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From Strachan to Butterfield and Cashen RE: Barry Gordy and Motown music groups potential support for the President. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/12/1972
From Rose Mary Woods to Haldeman RE: a letter from Dr. Milton Eisenhower on the location of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library. 11 pgs. [Subject: Personal] [Other Document], 4/7/1972
From Lawrence Mead Higby to Dr. Ferguson on the changing of his name. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Letter], 4/26/1972
From Strachan to Jon Foust RE: Celebrities. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/25/1972
From Strachan to Follow-Up RE: the letter from Dick Zanuck to Time magazine on their list of celebrities. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/25/1972
From Strachan to Follow-Up RE: memo to Jon Foust. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/25/1972
From Strachan to Michael Ferguson RE: the Higby matter. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Letter], 4/20/1972
From Strachan to Follow-Up RE: Ann Higgins, Jim Berger at Census, Gus Miller at the RNC, and Bob Reisner re: campaign junk. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/13/1972
From Strachan to Mrs. Florov RE: reply to letter on the RNC. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 4/11/1972
From Strachan to Follow-Up RE: Fred Malek and the RNC. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/12/1972
From Strachan to Follow-Up RE: Peter Daily and campaign advertising. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/4/1972
From Strachan to Higby RE: Whatever Happened To. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 4/12/1972
From Strachan to Dick Howard RE: Monday - Kennedy. 1pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/5/1972
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This file contains:
From Strachan to Butterfield and Cashen RE: Barry Gordy and Motown music groups potential support for the President. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/12/1972
From Rose Mary Woods to Haldeman RE: a letter from Dr. Milton Eisenhower on the location of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library. 11 pgs. [Subject: Personal] [Other Document], 4/7/1972
From Lawrence Mead Higby to Dr. Ferguson on the changing of his name. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Letter], 4/26/1972
From Strachan to Jon Foust RE: Celebrities. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/25/1972
From Strachan to Follow-Up RE: the letter from Dick Zanuck to Time magazine on their list of celebrities. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/25/1972
From Strachan to Follow-Up RE: memo to Jon Foust. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/25/1972
From Strachan to Michael Ferguson RE: the Higby matter. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Letter], 4/20/1972
From Strachan to Follow-Up RE: Ann Higgins, Jim Berger at Census, Gus Miller at the RNC, and Bob Reisner re: campaign junk. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/13/1972
From Strachan to Mrs. Florov RE: reply to letter on the RNC. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 4/11/1972
From Strachan to Follow-Up RE: Fred Malek and the RNC. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/12/1972
From Strachan to Follow-Up RE: Peter Daily and campaign advertising. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/4/1972
From Strachan to Higby RE: Whatever Happened To. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 4/12/1972
From Strachan to Dick Howard RE: Monday - Kennedy. 1pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/5/1972
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Richard Nixon Presidential Library
Contested Materials Collection
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Subject
Document Type
Document Description
13
9
4/12/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Strachan to Butterfield and Cashen RE:
Barry Gordy and Motown music groups
potential support for the President. 1 pg.
13
9
4/7/1972
Personal
Other Document
From Rose Mary Woods to Haldeman RE: a
letter from Dr. Milton Eisenhower on the
location of the Richard Nixon Presidential
Library. 11 pgs.
13
9
4/26/1972
White House Staff
Letter
From Lawrence Mead Higby to Dr. Ferguson
on the changing of his name. 1 pg.
13
9
4/25/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Strachan to Jon Foust RE: Celebrities.
2 pgs.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Page 1 of 3
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
13
9
4/25/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Strachan to Follow-Up RE: the letter
from Dick Zanuck to Time magazine on their
list of celebrities. 1 pg.
13
9
4/25/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Strachan to Follow-Up RE: memo to
Jon Foust. 1 pg.
13
9
4/20/1972
White House Staff
Letter
From Strachan to Michael Ferguson RE: the
Higby matter. 1 pg.
13
9
4/13/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Strachan to Follow-Up RE: Ann
Higgins, Jim Berger at Census, Gus Miller at
the RNC, and Bob Reisner re: campaign
junk. 1 pg.
13
9
4/11/1972
Campaign
Letter
From Strachan to Mrs. Florov RE: reply to
letter on the RNC. 1 pg.
Monday, May 11, 2015
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Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
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Subject
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13
9
4/12/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Strachan to Follow-Up RE: Fred
Malek and the RNC. 1 pg.
