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From Colson to Haldeman RE: meeting with Bob Dole. Page of a document related to the 1972 campaign attached. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 3 pgs. [Subject: Domestic Policy] [Memo], 9/22/1971
From Strachan to Haldeman RE: Bob Dole. Handwritten notes added by multiple unknown authors. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 9/13/1971
From Colson to Haldeman RE: using Bob Dole to attack potential Democratic presidential candidates. Handwritten notes added by multiple unknown authors. 1 pg. [Subject: Domestic Policy] [Memo], 9/9/1971
Talking Paper for Bob Dole, authored by GS (possibly Gordon Strachan). 1 pg. [Subject: Domestic Policy] [Memo], 9/13/1971
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From Colson to Haldeman RE: meeting with Bob Dole. Page of a document related to the 1972 campaign attached. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 3 pgs. [Subject: Domestic Policy] [Memo], 9/22/1971
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From Colson to Haldeman RE: using Bob Dole to attack potential Democratic presidential candidates. Handwritten notes added by multiple unknown authors. 1 pg. [Subject: Domestic Policy] [Memo], 9/9/1971
Talking Paper for Bob Dole, authored by GS (possibly Gordon Strachan). 1 pg. [Subject: Domestic Policy] [Memo], 9/13/1971
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27
9/22/1971
Domestic Policy
Memo
From Colson to Haldeman RE: meeting with
Bob Dole. Page of a document related to the
1972 campaign attached. Handwritten notes
added by unknown. 3 pgs.
7
27
9/13/1971
White House Staff
Memo
From Strachan to Haldeman RE: Bob Dole.
Handwritten notes added by multiple
unknown authors. 1 pg.
7
27
9/9/1971
Domestic Policy
Memo
From Colson to Haldeman RE: using Bob
Dole to attack potential Democratic
presidential candidates. Handwritten notes
added by multiple unknown authors. 1 pg.
7
27
9/13/1971
Domestic Policy
Memo
"Talking Paper" for Bob Dole, authored by
GS (possibly Gordon Strachan). 1 pg.
Friday, June 25, 2010
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THE WHITE HOUSE
EYES ONLY
WASHINGTON
September 22, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H.R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
CHARLES COLSON
SUBJECT:
RNC/Senator Dole
I just had a one hour session with Bob Dole to try to crank him up
to do a better job of defending the President and hitting back at the
Democrats. Dole didn't disagree with any of my points but he is a
very different man than he was a few months ago.
1. He is having some serious internal problems with Tom Evans.
I assume you are aware of this.
2. He feels the staff at the RNC is incompetent and Nofziger is not
doing the job he wants done but he, Dole, doesn't feel he can
shake things up.
3. He made the point that, we are not giving him enough support,
speeches, material, etc., a point he said he made with the
President. To the extent that we have not done this, it will be
instantly remedied, but I pointed out to Bob that he has the whole
National Committee apparatus and that he shouldn't be leaning on
us and more importantly shouldn't be taking such minor complaints
to the President. I also pointed out that Nofziger had specifically
asked us not to send speeches for Dole, Nofziger wanted to write
them. Dole's answer was that Nofziger hasn't been writing any
good speeches lately.
4. He is obsessed with our lack of support in the farm area and really
acts generally demoralized.
5. He fully recognizes that he has made virtually no news for the past
two months but I think he honestly doesn't know what to do. I
suggested a press conference attacking the Democratic partisan
obstructionists for openers. He may do this tomorrow, but he again
complained that he had no staff help to get ready for a press confer-
ence. I honestly believe his own self-confidence has been eroded
for some reason.
2.
We are going to start pumping him up directly with some stuff from
here. He seems to welcome the idea. You will get loud screams from
Nofziger but we have got to try something to get Dole back out front and
also to build up his own self-confidence. The two, I suspect, go hand in
hand.
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Hugh Scott said Sen. Brooke would be an asset to a
GOP national ticket. He also said Muskie "probably
regrets that voyage from his foot to his mouth. 11 He
added that he believes that if Brooke were on the ticket
"he would bring more votes to the ticket than he would
cost. 11
McCloskey would consider it "a beautiful
thing" if Brooke would run with RN. Like RN,
McCloskey disputed Muskie's view on a black VP saying
"race shouldn't matter. " McCloskey issuing a mail call
to anti-war activists and conservationists for funds, is
said to be shifting his emphasis from VN to 'truth in
government" as he "all but calls RN a chronic liar, 11
says a Miami Herald report
Theo Lippman writes
in the Balt. Sun that RN would be the logical person to
try a black VP Brooke it "might be just what it
takes to rescue RN. 11
Riesel says there are many who believe that RN can't
win without Rockefeller as his VP, since Rocky can
soothe Meany. And the push is on in and out of the WH
to elbow VP Agnew out in favor of the NY Gov. who is
"closer to RN now than virtually all other politicos. 1!
Knight's Saul Kohler relates Harry Dent's view that the
VP was "characteristically aloof and unusually non-
abrasive" at the Gov's Conference and according to
Harry Dent, he has taken a giant step toward retaining
his spot on the 172 ticket with his resumption of the
inter-governmental portfolio. Dent emphasized, as do
other WH staffers, that the VP is not "on trial. He said
that he has never heard RN "knock" the VP but has always
encouraged staffers to help the VP any way they can.
But Marianne Means feels there may be more truth than
humor in the VP's refërences to Connally. His "political
vulnerability is no laughing matter. 11 The VP's good-
will mission to the Govs conference should have won
the Admin many points but the mission was not a "huge
success. 11 As some Govs charge the VP was manipulating
them for his benefit. Despite staff efforts to deny this,
the slurs against the VP were widely believed; as was
the view that the VP is so shaky in his position that
being an errand boy for the Govs was a big deal.
Washington
Speaking in Tampa Muskie accused RN of misrepresenting
his views about a black VP and skirting the issue him-
self. The Sen. says the public will not now accept
THE WHITE
WASHINGT
Date
NOTE TO: H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
Colson's point about pushing Dole
to the attack deserves your
intervention.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 9, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H.R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
CHARLES COLSON
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SUBJECT:
Senator Bob Dole
As you know we have a continuing problem with Bob Dole
attacking many of the Democratic Presidential candidates
who are senators. Senators don't do these things and never
refer to one another on the floor of the Senate in other than
a complimentary fashion.
What Bob has to do is attack hard in speeches when he is
not on the Senate floor. We gave him two speeches in the
last two days attacking Muskie. They were good Buchanan
hardliners. Dole watered them both down considerably
taking out most of the personal references.
I intend to meet with him to talk about this. He seems
generally receptive whenever we talk to him personally
but he needs to be constantly reminded of his role as the
principal partisan defender of the President.
The only purpose of this memo is to suggest that if and
when you are talking to Dole, you lay the point on him very
hard.
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TALKING PAPER FOR SENATOR DOLE
Re: Defending the President
1. The press increasingly turns to you for the Republican
Party response to the Democratic Presidential contenders' attacks
on the President and his programs.
2. The Democratic partisan personal attacks on the President
will continue to increase. You are the defender of the President
against these attacks.
3. We are fully aware of the importance of maintaining the
tradition of not attacking fellow Senators on the floor. However,
when you are away from the floor the more partisan, personal
material supplied by Colson, Buchanan, and others should be
considered by you.
GS
9/13/71