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From Higby to Allin RE: an analysis of Connally's announcement involving the Democrats for Nixon. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/10/1972
From Higby to Ollie Atkins RE: Haldeman's request involving RN and younger voters. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/10/1972
From Higby to unknown RE: analyzing the four best and worst issues of RN and McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/7/1972
Paper listing various White House staffers, who are referred to as "Addresses." Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Other Document], no date
From Higby to unknown RE: analyzing the four best and worst issues of RN and McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/7/1972
From Higby to unknown RE: analyzing the four best and worst issues of RN and McGovern. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/7/1972
From Higby to "Kathy" RE: a call to Strachan involving McGovern's schedule. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to "Kathy" RE: a call to Strachan involving McGovern's schedule. Handwritten note added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to Bachman RE: forwarding poll information to Hawaii. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to Bachman RE: forwarding poll information to Hawaii. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to Bachman RE: obtaining poll information from Strachan. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to Bachman RE: obtaining poll information from Strachan. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to Bull RE: obtaining a report on celebrities for Haldeman to help with preparations for an upcoming reception. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/25/1972
From Higby to Bull RE: PN's request to invinte "Miss San Diego" to an upcoming celebrity reception. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/25/1972
Slip of paper with contact information for Romell Foster, Miss San Diego. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Photograph], no date
From Higby to Charles Bremicker of the Key Biscayne Hotel RE: thanks for preparing accomodations during the Republican National Convention. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Letter], 8/25/1972
From Higby to Bull RE: RN's input on a celebrities party. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/25/1972
From Higby to Bull RE: forwarding the guest list of a White House celebrities reception to Haldeman. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/8/1972
From Higby to Butterfield RE: including Rose Mary Woods and Marje Acker in an upcoming briefing for "Administration women." 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/8/1972
From Higby to Bull RE: Haldeman's input on the celebrities event guest list. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/7/1972
From Higby to Butterfield RE: Haldeman's request that Butterfield take over briefings with various White House staffers and other Washington officials. 3 pgs. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/2/1972
Copy of a memo from Haldeman to MacGregor RE: having MacGregor fill in various White House staffers on the state of the campaign to build up support for RN. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 7/26/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: briefings for White House staffers, members of the Presidential Cabinet, and members of Congress. Handwritten notes added by Haldeman. 2 pgs. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/1/1972
From Higby to Buchanan and Magruder RE: reworking an attached memorandum to improve its presentation. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/2/1972
Copy of John D. Lofton, Jr.'s "Letter from Monday" from the Republican National Committee outlining how RN has met many of McGovern's campaign promises. Handwritten notes on original added by unknown. 6 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 7/31/1972
From Higby to Buchanan RE: Haldeman and Ehrlichman's input on a recent Buchanan document. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/31/1972
The Making of an Extremist: 1972, presumably authored by Buchanan, detailing McGovern's life and political tendencies. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 33 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], no date
From Higby to Colson RE: including a recent speech from Haldeman in an installment of "Monday." 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/28/1972
From Higby to Colson RE: including a recent speech from Haldeman in an installment of "Monday." Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/28/1972
From Higby to Chapin RE: developing a commercial using footage of Mamie Eisenhower. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/22/1972
From Higby to Colson RE: countering McGovern's tactic of portraying himself as the underdog. Handwritten note added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/18/1972
From RN to Haldeman RE: countering McGovern's tactic of portraying himself as the underdog. Handwritten note added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/14/1972
From Higby to Colson RE: a recent anti- McGovern editorial. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/16/1972
Copy of a newspaper article entitled "McGovern is a Phony." Handwritten notes on original added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], no date
From Higby to Colson RE: RN's letter to members of the Democrats for Nixon. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/14/1972
Second draft of a letter from RN to members of the Democrats for Nixon. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 8/12/1972
Third draft of a letter from RN to members of the Democrats for Nixon. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 8/14/1972
From Higby to Colson RE: turnout at a recent McGovern rally. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/11/1972
From Higby to Clawson RE: having Cabinet officials use points maded by Gregg Petersmeyer in a recent speech of his. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/11/1972
Action Memo from Haldeman requesting that Petersmeyer's speech be sent out to Cabinet officials. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/10/1972
From Higby to George Collins RE: transportation and accomodation for Haldeman's family at the Republican National Convention. 1 pg. [Subject: Personal] [Memo], 8/10/1972
From Higby to Colson RE: a potential call from Connally to Pearl Mesta on the subject of joining Democrats for Nixon. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/7/1972
Action Memorandum from Haldeman saying that Connally should call Pearl Mesta with the purpose of enlisting her into Democrats for Nixon. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/7/1972
From Higby to Chapin RE: Mexican American involvement at the Republican National Convention. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/2/1972
From Higby to Dean RE: obtaining copies of a document for Haldeman. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to Dean RE: obtaining copies of a document for Haldeman. Handwritten note added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: mailing out notes to Democrats. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/28/1972
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: Strachan and a McGovern raffle. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/25/1972
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: Chapin, his "truth squad," and Shriver. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/16/1972
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: scheduling events across the nation for Agnew in accord with a directive from Haldeman. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/16/1972
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: Haldeman's idea of sending Agnew into Missouri. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/16/1972
Copy of a memo from RN to Haldeman RE: sending a White House official to Missouri to capitalize on disillusionment with Eagleton. Handwritten notes on original added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/14/1972
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: analyzing Dave Parker's campaign plan. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/16/1972
Copy of a memo from RN to Haldeman RE: potential meetings with various religious and minority leaders. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/14/1972
From Higby to "Follow Up" RE: people following Schreiber and Muskie. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/7/1972
From Higby to "FollowUp" RE: possibly receiving transportation from the Republican National Committee for the White House staff. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/2/1972
From Higby to Dr. Edwin Gazsi and his family RE: thanks for hospitality during a recent White House visit to California. 1 pg. [Subject: Personal] [Letter], 8/4/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: "Wave III." 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: potential connections between McGovern and the mob. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/29/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: mementos for celebrities at the Republican National Convention. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/28/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: a report from Billy Graham on a meeting between President Johnson and McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/28/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: Colson's desire for a meeting with Haldeman. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/25/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: Colson's desire for a meeting with Haldeman. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/25/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: the results of a Newsweek/Gallup poll. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/16/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: attack and counterattack operations for the fall campaign. 4 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/8/1972
From Higby to Tom Hart RE: White House staff arrangements at the Key Biscayne Hotel. 3 pgs. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/8/1972
From Higby to Ronald Walker RE: a tentative list of White House staffers to stay at the Key Biscayne Hotel. A map of the hotel is included. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 6/26/1972
Notes, possibly in Higby's handwriting, detailing the accomodations of various White House officials at the Key Biscayne Hotel. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], no date
From Higby to Haldeman RE: Ed Pauley's recent heart attack. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/8/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: RN and Garment's "plan for intellectuals." 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/7/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: an attached document. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/7/1972
From Higby to Dick Howard RE: McGovern and Schreiber. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/7/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: changes to an issue of the "Reelector." 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/2/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: changes to an issue of the "Reelector." 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/2/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: an NBC decision not to go on television live with McGovern materials. Handwritten note added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/1/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: an attached memo. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/1/1972
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This file contains:
From Higby to Allin RE: an analysis of Connally's announcement involving the Democrats for Nixon. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/10/1972
From Higby to Ollie Atkins RE: Haldeman's request involving RN and younger voters. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/10/1972
From Higby to unknown RE: analyzing the four best and worst issues of RN and McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/7/1972
Paper listing various White House staffers, who are referred to as "Addresses." Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Other Document], no date
From Higby to unknown RE: analyzing the four best and worst issues of RN and McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/7/1972
From Higby to unknown RE: analyzing the four best and worst issues of RN and McGovern. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/7/1972
From Higby to "Kathy" RE: a call to Strachan involving McGovern's schedule. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to "Kathy" RE: a call to Strachan involving McGovern's schedule. Handwritten note added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to Bachman RE: forwarding poll information to Hawaii. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to Bachman RE: forwarding poll information to Hawaii. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to Bachman RE: obtaining poll information from Strachan. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to Bachman RE: obtaining poll information from Strachan. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to Bull RE: obtaining a report on celebrities for Haldeman to help with preparations for an upcoming reception. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/25/1972
From Higby to Bull RE: PN's request to invinte "Miss San Diego" to an upcoming celebrity reception. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/25/1972
Slip of paper with contact information for Romell Foster, Miss San Diego. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Photograph], no date
From Higby to Charles Bremicker of the Key Biscayne Hotel RE: thanks for preparing accomodations during the Republican National Convention. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Letter], 8/25/1972
From Higby to Bull RE: RN's input on a celebrities party. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/25/1972
From Higby to Bull RE: forwarding the guest list of a White House celebrities reception to Haldeman. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/8/1972
From Higby to Butterfield RE: including Rose Mary Woods and Marje Acker in an upcoming briefing for "Administration women." 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/8/1972
From Higby to Bull RE: Haldeman's input on the celebrities event guest list. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/7/1972
From Higby to Butterfield RE: Haldeman's request that Butterfield take over briefings with various White House staffers and other Washington officials. 3 pgs. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/2/1972
Copy of a memo from Haldeman to MacGregor RE: having MacGregor fill in various White House staffers on the state of the campaign to build up support for RN. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 7/26/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: briefings for White House staffers, members of the Presidential Cabinet, and members of Congress. Handwritten notes added by Haldeman. 2 pgs. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/1/1972
From Higby to Buchanan and Magruder RE: reworking an attached memorandum to improve its presentation. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/2/1972
Copy of John D. Lofton, Jr.'s "Letter from Monday" from the Republican National Committee outlining how RN has met many of McGovern's campaign promises. Handwritten notes on original added by unknown. 6 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 7/31/1972
From Higby to Buchanan RE: Haldeman and Ehrlichman's input on a recent Buchanan document. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/31/1972
The Making of an Extremist: 1972, presumably authored by Buchanan, detailing McGovern's life and political tendencies. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 33 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], no date
From Higby to Colson RE: including a recent speech from Haldeman in an installment of "Monday." 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/28/1972
From Higby to Colson RE: including a recent speech from Haldeman in an installment of "Monday." Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/28/1972
From Higby to Chapin RE: developing a commercial using footage of Mamie Eisenhower. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/22/1972
From Higby to Colson RE: countering McGovern's tactic of portraying himself as the underdog. Handwritten note added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/18/1972
From RN to Haldeman RE: countering McGovern's tactic of portraying himself as the underdog. Handwritten note added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/14/1972
From Higby to Colson RE: a recent anti- McGovern editorial. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/16/1972
Copy of a newspaper article entitled "McGovern is a Phony." Handwritten notes on original added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], no date
From Higby to Colson RE: RN's letter to members of the Democrats for Nixon. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/14/1972
Second draft of a letter from RN to members of the Democrats for Nixon. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 8/12/1972
Third draft of a letter from RN to members of the Democrats for Nixon. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 8/14/1972
From Higby to Colson RE: turnout at a recent McGovern rally. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/11/1972
From Higby to Clawson RE: having Cabinet officials use points maded by Gregg Petersmeyer in a recent speech of his. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/11/1972
Action Memo from Haldeman requesting that Petersmeyer's speech be sent out to Cabinet officials. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/10/1972
From Higby to George Collins RE: transportation and accomodation for Haldeman's family at the Republican National Convention. 1 pg. [Subject: Personal] [Memo], 8/10/1972
From Higby to Colson RE: a potential call from Connally to Pearl Mesta on the subject of joining Democrats for Nixon. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/7/1972
Action Memorandum from Haldeman saying that Connally should call Pearl Mesta with the purpose of enlisting her into Democrats for Nixon. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/7/1972
From Higby to Chapin RE: Mexican American involvement at the Republican National Convention. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/2/1972
From Higby to Dean RE: obtaining copies of a document for Haldeman. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to Dean RE: obtaining copies of a document for Haldeman. Handwritten note added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: mailing out notes to Democrats. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/28/1972
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: Strachan and a McGovern raffle. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/25/1972
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: Chapin, his "truth squad," and Shriver. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/16/1972
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: scheduling events across the nation for Agnew in accord with a directive from Haldeman. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/16/1972
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: Haldeman's idea of sending Agnew into Missouri. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/16/1972
Copy of a memo from RN to Haldeman RE: sending a White House official to Missouri to capitalize on disillusionment with Eagleton. Handwritten notes on original added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/14/1972
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: analyzing Dave Parker's campaign plan. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/16/1972
Copy of a memo from RN to Haldeman RE: potential meetings with various religious and minority leaders. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/14/1972
From Higby to "Follow Up" RE: people following Schreiber and Muskie. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/7/1972
From Higby to "FollowUp" RE: possibly receiving transportation from the Republican National Committee for the White House staff. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/2/1972
From Higby to Dr. Edwin Gazsi and his family RE: thanks for hospitality during a recent White House visit to California. 1 pg. [Subject: Personal] [Letter], 8/4/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: "Wave III." 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/30/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: potential connections between McGovern and the mob. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/29/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: mementos for celebrities at the Republican National Convention. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/28/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: a report from Billy Graham on a meeting between President Johnson and McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/28/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: Colson's desire for a meeting with Haldeman. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/25/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: Colson's desire for a meeting with Haldeman. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/25/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: the results of a Newsweek/Gallup poll. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/16/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: attack and counterattack operations for the fall campaign. 4 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/8/1972
From Higby to Tom Hart RE: White House staff arrangements at the Key Biscayne Hotel. 3 pgs. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/8/1972
From Higby to Ronald Walker RE: a tentative list of White House staffers to stay at the Key Biscayne Hotel. A map of the hotel is included. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 6/26/1972
Notes, possibly in Higby's handwriting, detailing the accomodations of various White House officials at the Key Biscayne Hotel. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], no date
From Higby to Haldeman RE: Ed Pauley's recent heart attack. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/8/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: RN and Garment's "plan for intellectuals." 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/7/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: an attached document. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/7/1972
From Higby to Dick Howard RE: McGovern and Schreiber. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/7/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: changes to an issue of the "Reelector." 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/2/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: changes to an issue of the "Reelector." 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/2/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: an NBC decision not to go on television live with McGovern materials. Handwritten note added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/1/1972
From Higby to Haldeman RE: an attached memo. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 8/1/1972
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Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
9
28
8/10/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Allin RE: an analysis of
Connally's announcement involving the
Democrats for Nixon. 1 pg.