13
9
4/4/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Strachan to Follow-Up RE: Peter Daily
and campaign advertising. 1 pg.
13
9
4/12/1972
White House Staff
Memo
From Strachan to Higby RE: Whatever
Happened To. 1 pg.
13
9
4/5/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Strachan to Dick Howard RE:
Monday - Kennedy. 1pg.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Page 3 of 3
Presidential Materials Review Board
Review on Contested Documents
Collection: H. R. Haldeman
Box Number: 237
Folder:
Strachan Chron A-L April 1972
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RICHARD NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
DOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL RECORD
DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT
SUBJECT/TITLE OR CORRESPONDENTS
DATE
RESTRICTION
NUMBER
TYPE
1
Letter
Strachan to Maurine Dobbas re:
04/12/1972
G
Absentee Ballot Registration. 4 pgs
2
Letter
Strachan to Michael Ferguson re:
4/10/1972
G
Affidavit for Larry Higby. 4 pgs
COLLECTION TITLE
BOX NUMBER
Contested Documents
13
FOLDER TITLE
WHSF:SMOF: H.R. Haldeman: Strachan Chron A-L April 1972 Box 237
PRMPA RESTRICTION CODES:
A. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.
E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
B. National security classified information.
financial information.
C. Pending or approved claim that release would violate an individual's
F. Release would disclose investigatory information compiled for law
rights.
enforcement purposes.
D. Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy
G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.
or a libel of a living person.
H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.
DEED OF GIFT RESTRICTION CODES:
D-DOG Personal privacy under deed of gift
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
*U.S. GPO; 1989-235-084/00024
NA 14021 (4-85)
April 12, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
ALEX BUTTERFIELD
HENRY CASHEN
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
On March 19, I mentioned to you that we had learned from
Bob Teeter that Barry Gordy, the owner of the Motown music
groups had supported Senator Griffin in previous elections
and probably could be recruited to the President. Henry,
I believe you were going to check with one of your law part-
ners in Detroit and get an exact reading on Mr. Gordy. We
need to know where this project stands SO that Alex can
begin the high level recruitment procedure if that is appro-
priate.
Would you let me know?
Haldeman follow up April 17.
Dean
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Date 4/7/72
To BOB HALDEMAN
From Rose Mary Woods
FYI
Please Handle
X
Since you are a member of the Nixon
Foundation, I thought you should reply
to Dr. Eisenhower.
Thanks
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
April 18, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
JOHN DEAN
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
SUBJECT:
Richard M. Nixon Library
Pursuant to our discussion on Friday, April 14th, it is
my understanding that you will handle the Milton Eisenhower
letter to the President regarding the location of the
Richard M. Nixon Library. You mentioned that Leonard
Firestone, as President of the Richard M. Nixon Foundation,
usually responds to suggestions for the location of the
Library. After you have discussed the matter with Mr.
Firestone, would you send Bob a copy of the letter fo
Milton Eisenhower?
For your information, a copy of Mr. Ehrlichman's letter of
April 13th to Dr. Steven Muller, the President of Johns
Hopkins University is attached.
Thank you.
CC: Rose Mary Woods
John Ehrlichman
Att.
GS/jb
MILTON S. EISENHOWER
4545 NORTH CHARLES STREET
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21210
PRESIDENT EMERITUS
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
April 3, 1972
Dear Mr. President:
Early in your second term as President of the United States,
you no doubt will decide where you wish the Richard M. Nixon
Presidential Library to be located, for your friends will need
considerable time to raise private funds, have an acceptable
architectural plan developed, and have construction completed
so that your papers may be moved directly from the White House
to the Library.
I am taking the liberty of suggesting that you, perhaps
Mrs. Nixon too, give serious consideration to having the Library
located on the campus of The Johns Hopkins University. Please
bear with me as I indicate why I think this is worthy of your
consideration.
I begin with the assumption that you rightly will be con-
cerned with the way history deals with your Administration.
Your eight years in the White House will have encompassed events
of enormous complexity and decisions of the utmost difficulty
and importance. Like other American Chief Executives, you will
want those events and decisions analyzed objectively and, in
books that will be published by scholars, faithfully and correctly
interpreted.
