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From Chotiner to Higby RE: Gayle Essary of Austin, Texas. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/30/1970
Copy of a memo from Chotiner to Higby RE: Gayle Essary of Austin, Texas. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/30/1970
From Haldeman to Colson RE: Democratic Party debt. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/30/1970
Transcript of Vera Glaser's interview of Colson. 3 pgs. [Subject: Domestic Policy] [Other Document], 11/23/1970
From Colson to Haldeman RE: political state of the American Northeast. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/13/1970
From Haldeman to Colson RE: Helen Hill's financial support and activities in California. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/11/1970
Copy of a memo from Colson to Haldeman RE: response to Haldeman's previous memo. Handwritten notes on original added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/6/1970
From Haldeman to Colson RE: use of "Jaycees" and celebrities in the 1972 campaign. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/4/1970
From Colson to Haldeman RE: discussion with Mulcahy and Stone involving financial management of the 1970 campaign. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/5/1970
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From Chotiner to Higby RE: Gayle Essary of Austin, Texas. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/30/1970
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From Haldeman to Colson RE: Democratic Party debt. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/30/1970
Transcript of Vera Glaser's interview of Colson. 3 pgs. [Subject: Domestic Policy] [Other Document], 11/23/1970
From Colson to Haldeman RE: political state of the American Northeast. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/13/1970
From Haldeman to Colson RE: Helen Hill's financial support and activities in California. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/11/1970
Copy of a memo from Colson to Haldeman RE: response to Haldeman's previous memo. Handwritten notes on original added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/6/1970
From Haldeman to Colson RE: use of "Jaycees" and celebrities in the 1972 campaign. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/4/1970
From Colson to Haldeman RE: discussion with Mulcahy and Stone involving financial management of the 1970 campaign. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/5/1970
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From Chotiner to Higby RE: Gayle Essary of
Austin, Texas. 1 pg.
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11/30/1970
Campaign
Memo
Copy of a memo from Chotiner to Higby RE:
Gayle Essary of Austin, Texas. Handwritten
notes added by unknown. 1 pg.
6
64
11/30/1970
Campaign
Memo
From Haldeman to Colson RE: Democratic
Party debt. 1 pg.
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Friday, June 11, 2010
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11/11/1970
Campaign
Memo
From Haldeman to Colson RE: Helen Hill's
financial support and activities in California.
1 pg.
6
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11/6/1970
Campaign
Memo
Copy of a memo from Colson to Haldeman
RE: response to Haldeman's previous memo.
Handwritten notes on original added by
unknown. 1 pg.
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11/4/1970
Campaign
Memo
From Haldeman to Colson RE: use of
"Jaycees" and celebrities in the 1972
campaign. 1 pg.
6
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11/5/1970
Campaign
Memo
From Colson to Haldeman RE: discussion
with Mulcahy and Stone involving financial
management of the 1970 campaign.
Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg.
Friday, June 11, 2010
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November 30, 1970
FOR:
LARRY HIGBY
FROM:
MURRAY CHOTINER
This is in further response to your inquiry about Gayle
Essary of Austin, Texas.
I spoke with him today and he is sending me a copy of the
written material which he gave to Carl Leubsdorf of Associated
Press.
Mr. Essary states he had three winning campaigns, to wit:
Senator Stevens (R) of Alaska
Governor-Elect Hall (D) of Oklahoma
Governor-Elect Wallace (D) of Alabama,
and two losing campaigns, to wit:
Danforth (R) for Senate, Missouri
Dodd (D) for Senate, Connecticut.
I spoke with Ron Birch, AA to Senator Stevens, who reports
that Gayle Essary was retained for a short period before the
Primary. He was supposed to furnish ideas and the suggestions
were unsatisfactory and terminated two months before the
primary election.
I am following through with the Danforth and Dodd campaigns
to see what they know about Essary. I will keep you informed as
soon as further information is received.
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 30, 1970
FOR:
LARRY HIGBY
H.
FROM:
MURRAY CHOTINER
This is in further response to your inquiry about Gayle
Essary of Austin, Texas.
I spoke with him today and he is sending me a copy of the
written material which he gave to Carl Leubsdorf of Associated
Press.
