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George Gallup article in "The Gallup Poll" proclaiming "Kennedy Emerging as Front Runner in Battle for 1972 Nomination." 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], 5/16/1971
Newsweek article detailing various Democratic figures contending for the presidential nomination. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], 5/10/1971
From "Mort" to Higby RE: material on McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], no date
Record of a McGovern interview on NET with the candidate's views on various political issues. Handwritten notes added by unknown parties on original and on copy. 6 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], 2/23/1971
From Strachan to Higby RE: McGovern's use of Senate stationery for letters to raise campaign funds. Handwritten notes added by Strachan and other, unidentified parties. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 6/8/1971
From Strachan to Haldeman RE: an attached piece authored by Buchanan. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 6/7/1971
Buchanan's report on the state of the Democratic Party's presidential hopefuls titled "Teddy Kennedy: Out of the Gate and Into the Lead." 10 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], no date
From Strachan to "Betty" asking her to copy attached information. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], no date
From Strachan to Haldeman RE: an attached form letter from McGovern asking for campaign contributions. Handwritten notes added by Higby. Letter and return envelope included. 9 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 6/3/1971
From "Sally" to Strachan RE: Buchanan's article for "Monday" on Democratic presidential candidates. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], no date
Buchanan's report on the state of the Democratic Party's presidential hopefuls titled "Teddy Kennedy: Out of the Gate and Into the Lead." 10 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], no date
From Colson to Ehrlichman RE: fact sheets on Muskie. One such sheet, including the Senator's political positions, included. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 2/17/1972
An article in "The Evening Star" titled "Above Politics" relating to Muskie. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], 2/5/1972
Article from "The Detroit News" declaring "Muskie rejects Nixon Plan." 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], 2/4/1972
An article from "The Atlanta Constitution" entitled "Muskie Disappoints." 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], 2/5/1972
Political cartoon of Muskie. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], 2/5/1972
List of "Statements Made by Senator Muskie" on key national issues. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], no date
From Chotiner to Haldeman RE: an endorsement of Muskie from California Congressman Jerry Voorhis. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 2/1/1972
From Khachigian to Strachan RE: a televised Muskie announcement. Handwritten notes added by Higby. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 2/1/1972
From Strachan to Khachigian RE: a newspaper article criticizing Muskie. Twenty-sixth page of a memorandum describing the article attached. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 1/28/1972
From Khachigian to Strachan RE: attempts to force Muskie and Kennedy to express positions on busing. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/29/1971
Draft of a suggested statement on busing and potential Democratic candidates for president. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], no date
From Rumsfeld to Haldeman RE: attached information. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 10/7/1971
Hobart Taylor, Jr. statement addressing Muskie's views on the possibility of having an African-American running mate. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], 10/5/1971
From Strachan to Higby RE: Muskie's views on busing. Handwritten notes added by Higby. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/16/1971
Sixteenth and seventeenth pages of a document addressing the views of governors on busing, as well as information on Muskie. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], no date
From Nunn to Haldeman RE: attached information. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 5/26/1971
Form letter from Muskie asking for support in defeating RN. Copy of return envelope included. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 5/14/1971
From Strachan to Haldeman RE: an attached letter sent by Timmons. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 5/25/1971
From Timmons to Haldeman RE: an attached letter relating to Muskie. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 5/25/1971
Form letter from Muskie asking for support in defeating RN. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 5/14/1971
From Chapin to Haldeman RE: attached information. Handwritten notes added by multiple unknown parties. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], no date
From Walker to Chapin RE: an attached document. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], no date
Muskie's May schedule, published in "Muskie News." 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], no date
From Haldeman to Buchanan RE: attached information for use in a "Muskie Watch" project. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/14/1971
April schedule of Edmund Muskie. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], no date
From Haldeman to Colson RE: using attached information against Muskie. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/3/1971
List of contributors to Muskie's campaign. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], no date
Article titled "Rocky Still Seeking White House" authored by Paul Scott. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], 3/17/1971
From Strachan to Haldeman on sending information involving Muskie to various White House officials. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/13/1971
From W. Dewey Clower to Walker RE: comments overheard in a Maryland restaurant on the Muskie campaign. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/9/1971
Copy of a memo from Walker to Chapin attached to a Chapin for Strachan. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 4/13/1971
From Walker to Chapin RE: information on Muskie's efforts in New Hampshire. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/14/1971
From Higby to Strachan RE: an attached memo on Kennedy. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/16/1971
From Strachan to Haldeman RE: Magruder's suggestion to gather information on Kennedy. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/15/1971
From Allin to Higby RE: remarks given by Muskie on the "CBS Morning News." Transcript of the program attached. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 9 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], no date
Pages eleven to fourteen of a document discussing political views of McGovern and Hughes. 4 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], 2/18/1971
From Khachigian, via Buchanan, to the staff secretary RE: Muskie's trip abroad. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/26/1971
From Haldeman to Buchanan RE: using Muskie's behavior abroad against him in the election. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 1/20/1971
From McDowell to Monson analyzing Muskie's speaking abilities. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 1/27/1971
Transcript and analysis of Muskie's speech before the California Council for Health Plan Alternatives. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], no date
Article titled "Many Cleaned Birds Already Are Dead," discussing Muskie's visit to a San Francisco zoo cleaning station in the wake of an oil spill. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], 1/27/1971
Sydney Kossen's article titled "California Trip Pleases Muskie." 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], no date
Inside Report authored by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak entitled "Question Marks on Muskie." 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], no date
Ernest Rapley's "UC Aide Sees Medical Plan by '72." 1 pg. [Subject: Domestic Policy] [Newspaper], no date
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This file contains:
George Gallup article in "The Gallup Poll" proclaiming "Kennedy Emerging as Front Runner in Battle for 1972 Nomination." 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], 5/16/1971
Newsweek article detailing various Democratic figures contending for the presidential nomination. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], 5/10/1971
From "Mort" to Higby RE: material on McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], no date
Record of a McGovern interview on NET with the candidate's views on various political issues. Handwritten notes added by unknown parties on original and on copy. 6 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], 2/23/1971
From Strachan to Higby RE: McGovern's use of Senate stationery for letters to raise campaign funds. Handwritten notes added by Strachan and other, unidentified parties. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 6/8/1971
From Strachan to Haldeman RE: an attached piece authored by Buchanan. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 6/7/1971
Buchanan's report on the state of the Democratic Party's presidential hopefuls titled "Teddy Kennedy: Out of the Gate and Into the Lead." 10 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], no date
From Strachan to "Betty" asking her to copy attached information. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], no date
From Strachan to Haldeman RE: an attached form letter from McGovern asking for campaign contributions. Handwritten notes added by Higby. Letter and return envelope included. 9 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 6/3/1971
From "Sally" to Strachan RE: Buchanan's article for "Monday" on Democratic presidential candidates. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], no date
Buchanan's report on the state of the Democratic Party's presidential hopefuls titled "Teddy Kennedy: Out of the Gate and Into the Lead." 10 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], no date
From Colson to Ehrlichman RE: fact sheets on Muskie. One such sheet, including the Senator's political positions, included. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 2/17/1972
An article in "The Evening Star" titled "Above Politics" relating to Muskie. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], 2/5/1972
Article from "The Detroit News" declaring "Muskie rejects Nixon Plan." 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], 2/4/1972
An article from "The Atlanta Constitution" entitled "Muskie Disappoints." 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], 2/5/1972
Political cartoon of Muskie. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], 2/5/1972
List of "Statements Made by Senator Muskie" on key national issues. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], no date
From Chotiner to Haldeman RE: an endorsement of Muskie from California Congressman Jerry Voorhis. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 2/1/1972
From Khachigian to Strachan RE: a televised Muskie announcement. Handwritten notes added by Higby. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 2/1/1972
From Strachan to Khachigian RE: a newspaper article criticizing Muskie. Twenty-sixth page of a memorandum describing the article attached. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 1/28/1972
From Khachigian to Strachan RE: attempts to force Muskie and Kennedy to express positions on busing. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 11/29/1971
Draft of a suggested statement on busing and potential Democratic candidates for president. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], no date
From Rumsfeld to Haldeman RE: attached information. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 10/7/1971
Hobart Taylor, Jr. statement addressing Muskie's views on the possibility of having an African-American running mate. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], 10/5/1971
From Strachan to Higby RE: Muskie's views on busing. Handwritten notes added by Higby. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/16/1971
Sixteenth and seventeenth pages of a document addressing the views of governors on busing, as well as information on Muskie. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], no date
From Nunn to Haldeman RE: attached information. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 5/26/1971
Form letter from Muskie asking for support in defeating RN. Copy of return envelope included. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 5/14/1971
From Strachan to Haldeman RE: an attached letter sent by Timmons. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 5/25/1971
From Timmons to Haldeman RE: an attached letter relating to Muskie. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 5/25/1971
Form letter from Muskie asking for support in defeating RN. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 5/14/1971
From Chapin to Haldeman RE: attached information. Handwritten notes added by multiple unknown parties. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], no date
From Walker to Chapin RE: an attached document. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], no date
Muskie's May schedule, published in "Muskie News." 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], no date
From Haldeman to Buchanan RE: attached information for use in a "Muskie Watch" project. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/14/1971
April schedule of Edmund Muskie. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], no date
From Haldeman to Colson RE: using attached information against Muskie. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/3/1971
List of contributors to Muskie's campaign. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], no date
Article titled "Rocky Still Seeking White House" authored by Paul Scott. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], 3/17/1971
From Strachan to Haldeman on sending information involving Muskie to various White House officials. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/13/1971
From W. Dewey Clower to Walker RE: comments overheard in a Maryland restaurant on the Muskie campaign. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/9/1971
Copy of a memo from Walker to Chapin attached to a Chapin for Strachan. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Memo], 4/13/1971
From Walker to Chapin RE: information on Muskie's efforts in New Hampshire. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/14/1971
From Higby to Strachan RE: an attached memo on Kennedy. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/16/1971
From Strachan to Haldeman RE: Magruder's suggestion to gather information on Kennedy. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/15/1971
From Allin to Higby RE: remarks given by Muskie on the "CBS Morning News." Transcript of the program attached. Handwritten notes added by unknown. 9 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], no date
Pages eleven to fourteen of a document discussing political views of McGovern and Hughes. 4 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], 2/18/1971
From Khachigian, via Buchanan, to the staff secretary RE: Muskie's trip abroad. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 4/26/1971
From Haldeman to Buchanan RE: using Muskie's behavior abroad against him in the election. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 1/20/1971
From McDowell to Monson analyzing Muskie's speaking abilities. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 1/27/1971
Transcript and analysis of Muskie's speech before the California Council for Health Plan Alternatives. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], no date
Article titled "Many Cleaned Birds Already Are Dead," discussing Muskie's visit to a San Francisco zoo cleaning station in the wake of an oil spill. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], 1/27/1971
Sydney Kossen's article titled "California Trip Pleases Muskie." 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], no date
Inside Report authored by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak entitled "Question Marks on Muskie." 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newspaper], no date
Ernest Rapley's "UC Aide Sees Medical Plan by '72." 1 pg. [Subject: Domestic Policy] [Newspaper], no date
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Richard Nixon Presidential Library
Contested Materials Collection
Folder List
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
23
3
5/16/1971
Campaign
Newspaper
George Gallup article in "The Gallup Poll"
proclaiming "Kennedy Emerging as Front
Runner in Battle for 1972 Nomination." 1 pg.
23
3
5/10/1971
Campaign
Newspaper
"Newsweek" article detailing various
Democratic figures contending for the
presidential nomination. Handwritten notes
added by unknown. 3 pgs.
23
3
Campaign
Memo
From "Mort" to Higby RE: material on
McGovern. 1 pg.
23
3
2/23/1971
Campaign
Other Document
Record of a McGovern interview on NET
with the candidate's views on various
political issues. Handwritten notes added by
unknown parties on original and on copy. 6
pgs.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Page 1 of 12
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
23
3
6/8/1971
Campaign
Memo
From Strachan to Higby RE: McGovern's use
of Senate stationery for letters to raise
campaign funds. Handwritten notes added
by Strachan and other, unidentified parties. 1
pg.
23
3
6/7/1971
White House Staff
Memo
From Strachan to Haldeman RE: an attached
piece authored by Buchanan. 1 pg.
23
3
>
Campaign
Report
Buchanan's report on the state of the
Democratic Party's presidential hopefuls
titled "Teddy Kennedy: Out of the Gate and
Into the Lead." 10 pgs.
23
3
White House Staff
Memo
From Strachan to "Betty" asking her to copy
attached information. 1 pg.
23
3
6/3/1971
Campaign
Memo
From Strachan to Haldeman RE: an attached
form letter from McGovern asking for
campaign contributions. Handwritten notes
added by Higby. Letter and return envelope
included. 9 pgs.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Page 2 of 12
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
23
3
Campaign
Report
From "Sally" to Strachan RE: Buchanan's
article for "Monday" on Democratic
presidential candidates. 1 pg.
23
3
>
Campaign
Report
Buchanan's report on the state of the
Democratic Party's presidential hopefuls
titled "Teddy Kennedy: Out of the Gate and
Into the Lead." 10 pgs.
23
3
2/17/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Colson to Ehrlichman RE: fact sheets
on Muskie. One such sheet, including the
Senator's political positions, included. 3 pgs.
23
3
2/5/1972
Campaign
Newspaper
An article in "The Evening Star" titled
"Above Politics" relating to Muskie. 1 pg.
23
3
2/4/1972
Campaign
Newspaper
Article from "The Detroit News" declaring
"Muskie rejects Nixon Plan." 1 pg.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Page 3 of 12
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
23
3
2/5/1972
Campaign
Newspaper
An article from "The Atlanta Constitution"
entitled "Muskie Disappoints." 1 pg.
23
3
2/5/1972
Campaign
Newspaper
Political cartoon of Muskie. 1 pg.
23
3
Campaign
Other Document
List of "Statements Made by Senator
Muskie" on key national issues. 3 pgs.
23
3
2/1/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Chotiner to Haldeman RE: an
endorsement of Muskie from California
Congressman Jerry Voorhis. 1 pg.
23
3
2/1/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Khachigian to Strachan RE: a televised
Muskie announcement. Handwritten notes
added by Higby. 1 pg.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Page 4 of 12
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
23
3
1/28/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Strachan to Khachigian RE: a
newspaper article criticizing Muskie.
Twenty-sixth page of a memorandum
describing the article attached. 2 pgs.
23
3
11/29/1971
Campaign
Memo
From Khachigian to Strachan RE: attempts to
force Muskie and Kennedy to express
positions on busing. 1 pg.
23
3
Campaign
Other Document
Draft of a suggested statement on busing and
potential Democratic candidates for
president. Handwritten notes added by
unknown. 2 pgs.
23
3
10/7/1971
White House Staff
Memo
From Rumsfeld to Haldeman RE: attached
information. 1 pg.
23
3
10/5/1971
Campaign
Other Document
Hobart Taylor, Jr. statement addressing
Muskie's views on the possibility of having
an African-American running mate. 3 pgs.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Page 5 of 12
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
23
3
9/16/1971
Campaign
Memo
From Strachan to Higby RE: Muskie's views
on busing. Handwritten notes added by
Higby. 1 pg.
23
3
Campaign
Other Document
Sixteenth and seventeenth pages of a
document addressing the views of governors
on busing, as well as information on Muskie.
2 pgs.
23
3
5/26/1971
White House Staff
Memo
From Nunn to Haldeman RE: attached
information. 1 pg.
23
3
5/14/1971
Campaign
Letter
Form letter from Muskie asking for support
in defeating RN. Copy of return envelope
included. 3 pgs.
23
3
5/25/1971
White House Staff
Memo
From Strachan to Haldeman RE: an attached
letter sent by Timmons. 1 pg.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Page 6 of 12
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
23
3
5/25/1971
Campaign
Memo
From Timmons to Haldeman RE: an attached
letter relating to Muskie. 1 pg.
23
3
5/14/1971
Campaign
Letter
Form letter from Muskie asking for support
in defeating RN. 2 pgs.
23
3
White House Staff
Memo
From Chapin to Haldeman RE: attached
information. Handwritten notes added by
multiple unknown parties. 1 pg.
23
3
White House Staff
Memo
From Walker to Chapin RE: an attached
document. 1 pg.
23
3
Campaign
Newsletter
Muskie's May schedule, published in
"Muskie News." 2 pgs.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Page 7 of 12
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
23
3
4/14/1971
Campaign
Memo
From Haldeman to Buchanan RE: attached
information for use in a "Muskie Watch"
project. 1 pg.
23
3
Campaign
Other Document
April schedule of Edmund Muskie.
Handwritten notes added by unknown. 2 pgs.
23
3
4/3/1971
Campaign
Memo
From Haldeman to Colson RE: using
attached information against Muskie.
Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg.
23
3
Campaign
Other Document
List of contributors to Muskie's campaign. 2
pgs.
23
3
3/17/1971
Campaign
Newspaper
Article titled "Rocky Still Seeking White
House" authored by Paul Scott. 1 pg.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Page 8 of 12
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
23
3
4/13/1971
Campaign
Memo
From Strachan to Haldeman on sending
information involving Muskie to various
White House officials. 1 pg.
23
3
4/9/1971
Campaign
Memo
From W. Dewey Clower to Walker RE:
comments overheard in a Maryland
restaurant on the Muskie campaign.
Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg.
23
3
4/13/1971
White House Staff
Memo
Copy of a memo from Walker to Chapin
attached to a Chapin for Strachan. 1 pg.
23
3
4/14/1971
Campaign
Memo
From Walker to Chapin RE: information on
Muskie's efforts in New Hampshire.
Handwritten notes added by unknown. 1 pg.
23
3
4/16/1971
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Strachan RE: an attached
memo on Kennedy. 1 pg.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Page 9 of 12
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
23
3
4/15/1971
Campaign
Memo
From Strachan to Haldeman RE: Magruder's
suggestion to gather information on
Kennedy. 1 pg.
23
3
Campaign
Memo
From Allin to Higby RE: remarks given by
Muskie on the "CBS Morning News."
Transcript of the program attached.
Handwritten notes added by unknown. 9 pgs.
23
3
2/18/1971
Campaign
Other Document
Pages eleven to fourteen of a document
discussing political views of McGovern and
Hughes. 4 pgs.
23
3
4/26/1971
Campaign
Memo
From Khachigian, via Buchanan, to the staff
secretary RE: Muskie's trip abroad. 1 pg.
23
3
1/20/1971
Campaign
Memo
From Haldeman to Buchanan RE: using
Muskie's behavior abroad against him in the
election. 1 pg.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Page 10 of 12
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
23
3
1/27/1971
Campaign
Memo
From McDowell to Monson analyzing
Muskie's speaking abilities. 1 pg.
23
3
Campaign
Other Document
Transcript and analysis of Muskie's speech
before the California Council for Health Plan
Alternatives. 3 pgs.
23
3
1/27/1971
Campaign
Newspaper
Article titled "Many Cleaned Birds Already
Are Dead," discussing Muskie's visit to a San
Francisco ZOO cleaning station in the wake of
an oil spill. 1 pg.
23
3
Campaign
Newspaper
Sydney Kossen's article titled "California
Trip Pleases Muskie." 1 pg.
23
3
>
Campaign
Newspaper
"Inside Report" authored by Rowland Evans
and Robert Novak entitled "Question Marks
on Muskie." 1 pg.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Page 11 of 12
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
23
3
Domestic Policy
Newspaper
Ernest Rapley's "UC Aide Sees Medical Plan
by '72." 1 pg.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Page 12 of 12
The Gallup Poll
For Release: Sunday, May 16, 1971
Kennedy Emerging as Front Runner
In Battle for 1972 Nomination
By George Gallup
Copyright. 1971, American Institute of
Public Opinion. All rights reserved.
Nomination Choices of Democratic Voters
Reproduction in whole or part strictly
prohibited, except with written consent
of the copyright holders.