9
28
8/10/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Ollie Atkins RE: Haldeman's
request involving RN and younger voters. 1
pg.
9
28
8/7/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to unknown RE: analyzing the
four best and worst issues of RN and
McGovern. 1 pg.
9
28
White House Staff
Other Document
Paper listing various White House staffers,
who are referred to as "Addresses."
Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Page 1 of 16
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
9
28
8/7/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to unknown RE: analyzing the
four best and worst issues of RN and
McGovern. 1 pg.
9
28
8/7/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to unknown RE: analyzing the
four best and worst issues of RN and
McGovern. Handwritten notes added by
unknown. 1 pg.
9
28
8/30/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to "Kathy" RE: a call to
Strachan involving McGovern's schedule. 1
pg.
9
28
8/30/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to "Kathy" RE: a call to
Strachan involving McGovern's schedule.
Handwritten note added by unknown. 1 pg.
9
28
8/30/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Bachman RE: forwarding poll
information to Hawaii. 1 pg.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Page 2 of 16
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
9
28
8/30/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Bachman RE: forwarding poll
information to Hawaii. 1 pg.
9
28
8/30/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Bachman RE: obtaining poll
information from Strachan. 1 pg.
9
28
8/30/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Bachman RE: obtaining poll
information from Strachan. 1 pg.
9
28
8/25/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Bull RE: obtaining a report
on celebrities for Haldeman to help with
preparations for an upcoming reception. 1 pg.
9
28
8/25/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Bull RE: PN's request to
invinte "Miss San Diego" to an upcoming
celebrity reception. 1 pg.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Page 3 of 16
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
9
28
White House Staff
Photograph
Slip of paper with contact information for
Romell Foster, Miss San Diego. 1 pg.
9
28
8/25/1972
White House Staff
Letter
From Higby to Charles Bremicker of the Key
Biscayne Hotel RE: thanks for preparing
accomodations during the Republican
National Convention. 1 pg.
9
28
8/25/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Bull RE: RN's input on a
celebrities party. 1 pg.
9
28
8/8/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Bull RE: forwarding the guest
list of a White House celebrities reception to
Haldeman. 1 pg.
9
28
8/8/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Butterfield RE: including
Rose Mary Woods and Marje Acker in an
upcoming briefing for "Administration
women." 1 pg.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Page 4 of 16
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
9
28
8/7/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Bull RE: Haldeman's input on
the celebrities event guest list. 1 pg.
9
28
8/2/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Butterfield RE: Haldeman's
request that Butterfield take over briefings
with various White House staffers and other
Washington officials. 3 pgs.
9
28
7/26/1972
White House Staff
Memo
Copy of a memo from Haldeman to
MacGregor RE: having MacGregor fill in
various White House staffers on the state of
the campaign to build up support for RN. 1
pg.
9
28
8/1/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Haldeman RE: briefings for
White House staffers, members of the
Presidential Cabinet, and members of
Congress. Handwritten notes added by
Haldeman. 2 pgs.
9
28
8/2/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Buchanan and Magruder RE:
reworking an attached memorandum to
improve its presentation. 1 pg.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Page 5 of 16
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
9
28
7/31/1972
Campaign
Newsletter
Copy of John D. Lofton, Jr.'s "Letter from
Monday" from the Republican National
Committee outlining how RN has met many
of McGovern's campaign promises.
Handwritten notes on original added by
unknown. 6 pgs.
9
28
8/31/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Buchanan RE: Haldeman and
Ehrlichman's input on a recent Buchanan
document. 1 pg.
9
28
Campaign
Report
"The Making of an Extremist: 1972,"
presumably authored by Buchanan, detailing
McGovern's life and political tendencies.
Handwritten notes added by unknown. 33
pgs.
9
28
8/28/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Colson RE: including a recent
speech from Haldeman in an installment of
"Monday." 1 pg.
9
28
8/28/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Colson RE: including a recent
speech from Haldeman in an installment of
"Monday." Handwritten notes added by
unknown. 1 pg.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Page 6 of 16
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
9
28
8/22/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Chapin RE: developing a
commercial using footage of Mamie
Eisenhower. 1 pg.
9
28
8/18/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Colson RE: countering
McGovern's tactic of portraying himself as
the underdog. Handwritten note added by
unknown. 1 pg.
9
28
8/14/1972
Campaign
Memo
From RN to Haldeman RE: countering
McGovern's tactic of portraying himself as
the underdog. Handwritten note added by
unknown. 1 pg.
9
28
8/16/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Colson RE: a recent anti-
McGovern editorial. 1 pg.
9
28
Campaign
Newspaper
Copy of a newspaper article entitled
"McGovern is a Phony." Handwritten notes
on original added by unknown. 1 pg.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Page 7 of 16
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
9
28
8/14/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Colson RE: RN's letter to
members of the Democrats for Nixon. 1 pg.
9
28
8/12/1972
Campaign
Letter
Second draft of a letter from RN to members
of the Democrats for Nixon. Handwritten
notes added by unknown. 1 pg.
9
28
8/14/1972
Campaign
Letter
Third draft of a letter from RN to members
of the Democrats for Nixon. 1 pg.
9
28
8/11/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Colson RE: turnout at a
recent McGovern rally. 1 pg.
9
28
8/11/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Clawson RE: having Cabinet
officials use points maded by Gregg
Petersmeyer in a recent speech of his. 1 pg.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Page 8 of 16
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
9
28
8/10/1972
Campaign
Memo
"Action Memo" from Haldeman requesting
that Petersmeyer's speech be sent out to
Cabinet officials. 1 pg.
9
28
8/10/1972
Personal
Memo
From Higby to George Collins RE:
transportation and accomodation for
Haldeman's family at the Republican
National Convention. 1 pg.
9
28
8/7/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Colson RE: a potential call
from Connally to Pearl Mesta on the subject
of joining Democrats for Nixon. 1 pg.
9
28
8/7/1972
Campaign
Memo
"Action Memorandum" from Haldeman
saying that Connally should call Pearl Mesta
with the purpose of enlisting her into
Democrats for Nixon. 1 pg.
9
28
8/2/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Chapin RE: Mexican
American involvement at the Republican
National Convention. 1 pg.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Page 9 of 16
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
9
28
8/30/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Dean RE: obtaining copies of
a document for Haldeman. 1 pg.
9
28
8/30/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Dean RE: obtaining copies of
a document for Haldeman. Handwritten note
added by unknown. 1 pg.
9
28
8/28/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: mailing out
notes to Democrats. 1 pg.
9
28
8/25/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: Strachan
and a McGovern raffle. 1 pg.
9
28
8/16/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: Chapin, his
"truth squad," and Shriver. 1 pg.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Page 10 of 16
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
9
28
8/16/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: scheduling
events across the nation for Agnew in accord
with a directive from Haldeman. 1 pg.
9
28
8/16/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: Haldeman's
idea of sending Agnew into Missouri. 1 pg.
9
28
8/14/1972
Campaign
Memo
Copy of a memo from RN to Haldeman RE:
sending a White House official to Missouri
to capitalize on disillusionment with
Eagleton. Handwritten notes on original
added by unknown. 1 pg.
9
28
8/16/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: analyzing
Dave Parker's campaign plan. 1 pg.
9
28
8/16/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to "Follow-Up" RE: formulating
a plan with Chapin based on an attached
memo. 1 pg.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Page 11 of 16
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
9
28
8/14/1972
Campaign
Memo
Copy of a memo from RN to Haldeman RE:
potential meetings with various religious and
minority leaders. Handwritten notes added
by unknown. 1 pg.
9
28
8/7/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to "Follow Up" RE: people
following Schreiber and Muskie. 1 pg.
9
28
8/2/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to "FollowUp" RE: possibly
receiving transportation from the Republican
National Committee for the White House
staff. 1 pg.
9
28
8/4/1972
Personal
Letter
From Higby to Dr. Edwin Gazsi and his
family RE: thanks for hospitality during a
recent White House visit to California. 1 pg.
9
28
8/30/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Haldeman RE: "Wave III." 1
pg.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Page 12 of 16
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
9
28
8/29/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Haldeman RE: potential
connections between McGovern and the
mob. 1 pg.
9
28
8/28/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Haldeman RE: mementos for
celebrities at the Republican National
Convention. 1 pg.
9
28
8/28/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Haldeman RE: a report from
Billy Graham on a meeting between
President Johnson and McGovern. 1 pg.
9
28
8/25/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Haldeman RE: Colson's
desire for a meeting with Haldeman. 1 pg.
9
28
8/25/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Haldeman RE: Colson's
desire for a meeting with Haldeman. 1 pg.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Page 13 of 16
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
9
28
8/16/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Haldeman RE: the results of a
Newsweek/Gallup poll. 2 pgs.
9
28
8/8/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Haldeman RE: attack and
counterattack operations for the fall
campaign. 4 pgs.
9
28
8/8/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Tom Hart RE: White House
staff arrangements at the Key Biscayne
Hotel. 3 pgs.
9
28
6/26/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Ronald Walker RE: a
tentative list of White House staffers to stay
at the Key Biscayne Hotel. A map of the
hotel is included. Handwritten notes added
by unknown. 2 pgs.
9
28
Campaign
Other Document
Notes, possibly in Higby's handwriting,
detailing the accomodations of various White
House officials at the Key Biscayne Hotel. 2
pgs.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Page 14 of 16
Box Number
Folder Number
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Subject
Document Type
Document Description
9
28
8/8/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Haldeman RE: Ed Pauley's
recent heart attack. 1 pg.
9
28
8/7/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Haldeman RE: RN and
Garment's "plan for intellectuals." 1 pg.
9
28
8/7/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Haldeman RE: an attached
document. 1 pg.
9
28
8/7/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Dick Howard RE: McGovern
and Schreiber. 1 pg.
9
28
8/2/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Haldeman RE: changes to an
issue of the "Reelector." 1 pg.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Page 15 of 16
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
9
28
8/2/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Haldeman RE: changes to an
issue of the "Reelector." 1 pg.
9
28
8/1/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Haldeman RE: an NBC
decision not to go on television live with
McGovern materials. Handwritten note
added by unknown. 1 pg.
9
28
8/1/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Higby to Haldeman RE: an attached
memo. 1 pg.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Page 16 of 16
August 10, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
MORT ALLIN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Bob has requested that your office put together an analysis
of the Connally announcement of the Democrats for Nixon
for the largest papers, paying particular attention to the
key states, but including all major papers. He would like to
know the level of play, the page the story appeared on, how
much space and the exact wording of the headline.
For example, in his estimation, the way the WASHINGTON
POST handled the story would be considered a second-level
story on the front page with whatever the space and headline was.
You'll note I've said all key states, but we should also include the
major papers that aren't in the key states, i.e., the ATLANTA
CONSTITUTION, BOSTON GLOBE, POST DISPATCH, GLOBE
DEMOCRAT, SEATTLE TIMES, NEW ORLEANS TIMES PICAYUNE,
atc. This will be a good way to get a reading on how the key papers
are going to be reacting to us.
LH:kb
August 10, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR :
OLLIE ATKINS
FROM I
L. HIGBY
Bob would like from you by neo. b. next Tuesday, one hundred
superb prints of the President with young voters in different
situations. He would like you personally to pull the one hundred
best, and if necessary, pull some of your crew off other projects
to get the shots to him.
It's his understanding that our youth people have been told that
the shots simply aren't available. He can't believe this with all
the pictures we've done over the 3-1/2 years, including Nebraska,
etc., and would like to see your selection of the pictures right
away.
LH:pm
cc: Ron zegler
August 7, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR :
FROM :
L. HIGBY
Now that the dust has settled, the opposition Vice Presidential
candidate picked, and the opposition candidate making it clear
what his line of attack is going to be, Bob asked that you put
together a brief memo that lists your thoughts as to what our
four best issues will be for the fall campaign, and what the
opposition candidate's four worst issues are - i.e., the things
we want to hit him on.