Mr. Essary states he had three winning campaigns, to wit:
Senator Stevens (R) of Alaska
Governor-Elect Hall (D) of Oklahoma
Governor-Elect Wallace (D) of Alabama,
and two losing campaigns, to wit:
Danforth (R) for Senate, Missouri
Dodd (D) for Senate, Connecticut.
I spoke with Ron Birch, AA to Senator Stevens, who reports
that Gayle Essary was retained for a short period before the
Primary. He was supposed to furnish ideas and the suggestions
were unsatisfactory and terminated two months before the
primary election.
I am following through with the Danforth and Dodd campaigns
to see what they know about Essary. I will keep you informed as
soon as further information is received.
assurary
of
November 30, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR:
MR. COLSON
FROM:
H.R. HALDEMAN
The image being developed of the Democrats as
being "resurgent" should be demolished. They
owe $9,000,000.
Would you please check around and prepare a plan
on what we could do to cause them to be sued by
their dozens of creditors.
HRH:LH:cg
Colson
Last half of conversation between Vera Glaser (Knight Newspapers)
and Charles W. Colson , November 23, 1970:
G: We were on a deadline with the column and normally it would have
been checked before that went out, but we just checked the press
clips and discovered that you were not the organizer.
C: Yes, the interesting thing was that a Maine reporter called me today
and said that he had been called about this, and he said, I remember
that party, you didn't have anything to do with the damn thing. He
happens to be a Republican and he said, hell, I don't know whether
you contributed to the party, but he said, I know damn well you didn't
organize it. And I said, well according to this article it says coverage
in the Maine press was that the $50 a head fund raising party was organ-
ized in 1964 by Colson for Muskie.
G: Well, Bill Lewis insisted that it was in Don Larrabee's story and we
were not able to get the story itself as the Bangor paper
C: Oh, hell, it wasn't in Don Larrabee's story, he's the guy that called me.
G: Yeah, well, Don Larrabee knows you were there.
C: Oh, sure, I think we might have gone with Don as a matter of fact.
G: Yeah, well, I'm very upset about this because
and I am not going to
ever take the world of Bill Lewis again. This is the first time this has
happened and I'm
C: You wouldn't like some time to just put a little piece in your column that
this doesn't happen to be true, would you?
G: Well, let me see what I can do because
Well, when you say you're
more distressed than I am, I can see why you might feel that way, but
I'm just frankly SO God damned mad.
C: Well, I can't say there's anything else in the piece other than my blue
eyes and the fact that I didn't come anywhere close to having a fist fight
with Mr. McNamara, we had a good heated argument, but hardly coming
to blows. But, yeah, that's fair enough.
G: Yeah, let me see what I can do because
but I am.
you can be very
sure that that individual in that office is not going to be called upon as a
source anymore.
C: Oh, hell, he's
you know, I could tell you he really is just a very
vicious guy.
Page 2.
G: Well, the thing is that it was perfectly apparent that there was no
love lost but, and this doesn't surprise you, but in all cases we check
back to the original source and it just happened that in this one instance,
since we had him on tape and since we repeated it, you could even
listen to this if you wanted to over and over again, where was it, and
who said it, and who did it, and are you sure, and etc. etc. and this
is what actually what we wrote was much cooler, you know, than
what was said, but that is the first time we haven't checked back to
the original source and we live to regret it, and let me see what I
can do because I just, you know, I write
C: Well, it sounds the way it's written sounds a hell of a lot more than
in fact it was. Obviously, being Washington Counsel for the New
England Council I would go to any reception that any New England
Senator had because my job was to work with them. Plus the fact
that Muskie in those days was a great battler for New England causes,
and that's what my business was, so hell, I'd go to a reception for
him. I wouldn't, you know, organize one for him because I was, in
those dark days, even giving money to Barry Goldwater and I never
gave to Muskie.
G: Yeah, well, I appreciate your calling and I'm just
I simply can't tell
you how badly I feel about it, so let me see what I can do, Chuck.