Choices of Independents
PRINCETON N. J., May 15 -
++++++ Registered Voters
Desire the fact that Senator Edward
Muskie
19%
Ker. city has disclaimed any interest in
Kennedy
I5
seekin the 1972 Democratic presiden-
Humphrey
TO
and nomination. he may still become
McGovern
8
the candidate to beat for the Demo-
Lindsay
6
crane nomination next year
McCarthy
5
Jackson
3
According to the latest Gallup
Here is the March, 1971, list for
Bayh
2
Survey of rank-and-file Democrats,
comparison, based on the choices of
Fulbright
2
Kennedy 15 the first choice of 29 per
tank-and-file Democrats:
Mansfield
2
of Democrats nationwide. His
Mills
2
lead 15 8 points over his nearest rival.
Senator Kennedy
Senator Muskie
Senator Humphrey
Choices of Democrats
Proxmire
2
Sen Edmund Muskie. Running a close
29%
- Registered Voters
did with 18 per cent is Sen. Hubert
21%
18%
Hughes
1
March,
Others
15
Hearphrey. Ten other possibilities,
1971
No opinion
8
including the only announced candi-
Muskie
26%
date ro date, Sen. George McGovern,
Kennedy
25
100%
are grouped far back of the front
Humphrey
21
runners.
McGovern
For comparative purposes. the
5
Lindsay
March, 1971 results, based on the
1599 Adults
5
McCatthy
choices of Independents, appear below.
Interviewed
4
Others, no preference
Among Independents, the same trend
14
In conducting this survey, which
has occurred with the expanded field
Hughes
I
ulates a nationwide prefer-
Here are the choices of the 553 per-
of candidates. Muskie has lost strength,
ential primary. Gallup interviewers
sons in the survey. who called them-
Fulbright
I
100%
while Kennedy has maintained he
Bayh
I
showed respondents a card listing 13
selves Democrats and who indicated
Others
5
Views of Independents
support.
men who have figured prominently in
that they were registered to vote:
tle speculation over the 1972 presi-
No opinion
5
Important
Choices of Independents
dential nomination. The respondents
Choices of Democrats
The candidate preferences of "Inde-
- Registered Voters
were then asked the following ques-
- Registered Voters
100%
pendents" are also important because
March
tion:
Kennedy
A comparison of the results using
in many states a person with no regis-
29%
1971
21
this list of 13 names with a shorter
tered party allegiance may vote in either
Muskie
Muskie
3150
"Which ONE of the men ON this
Humphrey
list of six names used in a March sur-
a Democratic or Republican primary
18
Kennedy
13
in would you like to see nominated
election.
McGovern
5
vey shows that Kennedy has made gains
Lindsay
II
as He Democratic candidate for
Pres: lent in 1972?"
Lindsay
4
despite the wider field. Muskie and
Following are the choices of the 327
McCarthy
9
McCarthy
3
Humphrey each score somewhat lower
independents (registered to vote) who
Humphrey
8
Interviewing was completed April
Mansfield
2
in the current survey. Since the earlier
were interviewed in the survey. As
McGovern
7
15 with 1599 respondents in more
Jackson
2
survey was based on a smaller list, this
the table shows, Muskie holds a slim
Others, no preference
21
than 300 scientifically selected com-
Proxmire
2
does not necessarily mean that Muskie
lead over Kennedy and the rest of the
munities across the nation.
Mills
I
and Humphrey have lost strength.
field among this group:
100%
5/10 Newseeveek- Dem Contenelers
Democrats: On the Threshold of Adventure
There is much more to a presidential
Peter Norbeck, who worried most about
shoulders than his mind. The world be-
candidate than his stand on issues and
the people, and McGovern is doing no
yond American shores is still unknown
his ability to marshal organizational and
less. "We have lost our individualism.
to him. So are the complexities of Wash-
financial support. Political potential also
our sense of our own uniquencss. The
ington. Yet there is this kind of fear-
involves intangibles of spirit and philo-
young are closer to the truth."
less thing inside him that intrigues his
sophic roots. Less than (1 year before
Yes. he says. the race for the pres-
audiences. It is not yet clear if it is fool-
the 1972 presidential primaries. TIME
idency is evening up now. He sees a
hardiness or a special courage.
Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey
chance that few political professionals
Hughes' life has been hard, but good.
offers his impressionistic assessment of
concede to him. "I feel it in my bones.
He remembers with relish tumbling out
the Democratic contenders. Even at this
I have no doubt at all that I could lead
of bed on frigid Iown mornings and run-
early date they are running hard.
the country in a more hopeful and joy-
ning naked down to dress behind the
ful direction."
wood stove, the only heat, bending too
N
OT the least of the political curi-
far in his exuberance and burning his
osities in this year of the urban
BAYH: Hard to Read
fanny. "People survived by helping oth-
age is that six of the seven men raised
Across the hall is Birch Bayh (pro-
up to challenge Richard Nixon come
nounced bye), Indiana's Vigo County
out of small-town America. Only Ted-
1-H-er. He is surrounded by pictures
dy Kennedy. a child of privilege, does
of covered bridges. Debate champion,
DENNIS BRACK
not know the sulfuric terror of a tiny
Golden Gloves light heavyweight. law-
Methodist Sunday school. the hard-pen-
yer. nemesis of Haynsworth and Cars-
ny economics of a paper route or the ec-
well. "I'm not scared by the presidency.
stasy of being a state tuba champion.
As a President. I could make a dif-
For those who have seen the sun-
ference. It's whether you want a pre-
burned 4-H boys in the pens with their
siding officer or a leader.' The phrases
heifers and listened to the croak of a vil-
come out in that prepackaged rhetoric
lage valedictorian unawed by God or sci-
of the heartland that too often has
ence, there is no mystery in their con-
been mistaken for real achievement, a
suming urge for public service and their
smokescreen for charlatans. They invite
special sense of self-importance. They
distrust today. They come from a face
are the ones who listened to and be-
that is uncreased. hard to read. There
lieved the Scripture lessons about help-
is not yet in his talk a hint of a new
ing each other and rejecting materialism.
American vision or even much fresh
They learned the satisfaction of per-
thought. But there is some elemental
MUSKIE
sonal excellence and leading others.
force. a determination not evident in
They are all now on the threshold of
the rhetoric.
an adventure that not even they imag-
Bavh knows almost every important
ined back in Mitchell. Doland. Shirk-
Democrat in every important state. He
ieville. Everett. Rumford and Ida Grove.
has money and he moves like clock-
They are good men. in the apple-pie
work around the circuit. tireless. like
tradition. maybe good to the point of
some kind of political accountant tot-
boredom. but that is in the eye of the be-
ting up the gains. raising the larger ques-
holders. They are men of uncommon de-
tion of whether his kind can compete
cency and devotion. but none has light-
in a time that calls for a new spiri-
ed a real fire. Whether any of them
tualism. "I'm not here by accident."
would make a good President is still a
he says quietly. and there for a mo-
question for most Americans.
ment is one of those kids nestled in
the clean hay of the sheep barn or hold-
McGOVERN: A Singular Intensity
ing the halter of his prize pony and cal-
George McGovern is the philosopher.
culating what he can do to get more
well read. thoughtful. open as a South
points and capture the blue ribbon
Dakota sky. every idea floating up and
and knowing that God helps those
out for all to see. Some are only half-
who help themselves.
HUGHES
formed. He may be too honest and too
open. His singular intensity seems some-
HUGHES: An Essence of Mystery
ers." he says. eyes wandering west. A
times to sweep him beyond the fine lim-
More than the others. Iowa's Harold
neighbor came during the Depression to
its of good judgment. He ends up be-
Hughes exudes the faint essence of mys-
borrow a dollar. The Hughes family had
yond any serious constituency. too stri-
tery. a political asset. Man of religion,
three. They lent one of them. With his
dent on the war. too quick to embrace
former truck driver and reformed al-
baritone voice he sang at home and in
any dissenter. suspected finally of being
coholic. he moves into a room trailing
high school. "I still remember how it
an opportunist. without the relief of gen-
wonder. "We've got to get out of the psy-
goes. he says. sitting in the afternoon
crating excitement.
chology of believing that the problems
light in the waiting room off the Senate
McGovern sits in his office surrounded
have no solutions. The solutions are in
floor. He straightens up. rumbles out the
by stuffed pheasants and distinguished
the hearts of the people on Main Street."
first few bars of his old solo, "When big
service awards (one from the National
he says. Huge. powerful. all-state guard
profundo sang low C
Limestone Institute). "I don't have any
and a tuba champion. There is a sen-
trouble sleeping," he says. "I'm doing
sitivity also. "We need more love in
MUSKIE: Leading or Led?
what I want to do." He is modishly
our daily lives. There needs to be a will-
Ed Muskie is labeled, cast, watched.
dressed in wide collar and thick tie. yet
ingness to forgive each other." But there
He is more wary than the others, the
talks with the slow rasp of a country
is something almost too mysterious
price of being ahead. Yet all of his ex-
preacher. which he almost became. The
about Hughes. His thoughts seem too
perience has not crased his sense of
paradox again. His boyhood heroes are
simple, 100 direct. It is as it he has ar-
awe about being where he is and who
George Norris, Bob La Follette and
rived here more on the breadth of his
he is. And in a way that is his strength.
There is new ness still about him. an abid-
vision lens in front of him and it is the
of a Western tree. He is an easy and sen-
ing belief in the goodness of people
wellspring of all power and he must
sible man. Tougher than his exterior.
that continues to rise to the surface,
put on his stovepipe hat. They whisper
There is a sameness about Jackson that
and even his temper emerges as a very
around the Capitol corridors that if Mus-
plagues him For so long he has been
special righteous indignation, a rare
kie had the hardness in him right now.
the champion of the aircraft industry.
quality in the grav of Washington's cur-
he could seize the thing before next
"Mr Bocing." Somehow he is that im-
rent power holders. Ed Muskie, the Pol-
year. His staff is big and growing. and
age of the perpetual proponent of mil-
ish immigrant tailor's son, is a true
Muskie is moving more and talking
itary preparedness. There is something
out but sometimes he seems lost in de-
of mothballs about it: cold warrior in
tails, as if his own cluttered and com-
the year of the great search for human
passionate mind will not let him cut
warmth. His impeccable liberal creden-
through to the fundamentals of run-
tials on social affairs. economics, con-
ning for and winning the nomination.
servation are lost to view.
When Muskie lets his length slump
He got his name Scoop when he ped-
at last, folds his hands, gives off that long-
died the Everett Herald in the red-light
jawed smile. then there is some of that
district. He went back as prosecuting at-
real Maine stull that sweeps away doubts
torney and cleaned the place up. Now-
and makes everybody trust him. "Peo-
adays he quotes Churchill, who wor-
ried about America's inner strength and
ability to "stay the course." He has
read Mao and studied the lives of all
the top Russians, and so he thinks we
ought to keep our weapons modern
and have plenty of them. That idea
keeps setting him apart from the oth-
crs. To him it is simple. You seek
HUMPHREY
peace but stay strong. We need the
SST, but we don't need to disrupt na-
wir
ture. "We can have quality of life and
economic growth." The parlor liberals
have forgotten that jobs are important,
he insists. He studies a lot. squirreling
away facts. "Some of these guys go up
the hill and down the hill," he says.
"They come out with mush." Not Scoop
Jackson, paper carrier. sawmill hand,
KENNEDY
law-and-order commencement orator.
MICHAEL LLOYD
HUMPHREY: Lively Fuddy-Duddy
Hubert Humphrey, dean of the class.
Scarred and bruised. but jumping and
bubbling. the glands still exuding their
special juices. It is odd how good he
looks up close but how old he seems
from a distance. There in front of the
JACKSON
desk he bathes you in warmth and enthu-
siasm. The mouth turns down naturally,
AP
and that, along with his pointed jaw,
could make him seem mean, but he nev-
er lets it happen. Humphrey laughs up-
roariously and shows his visitors a little
plaque that says TO HELL WITH DO-
GOODERS. He savors a man of light heart
and the joy of children. That is why
Humphrey somehow bores his constitu-
McGOVERN
ency to death and then suddenly wins
them back and goes on and on. Does
ple lack confidence and trust in each
he still want to be President? For a mo-
other and in their Government." he
ment, there is the hesitation of a be-
says. "They are looking for a man who
ribboned campaign veteran. and then,
knows who he is. Yes. yes, we can deal
what the hell. he is too long around to
with our problems, but there has to be ac-
play games. "Yes. I do."
tion." A question rises. floats there for
Then Humphrey is talking and pac-
a second. Is Muskie out there leading
ing and lecturing and preaching and
BAYH
or is he being swept along by forces be-
laughing. "I give these young people
vond him? But then he has untangled
on my staff hell. I say. 'Here I am, an
believer. That searecrow frame, craggy
himself. and is moving off with long
old fuddy-duddy, and I have more ideas
face and gravelly voice make everybody
strides toward something and somebody
than you do.' This Administration is
think of Abraham Lincoln, and that is
who is waiting.
not only apathetic. It is questionable if
of huge appeal in this aimless age. But
it is alive." Each new thought, each
occasionally there is the disquieting sen-
JACKSON: The Cold Warrior
fresh phrase lights him up as he be-
sation that somehow he is trying too
"I'm having fun," says "Scoop" Jack-
holds himself. "It's not a Silent Ma-
hard to be "Honest Abc trying too
son. "I'm speaking my mind." A huge
jority; it's a deaf Administration. There
much to reason with every voice that
picture of Seattle is spread across his
is no spirit." Old Father Humphrey
is raised against him.
wall. and there is Grand Coulee Dam
("Daddy") is up on the wall, the man
Muskie feels there is always a tele-
at night, and his coffee table is a slice
who read him Woodrow Wilson and Wil-
liam Jennings Bryan. Humphrey talks
about how the public now is a different
public from when he started. The peo-
ple cannot be fooled. They know. About
CAMPAIGN COSTS:
January he is going to ask himself if
they really believe in his ideas or wheth-
er they consider him only a rerun of
N an expansive mood. the mayor of
has ever been convicted of violating it.
the past. If he gets the latter answer,
Buffalo, N.Y., recently described him-
Now Congress is under strong pub-
then he says he is going to square his
self as "the best mayor that money can
lic pressure to pass realistic, enforceable
shoulders and say. "I don't want any
buy. He was kidding. of course-but
legislation that would put a ceiling on
part of me either.'
it was the kind of joke that many pol-
campaign expenditures. Seven months
iticians today would make at their peril.
ago, President Nixon vetood a bill iim-
KENNEDY: Driven by Something Bigger
Once such a line might have brought
iting the amount a candidate could
You walk up apologetically to Ted-
down the house. but nowadays it comes
spend on radio and television on the
dy Kennedy. the different one, because
uncomfortably close to the truth-not
ground that it provided for equity in
there is a sadness that follows him. He
about corruption but about a far more
only the broadcast media. Nixon also
gathers the tourists in his arms for the In-
costly phenomenon: campaign expen-
contended that the bill [avored in-
stamatic pictures, and they dissolve in
ditures. The growing dominance of TV
cumbents, who are almost always bet-
bliss. Wait. he says. have somebody eise
on every level of political salesmanship
ter known than their opponents and
snap it so the mother can be in there too
has raised campaign costs astronomically
whose perquisites of office-such as
-and she goes out of her mind with
and convinced the public that politics
staff, franking and office space-amount
joy. But is he too jolly? Yes. Driven by
really is a rich man's game. Even run-
to a campaign subsidy. Last month
something that is bigger than him and
ning for a modest office like, for in-
the Senate Commerce Committee re-
bigger than anybody. There is the smell
stance, Congressman from the First Dis-
ported out another bill, clamping a
of position and power already in Ken-
trict in Utah, requires at least $70.000;
nedy's office. The couch is thick and
in a few hotly contested urban con-
lush, not the black Government issue.
stituencies. the cost of running a suc-
The pictures on the walls are large and
cessful campaign would boggle the mind
professional-of family and friends. tell-
of an old-fashioned Tammany boss.
ing in their way the Senator's past and
When it comes to a major campaign
his purpose. The other candidates seem
for Senator or Governor. let alone Pres-
like renters in their quarters. Kennedy
ident. the cash required would have
seems to own his.
stunned even so peerless a fund raiser
The smile is there, but one wonders
of a generation or two ago as James Alo-
how deep. He is polite. but there is a
ysius Farley.
thin, cool curtain between him and his
Not that the political magic of money
audiences. Flashes of boredom occa-
is limitless. Money can help make a can-
sionally pierce his sentences. which often
didate a household word-but it cannot
lag behind his thoughts. and sometimes
guarantee that the household will vote
there are no verbs or objects. It keeps
for him. Too many other tactors deter-
NON-
nagging that he is in something that he
mine an election. No matter how much
may not want. but as long as he is
he might have spent on campaigning. it
there he will get on top of it. maybe
is most unlikely that Barry Goldwater
even manage it. The sense that he can lis-
could have defeated Lyndon Johnson for
ten to and understand another man's
the presidency in 1964. In 1970. indus-
ways. a large measure of John Ken-
trialist Norton Simon, despite a bottom-
nedy's charm, still eludes him. Nor is
less purse, could not win the Republican
there yet the feeling that human mis-
senatorial nomination in California from
ery moves him as deeply as it did
the vulnerable, venerable incumbent.
"Eque
Bobby. He imitates more than innovates.
George Murphy. Regardless of his gifts
"Out there" in the country. he says, is
or the size of his war chest. a Republican
limit of 10c per eligible voter on spend
something he calls a mood thing." "The
candidate for Congress in Mississippi
ing for all forms of communication.
idea that the people wanted a period in
starts with two strikes against him: so
with no more than half the money "
which to rest no longer seems valid.
does anyone who runs against a Kenne-
be used on radio and TV. Swift pas-
They are ready for someone to lead
dy in Massachusetts.
sage by the Senate is likely. although
them." He has seen despair in the long
prospects in the House are uncertain.
lines of poor people. He has felt that
Even if big money is not necessarily
Those who lavor a ceiling on cam
they have almost given up believing in
decisive. it has certainly become. for
paign expenditures appear to have
the American dream. which he still rep-
most politicians, indispensable. A single
strong case. The present situation clear
resents. He is running for President,
federal law regulates campaign spending
ly seems to favor the rich and jeop
but he is not running, believing he is be-
-the amended Corrupt Practices Act
ardize the chances of a candidate with
yond Chappaquiddick. but not certain
of 1925. The law limits the amount
out personal wealth. Usually, it is at
the people are. He is trying to grow up
that an individual contributor can do-
gued. he must turn to big contributor
those last few inches. like his brothers,
nate to a single campaign committee:
--big lobbies. big business. big labor
and it is not clear yet ii he will make
SO candidates organize a multiplicity of
Senator Edmund Muskie. who has ni
it, but it is clear that it he does. he will
committees. The law requires candidates
fortune of his own. will need at leas
not be like the other two.
to report expenditures of which they
$25 million to win the Democratic nom
are aware: so they profess general un-
ination and wage a respectable campaign
There may be more. or perhaps few-
awareness. It bars corporate contribu-
for the presidency in 1972. Must a can
er. men in contention for the Democratic
tions: so corporate executives act as
didate with insufficient mortgageable
nomination by the time the voters of
individuals in distributing company lar-
property mortgage his soul? Did the
New Hampshire become the first to ex-
gesse. It bans labor-union outlays: so
U.S. really benefit because political par
press their preference next March. Pres-
unions form political-action commit-
ties spent $300 million on candidate
idential polities is the most exacting
tees. The law's effectiveness may he
in the 1968 elections?
and brutal test of a man. and in the
measured by the fact that no candid He
But the matter is not as simple or one
end only one will survive.
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Q. What if you win?
1) "Restore sense of confidence in office itself - - " sounds trite but
"that's #1 hunger in American politics today. "
Credibility gap most serious phrase around -- how change?