To perform this assignment, professional historians, poli-
tical scientists, and economists must have ready access to the
Presidential papers once they are declassified and properly
arranged. Scholars are most likely to undertake thorough studies
of an Administration when the Presidential papers are located on
the campus, or near the campus, of a major graduate-oriented
university. The Johns Hopkins University is primarily a research
institution, the first and oldest graduate university in the
United States. Members of the faculty have genuine expertise in
doing the very type of work Presidential papers require.
I realize that you must have fond recollections of your
student life at Whittier College and Duke University. Whittier
College has the disadvantage of being an undergraduate institu-
tion, with little experience in research, and both Whittier and
Duke University present a problem of distance, a fact which
merits consideration, for the study of papers in a Presidential
Library requires a great deal of research also in the National
Archives; the cost and time involved in a scholar's traveling
back and forth is an impediment and should be avoided, if possible.
President Richard M. Nixon
Page 2
April 3, 1972
Indeed, the best way to inhibit scholarly research in your
Administration, or that of any President, is to complicate the
task of the most competent men and women in the field of
historical, political science and economic research. If less-
qualified persons undertake the task, the result will not be
pleasing to you and the contribution to permanent American
history will not be what it should be.
It is only natural that most younger scholars, working under
the guidance of senior faculty members, begin their research upon
sources close at hand. The flourishing state of scholarship on
the Franklin Roosevelt papers can be attributed directly to the
fact that thousands of younger scholars have started their
careers using the Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, near to several
graduate universities. On the other hand, the inadequacy of
meaningful literature on the Truman era stems in large measure
from the fact that the Truman Library is readily accessible only
to graduate students and faculty at the University of Missouri.
Of course there are eminent graduate institutions other than
Johns Hopkins that could perform an exemplary service to the
nation in carrying on research in your Library. But Harvard has
the Kennedy Library, Princeton has the Dulles Library, and
Columbia University and The University of Pennsylvania are in
areas where for sheer physical reasons it would be difficult, if
not impossible, to construct a magnificent Presidential Library
and, hopefully too, a museum. Johns Hopkins has a park-like
campus with land available for the purpose.
Johns Hopkins is the only major graduate institution near
the national capital. It is the only ideal location where a
scholar could have the resources of the Presidential Library and
the National Archives almost at his elbow. It is a university
with a distinguished history department, especially in American
history. Its departments of political science and economics are
superb. Every single faculty member in the Arts and Sciences
and their eleven hundred graduate students literally live in the
world of research. Johns Hopkins is the only university, except
Harvard, that has experience in editing the papers of a modern
President. Through the process of compiling and editing the
Eisenhower Papers, our professors have gained knowledge of the
procedures to be followed in arranging, cataloguing, declassify-
ing and protecting under proper security measures the papers of
the President.
At this point you must have in mind that the Eisenhower
Presidential Library does not meet the standards I have mentioned.
I'm sure you know that friends established the Eisenhower Center
President Richard M. Nixon
Page 3
April 3, 1972
in Abilene after World War II before my brother even considered
the possibility of running for President. Upon the gift of our
home property to the Eisenhower Foundation, established in 1945,
friends raised private funds to build a museum, to strengthen
the home to carry heavy traffic and to plant the grounds. These
developments, prior to my brother's Presidency, made the location
of the Library, and the Place of Meditation in Abilene where he
is buried, almost inevitable. Further, since he maintained
until his death most of his important papers at Gettysburg, our
work, which began in 1961, was greatly facilitated. Thereafter,
to overcome the problem created by distance, we recorded the
Gettysburg papers and many of those at Abilene on microfilm.
The first five volumes of President Eisenhower's Papers, pub-
lished last year, have been acclaimed as models of scholarly,
objective research.
The Johns Hopkins University would welcome the Nixon Presi-
dential Library. I speak not only for myself, but also for the
President of the University, Dr. Steven Muller, the members of
the Department of History, other relevant members of the faculty,
and the Trustees.
With a slightly sentimental note, may I point out the coin-
cidence of three anniversaries: your last year as President, the
Two Hundredth Anniversary of the United States and the Hundredth
Anniversary of The Johns Hopkins University. The opening of your
Library could be a unique historical event.
You may be assured that this proposal will be held in strict
confidence. If you are interested and wish to discuss the matter,
President Steven Muller (known personally to Mr. Ehrlichman) and
I are at your disposal.
Sincerely,
Milton
President Richard M. Nixon
The White House
Washington, D. C.