C: What I would really appreciate Vera is that nobody likes to clarify those
things, but
G: Yeah, there might be a problem
C: But the real difficulty is that somebody then comes along and picks it up
out of your column and then somebody else says, well, gee, it must be
true, I read it in Vera Glaser's column and the first thing
G: Another things that burns me up, which is really small and you don't
give a hoot one way or the other, but again it's a point of accuracy, is
that it was not a $50 dinner, it was a $25 dinner, and when you begin
to check back things like this, you know
well, there it is and
C: I wouldn't even remember because I really don't
honestly, as I recall
back I don't believe that I bought a ticket to it, I think I was invited to
it, and I don't believe I made a contribution to it, because, you know,
I was invited, you know, really in my capacity. I had a drink, and
watched Lyndon Johnson give a wild arm waving speech and left.
G: Yeah, Lyndon was there, I remember. Well, let me see what I can do
and now I've got to visit in New York all day tomorrow and I'm going to
be out leaving on the 8:00 shuttle and I won't be getting back until 7:00
or 7:30 so if. I'll see if I can get something started on this tonight. I
don't know whether I can but
page 3.
C: I suppose I could always just write a letter to the editor saying it
just isn't so, and.
G: You can do that if you like and
C: I'd rather not because that just turns it in to more than it should be.
G: Yeah, and I would like to be helpful if I can cExxbecause, believe me,
I'm not happy.
C: Well, I don't mind, you know, I can take my lumps in the mess, I
don't mind that. I wish to hell I could stay out of the newspapers,
but what really does bug me is a story that I would organize a fund
raising for somebody, which unfortunately it isn't this column so much
as the next guy picks it up and the new guys picks it up, then all of
a sudden people throughout think it's got to be a fact, and it just isn't,
G: Yeah, I know. Let me see what I can do and
C: I'd be very grateful for whatever you can do to clarify it
G: Well, it's only fair and I want to, and I will, as I say I won't be in
town tomorrow, but I'll give you a temperature reading on Thursday,
how's that?
C: Fine, great. Thursday is Thanksgiving, we'll both be stuffing our-
selves with turkey.
G: Oh yeah, so Wednesday.
C: O.K. Wednesday?
G: Yeah, Wednesday afternoon maybe I'll be able to call you.
C: Thank you very much, Vera.
G: All right, Chuck.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 13, 1970
EYES ONLY
MEMORANDUM FOR H. R. HALDEMAN
One of the items I would like to discuss with you when we have a
chance to talk is organizing the Northeast. I am convinced that the
social issue was very powerful in the Northeast during the past cam-
paign; while it may lose some of its impact in the rest of the country,
it will continue to be powerful in 1972 in this region, at least with
certain groups. The people most concerned with it are urban, middle
income, white ethnics. To exploit the potential, we need to cultivate
the right Catholic leaders in several key Northeastern states. These
states are winnable if we have the right people and organize them
properly.
The Democrats have always built their powerful machines around
prominent Irish Catholic political bosses (occasionaly Italian). Their
Catholic leaders are now becoming much less important while ours
are gaining in prominence. For example, consider the situation in the
following states:
Connecticut: Our Governor-Elect is an Irish Catholic; the leading
Democratic politician (Ribicoff) is Jewish.
New Jersey: Our Governor is Irish Catholic; the most prominent
Democratic office holder is a yankee (Pete Williams).
New York: The Senator-elect is an Irish Catholic; New York's Demo-
cratic leaders are predominantly Jewish.
Rhode Island: Our candidate for Governor (who still may be elected)
is a very attractive Italian Catholic; the Democratic incumbent is
Jewish.
Pennsylvania: The defeated Republican candidate for Governor (who
should remain a power in the party) is an Irish Catholic, supported in
this election by the entire church hierarchy in the state; the Democratic
Governor-Elect is Jewish, a fact which by itself will help keep the
Catholic vote in our corner, particularly in view of the hot parochial
school issue in the state.
-2-
We should start building Nixon organizations around these men, be
sure that we thoroughly cultivate them and use the resources of John
Volpe and others to get the right second and third tier leaders on our
team early. Men like Proccocino in New York, a former Democratic
candidate for Mayor, who endorsed Rockefeller should be brought into
the fold. (In fact, if Rockefeller thought that he had a shot at one of
the two positions he would like here in Washington after the 1972
elections, we could probably take over his organization intact today
and keep it active over the next two years. If this idea has merit,
we should do it before the organization is disassembled.)