To "tell the truth" I've built up forthright and candid reputation
myself. Thus my early campaign is to show my views and not
deceive public.
Q. Does RN deceive on more
Yes -- self-deception also involved.
issues than in Laos?
Believes military men excessively --
Always wants to believe his policies are working and put best
light on them when they aren't.
This is especially true in SE Asian war --
This and LBJ administration "guilty of opening" credibility gap.
We're told no U.S. ground force in Cambodia -- then ne twork saw
them in civilian clothes; caught them on ground. And even after RN
says there were none in Laos, 46% of public believes there were.
They just didn't believe RN.
There is a question, said George: whether President and advisers
are telling us the hard facts.
"Crisis in confidence" biggest challenge to the next president.
2
Q. Specific acts if President?
1) "Try to stop the killing in SE Asia" --
War there not isolated --
Part of larger foreign policy assumption that we're supposed to
be policemen and that we have "some kind of obligation to contain
Communism.
Communism has a different way of life but we shouldn't combat it by
military means --
We must make our system better - show it works -- that's our
greatest strength.
We 've now become identified with a dictatorial regime in Saigon
which is "no better than the group of people challenging them. 11
Thus to end war and order withdrawals would be first act.
Q. McGovern's Second Goal
Budget -- especially defense budget --
if President:
2 out of 3 US tax dollars used for military purposes - -
for past, present and "imaginary" wars in future.
The share of defense money in budget leaves implication that defense
of nation is composed solely of our military hardware.
He'd propose a very critical review of our budget and scale down
by "tens of billions' the share for defense - - 20 billions initially.
And by ending the SE Asian war within weeks, another 20 billion of
"arms" could be cut.
3
Yes, I might go to VN or Paris like Ike went to Korea -- go meet
with leaders of this war to end it -- might not be necessary to do
that though. Hanoi would probably give us a guarantee to let our
troops out safely.
Q. What about effect of US
"RN is hung up on a potentia Communist SVN -- it might
withdrawal on SE Asia?
happen -- I'd like to have Jeff. Democracies -- but Thieu isn't
that - he's a military dictator held in power by US military
presence.
Q. What of impact of our involve -
here will be recriminations no matter who settles it -- there 'll be
ment and pullout on domestic
a bitter feeling among those who've lost relatives, but I'm more
policies?
worried about how it's tearing our country apart. And 10s of
thousands being destroyed in Indochina.
Look here -- $25 billion a year from US taxpayer going to SVN;
It's not just accidental we have this high degree of inflation.
Q. Top domestic priorities?
Rebuild our cities -- most urgent
(also farm problems) Cities are "literally falling apart. " housing
deteriorating; no adequate recreation; schools, hospitals
deteriorating every large city in major crisis
I would use full power of President to guarantee every American a
job -- would be jobs for all if we set about rebuilding nation as we
should.
C
President of US can provide great influence;
his power in Indochina
why not use it in other ways?
Public would respond to domestic challenge offered by President if he
showed same degree of commitment as he does to SE Asia.
4
We're "destroying SE Asia. 11
Everyone in US should have decent house, decent job.
Q. Who would you bring into office ?
Not yet decided.
They'd have to have same kind of humane qualities which I do.
Dedication to peace and to reordering priorities.
Q. Are Dems ready to govern again?
We learned a lot of lessons in '68 -- saw what happens to great
national party -- have become more open -- think I speak for
majority of Dem party.
I'm most closely identified with peace issue
And 73% favor my formula for ending war
The public is ready to work to rebuild nation -- end poverty, hunger
Glad to see 4 or 5 good men in race -- we'll have to sharpen our
viewpoints.
Q. Why support you over Muskie ?
Won't get into it now -- wait until primaries; this is time to draw
issues with RN who is setting tone and substance.
I will point to my long opposition to war;
Opposition to investing SO much in military;
Call attention to my efforts in directing us to more of a peace time
economy.
There's a difference in approach and issues between Muskie and I --
but this is not time to argue with each other
5
"Ought to be targeting on RN" to let Dems decide who does best
job of defining issue
McGovern -- doesn't excite -- they say -- used to say that about JFK
in late '50s when I supported HHH -- said JFK too quiet, soft-spoken,
conversational, never pounded table. But he picked up as he picked
up strength from people. I saw that in '68 in own effort. I'm a
former teacher hard to pound table, wave arms more interested
in minds and ideas -- public would welcome such appeal -- People are
fed up with chairman, image making and posturing -- too much TV
glamour
'70 - wanted more quiet sensible talk -- I think I can give
that
Q. '68 Campaign a last minute
earnest then, tho didn't enter until RFK killed.
thing -- Now dead earnest
Why?
ssues accentuated since then -- still squandering dollars on arms
which add nothing to national security war still going on - done
nothing for jobs
Q. Are you a Kennedy stalking
Ridiculous -- nobody is that for 1 1/2 years -- I'm busy -- in own
horse?
position -- EMK doesn't need a stalking horse - there's no truth to it.
Q. Hoover?
Problem is he's preoccupied with own ego to point where he can't
tolerate any criticism. He's very quick to criticize own superiors
but he should be able to take some himself. Yet when one of his best
agents wrote a private letter and defended FBI tho said some things
wrong with it he was dismissed. This wasn't an isolated case
Hoover running it not as agency of law enforcement but as "agency to
serve his own personal ego" he operates a great PR apparatus to
build him up at sacrifice of crime-battle.
6
Many colleagues ask me if I'm not afraid to speak out on Hoover.
Are we to that point where MC's are afraid of one man? If so "we're
approaching a police state, literally" of MC's afraid to criticize
one government official. There is a "pervasive fear in this
country" that Hoover and his assistants are listening in on us,
watching on us, and that we have to be afraid.
We should be examining them , not be afraid of him.
FBI was not born in heaven, it consists of mortals.
Hoover ought to be called to account for his activity. We are SO
afraid that there's a file on us which one man can use to destroy
his critics -- just shouldn't be allowed .
Thank God, that's all, folks.
-Observer)
4/21
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
Howard
WASHINGTON
elit
June 8, 1971
6/17
MEMORANDUM FOR:
MR. HIGBY
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN G
SUBJECT:
George McGovern's Fund Raising
Letter
A check with John Dean indicates that the use by George
McGovern of repreductions of Senate stationery for fund
raising appeal is not legally challengable.
However, that would not necessarily prevent the valuable
use of this issue by Colson.
Should I contact Mr. Colson regarding this opportunity?
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Done
Dick 6/9
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Date June 7, 1971
NOTE TO: H.R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
Pat Buchanan prepared the attached
article for Monday.
He will do a memo for the President
on Kennedy similar to those on
Muskie and HHH this week.
what
he A or meshino B
TEDDY KENNEDY
OUT OF THE GATE AND INTO THE LEAD
Kennedy Running Hard and Well
Muskie Continues to Fade
The inept campaign and the indecisive character of Senator
Muskie have now cost him his lead in the race for the Democratic
nomination. In May, Senator Edward Kennedy swept past him in the
Gallup Polls. If Mr. Muskie does not pull out of his present tailspin
by summer's end -- he will no longer be even a credible presidential
candidate. His political condition has now been diagnosed as serious
to critical.
Collapsing Muskie Support
Even MONDAY -- which early pointed up Muskie's personal flaws
and campaign weaknesses -- was unprepared for the shock of May's
Gallup poll.
In that May survey, Muskie's one point margin over Edward Kennedy
among Democratic voters in March disappeared into an eight-point
deficit.
In November of 1970 Muskie was first choice of 33 per cent of
all Democrats. By March this had fallen to 26 per cent; by May it
had dropped to 21 per cent. In six months Ed Muskie has lost almost
40 per cent of his first ballot support among rank-and-file Democrats.
Among Independents -- long Muskie's strong suit with party leaders --
the defections have been even more dramatic. In March Muskie led
Edward Kennedy among Independents 31-13. In just two months, this
18 point margin among Independents was cut to four. (19-15)
2
Other evidence abounds of Muskie's collapsing fortunes. Mr.
Humphrey, who only months ago had written himself off, last week
jubilantly told a roomful of reporters "I'm licking my chops" over
prospects of another run at the nomination. Quietly, word has been
passed through Minneapolis to the Humphrey money men nationally, to
hold off contributing to a Muskie campaign. His war chest being
depleted, the Muskie campaign has given two dozen staffers the pink slip.
Bad News for Big Ed
Most ominous for Muskie, however, was the New York datelined
story that came clacking over the UPI wire April 15 quoting Edward M.
Kennedy as telling inquiring reporters, "I'm keeping my mind open" about
seeking the nomination. Wrote columnist William White:
"Ted Kennedy
who had flatly said a dozen times that
he would not run for the Presidency in 1972, has now turned
180 degrees. Now he observes that he is keeping his mind
open. An 'open mind' here is most surely closing in on the
chances of Edmund Muskie. 11
Six weeks ago, in a widely reported statement, MONDAY predicted:
11
If there is a signed Kennedy commitment not to run --
we would have to make Hubert H. Humphrey, in spite of it
all, the odds-on-favorite. You can't beat somebody with
nobody. 11 (emphasis added)
Well, there has been no signed commitment; nor do we anticipate
one. Recently, Andrew Biemiller, AFL-CIO lobbyist told a score of
union leaders, "If anybody thinks Ted Kennedy is not running for
President, they're nuts. 11 Wrote syndicated columnist Andrew Tully
in a similar vein:
3
"Not to get personal, but people who swallow Ted Kennedy's
repeated denials that he's running for President suffer from
rocks in the head. Kennedy is running just as his brother
John was running in the spring of 1959 and in the same fashion. "
We agree. Anyone who believes Kennedy is not interested in taking
the Democratic nomination suffers from rocks in the head. The evidence
is lying all over the political landscape.
Kennedy's Advance Party
Within the last month, Mr. Frank Mankiewicz and Mr. Pierre
Salinger -- out of nowhere -- suddenly arrived on the scene as full-
time political operatives in the campaign of Senator George McGovern.
Now, neither Salinger nor Mankiewicz is a starry-eyed youthful idealist
about to "fight, bleed and die" in the kind of quixotic campaign being
run by the South Dakota Senator.
Both are fiftyish, seasoned Kennedy hands interested not in
ideological joy rides but in prospects for power.
And, whatever else is there, there is no Prospect for power in the
announced candidacy of George McGovern. which after months (years)
of exertions has managed to rally the support of fully five percent of
the Democratic Party. McGovern is a sure lo ser, and his veteran
new teammates know it.
Even if Muskie, Humphrey, Jackson and all the rest abandoned
the field to McGovern -- leaving him the lone candidate for his party's
nomination -- Edward M. Kennedy could still, at any point before the
convention, step in and snatch that nomination away with all the ease
4
of a twelve-year-old taking candy away from a five-year-old.
Co-Opting McGovern
The Kennedy crowd, Messrs. Mankiewicz and Salinger included,
know this -- if Mr. McGovern does not. Thus, the arrival of these two
battered old Kennedy war horses in McGovern's stable is not an indicationg
that fortunes of George McGovern are suddenly looking up -- it is an
unmistakeable evidence that Edward M . Kennedy has now re-considered
and given the troops the go-ahead.
Senator McGovern thus now becomes less a candidate in his own
right than a vulnerable and expendable point man for the Kennedy
Juggernaut. His organization is a Kennedy front; his campaign team a
Kennedy farm club. The McGovern for President C ommittee is rapidly
becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Edward M. Kennedy Enterprises Inc.
Thus, it was no surprise when, hard upon the arrival of Mankiewicz
and Salinger, McGovern, unilaterally and surprisingly, violated the
three-month-old O'Brien treaty against attacking fellow Democrats
by skewering of all peoples Senator Kennedy's principal competitors
for the nomination -- Mr. Muskie and Mr. Humphrey.
(In the event of future attacks by McGovern, both Muskie and HHH
would be well advised to ignore the monkey, and pin full responsibility on
the organ grinder himself.)
5
Another deductive argument points inescapably to a Kennedy
candidacy. Despite the President's strength and successes -- both
Kennedy and his entourage have gone on record time and again that
the Democrats can win in 1972. They believe this. Is it conceivable
that men of their consuming ambition would voluntarily step aside and
let the nomination go to a Humphrey or a Muskie -- which could mean
for them eight more years of back bench obscurity, while others take
their place in the history books. It is inconceivable that EMK and the
Kennedy True Believers will let pass without a fight perhaps their last
chance for a restoration in the decade just begun.
Kennedy-Strategy Above the Battle
With Kennedy actively pursuing the Presidency, events of recent
months (the travels, the hearings, the speeches, the appearances --
the enormous publicity sought and garnered by both Ted and his attractive
wife) fit like pieces in a puzzle. And the Kennedy political strategy
emerges.
Steer clear of the early primaries. Nasty dog-fights are shaping
up -- where EMK's reputation as a "winner" and his increasingly
favorable public image could suffer irreparable damage in a mud-
slinging Democratic free-for-all, a la West Virginia 1960. Provide
strong covert support to anti-Muskie, anti-Kennedy candidates. Let
a hundred flowers bloom. Trust that a multiplicity of candidates will
make the primaries inconclusive, that the nomination will be open at
6
the convention and that EMK will emerge as the leader to break the deadlock.
For insurance -- keep the options open on the California Primary, where
EMK is strongest.
The primary impediment to the Kennedy strategy is the now
increasingly remote possibility that Ed Muskie will have the nomination
1 ocked up -- going in. Muskie has himself taken care of that problem.
Assets & Liabilities
A quick inventory of assets and liabilities of EMK seeking the
nomination would include:
1. The old Kennedy charisma and magic. Traveling the Kennedy
tour one GOP Senator marveled,
"
"I have never seen anything like it in my life.
The 'adulation
wasn't political it was royal It was like being with Presley
back in the '50s or with Frank Sinatra in his heyday. 11
2. Kennedy has undeniable strength with young voters, poor and
black. If this can be wedded to big city machine support (Mayor Daley's
"strong for Teddy" avers HHH) and some labor support, clearly Kennedy
could put together an easy majority at the convention, if the road is open.
3. He is the present front-runner with Democratic rank-and-file;
and it is difficult to see what candidate can draw down that expanding base
of support.
7
4.
"But there is positively no doubt at this moment and it is
corroborated by those who spent two days at the AFL-CIO
high command session in Atlanta, May 11-12, that the shift
is to Sen. Edward Kennedy."
"Poll the national leaders and it's Ted all the way. "
5. The emerging candidacies of Scoop Jackson and Wilbur Mills
seem certain to split the anti-Kennedy delegate votes, especially in
the South, guaranteeing that neither a Muskie nor a Humphrey can lock
up the nomination -- before the convention begins.
Left versus Center
1. His nomination would be hemlock to the Democratic Party in
the South.
2. His excessive doveishness, his defeatist anti-war statements,
his anti-defense posture, his divorce from the FDR-HST-JFK-LBJ foreign
policy tradition of collective security, have marked him in the eyes of
many traditional Democratic powers and Democratic supporters as too
immature and irresponsible for the Presidency.
3. His rhetoric, more and more bordering on the demagogic may
elate the kooks and excite the radical fringe; but it turns off, and turns
away, the conservative Democrats who yet form the majority of his party.
4. Where Scammon-Wattenburg remind Democrats again and
again that the name of the game is hold the center -- Kennedy's deliberately
alienates the center by acting as megaphone of the far left.
8
5. His patronizing of the May Day marauders and hell-raisers all
over the Capital may score points with Mary McGrorys, but it is
inexcusable conduct for a United States Senator, and politically suicidal
for a national candidate.
6. Kennedy's all-out support for ultra-liberal William Green --
trounced in the Mayoral Primary in Philadelphia by conservative, law-
and-order, ethnic Democrat Frank Rizzo -- indicates that Kennedy,
guided by Beautiful People politics, is putting his eggs in the wrong
political baskets. (HHH was quick to call and congratulate
Rizzo on crushing Green.)
Chappaquiddick
7. Kennedy Jet-Setting Social antics, his nightclub A. M. hijinks
in Paris on the eve of General De Gaulle's funeral; his cavalier disregard
of the sensitivity of his German hosts, including the Foreign Minister
a month ago; and the Mrs. 1 closet-full of see-through blouses and Hot
Pants -- this publicity, and it is massive, is alienating Middle America
from Wilshire Boulevard to the Hudson River.
8. Chappaquiddick. A crippling blow to Kennedy -- readily seen
in the fact that were it not for Mary Jo Kopechne's death in the car
beneath Dyke Bridge, the race for the nomination would have been
decided long ago. The impact of Chappaquiddick on Kennedy's nomination,
9
or a Kennedy election is perhaps the largest factor in the prospects of
a Democratic candidate since Al Smith's religion in 1928. Certainly,
Chappaquiddick helped chop the Kennedy margin from over 70 percent
in 1964 to 58 percent in 1970 -- against an unknown, forgotten
opponent. What it will do in 1972 -- inside a polling booth -- few
analysts agree.
Finally, however, Kennedy is a candidate, a viable candidate, the
leading candidate for his party's nomination. And President Nixon's
prediction to his staff has proved accurate. The Senator's treacherous
liberal colleagues who, on the very tenth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's
Inauguration, "cut" his younger brother in the secret Democratic caucus
out of his Whip post, have hearkened to the old adage about letting sleeping
dogs lie.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Date:
TO: FROM: Betty
GORDON STRACHAN
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Date June 3, 1971
NOTE TO: H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
-Clark MacGregor forwarded McGovern's
6 page letter requesting support
and funds.
-The letter is surprisingly dull
with the strongest criticism of
the President being "impetuous"
but with a lack of strength.
-We are duching on the use
of Senate stationey for
find raising
L.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
SOUTH DAKOTA
United States Senate
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20510
My Dear Friend:
You are one of a number of people whose help I am asking in
the most important effort any American can undertake.
Early this year, on January 18, I declared to the Nation my
candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972.
In doing so, I deliberately broke political precedent in
several ways.
It was unprecedented for a presidential candidate to make
a formal declaration almost two full years before the next
presidential term begins.
It was unprecedented to put such a declaration of intent in
a letter to thousands of potential supporters across the country,
as I did.
And it was unprecedented for the candidate himself to invite
the many thousands who respect his positions on the major issues
to help finance the organization of his campaign headquarters and
staff.
But I took these unusual steps because these are unusual
times.
I decided to make my intentions known early, simply and
honestly, because the times call for the greatest forthrightness
and the clearest commitment.
And I am writing to you with the same sense of urgency.
Today's issues need to be defined and addressed now -- fully
and frankly -- so that the voters of America can make the judgment
of 1972 with the benefit of a considerable period of testing and
deliberation.
The stakes are too great, our national problems are too
grave, to ask our people to make that judgment hastily in the
last weeks before the election, while the bands are playing and
the crowds are roaring.
Because the present Administration has deepened the sense of
depression and despair throughout our land, the Democratic
nominee in 1972 will in all probability be the next President.
2.
For this reason, he should be chosen carefully from the various
contenders only after meeting, in a broad range of public forums,
the most critical tests of character, performance, and understanding.
I am prepared to submit my record and myself to that kind of
critical comparison and test.
Having campaigned successfully twice for Congress and twice for
the United States Senate as a Democrat in my heavily Republican
native state of South Dakota, I seek the presidency with the
confidence that I can be nominated and elected.
I seek the presidency with the conviction that I can provide
the sense of history, the toughness of mind and resolve, and the
spirit of deep compassion which this highest office demands.
I seek the presidency because I believe without reservation
in the American promise and because I can no longer tolerate
the diminishing of that promise.
The remarkable architects of the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution of the United States endowed this nation with
founding ideals that have never been surpassed.
These ideals -- grounded in the Judeo-Christian ethic --
affirm the sacredness of each individual and the bonds that bind
him to his fellow creatures.
I can neither add to nor detract from these enduring principles.
Indeed, they constitute my philosophy of government.
