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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\n5\n45\n8/21/1970\nCampaign\nReport\nFrom Pasztor to Low RE: Status Report on\nEthnic Vote in Michigan. 2 pgs.\nWednesday, December 17, 2014\nPage 1 of 1\nDOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL RECORD [NIXON PROJECT]\nDOCUMENT\nDOCUMENT\nNUMBER\nTYPE\nSUBJECT/TITLE OR CORRESPONDENTS\nDATE\nRESTRICTION\n1\nMemo\nPasztor to Low re'. Status\n8/21/70\nC\nIdoc. 267]\nReport on the Nationalities\n(Nixon)\nin Key michigan Races, 2pp\nFILE GROUP TITLE\nBOX NUMBER\nWHSF Smof Dert\n9\nFOLDER TITLE\n1970 Nationalities and Minorities [1082]\nRESTRICTION CODES\nA. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.\nE. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or\nB. National security classified information.\nfinancial information.\nC. Pending or approved claim that release would violate an individual's\nF. Release would disclose investigatory information compiled for law\nrights.\nenforcement purposes.\nD. Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy\nG. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.\nor a libel of a living person.\nH. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.\nNATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION\nNA FORM 1421 (4-85)\nPresidential Materials Review Board\nReview on Contested Documents\nCollection: Harry S. Dent\nBox Number:\n9\nFolder:\n1970 Nationalities and Minorities [1 of 2]\nDocument\nDisposition\n267\nReturn Private/Political\nCC: N Dent\nNatio\nRepublican\nNational\nCommittee.\nAugust 21, 1970\nTO: Bill Low\nFROM: Laszlo Pasztor\nL.C.N.\nSUBJECT: Status Report on the Nationalities in Key Michigan Races\nOn August 16th, I was a guest at the Nationalities Picnic in De-\ntroit, Michigan, and met with 50 ethnic leaders from all over the\nstate. The following is an evaluation, based on meetings and dis-\ncussions with these people, of the Romney and Milliken efforts to\nattract ethnic voters to the Republican Party.\nSENATE- Lenore Romney\nI. The average middle-working class ethnic voter has a very nega-\ntive image of Lenore Romney, because she has made no attempt\nwhatsoever to appeal to their interests. Their specific com-\nplaints about her campaign were:\nA. There seems to be no \"ideological\" difference between\nMrs. Romney and the liberal incumbent Senator Hart.\nB. Mrs. Romney doesn't seem to stand for anything-- if she\ndiscusses issues at all it is only the problems of blacks\nthat she is concerned about.\nC. Mrs. Romney makes no attempt to back up the President or\nsupport the policies of his Administration.\nD. They are extremely resentful and fearful of HUD Secretary\nRomney's attempts to integrate Michigan suburbia (i.e.,\nspecifically Warren, outside of Detroit) where the\nmajority of these people live-- and link Mrs. Romney\ndirectly with this policy.\nII. Mrs. Romney does not even give token support to ethnic\nAmericans:\nA. She did not\nattend the August 16th Nationalities\npicnic in Detroit, even though she had nothing else on\nher calendar, based on the fact that she does not cam-\npaign on Sundays.\nB. No \"nationality leaders\" or members of the state Nationalities\nCouncil were invited to be members of the steering committee\nof Volunteers for Lenore.\nC. Even though several prominant members of Nationality groups\nvolunteered to work on Mrs. Romney's campaign, they\nfile\ntold that the only help that they could give was to donate money.\nD. \"College kids\" and \"funny looking kids\" paper the surface of\nher organization.\nNational Headquarters: 1625 Eye Street NW Washington DC 20006 (202) NA 8-6800.\n- 2 -\nGOVERNOR-- William Milliken\nI.\nGovernor Milliken also has not campaigned for ethnic votes.\nThere were many complaints about his liberal and \"permissive\"\npolicies, specifically:\nA. He does not take a \"hard line\" on teenage drug abuse and\ncrime in the streets.\nB. His attitude permitted a Rock Festival to be held (Gross\nLake Festival) which was a known rallying point for youth-\nful drug takers, etc.\nII. No members of the state Nationalities Council, or any other\nethnic group, were asked to be members of the Volunteers for\nMilliken.\nSUMMARY\nObviously, no serious campaign has been mounted in Michigan to\nattract ethnic voters. Although these voters resent Senator\nHart's own liberalism (and that of the National Democratic\nLeadership) their traditional Democratic loyalties are butressed\nby well-oiled Democratic patronage machines on the local (par-\nticularly Detroit) level, and apparent interest in ethnic prob-\nlems by some state-wide Democratic candidates (Democrats have\nplaced ads in ethnic newspapers, and \"Soapy\" Williams is fre-\nquently seen at ethnic gatherings and meetings-- even spending\nfull days at such events). Furthermore, Hart-- our chief target\nin Michigan-- has good Union connections and enjoys the respect\nof middle-class housewives who remember him for his Truth-in-\nLending and Truth-in-Packaging legislation. Under these strains,\nthe Republican Nationalities Council of Michigan-- the oldest\nin the country-- is slowly beginning to fall apart. They find\nno candidate to rally around, and their relatives and associates\nwonder what they could possibly gain from voting Republican in\nNovember.\nRECOMMENDATIONS\nI suggest the following to help remedy this situation:\nA. That one person be hired in each campaign to deal with the\nethnic vote.\nB. That those people who volunteered to work on the Michigan races\nbe contacted by the candidates, and sent our Handbook on\nOrganizing the Nationalities.\nC. A list has been provided to the candidates in Michigan giving\nthe names of all ethnic citizens who volunteered to work on\nthe campaigns, and they should be contacted individually and\nthanked.\nIn my opinion, both Romney and Milliken have badly handled the\nethnic vote in Michigan. The voters of nationality background\nwill not support either Mrs. Romney or Governor Milliken if they\ndo not make an all-out effort to appeal to at least some of their\ninterests."
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