Then, put yourself in the role of the opposition candidate and
looking at it from his point of view, list what you feel are his
four best issues and what our four worse issues are from his
viewpoint or the issues he will be hitting us on.
Please forward your thoughts by 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 8th.
LH:pm
ADDRESSEES:
Bill Safire
our
Pat Buchanan
-
Chuck Colson
John Ehrlichman.
Doug Hallett
Ray Price
Harry Dent
Ken Cole
Dwight Chapin-
Len Sears Garment -- (1701 plain envelope and plain stationery) Take AS.
Ken Clawson-
Bob Finch
John Whitaker
our
John McLaughlin
Bryce Harlow
Bob Teeter (1701 plain envelope and plain stationery)
Dick moore
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
HIGH PRIORITY
August 7, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR :
FROM :
L. HIGBY
Now that the dust has settled, the opposition Vice Presidential
candidate picked, and the opposition candidate making it clear
what his line of attack is going to be, Bob asked that you put
together a brief memo that lists your thoughts as to what our
four best issues will be for the fall campaign, and what the
opposition candidate's four worst issues are - i.e., the things
we want to hit him on.
Then, put yourself in the role of the opposition candidate and
looking at it from his point of view, list what you feel are his
four best issues and what our four worse issues are from his
viewpoint or the issues he will be hitting us on.
Please forward your thoughts by 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 8th.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
HIGH PRIORITY
August 7, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR :
FROM :
L. HIGBY
Now that the dust has settled, the opposition Vice Presidential
candidate picked, and the opposition candidate making it clear
what his line of attack is going to be, Bob asked that you put
together a brief memo that lists your thoughts as to what our
four best issues will be for the fall campaign, and what the
opposition candidate's four worst issues are - i.e., the things
we want to hit him on.
Then, put yourself in the role of the opposition candidate and
looking at it from his point of view, list what you feel are his
four best issues and what our four worse issues are from his
viewpoint or the issues he will be hitting us on.
Please forward your thoughts by 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 8th.
August 30, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
KATHY
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Please call Gordon Strachan and tell him I need a revised
McGovern calendar.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 30, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
KATHY
FROM:
L. HIGBY
L
Please call Gordon Strachan and tell him I need a revised
McGovern calendar.
August 30, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
KATHY BACHMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Gordon is to send me a memorandum that includes
all the trend information that I can use to receive a
poll we're going to be receiving on Friday out in
Hawaii.
The problem that may exist here is that Gordon may
send it here rather than to Hawaii. If he does, please
make sure it is forwarded on out there if you would so
I have it by Thursday afternoon.
LH:kb
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 30, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
KATHY BACHMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
L
Gordon is to send me a memorandum that includes
all the trend information that I can use to receive a
poll we're going to be receiving on Friday out in
Hawaii.
The problem that may exist here is that Gordon may
send it here rather than to Hawaii. If he does, please
make sure it is forwarded on out there if you would so
I have it by Thursday afternoon.
August 30, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
KATHY BACHMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Make sure Gordon Strachan is sending all the poll book
information out here and has it out here on Friday.
Also make sure that the redo of the Gallup trial heats
for all the elections is sent out here as well.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 30, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
KATHY BACHMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Make sure Gordon Strachan is sending all the poll book
information out here and has it out here on Friday.
Also make sure that the redo of the Gallup trial heats
for all the elections is sent out here as well.
August 25, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
STEVE BULL
FROM:
L. HIGBY
To confirm our conversation, Bob would like to have
from you, as soon as possible, this morning a report
on the celebrities reception for Sunday, including the
guest list and indication of who has accepted, scenario,
etc.
LH:kb
August 25, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
STEVE BULL
FROM:
L. HIGBY
SUBJECT:
Celebrities Reception
The First Lady would like Miss Romell Foster, Miss
San Diego, to be invited to the celebrities reception on
Sunday, August 28. Her address is: 935 Pacific Beach Drive
San Diego, California
92109
CC: Alex Butterfield
/kb
Komell Fasta
Miss SanDregs
935 Recefed Beach Dr.
S. D.
92109
To party
San nite
(black)
August 25, 1972
Dear Chuck:
Just a note to thank you very much for all
your help and assistance in putting together
our accomodations during the convention.
The service and cordial manner of all the
employees was great and I would appreciate
it if you would pass on to them a thank you
from all of us.
Best wishes,
Sincerely,
Lawrence M. Higby
Administrative Assistant
to H.R. Haldeman
Mr. Charles Bremicker
Key Biscayne Hotel
Key Biscayne, Florida
LH:kb
osil
August 25, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
STEVE BULL
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Regarding the celebrities party, the President wants
to make sure, as we have already said, that he has a
picture taken with each one of the celebrities. He
wants, however, to make sure that it is done very
quickly, without Ollie asking him to turn this way and
that and ask for just "one more picture".
After the pictures are taken, he wants them to be
immediately developed and have them authgraphed,
"To
with appreciation. Richard Nixon" and
be sent out, of course, immediately.
This doesn't mean our usual two or three week delay,
it means immediately.
LH:kb
CC: AB
August 8, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
STEVE BULL
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Bob would like to have an update of the list of people we are
inviting to the celebrities reception -- that includes the people
you were supposed to check out who have performed at the
White House, etc. Will you please get this down this afternoon.
Also, are the invitations now scheduled to go out on Wednesday?
LH:kb
August 8, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
ALEXANDER P. BUTTERFIELD
FROM:
LARRY HIGBY
Rose Woods did not have an opportunity to attend the
briefing given to the White House staff by the 1701
group last week.
Will you please make sure that she and Marje Acker
are included in the briefing given for the Administration
women and Cabinet wives?
Thank you.
LH:kb:LH:car
August 7, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
STEVE BULL
FROM:
L. HIGBY
I think we've talked about most of this, but simply to clear
the record, it is my understanding that Bob talked to you
over the weekend regarding the celebrities reception. We
should make sure that all the invitations are moving out on
this now. This is something that should be going today.
Also, as Bob apparently discussed with you, we are missing
several obvious people who should be on the list. For example,
people who've entertained at the White House for us. He wants
to make sure we comb all our possible sources to make sure
the appropriate people are included.
In the schedule proposal, there is an indication of the press
plan. You should understand that there is to be no press plan
and no press at the cblebrities reception. It should be put
together on the basis of the President getting a chance to know
these people. No press will be in attendance.
cc: Alex Butterfield
LH:kb
August 2, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
ALEX BUTTERFIELD
FROM:
L. HIGBY
SUBJECT:
Political Briefings
As we discussed on the phone yesterday, Bob requested that
you take over working out the details for the specific briefings
for the Staff, Cabinet, Sub-Cabinet, Senate and House, and
Administration women and wives.
In each case these briefings should be done for the purpose
of firing up the troops and letting our people know who is
handling specific areas at the Committee so they will know
to whom they should direct their inquiries and calls. The
briefings should not get into long, detailed reports about
organization or techniques, but be crisp and hard hitting.
As Jeb and I currently have it set up, Clark MacGregor will
take the first half-hour and then Ken Rietz, Jeb Magruder,
and Fred Malek will follow up with ten minutes a piece in the
second half-hour. The people who should be invited to each
of the briefings should be our political people and, as we've
discussed, we should be careful that we don't invite the types
who are either neutral or probably against us within the Adminis-
tration. We should invite those who are our political appointees
or are here because we are here.
2
Below I have listed the briefings that are to take place and
the details regarding them. Please follow up with Jeb now
in working them out.
1. Staff briefing. We've pretty well discussed
this one and it is on track. I need the list from
you as soon as possible for Bob's approval as
to whom we should invite so that you can proceed
with invitations, etc. This briefing will take place
at 9:00 a.m. Friday in the EOB briefing room.
One detail you should work out with Jeb regards
participation by people from the National Committee.
The top key people at the National Committee should
be asked to attend the briefing (but not brief). You
should work out with Jeb who these people should be.
2. Cabinet briefing. This should be next Tuesday
or Thursday at Camp David and should be done as
a dinner session. Cabinet wives should not be
invited. The President may very well open this
briefing and a schedule proposal should come in on
this from Parker once the details have been worked
out.
3. House and Senate briefing. This one should be
set up for the Republican House and Senate Members.
MacGregor should work this one out directly with the
Hill Leadership and make whatever arrangements
should be appropriate. We simply should make sure
that this briefing takes place.
4. Sub-Cabinet briefing. A separate briefing should
be set up for Sub-Cabinet people. We need to work
with Jeb on this one.
5. Administration women and wives' briefing. This
one omce again should be in the EOB briefing room and
should be set up for the next week, the week beginning
August 7. The President may open this one and you
should check with him and work out an appropriate
schedule proposal.
3
That about sums up where we stand now. Jeb Magruder
is aware of this information and I'm sending him a copy
of this memo so he knows he should be dealing with you
on it. The briefings should not be long or elaborate as
I've said before, and should not involve people introducing
people. MacGregor should simply get up and start out the
briefing directly.
Sorry for the confusion on this. Hope this memo clears up
any questions in your mind. I've attached the memo that
Haldeman sent MacGregor. Other than that -- the ball is
in your court.
CC: Jeb Magruder
Dave Parker
Dwight Chapin
Attachment
LH:kb
July 26, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR :
CLARK MacGRECOR
FROM :
H.R. HALDEMAN
In the next two or three days, the President would like you
to have a White House staff session to build up the indispensable
enthusiasm of the close in troops.
This should consist of the domestic council key people, the speech
writers, the Colson group, Rose Woods, etc. Ho wents you and
perhaps one or two of your key people to fill them in on what the
campaign is doing, what Connally is doing, our youth program,
etc., SO that they know who's doing what and where it's happening.
He suggests that this be in the DOB briefing room, and that you
include the top key staff people from the National Committee at
the same time.
He then thinks you should do the same thing for Calinet and cab-
Cabinet, and then another session for members of E.c House and
Senate. In the latter meeting, you should explain the value of =
Presidential sweep in terms of aid to them as contracted to
Presidential direct activity on their behalf which will not be part
of the plan this year.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
HIGH PRIORITY
August 1, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
L
SUBJECT:
Upcoming Briefings
There seems to be some confusion existing on the briefings
that needs to be cleared up. As I understand it, there are to
be four briefings -- (1) White House staff, (2) Cabinet and
Sub-Cabinet a dinner session at Camp David and the
President will possibly open it --, (3) House and Senate
Members, (4) Administration wives and women.
Several questions --
1. Staff briefing. You mentioned in your MacGregor
memo that the top key people of the National Committee
should also be included in the staff briefing. Should
they be included for the purposes of briefing or
to be there as guests?
other invited words
Briefing
Invited guest H -
they listen, tack
not
2. Cabinet briefing. This is to be next Tuesday or
Thursday at Camp David. Should wives be invited to
?
attend?
Yes
No
Should it be for dinner?
Yes
No
2
Should the Sub-Cabinet be included at this time?
(Note: It would not be impossible to include the
entire Sub-Cabinet for dinner.)
Yes
No
S eparate but for subcalinet
3. House and Senate briefing. This one should
just be set up for Republican House and Senate
Members by MacGregor with whatever he works
out with the Hill Leadership.
Yes
No
4. Administration women and wives' briefing.
Once again the EOB briefing room. The President
may open this one -- Alex should check.
Yes
No
August 2, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
PAT BUCHANAN
JEB MAGRUDER
FROM:
L. HIGBY
SUBJECT:
Letter from MONDAY
The attached Letter from Monday piece contains some outstanding
material. The problem is that it is so badly presented that it
will never see the light of day. The case and comparison that
Lofton makes is excellent, We need to get it reworked and used.
Will your people at 1701 and, if appropriate some of the people
here please get together on this and get this information out?
Let me know what's happening here please by August 8.
LH:kb
letter from
There is some outstanding
material in here - but so
Monday.
bad Es presented that it
1972 will never see
the lighted day. Get it
re worked and used
Most of the noise at the Democrat convention in July echoed from floor
fights over various issues in the 1972 platform. In the midst of the caca-
phony several major points were missed.
First, the platform that emerged from the hearings and drafting ses-
sions in Washington and was railroaded through in the wee hours in Miami
Beach is the work not of the Democrat Party but of a small group of Mc-
Govern operatives who composed the majority of the Platform Committee and
who engineered its approval on the floor.
Second, the platform writers were so at a loss for ideas and programs
that they called on those already proposed and in many cases accomplished
by President Nixon.
Alice Rivlin wrote in the July 13, 1972, Washington Post:
"And strangely ringing through it all (the McGovern plat-
form) is the voice of Richard Nixon. It may seem odd to
find the Democrats me-tooing the Republicans on social
issues, but that is the fate of an 'out' party. The
section on cities, for example, castigates the Republicans
for inaction and then comes out strongly for -- guess
what? -- general revenue sharing. The denunciations of
the present welfare system could have been written by
the President himself. The escalation of property tax
relief (barely mentioned in 1968) to a primary objective
of new federal initiatives in educational finance clearly
follows in Republican footsteps."
Clearly, as McGovern has said, "promise and performance" will be an
issue in this campaign. But it will not be a McGovern issue. It will be
an issue on the side of the President. Not only has he kept his promises,
he has delivered what. the McGovern people are only now promising.