But in this decade, as we approach the 200th anniversary of
the Declaration of Independence -- the beginning of a revolution
devoted to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" -- we
need a second American revolution.
Not a revolution of violence, but a quiet determination to
square our nation's policies and priorities with the ideals of
our founding documents.
In fact, I believe this is our only hope for avoiding the
ugly violence that now tempts many desperate people.
We cannot reconcile the deep divisions in our society by
merely patching over them. We can only reconcile them by
instituting the reforms so urgently needed and persuading the
majority of the American people to accept them.
3.
I want to lead our nation along this path of reconciliation
and rededication.
There were, I believe, two factors that cost our party the
presidency in 1968.
The first was the war in Vietnam.
The second was the conviction of many Democrats that our
party was not responsive in 1968 to their views and concerns.
I have sought to the best of my ability to meet both of
these central challenges to our party and our nation.
As you are undoubtedly more aware than most, my major energies
since coming to the Senate in 1963 have been directed to ending
the war in Southeast Asia, reducing our excessive military outlays,
and developing a positive foreign policy that would create the
conditions necessary for peace.
As a young bomber pilot in World War II, I vowed that if I
survived the war I would devote the balance of my life to the
cause of peace. I have kept that pledge and will keep it no
matter what else transpires.
It was the pursuit of peace that led me into graduate
studies in history, government, and international relations at
Northwestern University.
It was the conditions of peace I sought to convey to my
students when I assumed my professorship at Dakota Wesleyan
University.
I sought the works of peace as a U.S. Congressman from 1956
to 1960, and as President Kennedy's Food for Peace Director in
1961 and 1962.
Since 1968, I have been carrying on the fight against
President Nixon's needless prolongation of the war in Vietnam.
In addition, I have given my energy to the revitalization
and reconciliation of the Democratic Party.
It has been my privilege to serve as Chairman of our party's
Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection.
4.
That Commission, in accordance with the instructions from
the last national convention, has developed guidelines to insure
that every Democrat will be given a "full, meaningful, and timely
opportunity" to participate in the selection of our presidential
candidate in 1972.
I believe that these guidelines, when fully implemented, will
go a long way toward healing the deep wounds our party suffered
at the 1968 convention.
And I believe that my nomination as our party's presidential
candidate offers the best chance of heading off a fourth-party
movement by Democrats still fuming with impatience over the
mistakes of past leadership.
These Democrats -- and you may be one of them -- have always
known exactly where I stand. They know that I have opposed these
mistakes longer and more consistently than any other presidential
prospect in our party.
At the same time, I want, and I believe I enjoy, the respect
and good will of all other elements of our party leadership.
My dream and my goal is to unite our party and lead it to
victory without giving up one inch of my own integrity and
total commitment to the ideals of "life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness" for all Americans. I am certain it can
be done.
I believe the times demand this. I believe the people want
it. And I know that I must do it.
Our intervention in Vietnam's civil war was not an act of
national strength but rather a drifting with the tide of old
ideas and illusions.
President Nixon's failure to pull us out of the Vietnam
quicksand promptly and decisively is not an act of strength, but
rather reveals a lack of the strength needed to face up to the
enormity of our error and the seriousness of our predicament.
Vietnamization is not a formula for ending the killing in
Vietnam. It is a clear design to keep the war going by ending
criticism in the United States. It is merely prolonging the
bad dream from which our nation is attempting to awake.
In these times of our discontent, our greatest enemies are
despair and deceit.
5.
These threatening forces stem from the fact that our great
and powerful nation has wandered so far away from its ideals
that it has almost lost the way.
An America which launched its own independence with "a
decent respect for the opinions of mankind" now wastes its blood
and substance in the jungles of Southeast Asia in open defiance
of the common sense of the civilized world.
An America founded on a belief in the sacredness of life
now endangers the very basis of life by polluting the air, water,
and land which sustains us. We are standing in garbage up to
our knees while hurling rockets to the moon.
An America whose early pioneers opened the doors of Harvard
College six years after landing at Massachusetts Bay now is led
to believe that we cannot afford high quality education for
all our children.
An America founded on the belief that "all men are created
equal" has been so slow to grant full equality to its racial
minorities that it is driving some among them to acts of desperate
and self-destructive violence.
An America whose dollars were once so sound they were
recognized as a standard around the world now finds that its
dollars are so weakened by "guns and butter" inflation that
even working Americans find it hard to afford butter, to say
nothing of meat on the table for dinner.
An America of law is cursed by rising crime, dangerous
neighborhoods, and an underworld drug traffic that is jeopardizing
the future even of children in grade school.
An America with a Constitution that placed its war-making power
in an elected Congress now finds that power wrested away by the
CIA, the Pentagon, and impetuous chief executives.
An America which has always renewed itself through the
vigor and idealism of its youth now finds many of our most sensitive
and intelligent young people losing their faith in our system
and turning to drug addiction, exile, or dangerous fantasies
of domestic guerilla warfare.
And an America which has prided itself on the opportunities
for individual fulfillment now has millions of working men and
women who are trapped in unrewarding jobs, or can't even find a
job because the demand for their particular skill has disappeared.
6.
I want to provide a second chance for these latter Americans,
through a peacetime G.I. bill which will make it possible for
any American to go back to school and get the additional training
he wants or needs.
I want to provide a second chance for all Americans who
feel that they have somehow been left behind and forgotten.
I want to provide a second chance for America itself to
realize the dreams embodied in our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
I want to dispel the heavy smog of despair that is choking
our usual optimism and social vigor.
Many people will say that I don't have a chance. And it
is true that, standing alone, I would not.
But together, you and I have the best chance of all. If
you will join with me now, I pledge that we will make that chance.
To fulfill that pledge, I need sufficient funds to staff and
operate a campaign headquarters and start bringing my case to the
people all across the country throughout 1971.
I am confident that this 1971 effort will generate sufficient
additional support to enable me to mount a successful campaign
in 1972.
But the time to start is now.
In the ancient wisdom of Ecclesiastes, "To every thing
there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."
I believe this is a time to heal. A time to build up. A
time to cast away the stones of war, and gather together stones
for building. A time to speak. A time for love, not hate.
A time for peace.
If you agree, won't you join hands with me now?
Very sincerely yours,
Seorge George MS McGovern Sovern
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letter, please pass it on to a friend.
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TEDDY KENNEDY
OUT OF THE GATE AND INTO THE LEAD
Kennedy Running Hard and Well
Muskie Continues to Fade
The inept campaign and the indecisive character of Senator
Muskie have now cost him his lead in the race for the Democratic
nomination. In May, Senator Edward Kennedy swept past him in the
Gallup Polls. If Mr. Muskie does not pull out of his present tailspin
by summer's end -- he will no longer be even a credible presidential
candidate. His political condition has now been diagnosed as serious
to critical.
Collapsing Muskie Support
Even MONDAY -- which early pointed up Muskie's personal flaws
and campaign weaknesses -- was unprepared for the shock of May's
Gallup poll.
In that May survey, Muskie's one point margin over Edward Kennedy
among Democratic voters in March disappeared into an eight-point
deficit.
In November of 1970 Muskie was first choice of 33 per cent of
all Democrats. By March this had fallen to 26 per cent; by May it
had dropped to 21 per cent. In six months Ed Muskie has lost almost
40 per cent of his first ballot support among rank-and-file Democrats.
Among Independents -- long Muskie's strong suit with party leaders --
the defections have been even more dramatic. In March Muskie led
Edward Kennedy among Independents 31-13. In just two months, this
18 point margin among Independents was cut to four. (19-15)
2
Other evidence abounds of Muskie's collapsing fortunes. Mr.
Humphrey, who only months ago had written himself off, last week
jubilantly told a roomful of reporters "I'm licking my chops" over
prospects of another run at the nomination. Quietly, word has been
passed through Minneapolis to the Humphrey money men nationally, to
hold off contributing to a Muskie campaign. His war chest being
depleted, the Muskie campaign has given two dozen staffers the pink slip.
Bad News for Big Ed
Most ominous for Muskie, however, was the New York datelined
story that came clacking over the UPI wire April 15 quoting Edward M.
Kennedy as telling inquiring reporters, "I'm keeping my mind open" about
seeking the nomination. Wrote columnist William White:
"Ted Kennedy. who had flatly said a dozen times that
he would not run for the Presidency in 1972, has now turned
180 degrees. Now he observes that he is keeping his mind
open. An 'open mind' here is most surely closing in on the
chances of Edmund Muskie. 11
Six weeks ago, in a widely reported statement, MONDAY predicted:
"
If there is a signed Kennedy commitment not to run --
we would have to make Hubert H. Humphrey, in spite of it
all, the odds-on-favorite. You can't beat somebody with
nobody." (emphasis added)
Well, there has been no signed commitment; nor do we anticipate
one. Recently, Andrew Biemiller, AFL-CIO lobbyist told a score of
union leaders, "If anybody thinks Ted Kennedy is not running for
President, they're nuts. 11 Wrote syndicated columnist Andrew Tully
in a similar vein:
3
"Not to get personal, but people who swallow Ted Kennedy's
repeated denials that he's running for President suffer from
rocks in the head. Kennedy is running just as his brother
John was running in the spring of 1959 and in the same fashion. 11
We agree. Anyone who believes Kennedy is not interested in taking
the Democratic nomination suffers from rocks in the head. The evidence
is lying all over the political landscape.
Kennedy's Advance Party
Within the last month, Mr. Frank Mankiewicz and Mr. Pierre
Salinger out of nowhere -- suddenly arrived on the scene as full-
time political operatives in the campaign of Senator George McGovern.
Now, neither Salinger nor Mankiewicz is a starry-eyed youthful idealist
about to "fight, bleed and die" in the kind of quixotic campaign being
run by the South Dakota Senator.
Both are fiftyish, seasoned Kennedy hands interested not in
ideological joy rides but in prospects for power.
And, whatever else is there, there is no Prospect for power in the
announced candidacy of George McGovern. which after months (years)
of exertions has managed to rally the support of fully five percent of
the Democratic Party. McGovern is a sure lo ser, and his veteran
new teammates know it.
Even if Muskie, Humphrey, Jackson and all the rest abandoned
the field to McGovern -- leaving him the lone candidate for his party's
nomination -- Edward M. Kennedy could still, at any point before the
convention, step in and snatch that nomination away with all the ease
4
of a twelve-year-old taking candy away from a five-year-old.
Co-Opting McGovern
The Kennedy crowd, Messrs. Mankiewicz and Salinger included,
know this -- if Mr. McGovern does not. Thus, the arrival of these two
battered old Kennedy war horses in McGovern's stable is not an indicationg
that fortunes of George McGovern are suddenly looking up -- it is an
unmistakeable evidence that Edward M $ Kennedy has now re-considered
and given the troops the go-ahead.
Senator McGovern thus now becomes less a candidate in his own
right than a vulnerable and expendable point man for the Kennedy
Juggernaut. His organization is a Kennedy front; his campaign team a
Kennedy farm club. The McGovern for President C ommittee is rapidly
becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Edward M. Kennedy Enterprises Inc.
Thus, it was no surprise when, hard upon the arrival of Mankiewicz
and Salinger, McGovern, unilaterally and surprisingly, violated the
three-month-old O'Brien treaty against attacking fellow Democrats
by skewering of all peoples Senator Kennedy's principal competitors
for the nomination -- Mr. Muskie and Mr. Humphrey.
(In the event of future attacks by McGovern, both Muskie and HHH
would be well advised to ignore the monkey, and pin full responsibility on
the organ grinder himself.)
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Another deductive argument points inescapably to a Kennedy
candidacy. Despite the President's strength and successes -- both
Kennedy and his entourage have gone on record time and again that
the Democrats can win in 1972. They believe this. Is it conceivable
that men of their consuming ambition would voluntarily step aside and
let the nomination go to a Humphrey or a Muskie -- which could mean
for them eight more years of back bench obscurity, while others take
their place in the history books. It is inconceivable that EMK and the
Kennedy True Believers will let pass without a fight perhaps their last
chance for a restoration in the decade just begun.
Kennedy-Strategy Above the Battle
With Kennedy actively pursuing the Presidency, events of recent
months (the travels, the hearings, the speeches, the appearances --
the enormous publicity sought and garnered by both Ted and his attractive
wife) fit like pieces in a puzzle. And the Kennedy political strategy
emerges.
Steer clear of the early primaries. Nasty dog-fights are shaping
up -- where EMK's reputation as a "winner" and his increasingly
favorable public image could suffer irreparable damage in a mud-
slinging Democratic free-for-all, a la West Virginia 1960. Provide
strong covert support to anti-Muskie, anti-Kennedy candidates. Let
a hundred flowers bloom. Trust that a multiplicity of candidates will
make the primaries inconclusive, that the nomination will be open at
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the convention and that EMK will emerge as the leader to break the deadlock.
For insurance -- keep the options open on the California Primary, where
EMK is strongest.
The primary impediment to the Kennedy strategy is the now
increasingly remote possibility that Ed Muskie will have the nomination
1 ocked up -- going in. Muskie has himself taken care of that problem.
Assets & Liabilities
A quick inventory of assets and liabilities of EMK seeking the
nomination would include:
1. The old Kennedy charisma and magic. Traveling the Kennedy
tour one GOP Senator marveled,
"I have never seen anything like it in my life
The 'adulation
wasn't political -- it was royal It was like being with Presley
back in the '50s or with Frank Sinatra in his heyday. 11
2. Kennedy has undeniable strength with young voters, poor and
black. If this can be wedded to big city machine support (Mayor Daley's
"strong for Teddy" avers HHH) and some labor support, clearly Kennedy
could put together an easy majority at the convention, if the road is open.
3. He is the present front-runner with Democratic rank-and-file;
and it is difficult to see what candidate can draw down that expanding base
of support.
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4.
"But there is positively no doubt at this moment and it is
corroborated by those who spent two days at the AFL-CIO
high command session in Atlanta, May 11-12, that the shift
is to Sen. Edward Kennedy."
"Poll the national leaders and it's Ted all the way. 11
5. The emerging candidacies of Scoop Jackson and Wilbur Mills
seem certain to split the anti-Kennedy delegate votes, especially in
the South, guaranteeing that neither a Muskie nor a Humphrey can lock
up the nomination -- before the convention begins.
Left versus Center
1. His nomination would be hemlock to the Democratic Party in
the South.
2. His excessive doveishness, his defeatist anti-war statements,
his anti-defense posture, his divorce from the FDR-HST-JFK-LBJ foreign
policy tradition of collective security, have marked him in the eyes of
many traditional Democratic powers and Democratic supporters as too
immature and irresponsible for the Presidency.
3. His rhetoric, more and more bordering on the demagogic may
elate the kooks and excite the radical fringe; but it turns off, and turns
away, the conservative Democrats who yet form the majority of his party.
4. Where Scammon-Wattenburg remind Democrats again and
again that the name of the game is hold the center -- Kennedy's deliberately
alienates the center by acting as megaphone of the far left.
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5. His patronizing of the May Day marauders and hell-raisers all
over the Capital may score points with Mary McGrorys, but it is
inexcusable conduct for a United States Senator, and politically suicidal
for a national candidate.
6. Kennedy's all-out support for ultra-liberal William Green --
trounced in the Mayoral Primary in Philadelphia by conservative, law-
and-order, ethnic Democrat Frank Rizzo -- indicates that Kennedy,
guided by Beautiful People politics, is putting his eggs in the wrong
political baskets. (HHH was quick to call and congratulate
Rizzo on crushing Green.)
Chappaquiddick
7. Kennedy Jet-Setting Social antics, his nightclub A. M. hijinks
in Paris on the eve of General De Gaulle's funeral; his cavalier disregard
of the sensitivity of his German hosts, including the Foreign Minister
a month ago; and the Mrs. 1 closet-full of see-through blouses and Hot
Pants -- this publicity, and it is massive, is alienating Middle America
from Wilshire Boulevard to the Hudson River.
8. Chappaquiddick. A crippling blow to Kennedy -- readily seen
in the fact that were it not for Mary Jo Kopechne's death in the car
beneath Dyke Bridge, the race for the nomination would have been
decided long ago. The impact of Chappaquiddick on Kennedy's nomination,
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or a Kennedy election is perhaps the largest factor in the prospects of
a Democratic candidate since Al Smith's religion in 1928. Certainly,
Chappaquiddick helped chop the Kennedy margin from over 70 percent
in 1964 to 58 percent in 1970 -- against an unknown, forgotten
opponent. What it will do in 1972 -- inside a polling booth -- few
analysts agree.
Finally, however, Kennedy is a candidate, a viable candidate, the
leading candidate for his party's nomination. And President Nixon's
prediction to his staff has proved accurate. The Senator's treacherous
liberal colleagues who, on the very tenth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's
Inauguration, "cut" his younger brother in the secret Democratic caucus
out of his Whip post, have hearkened to the old adage about letting sleeping
dogs lie.
EYES ONLY
February 17, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
JOHN EHRLICHMAN
FROM:
CHARLES COLSON
SUBJECT:
Facts on Senator Muskie
Attached are two fact sheets. One contains primarily statements
by Muskle and the other going more into issues. Also attached
are some editorials which make some very good points with
respect to Muskie's new-found super-dove position. I assume
that you will see that these are transmitted to our friend --
hopefully with appropriate security.
As we develop new information, we will send it along.
KEY FACTS ABOUT SENATOR MUSKIE'S PUBLIC POSITIONS
Senator Edmund S. Muskie's presidential campaign attempts to typify the
Maine Democrat as a moderate man. But the facts are different:
FACT
Muskie joined with two of the nation's most heavily
dominated Communist leftist groups -- the Peoples
Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ) and the National
Peace Action Coalition (NPAC) -- in co-endorsing the
massive, disruptive anti-war demonstration in Washington
in April 1971, saying "I endorse and support this meeting
on April 24 and I urge those who participate to carry their
arguments on, beyond the days of demonstration, into
the political processes and institutions of our government. "
1971 Fiscal Year Annual Report of the FBI, p. 24.
(PCPJ and NPAC information)
Congressional Record, April 5, 1971 (endorsement)
FACT
Despite the fact that he told one audience that "the contain-
ment of expansionist communism regrettably involves con-
frontation from time to time and that to retreat is to under-
mine the prospects for peace and stabilitv. 11 Muskie termed
the Vietnam Was "wrong, morally wrong to another group.
The only difference was that Muskie made the first state-
ment when a Democratic President was getting the U.S. into
the war, and the second when a Republican President was
getting us out.
Congressional Record, Marchl, 1966 (first quote)
Portsmouth Herald, April 19, 1971 (second quote)
FACT
Muskie recently said "parents do not ordinarily mind sending
their children to school on buses so long as the schools
provide a good education, 11 yet he himself sends his children
to exclusive private schools, One goes to a school costing
$1, 000 a year with three blacks out of 245 students; the
other two attend a Catholic school with no blacks at all.
Congressional Record, February 18, 1970 (busing quo::
60 Minutes Transcript, CBS Television, November 1-:.
1971, P. 6 (information on children's schools)
FACT
Muskie criticizes the President's handling of the war, yet
he surrounds himself with a claque of advisers Harriman,
Vance, Warnke, and the rest who are responsible for our
original involvement.
Washington Post, January 26, 1971; National journal
August 7, 1971
FACT
--
Muskie sees no difference between those who have served
their country honorably and those who have refused the
draft, saying, "I do not see this group apart as separate
from other groups of young people who have been affected
by the war; those who have gone and died. the prisoners
of war. All of these are young people, many of whom pro-
tested the war morally but took a different view of their
obligation under the draft, and I don't think you can take
one group out of these for special treatment. "
Meet the Press, Sunday, January 16, 1972,
Transcript, p. 7-8.
The Inening Star
With Sunday Morning Edition
Published by THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER CO., Washington, D. C.