MILTON S. EISENHOWER
4545 NORTH CHARLES STREET
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21210
APR
EISENHOWER*USA
RW
President Richard M. Nixon
The White House
Washington, D. C.
April 13, 1972
Dear Steve:
Thanks very much for your note of April 6 and the
enclosed letter from Milton Eisenhower to the
President regarding location of the Richard M. Nixon
Library.
I appreciate your kind comments about the seminar;
it was an enjoyable and worthwhile meeting.
I have taken the liberty of forwarding the letter from
Dr. Eisenhower to Bob Haldeman for consideration.
Thanks again for a very pleasant evening.
Best personal regards.
Yours sincerely,
John D. Ehrlichman
Assistant to the President
for Domestic Affairs
Dr. Steven Muller, President
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
DCC: H. R. Haldeman (with copy of incoming)
APR 1 1972
RE
3
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
Steven Muller, President
April 6, 1972
Mr. John D. Ehrlichman
Assistant to the President
for Domestic Affairs
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear John:
Just great to be with you and Jeanne last
evening -- thank you again for taking the time
and for the wonderful job you did at the seminar.
Attached is a copy of the letter from
Milton Eisenhower to the President which I mentioned
to you yesterday. You will note that the last
paragraph takes your name in vain, and I hope you
don't mind. Let me just say again that our interest
is profound and carefully considered, and that I am
anxious to do anything appropriate to follow this
up if the President is prepared to give it consider-
ation.
With warm best wishes,
Sincerely,
Steve
SM/jwb
Baltimore, Maryland 21218 (301) 366-3300
MILTON S. EISENHOWER
4545 NORTH CHARLES STREET
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21210
PRESIDENT EMERITUS
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
April 3, 1972
Dear Mr. President:
Early in your second term as President of the United States,
you no doubt will decide where you wish the Richard M. Nixon
Presidential Library to be located, for your friends will need
considerable time to raise private funds, have an acceptable
architectural plan developed, and have construction completed
so that your papers may be moved directly from the White House
to the Library.
I am taking the liberty of suggesting that you, perhaps
Mrs. Nixon too, give serious consideration to having the Library
located on the campus of The Johns Hopkins University. Please
bear with me as I indicate why I think this is worthy of your
consideration.
I begin with the assumption that you rightly will be con-
cerned with the way history deals with your Administration.
Your eight years in the White House will have encompassed events
of enormous complexity and decisions of the utmost difficulty
and importance. Like other American Chief Executives, you will
want those events and decisions analyzed objectively and, in
books that will be published by scholars, faithfully and correctly
interpreted.
To perform this assignment, professional historians, poli-
tical scientists, and economists must have ready access to the
Presidential papers once they are declassified and properly
arranged. Scholars are most likely to undertake thorough studies
of an Administration when the Presidential papers are located on
the campus, or near the campus, of a major graduate-oriented
university. The Johns Hopkins University is primarily a research
institution, the first and oldest graduate university in the
United States. Members of the faculty have genuine expertise in
doing the very type of work Presidential papers require.
I realize that you must have fond recollections of your
student life at Whittier College and Duke University. Whittier
College has the disadvantage of being an undergraduate institu-
tion, with little experience in research, and both Whittier and
Duke University present a problem of distance, a fact which
merits consideration, for the study of papers in a Presidential
Library requires a great deal of research also in the National
Archives; the cost and time involved in a scholar's traveling
back and forth is an impediment and should be avoided, if possible.
President Richard M. Nixon
Page 2
April 3, 1972
Indeed, the best way to inhibit scholarly research in your
Administration, or that of any President, is to complicate the
task of the most competent men and women in the field of
historical, political science and economic research. If less-
qualified persons undertake the task, the result will not be
pleasing to you and the contribution to permanent American
history will not be what it should be.
It is only natural that most younger scholars, working under
the guidance of senior faculty members, begin their research upon
sources close at hand. The flourishing state of scholarship on
the Franklin Roosevelt papers can be attributed directly to the
fact that thousands of younger scholars have started their
careers using the Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, near to several
graduate universities. On the other hand, the inadequacy of
meaningful literature on the Truman era stems in large measure
from the fact that the Truman Library is readily accessible only
to graduate students and faculty at the University of Missouri.