WOMEN
THE McGOVERN PLATFORM PLEDGES:
"appointment of women to positions of top responsibility in all branches
of the federal government
"
PRESIDENT NIXON HAS:
In three years named 113 women to full-time policy making positions
(compared to 26 appointments in President Johnson's 62 months, and 18 ap-
pointments in President Kennedy's 34 months);
-- Appointed 300 women to serve on federal commissions and advisory
boards; and
-- Nominated the first five women for the rank of general in the
armed forces and the first woman for the rank of rear admiral in the Navy.
*** OLDER AMERICANS ***
THE McGOVERN PLATFORM PLEDGES:
To fulfill our "obligation. to respect and assure the security of
our senior citizens, " and procedes to propose to measures to achieve this
goal -- nine of which have already been enacted or proposed by the Presi-
dent. For example:
"Increase social security to bring benefits into line with changes on
the national standard of living. (and) provide automatic adjustments to
assure that benefits keep pace with inflation."
PRESIDENT NIXON HAS:
-- Signed into law benefit increases totalling 52 percent -- including
a 20 percent increase passed at the end of this fiscal year -- and included
in his Welfare Reform proposals a five percent increase with provision to
ensure that these benefits would be inflation proof.
THE McGOVERN PLATFORM PLEDGES:
To "establish federal standards and inspection of nursing homes and
full federal support for qualified nursing homes."
PRESIDENT NIXON HAS:
-- Proposed (a year ago) an eight-point program including training of
2,000 more state nursing home inspectors; consolidation and expansion of
federal efforts to enforce standards; training of 27,000 nursing home em-
ployees, and a commitment to cut off federal funds for hopelessly sub-
standard homes. (All eight proposals are being implemented by HEW.)
THE McGOVERN PLATFORM PLEDGES:
To "take the needs of the elderly into account in all federal programs,
including construction of federal buildings, housing and transportation
planning.
PRESIDENT NIXON HAS:
-- Directed that about one-third of all new public housing ready for
occupancy in 1972 and 1973 be made specifically available for elderly fam-
ilies at the end of 1973 (82,000 units); and
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-- Directed the Department of Transportation to aid communities that
are providing special benefits to the elderly, under the Urban Mass Trans-
portation Fund, and DOT has requested that federal grants for all community
programs to the elderly also provide for transportation.
*** CONSUMERISM ***
THE McGOVERN PLATFORM PLEDGES:
"The executive branch must use its power to expand consumer infor-
mation and protection support the development of an independent con-
sumer agency providing a focal point on consumer matters
"
PRESIDENT NIXON HAS:
-- Proposed (in October 1969) the establishment of an Office of Con-
sumer Affairs, and -- due to Congressional inaction -- established that office
by executive order in 1971. OCA has acted as a coordinating unit for all
departmental consumer research as well as an extensive program of consumer
publications; and
-- Requested that a product safety program be established within HEW
and that the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Transportation
be given expanded consumer enforcement powers.
*** RURAL LIFE ***
THE McGOVERN PLATFORM PLEDGES:
To "assist small rural cooperatives to promote projects in housing,
health, social services, marketing, farming, employment and transportation
for rural areas with such things as technical assistance and credit.
PRESIDENT NIXON HAS:
-- Increased his rural development program, under the Department of
Agriculture, to a funding level in 1972 which is double the level of the
last Democrat budget;
-- Through the Farmers Home Administration, increased housing loans
from less than $500 million in fiscal 1968 to an unprecedented level of
$1.6 billion in 1972;
-- Increased the community sewer and water construction program by
$154 million in the last three years; and
-- Expanded the Rural Development Credit Fund to provide up to 80
percent of the cost of establishing or improving businesses in rural areas.
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*** DRUGS ***
THE McGOVERN PLATFORM PLEDGES:
"The next Democratic Administration should support a massive
law
enforcement effort, supported by increased funds and personnel, against
the suppliers and distributors of heroin and other dangerous drugs
full use of all existing resources to halt the illegal entry of narcotics
into the United States
expanded research into dangerous drugs and their
abuse
"
PRESIDENT NIXON HAS:
-- Increased the funding of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
from $14 million three years ago to $71.8 million in fiscal 1973, and in-
creased the agent force of the bureau more than 40 percent (compared to the
one percent annual increase in the l960s);
-- Negotiated treaties with four nations which have been directly or
indirectly involved in the shipment of illegal drugs into the United States
to dry up these shipments (The amount of illegal drugs removed from the
world market by federal agents during this Administration has increased
500 percent. ); and
-- Established the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention to
attack the causes of drug abuse and funded rehabilitation, training and
research efforts at more than $315 million over the last Democrat adminis-
tration.
*** THE MILITARY DRAFT ***
THE McGOVERN PLATFORM PLEDGES:
"We urge abolition of the draft. "
PRESIDENT NIXON HAS:
-- Abolished inequitable student, occupational and paternal defer-
ments;
-- Instituted a lottery system that
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THE McGOVERN PLATFORM PLEDGES:
"We fully support general revenue sharing and the principle that fed-
eral income tax should be used to raise more revenue for local use."
PRESIDENT NIXON HAS:
-- Proposed more than a year and a half ago a comprehensive revenue
sharing plan that would return a portion of the federal tax dollar to states
and localities to relieve their fiscal burdens and help them lower local
taxes such as the property tax. (Note: Congress, controlled by Democrats,
has not seen fit to pass the President's plan.)
AMERICAN INDIANS
THE McGOVERN PLATFORM PLEDGES:
"The federal government should commit all necessary funds to improve
the lives of Indians we strongly oppose the policy of termination. all
land rights due American Indians on the basis of treaties with the fed-
eral government will be protected by the federal government.
PRESIDENT NIXON HAS:
-- Increased funding for federal Indian programs from $613 million in
fiscal 1970 to an estimated $1,200 million in fiscal 1973;
-- Asked Congress to join in his repudiation of the termination policy;
-- Signed legislation returning 48,000 acres of sacred land to the
Taos Pueblo people, requested Congressional approval of a settlement of
Alaska land claims which would confirm native title to 40 million acres of
land, and by executive order returned 27,000 acres, including the sacred
ground of Mt. Adams, to the Yakima Indian Nation in Washington State; and
-- Reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs so that seven of 13 top
executive positions are held by Indians (compared to one Indian and 12 non-
Indians in the last Democrat administration.)
It is evident from these few examples that McGovern's people have not
done their homework on the accomplishments of this Republican Administra-
tion. But what is absolutely appalling is that the McGovern Democrats --
who would ask the American people to vote them into the White House on the
basis of this 1972 Platform -- apparently believe that the American people
are SO totally unaware of what is happening in the world that they will
swallow the Democrat proposals as new programs.
Not only is Sen. McGovern facing a further gap in his credibility,
those regular Democrats who are forced to stand for election on the McGovern
platform may have some explaining to do to their constituencies.
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NEWSPAPER
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
MR. PATRICK BUCHANAN
FROM:
LARRY HIGBY
Bob has read your 5,000 piece on McGovern and feels that you
should go ahead with polishing it up and putting it in final form.
He feels that a lot of work needs to be done in putting it together
properly. Also, he feels that some of the excess verbiage
now contained (for example, the "Ratty Red Regime") should
be excluded.
In addition, he discussed the memorandum with John Ehrlichman
and Ehrlichman made the following additional suggestions:
1.
We should add a section on McGovern's staff - the experts
I.E. Pavolosky, Frank Mankiewicz, et cetera.
2.
We should also go into more detail regarding McGovern's
ping-pong approach to problems, specifically welfare
problems and the tax situation -- bouncing the ball all
over again i.e. he was originally for benefits for the
working poor but is now opposed; he was originally pledged
in a Wall Street Journal ad to retain capital gains rates,
now abrogates it to the cosmetic treatment for oil
depletion allowances, et cetera.
THE MAKING OF AN EXTREMIST: 1972
Where did George Stanley McGovern jump the tracks? How
did a Methodist preacher's son from Middle America wind up as the
national candidate and champion of the exotics, the extremists, and the
radicals? How was the great Democratic Party of Wilson, Roosevelt,
Truman and Kennedy hijacked by what Hubert Humphrey denounced as
an "ideological elite. " How did the oldest political party in the West
become in the words of life-long Democrat and labor leader, Al Barkan,
a "haven for kooks and nuts. 11
These are questions this magazine hopes to answer. In so doing,
we shall explore bizarre life-style and policy statements and positions
of George McGovern that have driven workingmen and women in droves
away from the party of their fathers and grandfathers.
THE SEEDS OF RADICALISM
Born July 19, 1922, the son of a Methodist preacher, McGovern
was given a solid religious up-bringing. He had a good high school record
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as a debater, in a state famous for debaters. During his service in
World War II, he compiled a good record as an Air Force officer in the
final days of the war. Nothing in the McGovern family history or
background prepared one for the political Jekyl-to-Hyde transformation
that took place -- about the time McGovern arrived on the post-war
campus of Northwestern University.
It was at Northwestern, in the history department, where graduate
student George McGovern fell into a nest of what Westbrook Pegler used
to call "Parlor Pinks. 11 As McGovern biographer, Robert Anson describes
the situation, no fewer than 23 of the 26 graduate students in the history depart-
ment supported the ultra-left candidacy of Henry Wallace against both
President Truman and Governor Dewey. One of the students who opposed
the militant Wallaceism rampant in the history department said:
"Some students went along because it was the smart
thing to do. If you didn't have a Wallace button on
in some classes, your grades could suffer. "
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That left-wing professors punish students who refuse to parrot
their ideological views is nothing new. What is of interest is that
McGovern was not a follower, but a ring-leader of the anti-Truman,
Wallaceite movement at Northwestern. Indeed, he traveled to Philadelphia
as an Illinois delegate to the Progressive Party Convention. There
McGovern suddenly discovered what others had repeatedly warned him
about: Hard-core Communists had seized control of the Progressive
Party platform, direction and much of its machinery. [Lee Pressman,
later an admitted Communist, was the author of the platform. ]
"Bewildered" at the disciplined Communist control of his party, Anson
writes, McGovern and the other Wallceites returned "sheepishly" to the
security of the Northwestern campus.
McGovern's career as a naive fellow traveler, however, ended
abruptly when he discovered that those who had warned him of Communist
activity in the Progressive Party were right -- and he had been duped into
thinking the charges were just a "smear." Chastened, embarrassed
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and subdued - - McGovern is hesitant to talk about the matter even today --
Professor McGovern went back to South Dakota, and rejoined the
moribund Democratic Party; as a political activist.
(Recently pressed on his association with the radical Henry
Wallace, McGovern indicated he heldto his old views:
"I felt then as I do now.
that U.S. foreign policy was
needlessly exacerabating tensions with the Soviet Union
and that we were wrong
I wasn't happy with the
direction the Democratic Party was taking in those
times. I liked what Wallace had to say about foreign
policy. I still think he was essentially right. ")
The national liberal Newsweek Magazine traces the seeds of
McGovern's present radicalism to the same source:
"An open liberal-leftist since his days as a South Dakota
history professor, George McGovern is the closest thing
to an ideological radical in the United States Senate. "
And a columnist from the Midwest, Marianne Means, wrote
prior to the Democratic Convention of 1972, "Henry Wallace and George
McGovern came out of the same bag of soft-headed Farm Belt Radicalism. 11
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On his return to South Dakota, McGovern broke off publicly
with the Progressive Party, dropped out of political sight for a spell,
then surfaced as a "liberal Democrat," and state chairman of an
emaciated party. Using his post to organize for himself -- as he would
later use the Democratic reform commission -- McGovern ran for
Congress in 1956, and won. On his arrival in Washington, however, he
gave a quick signal as to the direction in which he was headed.
INDIFFERENCE TO ISRAEL
Among McGovern's first and proudest votes was in the company
of a handful of isolationist Congressmen to deny President Eisenhower
authority to intervene, if necessary, in the event of a threat to peace
in the Middle East.
McGovern had thus voted against the famous "Eisenhower Doctrine, 11
against authorizing Ike to act if the security of the region, or the security
of Israel, were jeopardized by Soviet imperial ambitions.
While McGovern's record of indifference to Soviet penetration
of the Middle East, and to the security of Israel, was first noted in this
1957 vote, it has been visable many times since. In 1970; McGovern
joined those Arabists who demanded that Israel unilaterally surrender
great portions of the Sinai Peninsula which had been used as a base of
attack against Israel in the Six Day War. McGovern further demanded that
any American jets sold to Israel be restricted solely to use over Israeli
territory. This would have denied Israelis the right to retaliate for attacks
on their own forces and installations. Coupled with votes against military
assistance for Jerusalem, these acts have cost McGovern much of the
Jewish support the candidate of his party has traditionally enjoyed.
DECIMATING THE U.S. SIXTH FLEET
But opposition to McGovern's candidacy among many American
Jews became grave concern over McGovern's candidacy, when it was
learned that McGovern's massive $32 billion defense cuts called for the
gutting of the United States Sixth Fleet. The Sixth Fleet, which sails the
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Mediterranean, anchors the south flank of NATO and remains the one force that
today stands between Israeli independence and Soviet ambitions in the
Middle East. If the Sixth Fleet were gutted along McGovernite lines, with
the Soviet fleet expanding in the Med, the future and fate of Israel would
not be determined in Jerusalem. The future and fate of Israel would be
decided thousands of miles away in the Kremlin in Moscow.