CROSBY N. BOYD, Chairman of the Board
JOHN H. KAUFFMANN, President
NEWBOLD NOYES, Editor
A-4
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1972
Above Politics
Foreign policy and the Vietnamese
Muskie formula would give all to Hanoi
war cannot be ruled out as issues in this
without even the formality of an elec-
year's presidential campaign. But the
tion: The North Vietnamese could either
specifics of the United States' negotiat-
dictate the form of a new government or
ing position, in this time of active bar-
look forward to dealing with a Salgon
gaining on possible peace terms, should
immobilized by the lack of American aid.
be declared off-limits for political orato-
It is doubtful that Muskie in the White
ry. Otherwise, whatever prospect there
House would let this happen. That
is for a settlement this year might be
makes it doubly Ironic that Muskie as a
dashed, as the Communists await our
presidential hopeful should complicate
election returns to see whose proposals
current negotiations by proposing more
are still alive.
of a sell-out than he later would accept.
It was particularly unhelpful for the
Muskie and other aspirants to the
front-running Democrat. Senator Mus-
presidency also should have taken a les-
kie, to advance his own two-point peace
son from the President's revelations, last
plan in competition with President Nix-
week, about the extent of secret negotia-
on's eight points, to which the Commu-
tions toward ending the Vietnamese
nists have still to offer their definitive
conflict. Unless he is a believer of the
response. Half of the Muskie plan-an
Wilsonian myth about open covenants
American pullout premised on the
openly arrived at, he should understand
freelng of prisoners and the safety of our
that a good deal of private communica-
departing troops- is relatively unex-
tion usually precedes the reaching of
ceptionable. The other half, telling Sai-
international understandings. In the
gon to make a deal with the Communists
case of Vietnam, President Nixon's prob-
or face the cutoff of all American aid,
ings in Peking later this month could be
would cause dancing in the streets of
instrumental in progressing toward a
Hanoi if put forward by a president in
settlement, even though every exchange
office.
might not appear immediately on the
Regardless of the merits and demer-
public record.
its of the Muskie plan, his announce-
The Maine senator, and other lat-
ment of it at this critical juncture did
ter-day doves, have plenty of political
not help the cause of peace, and the
hay to make, in less specific ways, over
repatriation of American POWs. in 1972.
the longevity of the war that was ex--
The North Vietamese and the Viet Cong
panded to prodigious size under Demo-
have to consider the possibility that
cratic auspices with the acquiescence of
Maskie mith win his party's presiden-
Muskie and some other Democratic con-
tial remins in. m
tenders. Bat it would be better for pre-
Nov
to Mr. Nixon's job to limit them-
of coming 10 2.1 anreement with Mr.
to general comments than to offer
Nixon now, or waiting to deal WIth 11.
the cremy terms that, publicly, the in-
possible successor next year. Muskie's
cumbent has X 1elt driver to proffer.
proposed terins, including what would
Mr. Nixon has worked hard to wind
appear to be the political emasculation
down the war that his Democratic pred-
of South Visinam. Pa ite a print case for
eccesor. for mostly good reasons, suc-
delay.
coede. i in winding up. If there IS a
President Nixon's plan would require
chance for 0 reasonable peace settle-
all election, with President Thicu stand-
ment this year. as there seems to be, the
ing aside a month beforehend. 10 deter-
exigencies of the presidential campaign
Editorial Page
The Detroit News
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EDWIN K. WHEELER
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Vice-President and General Manager
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WILBUR E. ELSTON
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Associate Editor-Editorial Page
14-A
Friday, February 4, 1972
Muskie rejects Nixon plan
Not the way to unity
One of the major difficulties of
which the Communists hope to be
trying to negotiate an end to the
able to scize power in South
war in Vietnam this year is the atti-
Vietnam, as well as its latest pro-
tude of the Democratic presidential
posal for the immediate resignation
candidates who are trying to outdo
of President Thieu.
each other in their offers to the
But in terms of arriving at any
enemy.
settlement, Muskie's sharp criti-
Senator George McGovern, of
cism of President Nixon's own
South Dakota, has been playing the
peace program was even worse
negotiating game for a long time,
than his own proposals. He charac-
with little success. Now Senator
terized American involvement in
Edmund S. Muskie, of Maine, is get-
the war as immoral and the Presi-
ting into the act, with, we hope, the
dent's efforts to end it as unrealis-
same result.
tic. He seemed to come closer to
Muskie now has offered a two-
outright rejection of Mr. Nixon's
point program calling for (1)
plan then the enemy has done.
removal of all U.S. troops, ships and
Nobody expected the Democratic
bombers in return for the safety of
candidates for the president really
the withdrawing U.S. forces and the
to endorse Mr. Nixon's plan,
release of U.S. prisoners of war,
although Senator Henry M.
and (2) an ultimatum to the South
Jackson, of Washington, did so. But
Vietnamese government to seek a
the rhetoric spewing forth from the
political accommodation with the
Democratic candidates about their
Communists or lose even indirect
own plans and in criticism of the
U.S. support after the withdrawal is
President's efforts hardly provide
completed.
the unity that is needed to impress
In effect, Muskie seems to be sup-
the enemy with this country's deter-
porting the enemy's demand for a
mination to stay the course until a
coalition government. through
fair settlement can be achieved.
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
For 103 Years the South's Standard Newspaper
JACK TARVER, President
REG MURPUY, Editor
PAGE 1A, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1972
Muskie Disappoints
Sen. Edmund Mu-kie has disap-
thus was justified in saying. "I think
pointed 2 lange sumber of Americans
this particular (Muskle) speech. com-
by his eminady intervention in the
ing at this time. was most imporo-
peace negetiations with Hanoi.
priate and harmful to our national 1:2-
President Nixon already had out-
terest." Re jers further WAS institled in
asking that all the candidates allow
lined an elect-polat plan to 01 the war
in South Vistorm over. 1.
the process time to be considered.
least a hint that Nomb
sceretaries of state
were thinking of Peace W
1.5 be inverved in ti:is kind of
of hope was to be prefer:
possed nght. Traditionally they have
instruct. Publick the P.
saved out of the bulkiop to presiden-
d of arran
tial campaigns. Rogers must not allow
ing a coare-f.re and a emement of the
himself to be used by the President or
conflict.
anybody else to rebut all the campaign
Muskie suddenly tossed a new op-
oratory. In this case, though, it was es-
tion out. It called for the U.S. to set a
sential that somebody call for a halt to
firm date for withdrawal of American
the counter-proposals until Hanoi has
troops in return for the safe conduct of
decided whether it will respond to Nix-
prisoners back to our side. Mereover,
on's initiative.
he called on this country to make it
clear to the South Victnamese govern-
ment it must seek a political accom-
Sack Out
modation with the Communists or lose
all our aid.
Smoking more but enjoying it less?
The Muskie plan is not offensive
Don't light up another. Go stick
standing by Rself. We would have 110
your Lend in a sack.
arguments with M. If its
had been the time (.) have sende them.
1 scient says some 18 The may
But we do object-as vigorously as
snioke 100 much in 3.499 they need
possible- to the feeling among all the
carbon dioxide which you can get
Democratic previdential candidates
plenty oi with your head in a sack.
that they have to top all of Nixon's of-
fers. International diploniney simply
It may look a tad ludicrous walking
cannot be carried on in such a man-
around with a paper bag over your
head. But at least you'll be walking
nor.
around. Smoke too much and you may
Secretary of State William R gers
not Le watking around 01 all.
WS this 2/5/72
STATEMENTS BY SENATOR MUSKIE-
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
In a speech attacking the "military-industrial combine", Muskie told
Brown University students, "We have become intimidated by the economic
strength of our military as we have intimidated others by the might of its
weapons. 11
Washington Post, April 11, 1969
VIOLENCE LAW AND ORDER
(These sections of the D.C. Crime Bill are) "experiments in repression".
Washington Post, July 22, 1970
The D.C. Crime Bill is "a simplistic, stopgap approach to crime. "
Portland Press Herald, May 2, 1970
STUDENT UNREST
"You have the God-given right to kick the government around -- don't
hesitate to do SO. "
Louisville Courier Journal, September 12
1968
While at Municipal Airport, Muskie credited the "rebellion of youth with
"helping us open our minds to new ideas. " He said youths of today
"are challenging us, and we can't meet those challenges with the same
old answers. 11 This is true whether one is challenging with ingrained
ideas of schools, government, churches, special groups, even the family
way of life, he said.
quoted by Lynne Holt, "Youth Rebellion
Helping to Open Minds to New Ideas, Say:
Muskie", Wichita Eagle, September 16,
"Student power had helped bring the beginning of the end to the war in
Vietnam. 11
remarks to 2000 Northern Illinois
University students. Thomas Moore
in Chicago Sun Times, July 31, 1969
* (Muskie was paid $3000 for speech,
N.Y. Times, May 17, 1970)
2.
"The ivory tower has been shattered, " he said. "The basic problem of
college presidents is to decide how institutions of higher learning can
be made more relevant to the student. "
quoted by Elmer Bertelsen,
Houston Chronicle, January 12, 1970
"Student dissent has not been a disease of the body politic. It has
instead been a welcome sign of health. 11
Boston Globe, June 8, 1970
11
this (period) is going to result in some adjustment problem, including
disorders, protests, and unfortunately, at times some forms of violence. "
Muskie went on to say that he felt the process of protest and change as a
whole was a "healthy" development.
Baltimore Sun, October 19, 1968
"It is little wonder to me," Muskie said, "that young people today are
more concerned with the freedom to escape than with freedom to become
involved, more conscious of the liberty to oppose than of the liberty to
support and more familiar with the right to despair than the right to
rejoice. 11
"Those who express instant and false indictments of students, faculty
members and administrators must be repudiated and the answer must
be plainly reported. 11
Kansas City Star, May 9, 1970
11
I'll remember Chicago," he shouted back amiably and then went into
his civics lecture, "and I hope you do too. Because I'll be interested in
you young citizens: I'll be checking up two years from now to see if you're
one-shot citizens. Vietnam, Chicago are important; but I'll be watching
to see if you work and study and stick with these problems, instead of just
complaining
Butthen, after tonight, I may be a protester myself. 11
Look, February 18, 1968
CAMBODIA AND WAR IN GENERAL
Commenting on capture of enemy arm caches, Muskie said, "I am really
not impressed by 6700 rifles. 11
Congressional Record, May 11, 1970
3.
"A pullout will not defeat us. "
Speech, University of Kansas
Wichita Eagle, May 9, 1970
"If I were the other side, I would say the President is not interested in
negotiations. He just talks about it as a cloak for another initiative. 11
Congressional Record, May 11, 1970
GS . file muskie
February 1, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
MURRAY CHOTINER
For your information, former California Congressman Jerry
Voorhis endorsed Senator Muskie on January 26.
Here we go again! Voorhis endorsed Will Rogers, Jr. against
Senator Knowland in 1946.
Disnuay
MMC:bh
TO
Bob
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
can
February 1, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
you a good my
a
MEMORANDUM FOR GORDON STRACHAN
theiry
FROM: KENNETH L. KHACHIGIAN
Ven
Buchanan and I feel that the business about deception in
Muskie's TV announcement is not the type of thing that is
worthwhile pursuing -- i. , with special regard to this
particular column in the Maine Times. The Maine Times, we
discovered, is a small, offset, handout up in Maine and is
not even listed anywhere in Editor and Publisher.
Mostly, however, it is our opinion that Muskie's announcement
has already received a great deal of ink much of it negative --
and that use of this particular home state criticism would not be
that helpful. We feel that it is much more important now to
target on two states - New Hampshire and Florida -- where we
have a disinterest in Muskie's success. In this case, Florida
is the more likely candidate. What we really need is a targetable
effort to derail Muskie in Florida, and we have recommended
such steps over the last few weeks.
We will keep this editorial and will plan to use it if the
question of merchandising candidates comes up but for the
time being, Buchanan reacts negatively to any particular effort
on this editorial. Let me know of any further thinking.
Attachment
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
January 28, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
KEN KHACHIGIAN
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
G
You probably noticed in this morning's news summary (copy of article
attached) the Maine Times editorial which rips into Muskie regarding
the deception in his T.V. announcement. You and Mr. Buchanan may
already be working on the most profitable use of this home state criticism
of Muskie. I would be interested in discussing your plans.
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Marianne Means says feeling among Dems at
all levels is that Muskie has the nomination
"locked up. 11 His "well-orchestrated string
of endorsements" and momentum has been
"dazzling" and nobody else can claim the variety
and quality of support he can. Muskie's "greatest
psychological coup" is Woodcock and Wurf
support. "There's not much enthusiasm" for
Muskie, but not real objection either, " is the
general Dem assessment.
After sharply rapping RN's VN bombings,
the Maine Times derides Muskie for "deception"
in his TV amnouncement. Muskie was not "home"
Khach
but at his beach cottage. A small, but signifi-
cant deception, (to make a house a home), but
along withtle pancake makeup, a speech "full
of platitudes" prepared by speechwriters, the
real Muskie "has gone, " replaced by a political
package. Mushie has made it alear he in ailenging (I)
his own convictions about VN, waiting to see it
it will be a campaign issue. Muskie will probably
get the nomination, says the Maine Times, because
the professional pols and delegates "have also
accepted deception as necessary, " but the voters
don't, and the writer now looks toward McGovern.
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 29, 1971
DETERMINED TO BE AN
ADMINISTRATIVE WING
E... 12055, Section 6-102
by EP
Date 3-17-82
CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR GORDON STRACHAN
FROM: KENNETH L. KHACHIGIAN
CLL.
The attached is our action to get the Muskie and Kennedy positions
on busing made known in the South. Harry Dent has a copy of this
statement (which Buchanan has signed off on) and has agreed to take
it down to the Southern Regional Conference to be held in Tennessee
December 2-4.
The intention is that we will have the statement go out either
under Clarke Reed's name or under the banner of all our Southern
Republican chairmen. We think it should make news coming at the
opening of the Southern Regional Conference, and we also plan to get
the statement mailed out in the South as well.
cc: Pat Buchanan
Harry Dent
DRAFT
SUGGESTED STATEMENT TO BE RELEASED
AT SOUTHERN REGIONAL CONFERENCE.
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At a time when the Gallup Poll reports that 78% of the American
people - black and white - are opposed to busing for racial balance, we
find it ironic and disturbing that the National Democrat Party continues
to lend endorsement to massive busing through some of its leaders.
Special sources of shame have been the unrealistic positions of
Senators Edmund Muskie and Edward Kennedy. Senator Muskie's position
-- in evident pursuit of the ultraliberal wing of his party -- is that he
would favor forced busing as a "legitimate tool" to achieve racial balance
-- a tool, he says, "that can be used, and should be used. 11
Senator Kennedy has said: "I support massive crosstown busing if
it's necessary to bring about equal educational opportunities. I also
support use of federal funds to support busing. 11
These two Senators' positions are interesting, but they are also
hypocritical. Both Senator Muskie and Senator Kennedy send their children
to expensive private schools. What this means is that they are all in favor
of busing your children and ours, but not willing to bite the bullet and put
their children on the public school bus.
We support and applaud President Nixon's sensible position of
holding busing to the minimum required by law and that there should be
no busing simply "for the sake of busing."
We also note with pleasure President Nixon's endorsement of
recent House action to tie up funding of massive busing schemes.
Substantial progress toward equal educational opportunity in
the South has been made by the Nixon Administration through a policy
of cooperation, not coercion. We believe busing is counter-productive
and
to good race relations, educational opportunity, and misdirects
educational priorities, and generally overcomes whatever good has
already been achieved.
We ask our counterparts in the Democratic party to publibly
repudiate or otherwise endorse the statements of their national party
leaders. It is simple. Prominent Democratic presidential candidates
are for massive, forced busing. Within the limits of the law, we
vigorously oppose their position and call upon our colleagues of the
opposition party to do no less.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Headn't see
WASHINGTON
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October 7, 1971
10/11
FOR:
BOB HALDEMAN
FROM: DON RUMSEELI
Thought you might find the
attached of interest.
Heis for P LBJ. blach Admin
October 5, 1971
STATEMENT ISSUED BY HOBART TAYLOR, JR., Esq.
While traveling in Europe a few days ago, I learned that
Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine told a political group in
I
Los Angeles that should he attain the Democratic nomination
for President in 1972, he would not consider a black American
as a running mate because such a ticket would be "unelectable".
I have further learned that he has since stated that he hoped
that his bringing the matter up publicly might cause general
consideration of the subject matter.
I have thought about these statements, I have followed the
ensuing debate in the press, I have discussed them with
prominent members of the Negro community, and I have come to
the following conclusions:
(1) I disagree with Senator Muskie's views and I further feel
that a candidate for the highest office in the land should not
make such a statement for, wittingly or unwittingly, he has
placed a ceiling on the aspirations of millions of his fellow
countrymen, a ceiling which they and other Americans of good
will have labored for more than 100 years to remove. I believe
it is time to recognize that it is no longer stylish for black
Americans to hold up their personal progress because others
might not like it. I do not think that the nation is well
served when the Senator issues a statement which dims the
future of black Americans (and the hopes of a considerable
number of whites) in order to ensure the success of what some
might consider his own personal goals.
(2) Senator Muskie should consider the political facts of life
that have been demonstrated. In the very state where he stood
at the time of his remarks, the people of California have
recently elected a black man to the very delicate post of
Superintendent of Public Instruction by an overwhelming
majority. From his own New England comes a black Senator
elected from a state with a Negro population of 5%. There
are countless other state and local officials who have been
elected throughout the land by predominantly white electorates.
I do not know why we are supposed to overlook this record of
4 -
accomplishment, unless the Senator has factual data which would
refute it and, to date, none has been advanced. I am also aware
of the fact that there exists a rather substantial number of
black Americans whose personal distinctions compare favorably
with those of the Senator. Whether any of these persons is
ready to be a candidate at the moment is one matter. But to
say that all are disqualified on account of color strains the
credulity and raises a question about the Senator's judgment
and his sensitivity as to how Americans really feel.
(3) I am concerned about the effect of the Senator's remarks on
the minority youth of America. For the last decade this country
has devoted itself very strenuously to the elimination of the
barriers which have adversely affected all types of opportunity
for minority Americans, and we have asked them -- and particularly
the young --- to put aside any bitterness or frustration resulting
from past treatment and prepare for a new day in which they can
participate and compete as equals. And, despite the problems
which plague us still, all over this land hundreds of thousands
of young people are following this advice -- as our college
enrollment, our skilled and white collar employment statistics,
attest. Now, the Senator places a condition upon our national
commitment. He says it applies only if one does not aspire too
far. He does not mention that had John Kennedy not disregarded
such advice 15 years ago, the myth of Catholic ineligibility
for the Presidency would not have been shattered, and he himself
would not now be seriously considered as a candidate for President.
There is also public danger in the acceptance as correct of the
views expressed by Senator Muskie. All men of experience know
that political predictions create attitudes ---------- that a statement
of this kind by so highly placed a person as Senator Muskie is
bound to lead great numbers to think that others are not ready
to accept minority citizens in positions of high responsibility
and, hence, that they too should hold that view. In short, this
kind of prediction may express public opinion, but it also can
form it. And experienced men also know that subsequent dis-
claimers and qualifications do not alter the original force of
such a statement. In the code language of race such subsequent
modifications are regarded as purely strategic.
Finally, the impact of such statements is not restricted to the
Vice Presidency or to politics. The principle has a bearing on
public opinion as to any high office -- in private life as well
as government. So the inhibiting effect of this kind of view-
point stretches to those who would aspire to rise in corporations,
in labor unions, and in other important institutions throughout
the structure of American economic life.