I fully recognize that if Muskie is our opponent, the fact that he is a
Catholic will seriously hamper our efforts in this area. We should
proceed nonetheless in the chance that he may not be the candidate
and with the further objective of neutralizing blocks of Catholic voters
if he is the candidate.
There are also some outstanding candidates whom we should start
grooming in these states. I don't believe that anyone running state
wide can give much of a lift to the President, but if they are bad
candidates, they can be serious drags on the ticket. Work should
be started on this now not in 1972.
(man.
W.
Colson
EYES ONLY
DETERMINED TO BE AN
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By
CONFIDENTIAL
November 11, 1970
Brown
MEMORANDUM FOR :
MR. COLSON
Helen Hill, a strong supporter of ours financially
in California, talked with Rose Woods recently about
her interest in trying to buy some radio and television
stations. This is a program we need to encourage with
some of the major financial people and Helen Hill would
be a good place to start. Will you please follow up
with this with Rose and will you please follow up on
an overall basis to develop a program for recommenda-
tions to our people as to purchase opportunities in
this area?
H.R. HALDEMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Chuck
November 6, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR H. R. HALDEMAN
This is in reply to your memo of November 4, Log No. P-925.
I have invited Andre LeTendre to get together with me during
the week of the 16th. Do I assume that you want him brought into
the White House, or should we find a place for him somewhere
else in the Administration and use him for this one assignment
part-time? I doubt that it should be a full-time White House
assignment. What is you recommendation.
As for organizing the celebrities, Henry Cashen will be meeting
this week with Dick Moore to get some guidance on how best to
approach them. I suspect this is a one-by-one effort, although if
we could collect good names I would think some of our loyalists
like Bob Hope, Art Linkletter, and others could contact the ones
we identify. If we want to start a major recruiting effort on
celebrities, I would suggest that Nick Ruwe be considered to
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coordinate this from the White House; Nick would be good at this
and he could take guidance from Dick Moore.
Rewould not
If Nick is going to be otherwise engaged at State or elsewhere, I
will ask Henry to follow through on this in this office. The way
to get this off the ground in my opinion is to find 8 or 10 of the
best loyalists-- Bob Hope, Art Linkletter, John Wayne, etc., have
private meetings with each, ask them to identify and recruit friends,
and use them as a sounding board for our efforts, letting them know
that they are really our executive committee. We will have to do
the leg work, but a strong group could help us get started.
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November 4, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR:
MR. COLSON
Several areas that require immediate organizational
work, looking to '72, are the Jaycees and the
celebrities.
You're already on top of the Jaycees, as I understand
it, and since LeTendre lost, I assume we will be
bringing him aboard to handle the organizing of that
project.
We also need to get someone going very actively on
the celebrities. There are lots of them who have not
been listed as for us, and who have not been active for
us in the past, who now can be enlisted. Two immediate
examples that come to mind are: Elvis Presley and
Perry Como. There must be hundreds of others, and this
is going to take someone with a very sophisticated
approach, who will go for the big names and will under-
stand how to go about getting them lined up with us.
Let's work out a plan for getting this carried out fast.
H.R. HALDEMAN
HRH:cg
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 5, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR H. R. HALDEMAN
I had occasion to talk to Mulcahy and Stone several times during the
closing days of the campaign. I dedected a very serious disenchant-
ment on the part of both of them for the way in which their money was
used during the campaign.
I am not saying their points are valid. The facts are irrelevant.
What is important is what they think. Mulcahy was very disturbed
over the election eve television program. Stone feels that much of
his money was wasted in campaign mismanagement. (He made this
point on network television last night).
Both men were hit by many too many people and there was no central
point for coordinating.
I think we need to move fast to rebuild some confidence. We are
going to need both of these men in a big way in 1972. My immediate
suggestions are:
1. A small stag dinner with the President for 5 or 6 of the largest
contributors -- or maybe just Mulcahy and Stone.
2. Draw them in very soon on our campaign planning for 1972. (This
is pure cosmetics -- I recognize their judgment, particularly
Stone's, is not worth a damn).
3. Set up a system where they understand that you or I or someone
clear all requests for money.
4. Stone's (?)
( week
Charles W. Colson