"I HATED HIM"
In 1960, after two terms in the House, the ambitious McGovern
decided to shoot for the Senate, and take on Mr. South Dakota himself,
Karl Mundt. The anti- Communist Mundt wiped up the floor with the
"Prairie Populist;" but not before McGovern betrayed a streak of
meanness and pettiness and a penchant for dirty politics that had the
State's press demanding he apologize to Mundt for the character of his
campaign. McGovern himself admits his personal "hatred" of Mundt
was responsible for the low-road character of his campaign. In his
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biography, he stated:
"I dont know how he (Mundt) felt about me, but I know
I hated his guts
I hated him so much I lost my sense
of balance. I was too negative. I made some careless
charges
I got kind of rattled. I got on the defensive
I started explaining and answering things I should have
ignored. It was hard to get a hook in Mundt. "
That statement, "I hated his guts
I hated him so much I lost
my sense of balance, 11 explains much about McGovern. For despite
his pious claims to be the most "decent man in the Senate, 11 McGovern
is a hater. His characterization of Karl Mundt is one example. His
slander of Senator Barry Goldwater in 1964, "I regard Mr. Goldwater
as the most unstable radical and extremist ever to run for the Presidency
in either party, 11 is another.
In recent months far behind in the polls, McGovern has taken to
comparing the President of the United States to Adolph Hitler and the
American effort in Vietnam to Hitler's extermination of European Jews.
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the Nixon bombing policy on Indochina is the most
barbaric action that any country has committed sinc e
Hitler's effort to exterminate Jews In Germany in the 1930s. 11
--McGovern, June 29, 1972
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In recent weeks, the McGovern rhetoric has become increasingly
shrill and extreme. When the credentials committee voted against
McGovern in favor of Humphrey on the California challenge, McGovern
screamed that this vote was "an incredible, cynical, rotten, political
steal.
a corrupt, spiteful deal. 11
That emotional outburst raised immediate questions about the
man's stability under fire. If this wild outburst is how he reacts to a
"bad call" by the credentials committee, how would McGovern respond
to a double-cross by Mr. Brezhnev?
But not merely his emotional and extreme rhetoric, but the
bizzarre McGovern life-style, and radical chic companions of McGovern
have alienated the average workingman away from the party of his past.
THE $100, 000-A-YEAR "PRAIRIE POPULIST"
The McGovern image-makers and publicists have sought, since
his campaign began to portray their man as a "Prairie Populist, 11 a
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"David of the Plains" come East to slay the Goliath of the Establishment.
That myth is one of the more hilarious in American politics.
For George McGovern is the essence of the elitist, in life-style
companions and political interests. He is the only Prairie Populist in
history who makes $100, 000 a year and has a Japanese Shinto shrine in
his living room. His running-mate is a refugee of Skull & Bones at Yale
College.
What changed McGovern of South Dakota into the McGovern, the
hero of the purple sunglasses set and candidate of the Radical Chic?
The answer to this dates back to the 1968 convention, where the
elitiest who had mourned Bobby Kennedy's death, and despite Gene
McCarthy, threw their support to McGovern at the 1968 Convention --
and told him he could be their "man" in 1972. In 1969, McGovern moved
out of the modest frame house that had been good enough for him for a
decade, and moved into an exotic Japanese mansion that had been listed
on the market for a whopping $170, 000.
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The owner, radical jurist David Bazelon, turned the property and all
its exotic belongings over to McGovern, however, for a comparative
song -- $110,000. Though McGovern carries the property on his
books at $110, 000 everyone who has visited the bizarre dwelling, says
the value is drastically understated. Here is how Washington Post
Style reporter described the McGovern mansion:
"For sheer drama there is a giant teak archway built
in the style of the torii (gateway to a shrine)that leads
to a family room dominated by the stone rubbing of a
Kannon (goddess of mercy)
"The low roof is covered with white pebbles glistening
in the winter sunshine. The stark white stucco of the
walls contrasts with the dark wood beams of the authentic
engawa (veranda). Together they bring to mind the
mansion of a 19th century feudal lord in Japan. 11
MR. RADICAL CHIC
Just what the hell is a South Dakota Senator and preacher's
son doing living like a "Japanese feudal lord, 11 sporting mod clothes
and mod hair, lollygagging about his exotic mansion in sandals, $15 Pucci
ties, and Saville Row suits? That is the question the folks back home in
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Mitchell South Dakota, are asking -- it is a question which McGovern has
not answered satisfactorily to the working class people who used to make
up the bulk of his party.
Why does a Democratic candidate abandon the old bread-and-butter
issues, to become the champion of abortion-on-demand, unconditional
amnesty for draft dodgers, and permissiveness toward narcotics. This
is a question the American people are asking of George McGovern today - -
and his lack of an adequate answer is one reason his candidacy has split
his party, and the country as well.
WHO'S BANKROLLING MCGOVERN
Where does McGovern get all that money -- to live in the
life-style to which he has become accustomed. The answer is not just
his handsom $42, 500 annual Senate salary. A man of McGovern spending
habits would starve on $42,500 a year. No, McGovern more than
doubles that sum, by picking up a thousand here, a thousand there, from
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"speaking engagements" before groups that like to hear the kind of
things George McGovern is willing to say. In 1969, McGovern pocketed
$62,000 in "fees" of this kind, which moved his annual income over the
$100, 000-a-year mark. In recent years, he has amassed a tremendous
sum (well over a third of a $1,000,000 in assets) which enabled him to
add a swimming pool at his Eastern Shore summer estate -- as well as
maintain his Japanese mansion.
There is nothing illegal about U.S. Senators using their office
to "feather the nest, 11 -- as long as they do not specifically violate
the law. But McGovern's enormous income, $100, 000 a year in good
years, down to $80,000 a year in lean years -- gives the lie to his
claim to be a Middle American, and to represent Middle America. And
who are the boon companions and political cronies of George McGovern.
They read like a Who's Who of left-wing American kookery.
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ANTI-POLISH JOKES
There is Henry Kimelman, Virgin Island multi-millionaire,
who kept the "Beautiful people" tittering in his Penthouse Suite in
Miami Beach rilling off his inventory of anti-Polish jokes. Even radical
columnist Nicholas Von Hoffman was somewhat appalled at the way
Kimelman, who collects most of the McGovern loot for the campaign
made fun of millions of American Poles in Miami Beach
"Vignette: Hotel suite of Henry Kimelman, McG's finance
chairman. Much drinks and Kimelman bouncing around
telling an anti-Polish joke. Very funny now, but will
November returns from Poles in Det., Buff., Chi. and
Pitts. be as amusing? Apparently OK to slur certain
groups but not others. 11
- -Nicholas von Hoffman
W. Post, July 14, 1972
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THE RALLYING OF THE RADICAL CHIC
McGovern's chief economic adviser is J. K. Galbraith, the
New Politics old liberal who shuttles annually back and forth between
Harvard Yard and his chalet in the Swiss Alps -- whence he writes in-
depth pieces on why the average American citizen should be paying
higher taxes for the "public sector. 11
McGovern's number one contributor is kooky birth control fanatic,
Steward Mott, Jr., heir to a hugh slice of the General Motors fortune,
a weirdo even by McGovern's lofty standards, who once stunned guests
at one of his wilder parties by presenting each on arrival with a'
contraceptive.
McGovern's leading political lady is Shirley MacLaine, campaigner
for George and delegate for George at Miami. The radical actress was
quoted this spring as saying, "Right now the social soul of America is so
sick that even the overthrow of a political regime may be insufficient. 11
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The MacLaine woman provides a bridge for the McGovern campaign right
into the hate-America lobby here in the United States. Other McGovern
stalwarts include Warren Beatty and the Bugly Uthers, Jerry Rubin and
Abby Hoffman, who endorsed early.
These are the types who have migrated and flocked to the McGovern
banners; and who have made the party of the workingman, the plaything
O f the radical chic.
What liberal Democrat Hubert Humphrey warned against -- the
takeover of the Democratic party by an ideological elite is precisely what
has occurred at Miami Beach.
MINORITY COUP AT MIAMI BEACH
Still the question remains. How could a little clique of ideologues and
radical-liberals seize power in one of the largest and greatest parties
in the Western world?
The answer lies in tactics -- tactics reminiscent of every extremist
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movement in the twentieth century. The answer lies in the fact that
the McGovern True Believers wrote up the rules for nomination;
they understood the rules better than their adversaries; they applied
the rules -- and with a hard-core of zealots, a clear minority of the
Democratic Party, they captured its machinery and organization, lock
stock and barrel.
Here was a candidate defeated in three showdowns by George Wallace
in Florida, Michigan and Maryland -- defeated by Muskie in New Hampshire
and Illinois, by Humphrey in Pennsylvania and Ohio -- winning the
nomination by virture of & single major victory: California. And in that
state McGovern managed to lose 15 points in the polls in the last week.
Up until California the leading Democratic vote-getter was
Wallace, not McGovern. Post California the leading Democratic vote-getter
in the primaries was Humphrey -- not McGovern. What happened at
Miami Beach was not the nomination of McGovern by the Democratic Party
but the hijacking of the Democratic Party by McGovernite zealots.
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Consider the character of the delegates at Miami Beach. Forty
percent of them had done postgraduate work after earning their college
degrees -- compared to four percent of the American people. Their
incomes were by and large twice that of the average American. There
were high quotas for radical women, blacks, Chicanos and Indians - -
but the Irish, the Italians, the Poles and the Catholics need not apply.
This was not a convention for a party of working people; it was
a convention arranged by, atten ed by, and for the benefit of an over-
educated ideological elite -- the Beautiful People and their militant
wards.
Miami Beach was not a victory for the common man; it was triumph
of the Porsche and Pucci Populists, the Park Avenue revolutionaries,
the radical rich, the Marxists from the Philadelphia Main Line.
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SHARE-YOUR-PAYCHECK PROGRAM
But what most frosts the average working man is not just the
life-style of McGovern and the Park Avenue Populists; it is their
proposals. Under the McGovern "income redistribution" and tax
program -- few if any American workingmen and women, in future
generations would ever be able to enjoy the wealth and luxury that are
today the prerogatives of Mr. McGovern and R. Sargent Shriver.
McGovern would so tax the above-$12,000 families in this
country, and confiscate much of their legacy to their children -- that there
would be no more $100, 000 a year legislators like Mr. McGovern -- there
would be no more Silverspoons Boy like Mr. Shriver from Skull & Bones
at Yale. The American dream -- having been completed in spades for
Shriver and McGovern -- would be lost forever for hundreds of thousands
of young, ambitious, intelligent, and hard-working sons and daughters of
the working class and the middle class.
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McGovern "income redistribution" program amounts to a declaration
of economic war against the American Middle Class, on behalf of the
welfare class. Politically, George McGovern has given a promissory
note for $1000 to every welfare client, hippie and loafer in the Nation --
payable on demand at the United States Treasury if McGovern is elected.
And who will provide the Treasury with the billions required to make good
on the McGovern promissory note -- the average taxpayer in this country
every family in America that makes $12,000.
The McGovern proposal -- $1000 per person to everyone in the
country -- would end up leaving 85 million more Americans on the
welfare rolls, according to the Democratically-controlled Senate Finance
Committee of Russell Long.
SELLING OUT CATHOLIC DEMOCRATS
Especially hard hit by the Methodist preacher's son prairie radicalism
would be urban Catholics and ethnics. McGovern's plan -- to eliminate
the income tax exemption for each member of the family -- would strike
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especially hard at large Catholic and ethnic families. With some of
these families having as many as seven, eight and nine children -- theloss
of the personal tax exemption would drive them back into the same poor
houses from which their grandfathers emerged half a century ago.
Further, McGovern's position supporting abortion-on-demand,
Zero Population Growth for America, permissiveness toward pot, and
forced bussing of children out of their neighborhoods -- all seem directed
against the most basic family values and beliefs of American Catholics.
It is not coincidence that those good Democrats most roundly insulted
and cavalierly dismissed by the McGovernites at Miami Beach - - O'Brien,
Daley and George Meany -- were, all of them Irish Catholics.
Nor were American Catholics appreciative of the on-going guerrilla
warfare McGovern directed against the FBI, and its director J. Edgar
Hoover - right up until the death of the man President Nixon eulogized
as one of the "giants of the 20th century. 11 Calling Hoover a "barrier to
the morale of the FBI," an "irresponsible, 11 and an obstacle to proper
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law enforcement McGovern did not cease harassing and hounding the
old FBI Chief, even after he had died in his sleep. This was McGovern's
snide eulogy to one of the giants of the twentieth century:
"I could feel nothing but relief that he was no longer a
public servant. I thought be had become a menace to justice. 11
McGovern's recommendation for a new FBI chief: Ramsey Clark,
the ex-Attorney General with the social worker's mentality who recently
journeyed to Hanoi to broadcast anti-American propaganda. Hoover's
one-word summary of Ramsey ("Jellyfish") sums it up well the man
whom McGovern would put in the FBI chair.