Of course there are eminent graduate institutions other than
Johns Hopkins that could perform an exemplary service to the
nation in carrying on research in your Library. But Harvard has
the Kennedy Library, Princeton has the Dulles Library, and
Columbia University and The University of Pennsylvania are in
areas where for sheer physical reasons it would be difficult, if
not impossible, to construct a magnificent Presidential Library
and, hopefully too, a museum. Johns Hopkins has a park-like
campus with land available for the purpose.
Johns Hopkins is the only major graduate institution near
the national capital. It is the only ideal location where a
scholar could have the resources of the Presidential Library and
the National Archives almost at his elbow. It is a university
with a distinguished history department, especially in American
history. Its departments of political science and economics are
superb. Every single faculty member in the Arts and Sciences
and their eleven hundred graduate students literally live in the
world of research. Johns Hopkins is the only university, except
Harvard, that has experience in editing the papers of a modern
President. Through the process of compiling and editing the
Eisenhower Papers, our professors have gained knowledge of the
procedures to be followed in arranging, cataloguing, declassify-
ing and protecting under proper security measures the papers of
the President.
At this point you must have in mind that the Eisenhower
Presidential Library does not meet the standards I have mentioned.
I'm sure you know that friends established the Eisenhower Center
President Richard M. Nixon
Page 3
April 3, 1972
in Abilene after World War II before my brother even considered
the possibility of running for President. Upon the gift of our
home property to the Eisenhower Foundation, established in 1945,
friends raised private funds to build a museum, to strengthen
the home to carry heavy traffic and to plant the grounds. These
developments, prior to my brother's Presidency, made the location
of the Library, and the Place of Meditation in Abilene where he
is buried, almost inevitable. Further, since he maintained
until his death most of his important papers at Gettysburg, our
work, which began in 1961, was greatly facilitated. Thereafter,
to overcome the problem created by distance, we recorded the
Gettysburg papers and many of those at Abilene on microfilm.
The first five volumes of President Eisenhower's Papers, pub-
lished last year, have been acclaimed as models of scholarly,
objective research.
The Johns Hopkins University would welcome the Nixon Presi-
dential Library. I speak not only for myself, but also for the
President of the University, Dr. Steven Muller, the members of
the Department of History, other relevant members of the faculty,
and the Trustees.
With a slightly sentimental note, may I point out the coin-
cidence of three anniversaries: your last year as President, the
Two Hundredth Anniversary of the United States and the Hundredth
Anniversary of The Johns Hopkins University. The opening of your
Library could be a unique historical event.
You may be assured that this proposal will be held in strict
confidence. If you are interested and wish to discuss the matter,
President Steven Muller (known personally to Mr. Ehrlichman) and
I are at your disposal.
Sincerely,
President Richard M. Nixon
The White House
Washington, D. C.
RICHARD NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
April 26, 1972
Dear Mr. Ferguson:
I want to thank you very much for your
assistance during these past few months
in having my name changed. Your efforts
are very much appreciated and If I can
ever be of any help to you here in Washington,
please feel free to call.
Cordially,
Lawrence Mead Higby
Mr. Michael C. Ferguson
Attorney At Law
2000 Center Street, Suite 206
Berkeley, California 94704
bec: Gordon Strachan
LH:kb
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
April 25, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
JON FOUST
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
SUBJECT:
Celebrities
The meeting this morning with Alex Butterfield and Bart Porter
was quite profitable. It re-emphasized in Alex's mind his
role as the top White House staff member dealing with celebrities
on behalf of the President, First Family and Cabinet. You should
rely heavily on Alex to expedite requests for access to the
White House, First Family and Cabinet.
Butterfield's twice weekly telephone calls with Taft Schreiber
will keep Schreiber moving in what is to be the correct direction
and at the same time give Alex understanding of what is happening
on the top of the program.
As to the details, it is essential that the plan of Schreiber
and Crane that you review this Friday, covers the points below:
1) Bob's comments on his long memorandum regarding the
overall plan,
2) The timing of various activities over the next seven
months so that certain goals are set and reached by June 1,
July 1, August 1, etc.
3) That our best Administration spokesmen are used in the
small recruitment parties this Spring in California. Particular
names mentioned include Rumsfeld, Weinberger, Chapin, Ambrose,
Jaffe, Krogh and Blatchford.
