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    "description": "This file contains:\n\nFrom Higby to Bull RE: attendees for an upcoming Campaign Surrogates Reception. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 12/14/1972\n\nFrom Higby to Bull RE: a report on election mementos for Haldeman. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 12/6/1972\n\nFrom Higby to Dean RE: the utilization of Ed Nixon in the Nixon Foundation. 1 pg. [Subject: Personal] [Memo], 12/5/1972\n\nFrom Higby to \"Follow Up\" RE: Bull's report on election mementos and Stans. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 12/7/1972\n\nFrom Higby to \"Follow Up\" RE: having Strachan develop a plan to pay for polls during RN's second term. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 12/4/1972\n\nFrom Higby to Haldeman RE: press rumors on Dent joining the RNC as Counsel. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 12/16/1972\n\nFrom Higby to Haldeman RE: Ed Nixon's willingness to work for the Nixon Foundation. 1 pg. [Subject: Personal] [Memo], 12/4/1972\n\nFrom Higby to Haldeman RE: Ed Nixon's willingness to work for the Nixon Foundation and a possible meeting between Haldeman and Ed Nixon. 1 pg. [Subject: Personal] [Memo], 12/14/1972\n\nFrom Higby to Haldeman RE: Lucy Winchester's Christmas preparations. 1 pg. [Subject: Personal] [Memo], 12/14/1972\n\nFrom Higby to Haldeman RE: Kalmbach's word on preparations for \"the kitchen.\" 1 pg. [Subject: Personal] [Memo], 12/8/1972\n\nFrom Higby to \"Take Home\" RE: giving $20 to some unnamed individuals. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 12/7/1972\n\nFrom Higby to Kehrli RE: gifts for state chairmen who helped RN during the election. 1 pg. [Subject: Domestic Policy] [Memo], 12/12/1972",
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    "ocrText": "Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nContested Materials Collection\nFolder List\nBox Number\nFolder Number\nDocument Date\nNo Date\nSubject\nDocument Type\nDocument Description\n10\n4\n12/14/1972\nWhite House Staff\nMemo\nFrom Higby to Bull RE: attendees for an\nupcoming Campaign Surrogates Reception. 1\npg.\n10\n4\n12/6/1972\nCampaign\nMemo\nFrom Higby to Bull RE: a report on election\nmementos for Haldeman. 1 pg.\n10\n4\n12/5/1972\nPersonal\nMemo\nFrom Higby to Dean RE: the utilization of\nEd Nixon in the Nixon Foundation. 1 pg.\n10\n4\n12/7/1972\nWhite House Staff\nMemo\nFrom Higby to \"Follow Up\" RE: Bull's\nreport on election mementos and Stans. 1 pg.\nMonday, November 22, 2010\nPage 1 of 3\nBox Number\nFolder Number\nDocument Date\nNo Date\nSubject\nDocument Type\nDocument Description\n10\n4\n12/4/1972\nWhite House Staff\nMemo\nFrom Higby to \"Follow Up\" RE: having\nStrachan develop a plan to pay for polls\nduring RN's second term. 1 pg.\n10\n4\n12/16/1972\nWhite House Staff\nMemo\nFrom Higby to Haldeman RE: press rumors\non Dent joining the RNC as Counsel. 1 pg.\n10\n4\n12/4/1972\nPersonal\nMemo\nFrom Higby to Haldeman RE: Ed Nixon's\nwillingness to work for the Nixon\nFoundation. 1 pg.\n10\n4\n12/14/1972\nPersonal\nMemo\nFrom Higby to Haldeman RE: Ed Nixon's\nwillingness to work for the Nixon\nFoundation and a possible meeting between\nHaldeman and Ed Nixon. 1 pg.\n10\n4\n12/14/1972\nPersonal\nMemo\nFrom Higby to Haldeman RE: Lucy\nWinchester's Christmas preparations. 1 pg.\nMonday, November 22, 2010\nPage 2 of 3\nBox Number\nFolder Number\nDocument Date\nNo Date\nSubject\nDocument Type\nDocument Description\n10\n4\n12/8/1972\nPersonal\nMemo\nFrom Higby to Haldeman RE: Kalmbach's\nword on preparations for \"the kitchen.\" 1 pg.\n10\n4\n12/7/1972\nWhite House Staff\nMemo\nFrom Higby to \"Take Home\" RE: giving $20\nto some unnamed individuals. 1 pg.\n10\n4\n12/12/1972\nDomestic Policy\nMemo\nFrom Higby to Kehrli RE: gifts for state\nchairmen who helped RN during the election.\n1 pg.\nMonday, November 22, 2010\nPage 3 of 3\nDecember 14, 1972\nMEMORANDUM FOR :\nSTEVE BULL\nFROM :\nL. HIGBY\nTo confirm our conversation, please add Chapin, Strachan, and\nParker to the Campaign Surrogates Reception on Tuesday. Strachan\nis putting together a list of any others on the White House staff who\nworked directly in the campaign that should also be included. This\nshould not include any Domestic Council or NSC people, only White\nHouse Staff people who were directly involved in the campaign.\nLH:pm\nDecember 6, 1972\nMEMORANDUM FOR :\nSTEVE BULL\nFROM :\nL. HIGBY\nBob has requested a complete follow up report from you on\nthe election memento situation. This would be a breakdown\nas to cost, etc. Will you please make sure that you are\nfollowing up on this?\nThanks.\nLH:pm\nISH\nDecember 5, 1972\nMEMORANDUM FOR :\nJOHN DEAN\nFROM &\nL. HIGBY\nBob asked that you check with Ed Nixon and determine what his\npersonal plans are and what his interest might be in serving in\nsome capacity, perhaps with the Nixon Foundation. Would he\nbe willing to move to Southern California or is he determined\nto stay in the Northwest?