MR BUSING REACHES FOR THE BLACK VOTE
Unlike the Kennedys and Hubert Humphrey, McGovern has no
political roots in the American black community. He has never been
mistakenly called, Mr. Civil Rights, ; nor is that ever likely to happen.
To compensate for his political weakness, however, McGovern has
recently taken the extreme position on issues of int erest or concern to
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law enforcement McGovern did not cease harassing and hounding the
old FBI Chief, even after he had died in his sleep. This was McGovern's
snide eulogy to one of the giants of the twentieth century:
"I could feel nothing but relief that he was no longer a
public servant. I thought be had become a menace to justice. 11
McGovern's recommendation for a new FBI chief: Ramsey Clark,
the ex-Attorney General with the social worker's mentality who recently
journeyed to Hanoi to broadcast anti-American propaganda. Hoover's
one-word summary of Ramsey ("Jellyfish") sums it up well the man
whom McGovern would put in the FBI chair.
MR BUSING REACHES FOR THE BLACK VOTE
Unlike the Kennedys and Hubert Humphrey, McGovern has no
political roots in the American black community. He has never been
mistakenly called, Mr. Civil Rights, ; nor is that ever likely to happen.
To compensate for his political weakness, however, McGovern has
recently taken the extreme position on issues of irt erest or concern to
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many black Americans. He has further ma de promises on which no
American President could or should deliver.
For one, McGovern has assumed the title of champion of forced
bussing -- ramming a pro-bussing plank down the throat of the Democratic
Convention. Secondly, he voted in the Senate in 1970 for the famous
Ribicoff proposal which failed -- a proposal to force racial balance in
every public school in every metropolitan area of the United States with
a population over 50, 000.
(When it comes to his own family, however, McGovern is less
enthusiastic about integration -- he spent $1400 to send his daughter to a
private?
lily-white suburban Washington public school, in stead of allowing her to
attend the integrated high school in her own neighborhood.)
This same streak of chi-chi hypocrisy pertains to McGovern's
position on housing as well. Though a professed believer in forced
integration of the suburbs, McGovern has never been heard to recommend
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public housing or scatter site housing be placed down anywhere since
his Japanese feudal mansion in the lily-white section of Northwest
Washington where he lives.
CAVE-IN TO THE BLACK CAUCUS
But McGovern's most outrageous bid for black support came
with his wholesale embrace of the so-called Black Caucus Program.
Some of the 60 recommendations made were eminently reasonable and
the President of the United States concurred. But others, no American
President could or should accept; yet, accept them, embraced them,
George McGovern did, repeatedly. His campaign literature and
advertising and black aides all boast of his "full support" "in toto" for
the Black Caucus program. This was that program would require of
America, if George McGovern is elected:
1)
A $6500 guaranteed income for every welfare family.
2) Quotas for blacks in all levels of federal employment
3) Forced integration of suburban America.
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4)
Doubling U.S. foreign aid to Africa.
5) A 400% increase in total U.S. foreign aid (up to $11 billion
or 1% of GNP)
6) Incredibly, assistance to black African efforts to "liberate
the remaining areas under colonial rule in Africa. 11
This last is not the first ti McGovern has hinted of U.S. military
assistance to black guerrillas in Mozambique and Angola and Rhodesia.
In an interview in the National Democrat, May 28, 1972, McGovern
endorsed the black guerrillas and indicated that President McGovern might
send arms and ammunition to help:
"I can forsee circumstances in which we might provide non-
military assistance, and perhaps even military supplies
directly to the oppressed people. 11
This is the program on which George McGovern is running for
Presidency of the United States and leader of the Western world. It
has to be seen to be believed.
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THE WELFARE GOLCONDA
"This man's ideas aren't liberal; this man's ideas are crazy. 11
--Meany on McGovern
Of all the McGovern ideas, however, that have driven what
Governor Wallace calls the "average citizen in this country. 11 away
from McGovernism -- none are more crucial than the McGovern welfare
:
plans. There are two:
The $6500 flat guaranteed annual income for a family of four - -
no work requirement needed, which would cost $72 billion and put 104 million
on welfare; and the now famous $1000 -per-person program which would
put an estimated 110, 000 Americans onto the welfare rolls, at an initial
outlay of $210, 000, 000, 000 and a net cost estimated currently at $52 billion.
McGovern introduced the first in the Senate July 29, 1971; and the
second this past January. Neither program has any work requirement
whatsoever; either force a massive increase in taxes. But worse than
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the cost of the program is its character. America would cease to be
America and would become a super-socialist society along the line of
Sweden, where Government seized and disposed of half the earnings
of the average citizen. The free enterprise system under the McGovern
spending and tax proposals simply could not survive as we know it.
His economic brainstorms have already sent shock waves through
the stock market, where 30, 000, 000 Americans have savings invested.
His space and defense slashes would not only make America a second-class
power in a dangerous world; they would bring instant depression to the
nation's defense and aerospace industries.
The State of Washington in the 1970s would become like West
Virginia in the fifties. The enormous tax bite would remake American
society with intrusive government now everywhere visible, and less and
less and less of the activity of the society determined by individuals.
and any hope of a move away from welfare back toward the work ethic would
be gone forever. The United States would be a nation evenly and angrily
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divided -- between workingmen and women supporting welfare men and
women.
McGovern's political motives with his wild welfare schemes are
patently clear. He hopes to buy the votes of the bottom half of American
society with the tax dollars of the top half of American society.
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"A SQUALID NUISANCE"
"Unless he changes his policy and methods he will be
as great a curse to this country in peace as he was a
squalid nuisance in time of war. 11
- -Winston Churchill
But it is his positions on the war in Vietnam that have most alienated
McGovern from the average American, just as they have made him
the darling of Radio Hanoi. Up until Richard Nixon became President
in 1969, McGovern's record was that of a dove, but a waffling dove.
He had voted for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, in 1964 and against its
repeal in 1966 (though McGovern today attempts to convince the campus
left he was against the war since 1963.) He voted repeatedly throughout
the sixties for appropriations for the conflict. In 1967 he affirmed dramatically
"We can't pull out; we can't go back on our commitment.
Though he threw in with the doves at Chicago in 1968, McGovern
was even then proposing a program of American withdrawal, which
would have left a quarter of a million troops in Vietnam. But when
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President Nixon took office, McGovern took off. For four years, he
has badgered, harassed, baited and carped at the President every step
of the way the President has taken to lead America out of a war which
he inheirited from the men whom McGovern cheered and endorsed. By
the end of the sixties, Mr. McGovern who had voted to send American
boys to fight against the troops of Hanoi has somersaulted 180 degrees
to the point where he was now calling our ally a "despicable creature, 11
and comparing the Communist tyrant Ho Chi Minh to George Washington.
By the summer of '72 McGovern was calling on the United States
Government to abandon American prisoners "on faith" to Hanoi - -
promising that if Hanoi's good will were not enough to bring about their
release -- why, he, George McGovern, would go "begging" to Hanoi to
win their return. "Begging is better than bombing" the South Dakota
radical averred, in his unforgettable phrase.
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Today, without a scintilla of evidence to support his claim, he
is promising that the war will end and American prisoners be returned
within 90 days after he takes office as President, and cuts off the
South Vietnamese. Given McGovern's optimistic predictions in the past --
about Hanoi negotiating in good faith if only we halted the bombing --
McGovern's promise should be weighed against a quarter century of
North Vietnamese determination to conquer South Vietnam, and dismissed.
Yet, hardly a day goes by that McGovern is not lauded by the
controlled Communist press in Hanoi. And why not?
Would it not be icing on the cake for that ratty little Red regime
to have the President of the United States sell out its friends and come
"begging" to Hanoi for return of its prisoners?
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MCGOVERN'S DEFENSE POLICY
"In one sentence the McGovern defense proposals would
eviscerate the security of the United States, expose the
free world to mortal danger and -- incident to the resulting
dismantlement of our defense establishment -- probably
trigger a national depression. 11
- - Col. R. D. Heinl, Jr.
Syndicated Columnist
Detroit News, June 8, 1972
No recommendation of McGovern's has produced more
apprehension in the United States and more alarm in the Western world
than the "McGovern Defense Budget. " The Prairie Populist proposes a
slash of $32 billion in the American security budget.
Among the slashes McGovern would make would be to cut the
American surface fleet in half; remove from the high seas 10 out of 16
American aircraft carriers; eliminate the third American Marine
divisions; reduce the U.S. armed forces strength to below-Pearl-Harbor
levels; cut the Air Force almost in half in terms of personnel; but the
number of U.S. fighter planes in half; eliminate the new American
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bomber altogether and cut the existing bomber force two-thirds; pull
60% of the American troops out of Europe without any demand for
reciprocity on the part of the Soviets; cut U.S. research and development
from $8 billion to $5. 5 billion, cut back on the size of the American
missil deterrent and cease upgrading protecting and modernization of
the United States missile force.
Senator Henry Jackson, Democrat of Washington, has accused
McGovern of "running on a program of national weakness, " and
Hubert Humphrey, no screaming hawk he, stated:
"I submit the McGovern defense proposal cuts into the
very muscle of our defense
it's cutting in the very
security of this country, without any regard as to what
kind of negotiations you can make with the Soviet Union. 11
August 28, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
CHUCK COLSON
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Bob strongly suggests that we include the Utica speech in
MONDAY. Will you please pass this on to Lofton and make
sure it is included or at least an abbreviated version of it
is included in the speech.
LH:kb
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 28, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
CHUCK COLSON
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Bob strongly suggests that we include the Utica speech in
MONDAY. Will you please pass this on to Lofton and make
sure it is included or at least an abbreviated version of it
is included in the
speech.
Magagine
passed 1:10pm message
8-28-72
August 22, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
DWIGHT CHAPIN
FROM:
LARRY HIGBY
One area Bob mentioned that we have to follow-up in
is trying to develop a one-minute or two-minute
commercial to be run six weeks from now, using the
Mamie Eisenhower clip.
This would be done particularly around the part where
it takes more than four years to get the job done, as
Ike use to say, etc. It probably won't work out but it's
worth trying to see if we can develop a good spot.
LH:car
DETERMINED TO BE AN
ADMINISTRATIVE MARKING
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By B Joyner NARS, Date 3-29-82
CONFIDENTIAL/EYES ONLY
August 18, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR :
CHUCK COLSON
FROM :
L. HIGBY
Bob asked me to pass on to you the following. In view of the attempt
of the McGovern people to point themselves as an underdog, which,
if course, will be easy for them to do because of defections of Demo-
crats as well as the polls, one point should be to counterattack and
build uptthe big contributors that he has. Some study should be made
of this and see if an effective issue can be developed.
In other words, rather than playing the idea that he is having trouble
getting money, it should be the other way around. We should indicate
concern over the fact that he has a great deal of financial support from
what we think are pretty questionable sources. This, of course, will
only be worthwhile in the event that we get some facts to back up the
charge.
attch. not sent
LH:pm
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 14, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR BOB HALDEMAN
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Rn
Menesto
In view of the attempt of the McGovern people to paint them-
selves in to an underdog role which, of course, will be rather
easy for them to do because of the defections of Democrats as
well as the polls, I think one point of counterattack is to build
up the big contributors that he has. Some study of this should
be made and if this issue can be developed it could be very
effective.
In other words, rather than playing the idea that he is having
trouble getting money I think it should be the other way around.
We should indicate concern over the fact that he has a gre at
deal of financial support from what we think are pretty
questionable sources. This, of course, will only be worthwhile
in the event that we can get some facts to back up the charge.
August 16, 1972
LON
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL/EYES ONLY
MEMORANDUM FOR:
CHARLES COLSON
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Bob asked me to pass on to you the fact that the GLOBE
DEMOCRAT editorial on Eagleton entitled "McGovern is
a Phony" is a good one for distribution. The Democrats
for Nixon might well be the best ones to distribute this
sort of editorial, but that is up to you.
Attachment
LH:kb
Many individuals interested in the political
The McGovern credibility, which he embroi-
scene have been suspicious, or convinced. as
dered with his gaudy "new politics" to lure
far back as Senator George S. McGovern's an-
young dedicates to his banner of pseudo ideal-
nouncement that he was seeking the Democrat-
ism, has been smashed to smithereens.
ic presidential nomination that the senator is
His conduct in the Eagleton issue not only
less than candid and verges on hypocrisy.
laid bare a lack of public honesty and politi-
These early conclusions were based on Mc-
cal guts, it showed him as a blatant oppor-
Govern's. vacillation respecting his campaign
tunist, who would dump his own choice for
pledges.
running mate in the interests of bald expe-
Since the days Immediately preceding the
diency.