4) The June 3rd briefing for committed celebrities where
Mitchell and Kissenger are currently scheduled should probably
include Ehrlichman to cover Domestic policy. Again, Alex would
probably be the best person to call Mr. Ehrlichman direct, convince
him of the importance of this event and get his commitment to
attend.
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One concluding note, Jon. Once the basic plan for the celebrities
for the next seven months is reviewed and approved by Mitchell,
with an informational copy to Haldeman, the celebrities project
will be one of implementation. I think that the basic structure
is sound so that implementation will proceed correctly.
Please give me a call as there are some other matters in the
general celebrities area that we should cover.
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
April 25, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FOLLOW-UP
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
Check with Bart Porter for the copy of the letter from
Dick Zanuck to Time regarding the omission of Chad Everett
in their list of celebrities.
GS/jb
F/U - 4/26
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
April 25, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FOLLOW-UP
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
Check with Jon Foust for his planning memorandum on celebrities
based on the Taft Schreiber and Ed Crane plan.
GS/jb
F/U - May 1
April 20, 1972
Dear Mike:
Please excuse the delay in forwarding the $67.00
for the miscellaneous and court expenses that
you incurred in connection with the Higby matter.
Kristine's personal check is enclosed.
Would you let me know then you expect to receive
a copy of the final order for Mr. Higby.
All is well in Washington, although the weather
indicates winter became summer without the bene-
fit of spring. It is hot and humid today.
I trust your wife and new son are doing well.
Kristine may have a chance to visit you in
California this summer, but I doubt that I
will be in California before November 7, 1972.
With best wishes.
Sincerely,
Gordon Strachan
Staff Assistant to
H. R. Haldeman
Michael Ferguson
Attorney at Law
2000 Center Street, Suite 206
Berkeley, California 94704
GS/jb
April 13, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FOLLOW UP
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
On April 18th check with Ann Higgins, Jim Berger at
Census, Bus Miller at the RNC, and Bob Reisner re
campaign junk.
GS/jb
April 11, 1972
Dear Mrs. Florov:
Mr. Haldeman asked me to thank you for
your letter of April 5 regarding the
Republican National Convention.
He asked me to forward a copy of your
letter to those members of the White
House staff who will be able to give it a
more thorough, professional analysis.
Your interest in writing is appreciated.
Best wishes,
Sincerely,
Gordon Strachan
Staff Assistant
to H.R. Haldeman
Mrs. Verna E. Florov
1665 Glen Avenue
Pasadena, California
91103
GS:KB:kb
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
April 12, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FOLLOW UP
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
Check with Fred Malek on Monday, April 17, regarding Mitchell's
discussions with Tom Evans at the RNC as to whether Jack Butram
has assumed the role of Deputy Communications Director.
April 4, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FOLLOW UP
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
On May 1, be raised the possibility of Bob meeting with
Peter Dailey to review the campaign advertising situation.
Be sure to include the notes from the January 12 meeting
as well as the October meeting.
April 12, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
LARRY HIGBY
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
SUBJECT:
Whatever Happened To
After considerable chasing around with American and German
Olympic committees, I prepared a brief note and draft
letter for Bob's signature to has sister, Mrs. France Raine,
regarding tickets to the Olympics in Munich. We have no
record indicating that Bob ever signed that letter. Do
you know whether it was handled orally or just where it
stands?
GS/jb
F/U - 4/17
Disregard this memo
in light of one
conversation this
many morning
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April 5, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
DICK HOWARD
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
SUBJECT:
Monday - Kennedy
Pursuant to our conversation, would you make your best effort
at getting Monday to present the following line:
"In light of the Wisconsin primary it is now clear that
Edward M. Kennedy is clearly the candidate of the
Democrats. The article in Monday should be quite
extensive and emphasize that no other Democratic
candidate can now emerge as the winner."
Dick, Bob covered this briefly with Chuck on the phome and
emphasized the importance of pushing this new line. However,
I would appreciate it, if you run into any problems please
let me know so that we can do whatever is necessary to make
sure that Monday is used as fully as it should be on this
particular line.
You should also be aware that John Mitchell talked with Senator
Dole and Frank Dale today to get them to issue statements plugging
this line, that Kennedy is now clearly the candidate. Our other
spokesmen that you and Pat O'Donnell work with should also
receive this line. I will be checking with Magruder to make
sure he 1s fully aware of the effort that should be put behind
this portrayal of Kennedy as the clear winner of the Democratic
primary in Wisconsin.
GS:car