\nAlso, he would like you to check with Don Kendall to see if he\nhas any feeling on how Ed Nixon could best be utilized. Would\nhe be good at the Foundation or should be be doing something\nelse. Any thoughts he had would be appreciated.\nLH:pm\nDecember 7, 1972\nFOLLOW UP\nFROM I\nL. HIGBY\nFollow up on election mementos on 12/15, making sure Bull's\ngot everything cleared up with Stans.\nopp\nDecember 4, 1972\nMEMORANDUM FOR:\nFOLLOW-UP\nFROM:\nL. HIGBY\nGordon Strachan needs to develop a way that we can pay for\nth e polls we'll be taking over the next four years.\nLH:dg\nDecember 16, 1972\nMEMORANDUM FOR #\nH.R. HALDEMAN\nFROM :\nL. HIGBY\nSUBJECT :\nHarry Dent Phone Call Re:\nCounsel at RNC\nHarry Dent called me informing me that both AP and UPI had\ncalled him last night on a story they had that Dent would be named\nCounsel at RNC. The story quoted sources at the Republican\nNational Committee and contained in it information known only\nto Dole. Dent is convinced that Dole leaked this. His response\nto both inquiries was that he had not discussed this matter at\nall with Bush or the President and had not been asked by either\none of them to serve in that position. That was all he had to\nsay.\nLH:pm\nHIGH PRIORITY\nDecember 14, 1972\nMEMORANDUM FOR :\nH.R. HALDEMAN\nFROM I\nL. HIGBY\nSUBJECT #\nEd Nixon\nJohn Dean reports that he had a very successful conversation\nwith Ed Nixon and that Ed wants to go to work for the Foundation\non the basis I previously described to you. Ed feels it is necessary\nthat someone make a public presentation to the Board of Trustees\nat the Foundation regarding site selection. He would like to do\nthis and suggest it be done some time around the 17th of January\nwhile all of them will be back here for the Inaugural. Ed has\npictures of all the sites and feels he could do a very good pre-\nsentation. He is very much in favor of the San Clemente site.\nAfter that he would like to start working fulltime on the Foundation.\nHe feels that there is a lot of work to be done in terms of gathering\nmaterials, visiting other libraries, doing hand-shaking, fund-raising,\nspeaking, etc. He also indicated Julie would be very interested in\nworking on this.\nHave Dean lock up deal\nOther - HRH will call.\nEd has now returned to the West Coast. Dean can proceed to\nlock this up or perhaps you would prefer to talk to Ed by phone.\nCC: John Dean\nLH:pm\nHIGH PRIORITY\nDecember 14, 1972\nMEMORANDUM FOR :\nH.R. HALDEMAN\nFROM I\nL. HIGBY\nSUBJECT #\nEd Nixon\nJohn Dean reports that he had a very successful conversation\nwith Ed Nixon and that Ed wants to go to work for the Foundation\non the basis I previously described to you. Ed feels it is necessary\nthat someone make a public presentation to the Board of Trustees\nat the Foundation regarding slight selection. He would like to do\nthis and suggest it be done some time around the 17th while all of\nthem will be back here for the Inaugural. Ed has pictures of all\nthe sites and feels he could do a very good presentation. He is\nvery much in favor of the San Clemente site. After that he would\nlike to start working fulltime on the Ibundation. He feels that there\nis a lot of work to be done in terms of gathering materials, visiting\nother libraries, doing hand-shaking, fund-raising, speaking, etc.\nHe also indicated Julie would be very interested in working on this.\nEd will be here a few more hours today if you'd like to see him.\nOr, if you would prefer, we can have Dean go ahead and lock up a\ndeal here.\nHave Dean lock up deal\nOther\nLH:pm\nDecember 14, 1972\nMEMORANDUM FOR :\nH.R. HALDEMAN\nFROM :\nL, HIGBY\nKalmbach called me last night indicating that they'd received\nword out there from Lucy Winchester that there was no need\nto decorate the house for Christmas. This implied that the\nNixons would not be out there for Christmas. Herb is working\na lot of people unmercifully to finish the kitchen out there by\nthe 20th, per your instruction. If this is not the case, he'd\nlike to be able to back off a little bit.\nCould we give Herb some indication?\nLH:pm\nthe\nDecember 8, 1972\nMEMORANDUM FOR :\nH.R. HALDEMAN\nFROM :\nL. HIGBY\nHerb Kalmbach now assures me that the kitchen will be done\nby December 20.\nLH:pm\noff\nDecember 7, 1972\nMEMORANDUM FOR :\nTAKE HOME\nFROM :\nL. HIGBY\nMake sure that $20 goes right away to the fellows who received\nour receiver.\nLH:pm\nDecember 12, 1972\nMEMORANDUM FOR I\nBRUCE KEHRLI\nFROM :\nL. HIGBY\nWill you please check with Clark MacGregor and Fred Malek\nand find out who our 20 best state chairmen were and make\nsure we follow up with them in some nice way to show how\nmuch we appreciated their work. We've got to be careful\nnot to let people feel let down after all the work they did in\nthe campaign. We need to send them something special -\nsome token that lets them know how we really felt.\nLH:pm"
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