also, I
am calling in Murray Chotiner to have a chat with him.
HSD:cg
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
DETERMINED TO BE AN
ADMINISTRATIVE MARKING
E.O. 12065, Section 6-102
OCTOBER 29, 1969
By CRMF NARS, Date 6/15/81
CONF IDENT IAL
TO: HARRY S. DENT
FROM: GORDON S. BROWNELL
19,
This past week-end there was a meeting of the Philadelphia
Society, an organization of conservative and libertarian
intellectuals, academicians, writers, businessment and others
who get together a couple of times a year to exchange ideas.
It is an elite and semi-secret organization and what takes
place at their meetings is not supposed to be repeated else-
where. About eighty persons attended last week-endss session,
and one of the attendees breached the secrecy pledge to inform
me of one of the things that went on.
There was considerable dissatisfaction with the Administration
voiced; most of it was the same stuff of too much liberalism
and not enough conservatism in the White House and Cabinet.
Several prominent persons, however, said we have a "rubber
President" who bends to the left to easily. They said the
time is now to build a movement from the Right to unseat the
President. Specifically:
Frank Meyer, the libertarian editor of NATIONAL REVIEW, used
the phrase of "an Allard Lowenstein of the Right" in describing
what is needed.
Bill Rusher, while not vocal, seemed to agree that the President
could be unseated from the Right just as Johnson was from the
Left. He seemed in accord with the viewpoint that the President
was insulated from right-wing dissatisfaction.
Gordon Tulloch; the Virginia Tech economist, felt that rank-
and-file conservatives would dump the President in a Republican
primary if they had a realistic alternative. He said it is not
toyearly to start looking.
Wayne Dawson, head of the United Republicans of America, while
not present at the meeting, feels that Governor Reagan or any-
one else on the Right can build a national movement a la Gene
McCarthy.
away. Perhaps these people should be talked to before they get camried