Democratic Convention in Miami Beach, fol-
It seems clear one reason, perhaps the chief
lowed by the convention proceedings and cul-
reason, McGovern spitted Eagleton was be-
minating now in Senator McGovern's callous,
cause he had been advised, or believed, he
devious and autocratic firing of Sen. Thomas
could not get money for his campaign chest
F. Eagleton as the vice presidential candi-
from what party angels are left - unless he
date, even a casual political observer must
made Senator Eagieton quit.
conclude that McGovern is a grievous threat
to the nation and the Democratic Party.
moral values which motivate the
There is considerable doubt that McGovern
presidential nominee have been sharply pointed
has the authority to circumvent the will of the
up by St. Louis' Collector of Revenue John K.
convention and capriciously, arbitrarily dismiss
Travers, who commented that if McGovern
Senator Eagleton.
could tolerate the "unpleasant events" surround-
ing Senator Edward Kennedy - his first choice
Except for mindless Democratic Patty lack
as a running mate - then his actions toward
eys and a few representatives of the left-wing
Eagleton "are totally unjustified."
urban.press in America there has been no evi-
Most citizens recognize the despicably irra-
dence of a widespread demand for Senator
tional resolution concerning the Missourian's
Eagleton's removal, either by the public or re-
health.
sponsible Democratic party leadership.
Most Americans believe that individuals who
On the contrary, polls among citizens
prove by subsequent conduct that they have re-
throughout the country produced a heavy ma-
covered from such health difficulties as Senator
jority in favor of Senator Eagleton's retention
Eagleton experienced in the past should be ad-
as the vice presidential candidate, even though
mired for their courage and strength and ac-
a significant number of those questioned be-
cepted as productive citizens.
lieved Senator Eagleton had erred in not make
mcGovern's actions in fact rule that any
ing his medical history known to McGovern
citizen who has a misfortune in health should
when he was notified of his selection.
be forever barred from productive life in
high office.
Senator
McGovern's
and
This is absurd and a reflection on every
lying teches in maneuvering to bring about
American who has had the fortitude to re-
Eagleton's removal from 0.0 ticket prove be-
deem himself from whatever previous misfor-
yord question McGovern cannot be trusted to
tune he might have experienced. Such a con-
be the President of the United States.
clusion is an affrent to a high percentage of
When the news of Senator Engleton's medi-
Americans who have had similar experiences.
cal history broke, Senator McGovern am
Senator McGovern's phony facade should be-
nounced his "1000 per cent support" for Sen-
come apparent now even to the disenchanted
ator Eagiston. Subsequently, the presidential
youth and left-wing militants in the Democratic
nominee advised Senator Hagleton repeated-
party who were beguiled into believing that
ly, in private, that he supported Senator
Senator McGovern conducted an open conven-
Eagleton.
tion.
At the same time, at his vacation retreat in
Custer, South Dakota, when Senator Mc-
Nothing could be further from the truth. Sen-
Govern was assuring Senator hagleton of his
ator Metiovera's thetics in controlling the con-
support; Senator McGovern visited the dining
vention were successful only because of the na-
reom occupied by the media, There he talked
ivere of the inexperienced delegates who were
at length with several representatives of tele-
SO determined to change the party structure.
vision news staffs and the mine press, Ini-
We agree that Senator Eagletag displayed
ting them know in uniniscable language
great loyalty to the Democratic party in sue-
that be WAS preparing in remove the Mis-
cumbing to the presidential nominee's dictates,
souri Senator from the vine presidential spot.
but WC (:) not accept the that Me-
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August 14, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR: CHARLES COLSON
FROM:
L. HIGBY
The President would like to send the attached letter to
the announced members of the Democrats for Nixon. He
asked that it be cleared by you first. John Connally has
already cleared the letter.
Please forward your comments to me immediately.
Attachment
LH:kb
SECOND DRAFT
8/12/72
Dear
:
This is just a note to tell you how deeply grateful I am that
you have joined John Connally as a member of the National
Organizing Committee of Democrats for Nixon.
I realize that it must be a very difficult decision for a loyal
member of one party to support the Presidential candidate of another.
In this election year, however, it is my honest conviction that the
programs I am advocating, particularly in the field of national security,
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to carry forward over the next four years will justify the confidence you
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have expressed by giving me your support at this critical time.
Republicans
Not only in the campaign, but in the years ahead I look forward to
if they
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With warm personal regards,
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8/14/72
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Dear
:
This is just a note to tell you how deeply grateful I am that
you have joined John Connally as a member of the committee of
Democrate for Nixon.
I realize that it must be a very difficult decision for a loyal
member of one party to support the Presidential candidate of another.
In this election year, however, it is my honest conviction that the
programs I am advocating, particularly in the field of national security,
are more truly representative of the great traditions of the Democratic
Party than the policies that are being advocated by the Democratic
nominee.
I only hope that my conduct of the campaign and the policies I
plan to carry forward over the next four years will justify the confidence
you have expressed by giving me your support at this critical time.
Not only in the campaign, but in the years ahead I look forward to
working with you for what is best for America regardless of party.
With warm personal regards,
Sincerely,
retyped by kb per LH instructions
August 11, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
CHUCK COLSON
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Bob asked me to get from you a reading of what we are doing
regarding the report that appeared on page 28 of today's
News Summary indicating that McGovern drew "large and
enthusiastic" crowds in Manchester when the reports by the
wire services were 100 and 300 respectively.
These are the sort of factual inadcuracies that we should
continue to hit.
CC: Ron Ziegler
LH:kb
August 11, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
KEN CLAWSON
FROM:
L. HIGBY
I know that Herb has already left for the convention, but
could you please work with him in programming a memo-
randum from Herb to all the Cabinet Officers, the Vice
President, and other appropriate officials enclosing the
Gregg Petersmeyer speech. The memorandum should
make the point that some of the intangible kinds of things
that Petersmeyer covers could very effectively be used
by Cabinet Officers in talking about the President.
Also, the memo should emphasize the fact that it is impor-
tant that they continue to emphasize boldness, courage,
leadership, and so forth, and that they talk about what the
President La like as a man, which is the main thing people
want to hear.
CC: Alex Butterfield
Attachment (Petersmeyer's speech)
I
LH:kb
ACTION MEMO
We should get the Peterameyer speech out to all the Cabinet Officers,
Vice President, and so forth, and make the point that some of the
intangible kinds of things that Petersmeyer covers could be very
effectively used by Cabinet Officers in talking about the President.
It's important that they continue to emphasize boldness, courage,
leadership, and so forth, and that they talk about what the man is
like, which is the main thing people want to hear.
HRH :pm
8/10/72
August 10, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR :
GEORGE COLLINS
FROM :
L. HIGBY
The convention is fast approaching and I would like you to get
a memo in to Bob by c.o.b. today on what arrangements have
been made for Mrs. Haldeman, Bob's mother, and Ann Halde-
man's transportation from California to the convention. Would
you please include in this take-off times, points of departure,
etc. ?
LH:pm
August 7, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
CHUCK COLSON
FROM:
L. HIGBY
As I covered with you earlier today, Connally should call
Pearl Mesta and say that the President asked him to call
to see if she would join the Democrate for Nixon.
LH:kb
ACTION MEMORANDUM
Connally should call Pearl Mesta. Say that the President
asked me to call you to see If you would join the Democrats
for Nison.
HRH
August 7, 1972
HRH:kb
August 2, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
DWIGHT CHAPIN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
I know you've already got this covered, but simply as a
reminder, let's make sure we have some visible involve-
ment of Mexican Americans at the convention.
I know you are planning on turning in your plan on this on
Friday or Monday. Please make sure this particular item
is covered.
LH:kb
August 30, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
JOHN DEAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Once the revised will has been signed, Bob would like
a copy of all those sections that pertain to him for his
files.
Will you please make sure this is taken care of.
CC: Gordon Strachan Gordon -- you might want to talk to
John directly about this.
LH:kb
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 30, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
JOHN DEAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
L
Once the revised will has been signed, Bob would like
a copy of all those sections that pertain to him for his
files.
Will you please make sure this is taken care of.
CC: Gordon Strachan
called called John 8/30/72
August 28, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FOLLOW-UP
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Follow-up on Monday making sure the notes to the Democrats
have been seahout. Follow-up with Kebrli on this.
LH:kb
August 25, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FOLLOW-UP
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Follow-up with Gordon Strachan on what the great McGovern
raffle is.
-- a new McGovern calendar and daily McGovern report.
-- tapes of all the songs on casette along with the portable
Sony tape recorder being sent out here.
LH:kb
827 27
August 16, 1972
pag.
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FOLLOW-UP
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Follow-up in making sure that Chapin is setting up a "truth
squad" operation to follow Shriver around.
LH:kb
August 16, 1972
w/
rels
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FOLLOW-UP
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Make sure we follow-up on the scheduling of Agnew around
the country regarding the "Sandwish Concept" that Haldeman
discussed with Chapin. This should be followed up on in
approximately one week.
LH:kb
August 16, 1972
way
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FOLLOW-UP
an
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Roe
Follow-up on the attached memorandum from the President
to Bob regarding the fact that we need to go in and make sure
that we're going into Missouri with the Vice President to pick
up on the Eagleton disillusionment.
Attachment
LH:kb
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 14, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR BOB HALDEMAN
Care
of
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Ra
C
Julie is going out to Missouri for some meeting with the wives
of Negro doctors. I don't think this is too productive a forum
for such a long trip, but in any event she should go forward
with it since it has been agreed.
However, I think we have been missing one major opportunity --
someone, preferably even in this case Agnew, should be
scheduled in to Missour i fairly soon to capitalize on the dis-
gruntlement which Missourians have about the Eagleton
affair. If Agnew can't go then MacGregor or someone who
has real clout and can get some publicity should be scheduled
in there.
to
August 16, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FOLLOW-UP
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Follow-up when we get back from Hawaii in taking another
look at Dave Parker's campaign plan.
LH:kb
August 16, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: FOLLOW-UP
FROM:
L. HIGBY
L
Bob Haldeman has discussed the attached memorandum
with Dwight Chapin and he is to work up a plan on it.
This plan should be in probably by Friday, or certainly
Monday of next week. Make sure we follow-up on it.
LH:kb
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 14, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR BOB HALDEMAN
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Pai
work
I think the time is arriving when I should meet with a national
group of the most powerful Jewish leaders. I am inclined to
change my view, incidentally, that such a meeting would
have to take place outside the White House. What I would
have in mind would be a black tie dinner, around 7:30, where
we invite the top Jewish leaders from New York, California,
Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan. This would include
Bade idea
not just financial contributors of which, of course, you would
have to have some, but particularly opinion leaders and opinion
makers who are interested in the whole Israeli problem.
Also, along the same line, I think a dinner for Italian leaders
but
and one for Polish leaders might well be in the cards in the
September out period, during the week when I do not have plans
to be/in the country. Perhaps labor leaders might also be
k
it out
included in one dinner.
If it is your judgment after talking to others on the PR implica-
tions that we should not do so in the White House, of course,
we can pick another place. But I see no reason why I can't
invite people to the White House for a private dinner of this
type. What must be emphasized above everything else is
that it would be a private, personal dinner and that there would
be absolutely no fund raising whatever tied to it.
Also, on the subject of possible meetings with groups, a dinner
for young people and one possibly for women in our campaign
might be in order. I realize that we are getting so many that
we will run out of dates. And also the whole idea may not work
due to the very heavy schedule that we will have up until the
time that Congress is adjourned.
In any event, give it some thought and give me a recommendation,
after consulting with MacGregor, Mitchell et al. Among those
you should run these ideas by areFinch, Thruston Morton and,
of course, Connally.
August 7, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: FOLLOW UP
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Follow-up in one week with reports on what's happening
on the people on the Schreiber and Muskie.
August 2, 1972
MEORANDUM FOR:
FOLLOW-UP
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Follow-up with Strachan on the appropriateness of White
House staff receiving transportation by the Republican
National Committee to the convention, etc.
LH:kb
August 4, 1972
Dear Ed, Peggy, and Family:
The Higbys want to thank you very much
for all of your kind hospitality during our
recent stay in California. We sincerely
enjoyed getting to see you again and hope
it won't be too long before our next visit
occurs.
The lasagna and wine were particularly
delicious. We'll have to be sure and get
over to the Mathews tasting room during
our next visit.
I had Colonel Albertazzi endorse a little
momento of your tour of Air Force One.
Best wishes,
Sincerely,
Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Gassi
1112 Estele Lane
Newport Beach, California 92660
Enclosure
LH:kb
August 30, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
You asked me whether or not Wave III would include
some panel interviews or reinterviews of people we
have already interviewed to see how things are
switching.
This will not be the case on Wave III. We will not
be doing this.
I've asked for a plan of how we're going to be polling
through the balance of the campaign to see if any of
this will be included and should have it by tomorrow.
LH:kb
August 29, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
You asked me to quietly explore the possibility of
getting some activity going on checking out McGovern's
key staff and contributors for left-wing mob connections,
their backgrounds, etc.
I've discussed this matter with Fred Malek and John Dean
and they are proceeding to work directly with Murray Choitner
in setting up an apparatus here.
Apparently we also have someone else working on this project,
namely John Ehrlichman, He has requested from Murray
a list of the key McGovern contributors and staff people which
Murray is currently trying to put together.
Should I now forget about this project and let John handle it
or try and set up an on-going mechanism to get the whole
operation done?
Forget it, E handle
Proceed with
your plans
LH:kb
August 28, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
As you know, the President reviewed the list of celebrities
that had participated at the convention. He indicated at the
top of the list that we should "be sure each gets a convention
appreciation certificate".
You'd already told Gordon Strachan that each of the people
were to receive Presidential letters. Should they receive
both? Just the certificate? Just the letter?