Now, I have already pointed out that I have discussed this matter
with a large number of prominent black Americans since my return
to the country. I am now prepared to say that all of these people
share my belief that Senator Muskie's views are totally unaccept-
able in a candidate who hopes to receive the vast majority of
their vote. Here we draw an important distinction which has been
generally ignored in the press. The fact is that one of the major
political parties generally gets a much higher percentage of the
black vote than the other. Hence, we expect those who receive
the benefit to be prepared to bear some of the risk and burden
of sustaining the legitimate aspirations of this segment of
their support -- even as they do for others. And so I must
report that it appears that Senator Muskie can look forward to
severe and sustained opposition to his nomination and, if need
be, to his election, unless this group of Americans is satisfied
that he has taken adequate steps to remedy the harm which has
been done, and positive action to further the advance of American
blacks to positions of the highest public authority on their
merit.
I want to make it clear that none of us are charging the
Senator with racism, and that we do applaud his exhibition of
candor -- a candor which we hope will be extended to all the
issues of public moment in the coming election. Nor does this
statement mean that anyone is presently announcing against
Senator Muskie or for anyone else, but it should be understood
that since Senator Muskie has raised this issue, we will be
watching this situation attentively and will be prepared to take
whatever action is necessary to demonstrate that the time is
forever past in American politics when a candidate can nullify
the legitimate aspirations and ambitions of his fellow Americans
on the basis of color, and still receive their support at the
polls.
Fle
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Administratively Confidential
September 16, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR:
L. HIGBY
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
G
SUBJECT:
Muskie -- Busing
You asked me for information concerning the busing
statements of Muskie. As you know, in this weeks
Monday the statement appeared that Muskie has taken
a "new rhetorical posture against busing to achieve
integration". Nofziger reports that this material
as well as the greater part of the longer political
articles in Monday are prepared by Buchanan's office.
The question about this stance has been relayed to
Colson and Buchanan.
Of much more interest are the comments that appeared
in the News Summary this morning. In particular,
Muskie's statement that busing is a "legitimate tool,
but not the ultimate one". This fact was pointed out
to Lyn Nofziger and follow up articles will appear in
Monday. Marik has also been advised to make sure that
all are retained (including this last one by Muskie on
busing) and retrievable.
In addition, Nofziger and Marik will be sure that the
Jesse Jackson, referred to on page 17 of the News Summary,
He with
are also statement retained and used in follow up articles.
one who varid the
question.
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idea is to trap him on his
original petint an Coho
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upholds it, it could have profound effects on US living
patterns as whites will not be able to move to the
suburbs to hide.
Charles Kurault, on the road in Point Roberts,
Washington, where students can really tell you about
busing. Pt. Washington is below the 49th parallel but
attached to the US it.is too small to support a
school so students are bused thru Canada, to a school
30 miles away but in the US. They go thru 4 customs
points every day, but no one seems to mind.
The Jackson (Miss.) public school system has filed
suit to stop state officials from withholding funds
used to bus students to achieve a racial balance.
GOVERNORS
Wally Mears reports that GOP Govs easily blocked a
Dem attempt to criticize RN's economic program as
inequitable.
This noted as well by both NBC and
CBS as was defcat of 2 anti-busing resolutions.
The NBC report emphasized that being Gov. particularl
of a big state, "used to be a big deal, now it's a big
headache. 11 As their problems have increased, their
influence has declined. Now they are the faceless men:
only 3 are recognized nationally and only Wallace enter
tains serious ambitions for the presidency.
Muskie on both nets: NBC closed its show with over
2:00 of the Senator' keynote address in which he
spoke about Attica. "We can't pass final judgment (on
the incident) but we can ponder how and why some men
would rather die than spend another day in the US. 11 It
will all happen again, said the Senator because we
didn't correct the situation yesterday or today.
On CBS, the Senator was asked about busing. He said
he regards busing as "a legitimate tool but not the
ultimate one. 11 "I don't like it because it's an inconven-
ience; it consumes time and resources, 11 said the
Senator. But we still have segregated and unequal edu-
cational facilities and it is a tool for dealing with the
problem.
17
Mudd said Muskie rushed off to talk to other Govs
"not to twist arms" Muskie had said but to inform
them of his views. Muskie aides stated that the
Senator is not seeking commitments but 4 Govs have
volunteered "to go anywhere and do anything" for
Muskic. That's part of the plan, said Roger, deny
the Senator is running but be sure to keep the momentum
rolling.
MORE MUSKIE
Jesse Jackson received a standing ovation from 1, 500
blacks at a Chicago Breadbasket meeting when he
accused Muskie of being a "racist" and said blacks
will try to thwart Muskie's efforts in light of his black-
VP comment. Jackson said Muskie's comments were
"honestly crazy, insane" and disqualify him from
running. "Muskie has no domestic plans, no economic
programs, nor has he outlined programs for bringing
people together. 11 Jackson then led the crowd in a new
slogan: "Muskie smells musty. 11
In a story headed "Muskie may have lost the black
vote, 11 Steif of the Washington News quotes Conyers
and others. Conyers called Muskie's statement
"illogical" and "frankly idiotic. 11 Gus Hawkins said
it "could have [been] handled a lot better. 11 Dellums
was "surprised but not shocked. 11 A staffer for the
leadership conference on civil rights called it "a boo-
boo I really lost something for him. 11 Black
California assemblyman Willie Brown said it "came
close to a man telling you you have cancer and there
is no cure. "
CITIZENS FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT
May 26, 1971
To:
Hon. H. R. Haldeman
From:
Lee Nunn Jn
For your information. Please note the
fine print on the bottom of the
letterhead.
Copies to: Jeb Magruder
Harry Flemming
Bob Marik
SENATOR EDMUND S. MUSKIE
Washington, D.C. 20510
May 14, 1971
Dear Friend:
I am writing to ask you for your help in an effort to
defeat Richard Nixon in 1972.
I am convinced that Mr. Nixon can be defeated. I am
also convinced that the effort to unseat him must begin now.
Obviously, no one can prepare to seek the nation's
highest office without a great deal of work in advance.
As you can appreciate, planning for the rigors of a
Presidential campaign is difficult enough. Raising sufficient
money to bring that campaign to a successful conclusion is
immensely more difficult.
Although it is too early to make any formal announcement
of my candidacy, I must now build a top-flight campaign staff
a nationwide traveling schedule must be undertaken
an extensive organizing effort must be put into motion.
I seek your money and support for this broad program of
political action. Our objective is a new administration
committed to fundamental changes in our national policies.
I believe we can reverse the steady deterioration of
American society, and I believe we can restore a sense of
national unity and purpose to the American people.
I believe that most national problems can be solved if
the President tackles them with courage and determination.
There are certain things the next President can and must
do:
- - The next President must, first of
all, bring our soldiers home from Vietnam,
and he must embark upon a foreign policy
which will avoid future Vietnams.
- - The next President must ensure a
stable and prospering economy, without
rampant inflation or mushrooming un-
employment.
This letter printed on 100% recycled paper
to protect the environment
Not printed at government expense
SENATOR EDMUN ) S. MUSKIE
- - The next President must exercise
leadership to guarantee that every
American is given equal opportunity
and equal protection under the law.
- - The next President must reshape
our national priorities SO that pro-
grams of direct benefit to all the
American people - - housing, education,
mass transportation, environmental
protection - - receive their rightful
share of the Federal budget.
- - And the next President must,
most importantly, begin to deal
honestly with the American people
once again.
That, perhaps, is the first order of business for the
next President - - the restoration of public trust in the
truthfulness and integrity of our Government.
I believe - - as I am sure you do - - that we must
accomplish these goals in order to set America upon the
right path again.
But if we are to succeed in governing the nation, we
must first succeed in winning an election.
I believe we can succeed in both endeavors if we join
together now.
Will you help me?
Sincerely,
Edmund S. Muskie
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Date
May 25, 1971
NOTE TO: H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
Bill Timmons sent this letter
signed by Muskie requesting
funds and listing Vietnam, the
economy, national priorities,
and credibility as the issues.
A copy has been forwarded to
Buchanan for his "watch".
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Date 5/25
TO:
HR.Haldeman
FROM: William E. Timmons
Please Handle
For Your Information X
Other
?
SENATOR EDMUND S. MUSKIE
Washington, D.C. 20510
May 14, 1971
Dear Friend:
I am writing to ask you for your help in an effort to
defeat Richard Nixon in 1972.
I am convinced that Mr. Nixon can be defeated. I am
also convinced that the effort to unseat him must begin now.
Obviously, no one can prepare to seek the nation's
highest office without a great deal of work in advance.
As you can appreciate, planning for the rigors of a
Presidential campaign is difficult enough. Raising sufficient
money to bring that campaign to a successful conclusion is
immensely more difficult.
Although it is too early to make any formal announcement
of my candidacy, I must now build a top-flight campaign staff
a nationwide traveling schedule must be undertaken
an extensive organizing effort must be put into motion.
I seek your money and support for this broad program of
political action. Our objective is a new administration
committed to fundamental changes in our national policies.
I believe we can reverse the steady deterioration of
American society, and I believe we can restore a sense of
national unity and purpose to the American people.
I believe that most national problems can be solved if
the President tackles them with courage and determination.
There are certain things the next President can and must
do:
- - The next President must, first of
all, bring our soldiers home from Vietnam,
and he must embark upon a foreign policy
which will avoid future Vietnams.
- - The next President must ensure a
stable and prospering economy, without
rampant inflation or mushrooming un-
employment.
This letter printed on 100% recycled paper
to protect the environment
Not printed at government expense
SENATOR EDMUND S. MUSKIE
- - The next President must exercise
leadership to guarantee that every
American is given equal opportunity
and equal protection under the law.
- - The next President must reshape
our national priorities SO that pro-
grams of direct benefit to all the
American people - - housing, education,
mass transportation, environmental
protection - - receive their rightful
share of the Federal budget.
- - And the next President must,
most importantly, begin to deal
honestly with the American people
once again.
That, perhaps, is the first order of business for the
next President - - the restoration of public trust in the
truthfulness and integrity of our Government.
I believe - - as I am sure you do - - that we must
accomplish these goals in order to set America upon the
right path again.
But if we are to succeed in governing the nation, we
must first succeed in winning an election.
I believe we can succeed in both endeavors if we join
together now.
Will you help me?
Sincerely,
husting
Edmund S. Muskie
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
DATE
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FROM: DWIGHT CHAPIN
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WASHINGTON
Date
TO:
DWIGHT L. CHAPIN
FROM:
RONALD H. WALKER
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MUSKIE News
SUITE 1004
1660 L STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036
TELEPHONE (202) 833-3850
CONTACT: Dick Stewart
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(202) 833-3850
SENATOR EDMUND S. MUSKIE
MAY SCHEDULE
APRIL 30
Evening
ATLANTA, GEORGIA. L.Q.C. Lamar Society (SPEECH).
MAY.1
Morning
ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Tour Lockheed Plant
Evening.
MACON, GEORGIA. Democratic Party reception.
MAY 2
Afternoon
CHICAGO. ILLINOIS. Polish National Alliance Parade.
MAY 7
Morning
MIAMI, FLORIDA. International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Convention (SPEECH)
MAY 8
All-Day
CALIFORNIA
MAY 9
Morning
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
Evening
FRESNO, CALIFORNIA. Democratic Party dinner (SPEECH)
MAY 10
Morning
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. Senate Hearings on Health Problems
of the Elderly.
-2-
MAY 10
Afternoon
OREGON
MAY 14
noon
NEW YORK CITY. American Jewish Committee convention (SPEECH)
MAY 15
All-Day
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. Evening speech, Democratic Party dinner
MAY 16
All-Day
WISCONSIN. Farm area tour. Evening speech, Congressman
David Obey dinner, Stevens Point.
MAY 20
Evening
NEW YORK CITY. Four Freedoms Award dinner (SPEECH)
MAY 22
Morning
AUSTIN, TEXAS. Dedication Ceremony, Lyndon B. Johnson Library,
University of Texas.
MAY 24
Noon
DETROIT, MICHIGAN. Detroit Economic Club (SPEECH)
MAY 27
Morning
NEW YORK CITY. Einstein College commencement (SPEECH).
MAY 29
Morning
WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA. Washington and Jefferson College
commencement (SPEECH).
Evening
BURLINGTON, VERMONT. Democratic Party dinner (SPEECH)
MAY 30
Morning
NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rivier College commencement (SPEECH).
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CONFIDENTIAL
ADMINISTRATIVE MARKING
By
E.O. & 12008, Section 6-102
April 14, 1971
NARD, Date 3-17-82
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. BUCHANAN
FROM:
H. R. HALDEMAN
Attached for your review and inclusion in the Muskie Watch project is
some information received by Chapin.
CONFIDENTIAL
SENATOR MUSKIE
1° HRIF
April 6, 1971
Philadelphia
EITRE
1:30 p.m. - Mike Douglass Show
7:30 p.m. Town Meeting of the Air
WFIL-TV -- sponsored by World
Affairs Council
April 10, 1971
White House News Photo Exhibit
Washington, D.C.
April 15, 1971
AFL-CIO State Convention - Baton Rouge
Flies to Philadelphia to address Lehigh
Valley Cooperative Farmers
April 16 and 17,
Travels in New Hampshire "just to
1971
say hello. "
A large dinner meeting is in the works.
Tentatively scheduled to go to Maine on the
evening of April 17.
April 20, 1971
Reception in Syracuse, N.Y.
Dinner in Rochester at Monroe County
Democratic Committee.
April 21, 1971
DNC Convention Dinner honoring
Governors, Wash. D.C.
April 23, 1971
Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in
Indianapolis
April 24, 1971
Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Lincoln
April 26, 1971
Address (N. Y. City) National Magazine
Editors Award Luncheon
New York City
*
April 29, 1971
Notre Dame Dinner honoring Father
Hesburgh
April 30, 1971
Atlanta, Georgia - Dinner LQC Lamar
Society
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY
April 5, 1971
National Association of Counties
Marriott Twin Bridges Motel
April 10, 1971
Open Library of Congress Photo Exhibit
April 13, 1971
New Orleans State AFL-CIO Convention
At Baton Rouge
April 15, 1971
Convention of Utility Workers
Washington, D.C.
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 3, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR:
CHUCK COLSON
FROM:
H. R. HALDEMAN
Is there any way we might be able to use the attached
in effectively getting at Muskie.
CC: Pat Buchanan
Gordon Strachan -- Please follow up on this.
Info to Howard
FU 4/16
Attachment
4/19-nothing he can do now
(12-3-70)
Edmund Muskie (D)
Contributions
Expenses
Maine for Muskie
77,148.87
101,015.39
Citizens for Muskie
65,077.72
71,080.05
Maine Lawyers for Muskie
455.--
451.50
142,681.59
172,546.94
Maine for Muskie Committee
Contributions $77,148.87
Expenses $101,015.39
Union Support
Maine COPE
5,000
Machinists Non-Partisan Political League
500
Committee for Good Government
1,000
Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butchers
500
Communications Workers of America (CWA-COPE)
500
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Political Education Committee - Boston
500
Laborers Political League (DC)
1,000
Transportation Political Education League, Ohio
500
International Brotherhood of Painters, et al (DC)
200
United Auto Workers COPE
1,500
Amalgamated Transit Union COPE (DC)
150
National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (DC)
2,500
Active Ballot Club (DC)
1,000
Industrial Union Department AFL-CIO
1,000
Transportation Workers of America COPE (New York)
1,000
Major Contributors
J. Salzbank, Manhasset, NY
1,000
R. Picker, NYC
5,000
(of United Artist Group)
A. Picker, NYC
5,000
(United Artist Corp.)
F. Rohatyn, NYC
1,500
(partner, Lazard, Freres & Co.)
(Dir. IT&T)
(Dir. Engelhard Minerals & Chemical)
(Governor, NYSE)
J. Cohen, Brookline, Mass.
1,000
J. Edwards, Berryville, Va.
3,000
R. Gibbs, Boston, Mass.
1,000
(Clergyman, Unitarian Church)
E. Hyman, Westport, Conn.
1,000
(believe Pres. American Broadcas ing - Paramount Pictures)
D. Cory, Hudson, N.H.
1,000
Other groups contributing were:
Savings Association Political Education Committee (DC)
1,000
Action Committee for Rural Electrification (DC)
1,000
Bankers Political Action Committee Mich.)
2,500
Citizens Reception Committee
5,000
Interesting Expenditures
S.A. Films - Montvale, N.J.
10,075
(TV Production Cost)
Salary (Personnel)
Don Nicholl
6,750
Charles Micolean
5,100
Peter N. Kyros, Jr. (son of Maine Congressman)
2,600
John L. Martin
3,800
George Mitchell
2,500
(Interesting to note that Nicholl is A.A. One wonders if he took leave during
the campaign.)
Citizens for Muskie
Contributions $65,077.72
Expenses $71,080.05
Union support
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers COPE (DC)
500
Transportation Political Education League (Ohio)
600
Teamsters Local #34 DRIVE Political Education Committee (s. Portland)
1,000
Fireman & Oilers (DC)
100
Portland Building Trades Council COPE
100
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America Political League
100
Engineers Political Education Committee (DC)
500
International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers
Vol. COPE Fund
1,000
Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers (Colo).
100
Transportation Workers Union of America Special COPE Account (NY)
200
International Typographical Union Political Committee (Colo)
200
ILGWU 1970 Campaign Fund
400
Utility Workers Union of America COPE (DC)
100
J. McNamara, Washington, D.C.
200
(a John McNamara is Sec-Treas of Fireman & Oilers Union)
Major Contributors
N. Ellis, Manchester, Conn.
1,000
(believe Pres. of Wyandotte Industries)
A. & R. Picker, NYC
1,000
(United Artist Corp.)
P. Shanedling, Beverly Hills, Calif.
1,000
Other groups
Citizens Reception Committee
295.2
Interesting Expenditures
SA Films
10,036.3
(TV Productions Cost)
John T. Martilla, the campaign consultant who engineered Rep. Robert F.
Drinan's congressional victory, is now in Philadelphia working for mayoral
candidate William Green, Jr.
More and more it looks like Chicago will be the site of the 1972 Democratic
National Convention.
Rocky Still Seeking White House
Ivc. News.
By Paul Scott
Republican presidential nomination, the
two states with the largest population
President has gone out of his way to
and most votes.
NEW YORK'S Gov. Nelson Rockfeller
name Rockefeller advisers and backers
Another key Nixon adviser is John
has begun maneuvering to win a spot
to key policy-making posts within his
D. Rockefeller III, who heads the
on the 1972 GOP presidential ticket.
administration.
President's Commission on Population
That is the private interpretation that
Nixon's two most influential advisers
Growth and America's Future. The
;key members of the
are close personal friends and former
recommendations the Rockefeller Com-
, Republican National
advisers of Rockefeller. They are Henry
mission is preparing could easily be-
Committee are plac-
Kissinger, the President's chief adviser
come the major domestic issues in the
ing on a recent Rock-
on foreign policy and national security
1972 campaign.
ofeller statement that
affairs, and Atty. Gen. John Mitchell,
The commission's reports, the first
he supports the Pres-
the President's top political and do-
of which will hit the headlines in the
ident for re-election
mestic adviser.
spring, are being tailored to bring
but would become a
Up until Nixon won the GOP
about the adoption of a national policy
candidate should Nix-
nomination at Miami in 1958, Kissinger
of zero population growth. The impact
on decide not to run.
served as Rockefeller's foreign policy
of such a policy on the life styles of the
When privately
adviser. After his nomination, Nixon
nation will be tremendous.
quizzed by a GOP
Scott
met Kissinger at a Clare Booth Luce
White House insiders now refer to
committee member about the state-
cocktail party and on advice of Rocke-
the commission's work as preparing the
ment, aides of the New York governor
feller took on the Harvard professor as
way for the "Rockefeller man." Some
reported that Rockefeller believes there
his number-one foreign-policy aide.
staff members claim the commission's
is at least a 50-50 chance that the Pres-
recommendations will be the center
ident will not seek re-election.
MITCHELL, BEFORE taking over
plank in the Republican party's 1972
Should Nixon decide not to make the
direction of Nixon's presidential cam-
platform.
race, they stressed, Rockefeller wants
paign in 1908, was one of Rockefeller's
to be in position to announce his candi-
key advisers. He served as the Rocke-
ANOTHER FORMER Rockefeller
feller financial interests' "bond at-
backer, Jerris Leonard, has just been
dacy immediately and go after the
GOP presidential nomination by lining
torney" for years, handling hundreds
given the job of directing the Law En-
of millions of dollars.
forcement Assistance Administration,
up as much of Nixon's backing as
possible before other candidates could
Justice Department insiders say that
the agency with the fastest growing
get their campaigns under way.
Mitchell has privately urged the Pres-
budget in government today. The
ident to pick Rockefeller as his 1972
appointment puts Leonard in a position
THE GOP COMMITTEE member also
running-mate to help carry New York
where he will be handing out hundreds
was told that Rockefeller is convinced
of millions of dollars to state, city, and
state and to groom him as the 1976
that if the President decides to seek a
GOP nominee. Should Nixon decide
local governments to improve law en-
second term he will probably drop Vice-
not to run, Mitchell wants Rockefeller
forcement and justice.
President Agnew and seek out a new
to be the 1072 candidate.
A long-time Rockefeller supporter
Tunning-mate. The former governor of
It was Mitchell who recommended
from Wisconsin, Leonard was brought
Maryland was a Rockefeller backer
into the Nixon administration by
to the President that he set up the
before switching to Nixon in 1968.
Mitchell to head the Justice Depart-
"California White House." The purpose
ment's civil rights division. Friends of
Rockefeller's influence within the
is to create the image that California
Leonard say he is still a strong Rocke-
Nixon inner-circle is much greater than
is President Nixon's home political
feller booster and favors a Nixon-
most people realize and is constantly
base rather than New York.
Rockefeller ticket. His contacts with
being increased according to GOP
This move could be politically useful
state and local officials through his
congressional leaders who have access
in 1972 should Rockefeller become
to the President.
Nixon's running mate: It would give
new position puts him in a key position
to help Rockefeller throughout the
Although the New York governor
the Rept a coast-to-coast ticket
I Sticly opposed Nixon for the
with
the
condidates
coming
from
the
country in 1972.
Nows-Iniciligance Syndicate
April 13, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
Chapin forwarded the attached memorandum.
After your review, Buchanan should probably receive it as part of the
Muskie
Redupted it to Bue
MEMORANDUM
Fyliapin,
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 9, 1971
4:00 p.m.
Confidential
ul
TO:
RONALD H WALKER
FROM:
W. DEWEY CLOWER
DC
DETERMINED TO EE AN
ADMINISTRATIVE
-
RE:
MUSKIE
E.O. 12065, Sect
?
By
EP
NARS, Du
3-17-82
The following was overheard while having breakfast at Colony 7
Restaurant, Fort Meade, Maryland April 9th by a close reliable
friend. The conversation was between three men, one of whom
apparently works for Muskie, the second is Mr. Hoffberger,
Chairman of the Board, Baltimore Orioles, and President of Natural 'hatinal
Brewery Company of Baltimore, and the third, unidentified.
The Muskie spokesman was discussing strategy and their plans.
He stated Muskie plans to run in all primaries not to just win the
nomination (which he stated they had locked up now) but to show
his strength across the nation. He stated they need $1. 5 million
to operate before entering any primaries. Also he broke out
the budget for individual states but the only understood figures
were $4. 5 million for California and $1. 5 million for Ohio.
Mr. Hoffberger stated he would help if Muskie assu ed him
he would maintain his position on Israel (whatever that is).
After assurance by the spokesman that Muskie would not change
but would do as they had agreed at an earlier meeting, Mr.
Hoffberg said he would donate $800, 000,. and would deliver it
within one week.
Other obversations were:
- Muskie will not announce in near future.
- Muskie satisfied with his standing in polls.
- Would not like to be higher at this time SO long before primaries.
Too hard to stay at high level.
- Muskie people do not trust H. H. H. who reportedly has
promised to "deal" with Muskie.
THE WHITE HOUSE
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON DATE 4/13/71
Date 4/12
TO: Gorden
TO: chapen
FROM: DWIGHT CHAPIN
FROM: Ronald H. Walker
FYI
PLEASE HANDLE
FYI X
ACTION
OTHER:
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do with this.
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Confidential
it to Evon & N
on some
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 14, 1971
K
TO: DWIGHT L. CHAPIN
5:20 p.m.
Gouls
FROM: RON WALKER
F41
The following message was received by telephone from Bill Henkel
this afternoon.
Bill received his information by calling the Democratic Central
Committee of New Hampshire.
The following individuals were identified as members of
Senator Muskie's advance staff:
Paul Scheehan
Hal Pachious (Supposedly from Maine)
Lonnie Davis (Muskie's Student Coordinator)
Kevin Cornell
Arriving this evening are:
George Mitchell
Mike Casey
They are all staying at the Carpenter in Manchester (603/625-5422).
This is the tentative schedule Friday, April 16, 1971:
9:30am
Press Conference
(Approx) 11:00am
Address Students @ Assembly, Central High
School, Manchester, New Hampshire.
12:00noon
Private Luncheon.
Afternoon
Private Meetings.
Television Taping Session-WMUR, Manchester.
Evening
Public Seminar, Assembly Hall of Phillips
Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire.
(Expected to be well-attended).
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Date: 4/16/71
To : AS
From :
L. Higby
Rather then putting
therein One at le 6 time
let's gettle whole plan
forth "Wath" developed
on do thei ma co orderal
way - L.
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
DETERMINED TO BE AN
WASHINGTON
ADMINISTRATIVE MARKING
E.O. 12065, Section 6-102
By EP
NARS, Date 3-17-82
April 15, 1971
CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
G
Magruder suggests that we assign an investigating reporter to
do in-depth background research on Kennedy. It is Magruder's
view that very damaging, and later very useful, information
could be developed in this manner.
He suggests that we have the activity set up through Nofziger.
An alternative would be to have Chapin arrange it through
Victor Lasky.
In light of the obvious requirements for confidentiality, I
recommend that we follow the Nofziger route.
Approve
Disapprove
Comment
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
To: Larry Higby
From: Mort
FYI To Morder
REMARKS OF SENATOR MUSKIE
ON THE
CBS MORNING NEWS
JANUARY 29, 1971
Q
- - - do you feel it will be increasingly
widening and become increasingly more aggressive in the
coming months?
SENATOR MUSKIE: I expect SO. This is the kind
of organizationalchallenge that one rarely faces until it
comes.
And so we are all grappling with new challenges
and new ways of doing things. And I think WC are improving.
&
Senator, I wonder if I may just confess about
a bit of puzzlement I have. Youhave done everything but
announce your candidacy. You have got your organization,
you are raising funds, you are making speeches certainly
as though you are a candidate.
What inhibits you from making that formal
proclamation?
SENATOR MUSKIE: There is a great deal of work
to be done before that formal proclamation, because
once that formal proclamation comes along the whole
character of the effort and the operation changes. And
we are involved in that preparatory work which involves
the staff work to which you have referred, a political
organization which really we are just about beginning
to do and other things.
And in addition I have the responsibility of
being a Senator.
&
Senator Muskie, do you think that when
delegates, for example, in California listen to you or
people read about you in the newspapers or see you on
television that they are making the fine distinction
that you are?
SENATOR MUSKIE: I don't know. But I know
this: Two years is too long to campaign for any office.
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- 2 -
Q
Do you think there is any possibility
that, as there has been some speculation, one reason
you are holding back from formally throwing the hat in to
the ring is that by doing that you would become in a
more dangerously exposed position?
Perhaps they question could be put this way:
Do you think it is dangerous to be so far ahead, to
be that much of a frontrunner so early in the race?
SENATOR MUSKIE: If there is, there isn't
much I can do about it. For example, much of the
recent momentum is attributable to the election eve
speech. I wouldn't really undo that because of the
political impact of it.
So you can't do much about it. But the
precedents are with me that this is too early to
announce. For instance, from '52 to '56, Adlai
Stevenson was generally considered to be the frontrunner
for '56, but he didn't announce until '56, not four
years in advance.
Q
Senator, what role do you see yourself
in as the unannounced candidate?
SENATOR MUSKIE: I am sure the pressures in their
right require that I be increasingly visible on issues.
I think there are those who may think that in an
organizational sense I may have some responsibility to try to
lead the party. This I don't think makes sense, because
I have no formal position.
Even if I were to announce, I would have no
formal position. If I did, I would be challenged by five,
six or seven others.
So that there is no office of frontrunner
or backrunner, for that matter. But, nevertheless, there
is the expectation that those who seek this office -- and
that includes not only myself, if and when I should
announce, but others -- have responsibility for undertaking
to lead the party in terms of building up organization
interest, enthusiasm, issues, positions and so on that
can mobilize the party.
MORE
- 3 --
I
Senator, I wonder if we can talk about
your visibility on one of those issues. In 1968, as a
Vice Presidential candidate, you supported an administration's
war policy at a time when the war was escalating.
Now you are critical of it at a time when
it is not escalating, in fact going the other direction.
This seems to be certainly a reversal on your
part. How do you account for that?
SENATOR MUSKIE: Number one, as I recall it,
in '68 I expressed reservations about our bombing policy
in the north and not only after the convention, but
before. I did not do it from the same vantage point or
platform that I speak out on this or other issues today for
obvious reasons.
I was not being mentioned for the Presidency
in 1968. So what I had to say then was less visible
and presumably had less effect.
With respect to our present situation, I have
indicated that I applaud the fact that the President
is winding down the war, that he is withdrawing troops.
I simply have questions as to whether or not the
ultimate result will be complete withdrawal and when.
I have responsibility to raise those questions
if I have them. I have undertaken to do so constructively
and responsibly. That is my responsibility.
&
Senator, I wonder if I can put this
question to you simply and bluntly. What change would
you represent, and for that matter, what change does the
Democratic Party offer to the American voters?
SENATOR MUSKIE: I suspect that the change all of
us would argue we would represent is a shift, a real shift
in priorties and a real committment to dealing with our
domestic problems here at home.
I think that our country is in a position of
ferment with respect to our relationships to each other
here at home and our role in the world and in the next
two years increasingly I think the issues in these
MORE
- 4 ..
respects will sharpen as between the candidates for the
democratic nomination as between the candidates and the
president.
For example, in the last two sessions in the
Congress, there has been long and, as you recall, vigorous
debates over defense policy. Just how much of our natural
resources should we be committing to this? Should we
be more selective and more restrained in spending for
defense in order to divert more of our resources to domestic
purposes?
This debate is taking place in the Senate. And
it is taking issue with the President's position and it
has had an effect upon the President's policies themselves.
!
I ask that question because, for example,
on the problem of seniority, there wasn't really any
fundamental change taken by the Democrats with the new
Congress. On the problem of the leadership in the House,
those who are regarded as the establishment figures.
succeeded to their new positions.
The question of the Party Whip, a conservative,
Senator Byrd, defeated a liberal, Senator Kennedy.
Doesn't that seem to add to the confusion, to
the great fundamenal blur that many people in the electorate
feel about the two parties?
SENATOR MUSKIE: It has always been true, of course,
that our partiesare not as ideologically oriented as,
say, the British parties, a different kind of party structure.
We don't have monolythic, philosophical positions
for either party and we don't have party discipline.
So that what is done mizationally in the
Congress has no relevance necessarily to the ideological
orientation of the grassroots of our people at any
given time. Seniority is not regarded as that kind of
an issue in the Congress.
Whether or not someone is to be Whip is a
question that is not decided along ideological grounds.
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-- 5 ***
I
Senator, in your attempt to apparently
hold on to that center vote, there has been some criticism
developed that goes under the headline of "Muskie
is playing it safe" and "Muskie is much too cautious
*
You have been identified as a leader, for example, on
environmental issues, but not necessarily on such things
as civil rights and Vietnam.
Do you see yourself because of your now
exposed position moving to a much more partisan stance
and do you agree with that characterization and that
criticism that" Muskie is playing it safe"?
SENATOR MUSKIE: No, I don't agree with that.
This hasn't been my political posture all of my life, but
I understand that to disagree with it requires proving
the negative, which is always difficult.
Let me make these two points in response to
what you have said:
First of all, it is perfectly true that as a Senator
without a national leadership responsibility for 10 or 11
years of my Senate life, my work has been confined to that of
my committees largely. That is the way the Senate
operates.
Now, in my present position, I have responsibility
and an inclination and a desire to reach out more broadly
across the range of issues and I intend to do that.
I have tried to do that increasingly over the
last two years and if one follows what I have had to say in
hundreds and even thousands of speeches across the country
in the last two years, I think the record will disclose
that I have spoken out across a wide range of issues.
But I can't in answer to a specific question
at any given time resurrect all of those and prove the
negative.
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- 6 -
a
Senator, we have some more
Sific
questions that WE are going to ask you in
emple of
minutes. But We will pause now.
( Intermission)
&
As you move toward increase
isibility
in your campaign to become a candidate,
as
Mamie suggested,
you become more exposed, of course, on
issues. People
study you more and I am thinking particul
of the
story that the Associated Press came out
3 couple
of weeks ago and a contribution from the
Yers Political
Action Committee of $2500 to your campaig
a time
when you were it member of the Banking and
ency Committee.
Is this nit-picking or is there
à
conflict of
interest there?
SENATOR MUSKIE: May I say, first
02
all,
that
I
was not aware of that contribution. If 1
been,
I would have refused it not because of any
judgment
as to an actual conflict of interest, but
ause
of
the
appearance of it.
Unfortunately, one of the diffi ies of being
in this position is that there is such an
whelming
amount of detail in connection with fund
Litting and so
on that a lot of it doesn't actually come
TV personal
attention. This is one of those things.
Q
There is an overwhelming
associate
of money
that you will need, too, isn't there? How
will
you need, say, to the end of this year to Veep
going?
SENATOR MUSKIE: We don't have am hard figures.
I would say that we would need a minimum
of
half
a million
dollars and it will go I think substantially above that.
But we don't have any hard figures at this Mint.
We
are developing organization as we come to
stays
with
our
needs and the pressures of the overwhelming demands
that
flow in upon us.
Q
Who are the interested im
in
your
campaign, Senator, people who now no longer have, say,
Robert Kennedy or Senator McCarthy to cont, thate to or
other sources?
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- 7 -
SENATOR MUSKIE: I really have no Way of characterizing
them. They come from all sections of the country and
various sectors of the economy. I would really have no way
of characterizing them politically or in any other way.
It is always a surprise and a very welcome surprise,
I might say, when people are willing to come forward and to
contribute the kind of money that they often do.
In so many, many cases there is absolutely no
visible reason why they should, except that they are
interested.
Q
Are they Republicans?
SENATOR MUSKIE: There are Republicans. There
are at least people who describe themselves as such,
and I assume that they would be telling the truth.
Ω
Senator, I was going to ask you about a
magazine report that President Nixon has described you,
Senator Muskie, as the George Romney of the Democratic
Party. Your view, please?
SENATOR MUSKIE: I suspect that neither George
Romney nor I would agree that that is accurate, in any sense that
that reflects our personalities or background.
I don't know when the President said that or what he meant
by it. But in any case, this is Ed Muskie, not George
Romney.
I
That same report said that the President
thought that Senator Kennedy might be his opponent in '72.
SENATOR MUSKIE: Well, I think you have to ask
Senator Kennedy about that question.
Q
Senator, yesterday you listened to Secretary
of State Rogers defend the Administration's position on
Cambodia. What is your reaction to that and do you foresee
the possibility of Congress trying to introduce any
restrictive legislation?
SENATOR MUSKIE: I would expect that latter
would take place. As a matter of fact, Senator McCovern
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- 8 -
and Senator Hatfield have already introduced a version
of their amendment of last year.
I listened to Secretary Roger's briefing
yesterday. He undertook to reassure the Foreign
Relations Committee as to the relatively minor nature,
as J. think he would describe it, of the incident on Highway 4,
which involved the use of airpower beyond the limitations
that we understood to be Administration policy before
that incident.
The Cooper-Church Amendment, which the Congress
adopted last year did not proscribe the use of air power.
But we understood, I think clearly, that the Administration's
policy was to limit that use to the interdiction of
supplies moving from Cambodia into South Vietnam.
I
Senator, we are going to have to wrap
it up now. Just one quick question and I hope for a
one-word answer.
Is it conceivable that you would not become
a candidate?
SENATOR MUSKIE: Anything is conceivable.
Q
Thank you very much, Senator Muskie, and
Bernie.
END
11
2/18/71
have much chance.
TATE TRIAL
NBC had a lengthy report on the release of the jury. They will be
allowed to commute to the courtroom during the final stages of the penalty
case. Footage of some jurors expressing very critical views of the lengthy
time they have been locked up. They hope that this test of letting them out
will help move the system away from the practice.
McGOVERN
On the David Frost Show, Sen. McGovern was on for most of the show
explaining his candidacy and his policies -- with his usual emphasis on VN.
He repeated his intention to run a "listening" campaign, which is why he
announced so early. Reflecting on the worst advice he had ever been given,
McGovern said he voted against repeal of the right-to-work law on staff
advice -- and later regretted it.
McGovern feels his top contenders will be Muskie, Hughes and Bayh,
though he doesn't rule out EMK, HHH or McCarthy.
The VN war, says McGovern "was the worst mistake in the history of
the US. 11 He said he would trust NVN to help us get out if we announced a
withdrawal.date. After we pulled out Saigon would either embrace wider
elements of the political spectrum or would make some sort of deal with
the enemy -- the most likely course, said McGovern. If there was a com-
munist government it wouldn't probably be a puppet controlled by either
Russia or Peking, rather it would be "like Romania or Czechoslovakia. "(!)
12
Anyway we will have left a million-man army, so SVN is not entirely
defenseless.
Referring to RN's policy McGovern said it was to reduce troops but
accelerate the air war. To McGovern, "if the war is wrong, and it is wrong
for us to try to settle it, then it is wrong for us to bomb" the people -- there
is no distinction between being killed by a rifle bullet and a bomb -- "it is
no less immoral. " However George was firm on the necessity to stop
Hitlers "at any cost. " In response to an audience member pointing out that
NVN was doing the same thing as did Nazi Germany, McGovern disputed the
statement by saying we are defending a gov't as "un-American" and
repressive as the forces arrayed against it.
McGovern suggests gearing down the space program; "as long as one
person goes hungry we shouldn't have unlimited activities" in space. He
also opposed legalizing marijuana until we knew more but did say penalties
should be reduced.
Red China should be recognized and trade relations begun -- China will
be less hostile if this is done, believes McGovern. In response to a fellow
concerned over the "yellow peril" McGovern mentioned the potential of great
new markets.
As for the primaries George doesn't figure to do well in N. Hampshire --
"it's Muskie country" but he does expect to do better in Wisc,, Oregon,
Nebraska and Calif. (It should be noted that McGovern was less wooden
13
than usual, and seemed to handle himself fairly well in response to audience
questions -- particularly those from hardliners.)
HUGHES
Sen. Harold Hughes, interviewed on Elizabeth Drew's NET show, made
a very non-newsworthy, low-key, but still quite impressive presentation.
He spoke at great length about reform of the system -- redirecting our
resources to solving the nation's domestic problems and allowing all citizens
to participate in the working of government.
Hughes stated that we must encourage (or teach) the public to use the
free enterprise system to combat the free enterprise system. He suggests
that the public invest heavily in those industries which do the "right" things
in protecting the environment and refuse to invest in those which do not.
Hughes stated that when he came to Washington he did not entertain the
idea of being a potential presidential contender, particularly because of his
personal handicap, i. , : drinking, (which he discussed at some length), his
lack of seniority in the Senate and his lack of name recognition outside of
Iowa. But when he was pressured by his supporters to move to fill the
leadership void in his party he gave them permission to study the possible
potential of his candidacy. Such a study is now underway -- he is flattered
by the attention.
Hughes also spent a great deal of time discussing the frustrations of the
legislative system; he is not a compromiser by nature, he said, and therefore
finds Hill life very difficult at times.