Both
Certificate
Letter
LH:kb
ors
August 28, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
SUBJECT:
Alsop use of Graham Report
of LBJ/McGovern Meeting
As I indicated to you earlier, John Ehrlichman called suggesting
that we get the Billy Graham report on the McGovern/LBJ meeting
to Alsop for use in his column.
John thought that if you agreed, this was a good idea, that you
should proceed with making whatever arrangements necessary.
LH:kb
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 25, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Colson called this morning. He needs to talk
to you sometime today. Apparently there are
two or three operating and procedural points
he needs to get settled with you in order to
proceed with organizing the attack operation
this week. He asked that you call at your con-
venience today.
August 25, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Colson called this morning. He needs to talk
to you sometime today. Apparently there are
two or three operating and procedural points
he needs to get settled with you in order to
proceed with organizing the attack operation
this week. He asked that you call at your con-
venience today.
LH:kb
August 16, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
SUBJECT:
Newsweek/Gallup Poll
Ron Ziegler called me with some preliminary results that
Henry Hubbard had given him on a Newsweek/Gallup poll
that is going to run in Newsweek next Monday. They are as
follows:
Two-way Trial Heat -- Nixon - 57
McGovern - 32
When people were asked to list the President's
accomplishments, the listings went as follows:
China trip - 59%
USSR trip - 54%
Vietnam - 38%
policy
Welfare - 19%
policy
Law & - 17%
order
policy
Busing - 17%
Supreme - 15%
Court
When asked to compare Nixon and McGovern on
various positive attributes, the ratings were as
follows:
Logical -- Nixon - 36%
McGovern - 14%
2
Down to earth -- Nixon - 29%
McGovern - 23%
Like to be with -- Nixon-32%
McGovern - 21%
Relaxed -- Nixon - 27%
McGovern - 21%
Easy to talk to -- Nixon - 27%
McGovern - 21%
Exciting -- Nixon - 19%
McGovern - 16%
When asked to rate Nixon and McGovern on sarious
personality attributes, the ratings were as follows:
Principled -- Nixon - 40%
McGovern - 17%
Strong -- Nixon - 34%
McGovern - 17%
Thinks things through -- Nixon - 32%
McGovern - 8%
Fair and unbiased -- Nixon - 30%
McGovern - 22%
Shows good judgment -- Nixon - 30%
McGovern - 11%
LH:kb
August 8, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR I
H.R. HALDEMAN
FROM :
L. HIGBY
SUBJECT :
Attack/Counterattack Operation
Of the key components of our campaign strategy for the fall,
probably the one that is suffering the most from neglect and
lack of proper organization is the attack/counterattack opera-
tion. This memo attempts to break down what the primary pro-
blems are associated with it, take a look at the reasons those
problems exist and propose some solutions.
PROBLEMS:
1. No Central Point of Coordination - Currently
there is no central point of coordination for the
attack apparatus. John Ehrlichman is offering his
briefing papers to surrogates and meeting with them
on an individual basis. Colson and his group are doing
the same, and even 1701 has their own writer who is
responsible for attack material.
2. Truncated Attack Scheduling Apparatus - Scheduling
takes place from two different locations. While their
is a problem it can be handled if it is closely monitored.
Of all the areas within this
this one is probably more
on track than any of the others.
3. Lack of Guidance - No one is really sure what our
strategy is in terms of using our surrogates or getting
out line out is to be. Colson has set it up so that he no
longer meets with the attack group but has Dick Howard
as his deputy meet with them. In effect you have Dick
Howard handling our attack line, supervised by Colson.
The original reason Colson was allowed and put into
menting cetson
t
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but another one of the "great thinkers and "grand
strategists". As a consequence, the man who is
supposed to be doing the implementating on attack/
counterattack (Colson) is no longer implementating.
He, by his own admission, seems to have too many
other things to do.
4. Working the Surrogates to Get Out the Line - Simply
forwarding materials if we can ever get unified materials
to forward to the surrogates will not be enough. These
need to be followed up by personal phone calls. A care-
ful look at what sort of situation they are going in to,
good advance work, and other preparations to make
sure that each appearance is maximized.
5. Lack of Writers - Currently both the Colson and the
1701 operation are long on administration but short on
good writers to crank out our line in the form that will
be picked up and used. We need to change this approach
and get a good stable of writers who are available all
the time with the facts and figures, programmed with
Buchanan and his people, to produce materials.
SOLUTIONS:
Essentially, like with any other operation, there needs
to be someone in charge. Ehrlichman is apparently
pushing you for this position, but I would recommend that
Colson is the person to use here and the person who should
have been doing this all along. We need Colson's total
involvement in implementation, including taking a serious
look at the surrogate schedule, plus meeting with the attack/
counterattack group on a daily basis to make sure our line
is getting out. Somebody needs to make it clear to Colson
that this is his job not Dick Howard's, and that he had
better start doing it. The problem here obviously has some-
thing to do with Colson's involvement with the Democrats
for Nixon; hopefully this can be diminished as soon as
Connally announces and Colson starts to pull out.
3
1. Need for Setting the Line - There is a need to set
the line from day-to-day basis. For the next 100 days
we should stop considering it business as usual and
assuming Colson or somebody is covering and get
involved. I question the value of your 8:00 a.m.
meeting. Instead, perhaps you, Ehrlichman and
Colson should sit down each morning and review the
News Summary quickly, using it as a basis for making
sure all our charges are being hit on a daily basis.
This would be followed up, as I am sure it is anyway,
in the 8:15 a.m. meeting with a broader discussion of
what the line should be, but at least our basic line would
then be set. Colson should follow-up immediately after
the 8:15 meeting by Colson meeting with the attack group
comprised of the individuals here and at 1701.
By doing the above you've built Ehrlichman's role of
advising and consulting on the whole surrogate counter/-
attack line operation in while at the same time, removed
him from administering it. Also, with relatively little
time daily, you can maintain close touch with the opera-
tion. You can continue the "Great Thoughts" meeting
that takes place on Monday and Thursday up in John's
office, but this brief meeting between you, John and Chuck
each morning can be for specific operational purposes.
You may argue that in effect you are investing Colson
with the power to set our line. This really isn't true.
In fact, the contrary is true. You've currently abdicated
to him the power to totally set our line by default.
In addition, you should tell John what you see his campaign
role as being so that he can rebax and quit meddling around
in other areas.
2. Follow Up - Beside just setting the line we need to have
it distributed in a coordinated format. This should be
stressed in reorganization to make sure that we not only
are getting our message out, but doing it in a way that will
be used. Colson, Ehrlichman, and others should follow up
personally to get people to use the material.
4
3. Writers - We need a group of writers assigned to
counterattack. Price should select those people he is
going to need for direct Presidential support and we
should turn over the balance of the writers, possibly
under Buchanan's direction, to handling writing for the
surrogates.
IMPLEMENTATION:
This may be the most difficult part. First, we need
to get Colson out of the Democrats for Nixon operation. Next
you need to make it clear to him that he is to be in charge of
counterattack and pull back on his other endeavor. As you in-
dicated, the most difficult part of this may be explaining it to
the President. He's the one that get's Colson started - and once
he is started there is no turning him off. Dropping the Connally
assignment is the natural time for the break to take place here
but you can start the 8:00 a.m. meeting now and begin forcing
Colson to move back into counterattack.
LH:pm
August 8, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
TOM HART
FROM:
L. HIGBY
SUBJECT:
Staff Arrangements
at Key Biscayne
I've attached what, to the best of my knowledge, are the
arrangements as they should be set up for Key Biscayne.
I assume you will now proceed with handling this whole
situation as to the exact details. I know there are some
people who need desks or additional typewriters and I would
appreciate your checking with them on whatever their exact
requirements are.
Please don't hesitate to get back to me if there are any
questions.
Attachment
CC: FYI -- Ron Walker
Mike Schrauth
Bill Timmons
LH:kb
KEY BISCAYNE HOTEL
Department/
Typewriter/
Villa
Arrival Date
W.H. Phone
Supplies
Notes
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Ehrlichman-
Are set up
None
Hullin to room
8/11
on 8/18
Hullin-8/11
Room
J. Hruska-
Yes
Check
8/11
Hruska
Room
T. Hullin-
Yes
Needs room
8/18
starting 8/18
18B
Haldeman-
Are set up
None
Arrive w/President
8/18
Higby-8/18
21
P. McKee-
Yes, 2 lines
Check
Arrive w/President
8/18
G. Strachan
J. Blend-
Check
Arrive 8/16
8/16
G. Strachan
37
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Yes
Check
Arrive 8/16
8/16
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22
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72
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No
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8/18
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Higby
D. Campbell-
Arrive w/President
8/18
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Kissinger
Yes
Check
Arrive w/President
Secretary-
D. Campbell
8/18
74
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See Higby
Check Rose
Arrive w/President
8/18
M. Acker-
See Higby
8/18
2
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Arrival Date
W.H. Phone
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Notes
17
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Check Ray
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8/18
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w/Secretary
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B. Safire
Yes
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NOTE: All persons shown arriving on 8/18/72 all have villas reserved at
Key Biscayne from the 18th but may arrive after that date.
June 26, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
MR. RONALD WALKER
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Below I have done a tentative list of how we see the villa
assignments at Key Biscayne during the convention period.
Please fold this in with your overall plan and get back to
me with any changes or additions.
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H.R. Haldeman/L. Higby
72
Kissinger/Aide
74
Rose Woods/Marge Acker
21
Haldeman's Secretary
22
Gordon Strachan
45
18
Advance Villa
17
Speech Writers
71
Magruder's
2
45
Malek's 7
65
Open
66
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Steve Bull
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August 8, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
SUBJECT:
Ed Pauley/Democrats
For Nixon
I have not talked to Colson yet regarding Ed Pauley and the
fact that Connally should call him. After we talked, Cliff
Miller called me back saying that Pauley is in Castle Memorial
Hospital in Hawaii. They believe he's suffered a heart attack
and he is currently undergoing several tests. Anyway, he will
not be able to talk until the end of the week to anyone over the
phone.
Should I call Colson and tell him that at the appropriate time
Connally should call, but he should check directly with Cliff
Miller before placing the phone call later this week?
Yes
No
LH:kb
August 7, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H, R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Attached is the basic plan for intellectuals for Nixon that
Garment has worked out. He indicates it was developed
by Paul Weaver of Harvard, has been concurred in by
Pat Buchanan, Len Garment, and Fred Malek.
He asked for your comments and suggestions regarding this.
Attachment
LH:kb
August 7, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
As you know, the attached was strongly turned down by the
political group. Colson also indicated that it had already
been turned down by the President.
Attachment
LH:kb
August 7, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
DICK HOWARD
FROM:
L. HIGBY
I assume we have one of our research people following up
on the UPI 60 wire of today's date indicating that it was a
magazine report that McGovern questioned last week, what
Schreiber might add to the ticket. If we could get this quote
it would be a sensational thing to hang on him.
LH:kb
August 2, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR H.R. HALDEMAN
FROM :
L. HIGBY
I think this issue of the Reelector needs a definite change in
our procedures.
Specifically, the Chapin group should be required to look at
the Reelector prior to the time it is published. There are
some serious mistakes in the tone of some of the articles as
well as the obvious "Republican" and "Democratic" lines that
are mentioned.
Approve
Disapprove
I have called Magruder on this issue and he has already brought
Leonard in and raised Hell.
MacGregor is in Atlanta and I plan to talk to him on Friday unless
you would prefer that I call him in Atlanta.
Wait until Friday
Call him in Atlanta
LH:pm
August 2, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR H.R. HALDEMAN
FROM :
L. HIGBY
I think this issue of the ReElector calls for a definite change
in our procedures.
Specifically, the Chapin group should be required to look at
the ReElector prior to the time it is published. There are
some serious mistakes in the tone of some of the articles as
well as the obvious "Republican" and "Democratic" lines that
are mentioned.
Approve
Disapprove
I have talked to Magruder three times on this issue and he has
already talked to Leonard and raised hell.
MacGregor is in Atlanta and I plan to talk to him on Friday unless
you would prefer that I call him in Atlanta.
Wait until Friday
Call him in Atlanta
LH:pm
August 1, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
A1 Snyder called to report that NBC told him they are not
going on live with the McGovern materials this evening.
They have informed the other two networks of this decision
also.
They told the other networks that if they chose to go on live,
NBC will run a disclaimer and say they didn't think it to be an
appropriate news event to carry live.
MANKIEWICZ
NBC says / is furious.
ABC and CBS still have not announced any change in their
currently announced plans of going on live.
LH:kb
148
August 1, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
SUBJECT:
Attached Memorandum
With regard to the attached memorandum you received
from the President, has this been covered with MacGregor,
Dole, et al?
Yes
No
Has the memo been covered with Ziegler?
Yes
No
If not, Ron Ziegler should read the memo and
come up with his plan for how he is going to
enforce and deal with the situation as outlined
with the President. In addition, he should put
together a plan for steering our friends to the
appropriate people in coordination with 1701.
Agree
Disagree
Have you covered with Ehrlichman the fact that Harper and his
group are not to see reporters without Ehrlichman's specific
approval and a press man from Ron's office present?
Yes
No
Attachment
LH:kb