14
The Senator supports a public works program as a new approach to
solving our unprecedented simultaneous run away inflation and unemployment.
He said that we must train and educate the unemployed and we must provide
them, not with make-work, but work that will aid the nation.
Discussing the military budget, Hughes said that advocates of defense
spending cuts are wrongly accused of wanting to weaken the defense structure;
not true, defense is necessary. But the critics oppose the continued R and D
of new weapons systems like ABM which will either never be used or would
be too late to protect us. Hughes also suggested that by spending so much
on weapons we reglect the fact that it is social problems which must be solved
if nations are to co-exist harmoniously. He feels Communism will be
defeated when we show that our system is better and that our people can live
together better and more equitably.
Hughes also pointed out that he favors an announced withdrawal date
from VN at which point he believes repatriation of POWs will begin.
Hughes concluded by stating that the nation needs a leader in '72 who
can express the hopes and opinions of the people, one who can get the people
to believe in their own ability to contribute to the nation's greatness.
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 26, 1971
E.O.
3-17-82
By ES
CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR THE STAFF SECRETARY
FROM:
KEN KHACHIGIAN
DR.
VIA:
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
SUBJECT:
MUSKIE'S TRIP ABROAD -- P1317H
As you know, we have been quite active with the Muskie
record lately. As for his trip abroad, we were quite
successful in having several columnists take Muskie apart
for interfering with U.S. foreign policy in his meetings
with Kosygin.
MONDAY also included this in one of their rebukes of
Muskie, and this theme, along with others, received
extensive coverage by the media. Please note the Wall
Street Journal's front page article of April 23rd which
gives prominent attention to MONDAY's success in chipping
away at the Muskie record.
Also with regard to Muskie, we managed to have the
devastating article by Godfrey Sperling of the Christian
Science Monitor distributed to prominent Democrats ("Would
you want his finger on the button?").
Finally, it should be noted that Senator Muskie is becoming
the increasing subject of analytical articles which not only
question his credentials, but also assay his staying power and
temper. This will continue in the future.
cc: Pat Buchanan
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 20, 1971
DETERMINED TO BE AN
ADMINIS
THERKING
E.O. 100.5, Section 6-102 3-17-82
By Ef
CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
MR. BUCHANAN
FROM:
H. R. HALDEMAN
One very effective line that could be developed now is sharp
criticism of Muskie for his irresponsible concuct while
traveling abroad and criticizing American foreign policy.
Comparison could be made -- which you would in completely
attuned to because of your travel with the President during
his trips in 1967 -- with his conduct during the eight years
he was out of office and traveled to sincty countries. During
that entire period, he never criticized policies of the U. S.
government while abroad. In fact, he refused to answer
such questions at press conferences and only used such
conferences for defending those aspects of the policies with
which he agreed. Any criticism of policies was delayed
until his return to the United States.
A related point that you might be able to develop is that
Richard Nixon, in the period between 1966 and 1968, par-
ticularly when he made his four trips abroad in the six
months after the 1966 elections, did it all with a minimal
staff whereas it will be noted that all the Democratic
aspirants have large staffs -- including Muskie's thirty-
five, as an example.
Please give this some thought, get with any others who might
have an idea on it and see how they think it might be used - if
they think it is appropriate.
CC: Mr. Magruder
CONFIDENTIA
Makis
January 27, 1971
MEMO TO: Mr. Monson
FROM
: Mr. McDowell
RE
: SENATOR MUSKIE'S SPEECH
After again watching Senator Muskie in action (I saw him here
a couple of years ago) I would say that he bears watching 3S a potentially
difficult opponent.
He has a manner, calm and friendly, which inspires confidence.
He also seems to present a reasoned, well-balanced approach. I would say
that President Nixon must be very careful not to get too shrill, or
argumentative, or too partisan against Muskie.
On the other hand, with his rather low-key approach to the entire
situation, perhaps Senator Muskie may not have enough drive, verve, energy
or charisma to arouse the public into voting against Mr. Nixon.
It certainly appears that Senator Muskie made much "political hay"
during his trip here. I am attaching a clipping showing his trip to the Z00
and will relay other items as they appear. A chartered bus was on hand in
San Mateo to accommodate the Muskie Party and the press, so possibly we
will see some City coverage on that event, too.
#####
SPEECH OF SENATOR MUSKIE
CALIFORNIA COUNCIL for HEALTH PLAN ALTERNATIVES
The Council, which held a "Conference on Health Issues" at the Villa
Hotel in San Mateo, California, has the following officers: Chairman: Einar 0. Mohn,
Western Conf. of Teamsters, Burlingsme; Vice-Chairman: Sigmand Arywitz, L.A. County
Fed. of Labor, AFL-CIO, Los Angeles; Sec-Treasurer: Lou Goldblatt, Int'l Longshore-
men's & Warehousemen's Union, San Francisco.
All of which should clearly indicate why Senator Muskie stayed over the
weekend (after appearing at the State Demo. convention in Sacramento) to appear before
this group. At the evening banquet on Tuesday, Jan. 26, about 550 persons were
jammed into the room. All seemed to be well-dressed typical old-time labor types.
No (DEB or at le ast extremely few) wild, young radical types were present.
Einar Mohn acted as Master of Ceremonies, and introduced the Head Table
which consisted of KREFESEN a representative from: The Calif. Federation of Labor,
The Communication Workers of America, The Building Trades of LA, The IATSE, The
California Candy Council, The Machinists, The Teamsters of LA, The LA Labor Council,
The State Carpenters, The Retail Clerks, The ILWU.
Tony Ramos of the Carpenters gave the introduction to Senator Muskie, as
follows: Senator, we are gathered here from the AFL, CIO and Independent Groups and
joined in a united effort to improve the health care of our membership. We under-
stand you have an interest in the same idea. The U.S. should not be 13th or 14th in
health care or infant mortality, but should be first. We hope you will join in. ''e
welcome you here and ask for your ideas on this most important subject. (StendingOvati:
SENATOR MUSKIE SAID, IN SUBSTANCE:
Thanks for your cordial introduction and invitation. I am delighted to be
here. After one month of traveling, and crossing 11 time zonon, I didn't need another
speech. But your invitation was irresistible because it concerns one of the prise
domestic issues of our country. From long association with Labor, I know how effective
you can be in your political activity or working for collective bargaining or for the
public interest in a wide range of problems.
I am reminded of the story about the Businessman whose daughter pleados with
him to buy her a horse. So he did and went to nearby farmers for boarding arrange:
The first farmer said: #25 per month plus all the manure. This seemed a bit steep, SI
he went to the second farmer who said: $15 per month plus all the manure. So If went
to the third farmer who said: $5 per month. When the businessman asked "How come
don't want the manure?" the farmer replied: "You must understand that, for $5 per
month, there won't be any manure."
(General laughter from the audience. Muskie said: My staff will say I
shouldn't have used this story. But I told it when I first ran !for the Legislature.
So if it was good enough then, it's good enough now! More laughter & general applause
I would like to compliment Labor for getting involved in the subject of
health care. I know of efforts to protect your interest at the collective bargai ning
table. But your effort here today is to enter the public interest area to make it
possible to deliver health care to all Americans.
(Continued)
Senator Muskie - Page #2
This is in the long-stand ng tradition of Labor to get involved in
public interest questions. President Kennedy said: "The strength of Democracy is
no greater, in the final analysis, than the well-being of its citizens."
In 1968 alone, 75,000 infant children died in the United States. And
poor children are twice as likely to die as the others. Overall, the U.S. rate is
worse than in 12 other nations. These facts are a disgrace, and reason enough to
re-examine our health care systems. They reflect deficiencies throughout the
entire system, affecting all groups.
Americans are finding good health care hard to come by and difficult to
afford. We understand that this health care involves proper nutrition, adequate
housing, decent jobs and a wholesome natural and social environment.
QUALITY MEDICAL CARE SHOULD BE A RIGHT TO WHICH ALL AMERICANS ARE ENTITLED,
NOT A PRIVILEGE FOR ONLY THOSE WHO CAN PAY THE PRICE (Ed. Note: Emphasis ours) "here
is no excuse not to search every avenue. It is our great Domestic challenge this year.
Is it wise to do this in 1970? President Truman understood it. He favored
a National Health Insurance Plan 25 years ago. Walter Reuther formed a Committee of
100 to seek health care benefits for all Americans. Last session I co-sponsored
the Health Security Act which Was a product of Reuther's Committee and co-sportered
by Senator Kennedy, I hope it will finally lead to an effective program of National
Health Insurance. (Ed. Note: Emphasis ours)
But, if enacted, it will not solve all problems. However, it will identify
a high national priority. No American should have to choose between physical health
and economic privation. So legislation is the vehicle for meeting that priority.
You folks in Lobor have fought for improvements, but are finding you sine
ending up with costly premiums for inadequate coverage. For instance, a key area
of medical care is unprovided for most everywhere, namely: office visits to family
doctors. And yet this is a vital part of preventive medicine.
Existing health care has emphasized payment of hospital care. This has
contributed to more use SO it is self-defeating. As a result, we must draft/debate/
enact a program of National Health Insurance.
But, if we do so, it will increase the pressue on existing facilities,
personnel and supplies. If We only are considering higher cost, National Health
Insurance will make it easier to afford better care. In itself, this is important,
but if we stop there, it will only push our present system to the point of total
collapse. (Ed. Note: Emphasis ours)
Medicare and Medicaid has failed to stimulate the efficient use of our
medical systmm. They have already threatened both State and Federal budgets. so
financing, only, cannot do the job. Unless we have a broad understanding of the
problem, finding means of paying for medical care may complicate, rather than solve,
that problem.
We really need a concerted effort to expland the supply of medical minpover
and the benefits of medical research to every American. If not with the cooperation
of the medical profession, then there will be a growing demand for the Govern: to
deliver. And the momentum that from that direction is greater than we think.
So the medical profession must provide faster entry to the health field---
encourage more general practitioners lead in the development of new careers it
must adopt new procedures and keep costs reasonable. I say this as a xxxxxxxx word of
warning to the medical profession
It must play an active role.
(Continued)
Senator Muskie -- Page ,13
It would be heartening if we could point to progress by the Federal
Government, but we cannot. Research funds are being cut. Student loans are cut
by 60%. We have presidential vetoes of Family Medical Care. A negative attitude
now exists at the highest level at a time when we need someone to assert
leadership. (Ed. Note: Emphasis ours)
So what should we do?
(1) We need to keep medical schools from closing their doors. No student
should be unable to attend for lack of finances.
(2) We should expand our supply of Nurse Practitioners and Doctor's Assistant
Also, we should encourage Medical Corps Men who are coming out of the
Armed Forces, to take these types of jobs. Only about a fraction do xa no:
If any change is needed in State licensing laws to accomplish the above,
We need the medical profession in the forefront of those seeking change.
(3) We need innovative ways of delivering health care into rural communities
and urban ghettoes.
The 91st Congress passed a bill, but we still need funding in this area, to
establish Neighborhood Health Centers and Community Health Centers. We need a full
National Health Service Corps, to enlist those Americans dedicated to the cause of
a healthy Society.
In the U.S. there is a challenge to the whole concept of medicine. Doctors
fail to see that, with all the medical advance we are doing, it is still less than
the U.S. is entitled to expect from the most afflment medicine in the world.
You folks of Labor are right to choose this subject. It is a good cause if
you can bring meaning to the lives of the least of our American citizens. For nothing
offers greater happiness than good health, or greater devastation if illness strikes.
No single event can so change the lives of any U.S. family than the impact of that kind
of disaster, which comes in two dimensions: (1) the high cost of care (2) the
unavailability of care.
IT IS A DISGRACE THAT, IN A COUNTRY OF OUR RESOURCES, WE HAVENIT FOUND
A BETTER WAY TO DO THE JOB THAN THIS! (Dd Note: This was about the most emphatic
statement Muskie made, and the only one followed by audience applause).
I welcome your entry into this field. I applaud it. I offer my assistance.
Let us win the first battles in the first session of the new Congress. We should let
the people know that we are working, at long last, on what Truman said 25 years ago:
"to bring quality care within reach of all Americans, whoever they may be."
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At the conclusion of Senator Muskie's 45-minute talk, Einar Mohn returned
to the podium and said: Senator, many units of Labor are here tonight. We are united
in working for better health care. Nobody is going to bust us up! (Audience applause)
We in the Labor movement know we should work for more than wages, contracts
and increases. We have to accept the leadership to enrighk our communities. What good
is it for our members to come хину out of meetings with better contracts only to return
to lousy housing and prejudices.
We will work for the crippled kids who, when they are removed from the state
budget, have no one to cry out for them (Applause from audience). The poor? Everyone
is called that in a political year, but We are the ones who work to assist them.
So, Senator, you have addressed an organization which can go out and do
something about it. We haven't gone out onto the streets to dry "Burn, Baby, Burn" and
we don't intend to do it. We don't intend to "Burn", as far as the street is concerned,
but we do intend to apply the heat to all the politicians.
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CHRONICLE
JAN.27
SEN. EDMUND MUSKIE VISITED ZOO CLEANING STATION
He held an oily but live Western Grebe, then cleaned his hands.
Many Cleaned Birds
Already Are Dead
An estimated 3000 oil-
bilitating oil-drenched birds
south 10th street in Rich-
soaked birds were rescued
hasn't advanced much since
mond, where a spokesman
for emergency treatment
the Santa Barbara disaster
said about 900 birds had been
in the first week following
- which occurred two years
received, and "a good 500"
San Francisco's big oil
ago tomorrow.
were still alive.
spill, rescue co-ordinators
Meanwhile, Se n a tor Ed-
estimated yesterday.
A spokesman for the res-
mund S. Muskie of Maine,
cue effort said more than
Of these, something fewer
surrounded by about 50 news-
half the rescued birds (53 per
than 1900 still survived last
men, aides and spectators
cent) were Western Grebes.
night in the various emergen-
paid a 30-minute visit to the
Others included the White-
cy bird-care centers.
cleaning station at the ZOO.
winged Scoter (11 per cent).
The Democratic Presiden-
And, based on similar ex-
Horned Grebe (3 per cent).
tial aspirant. one of the first
periences at Santa Barbara
Arctic Loon (2 per cent) and
sponsors of environmental
and elsewhere, bird experts
(1 per cent each) the Red-
legislation in Congress said
warned the survival rate will
throated Loon and the Com-
the Golden Gate spill was part
plummet sharply in the next
mon Loon.
of "a pattern of continuing
week or two.
Most of the birds were
disastrous accidents in
A spokesman for the State
being sent to the treatment
connection with oil."
Department of Fish and
facility established at the
"Somehow we have failed
Game, which has been at-
San Francisco Zoo. Zop
to develop the technology
tempting to co-ordinate wild-
Director Ronald Reuther re-
and procedures to deal with
life rescue-and-treatment ef-
ported about 1700 birds had
this hazardous substance."
forts since the tanker colli-
been received there for treat-
Muskie, concluding a
sion which caused the big
ment, and about 900 had died
five-day visit 10Northern
spill. said the survival rate
as of yesterday.
California, said the transpor-
at Santa Barbara was esti-
tation of oil should be cov-
mated at 3 to 5 per cent.
The next-biggest center
ered by the same legislative
Experts agreed that the
was at the old University of
precautions now applied to
science of cleaning and reha-
California Service Center on
explosives.
Coming Back
California Trip
Pleases Muskie
By Sydney Kossen
Political Editor
Seated in a hotel room in
people are keeping their op-
his stocking feet, Sen. Ed-
tions open" on a presidential
mund Muskie looked back
choice "as long as they can
with satisfaction on the five
but there's a feeling of real
days he has just spent in Cal-
expectation about 1972 a
ifornia, the state that will
feeling that Nixon is heat-
send the largest delegation to
able."
the 1972 Democratic National
Meets Alioto
Convention.
The lanky, 56 year old
The Senator lunched ear-
Maine lawmaker made it
lier yesterday with Mayor
clear last night. however,
Alioto, Muskie's rival for the
that he expects to make one
vice presidential nomination
or more return iorays before
in 1968 at Chicago where Ali-
officially declaring his candi-
oto nominated Hubert Hum-
dacy for president.
phrey for President
After the interview, Muskie
From Nob Hill, Muskie mo-
went downstairs in the San
tored to the San Francisco
Mateo Villa Hotel to address
Zoo where he visited an
500 union leaders at a dinner
emergency treatment and re-
meeting of the California
covery center for sea birds
Council for Health Plan Al-
salvaged from the huge Gold-
ternatives.
en Gate oil spill. Muskie, a
Health Insurance
long and consistent sponsor
of environmental legislation.
They applauded his prom-
was photographed holding an
ise to again co-sponsor na-
oil stained Western Grebe.
tional health insurance legis-
lation. This would involve
Asked if it's fair to make a
"reshaping and revitalizing
political issue of the birdres-
our entire health care sys-
cue operation. Muskie re-
tem," he said, because Medi-
plied: This is a political is-
care and dicaid have
sue because it IS a tragedy
failed on several counts and
resulting from man's activi
have "threatened the federal
ties. and man's activities are
and state budgets with spi-
political."
raling costs."
He shared Alioto's sugges-
Today Muskie flies back to
tions that the same strictre.
Washington where he and
strictions covering the trans-
Sen. Edward Kennedy
portation oi explusives
(D-Mass.) will work on the
should apply to shipment of
final draft of their National
oil.
Health Insurance plan.
Accompanied by an unoffi-
Muskie, front-running Demo-
cial campaign staff and more
cratic White House contender,
than a dozen newsmen, Mus
leaned back and smiled when
kie flew into San Franciso
asked he had "sewed up"
from Los Angeles where the
California for next year.
highlight was a luncheon for
the senator attended by more
'Hardly'
than 1800 women.
1 could hardly sew it up
The event and two dinners
when I haven't announced
with wathy Southern Cali-
my eandidacy, the Senator
fornia Democrats had been
said "I came here to win
arranged by Sherril Corwin
friends and influence people
theater magnate and one of
and I think I have made
Muskie's first backers. Cor
progress from that stand-
win also attended a weekend
point.'
Democratic State Concertion
Yes, he had talked with
in Sacramento
business executives. "many
gates also heard she
of them Republicans who are
two of Muskie's Sci..
concerned about the econo-
Birch Dayh of Incr 2010
my
They included poten-
George McGovern of 30011
tial supporters and actual
Dakota
contributors. And there were
Asked if McGovern's early
educators concerned about
declaration of candidacy
the adequacy of aid to public
might compel him to durpey
education."
the issues, Muskie replead, "I
Muskie stressed that "most
suppose George will try
Inside Report
Question Marks on Muskie
By Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
SACRAMENTO - Both the breakneck
pled with his presidential aura, made him
speed of Sen. Edmund S. Muskie's presi-
the clear winner in last weekend's prelimi-
dential bandwagon and its potential vul-
nary skirmishing - a pleasure not shared
nerability were displayed here last Satur-
by Muskie's two rivals attending the con-
day night when he dined privately for over
vention, Sens. George McGovern of South
three hours with eight state Democratic
Dakota and Birch Bayh of Indiana.
legislative leaders.
Secretary of State Edmund G. (Jerry)
To a man. the legislators viewed Muskie
Brown, 32-year-old son of the former gov-
as the overwhelming favorite to win
ernor and hoping to run for governor him-
the 1972 California Presidential Primary
self in 1974, all but committed himself in a
and go on to be nominated and elected.
private conversation with Muskie. In an-
other huddle with the senator. assembly
TABLE TALK in a private dining room
majority leader Walter Karabian, 32, a
of Sacramento's fashionable Firehouse Res-
key figure in the clique of rising new legis-
taurant was warm and non-controversial.
lative leaders (generally opposed to young
In later private chats with Muskie, some
Brown's ambitions), implied he is on
legislators signalled a desire to back him
Muskie's side.
at the proper time. Muskie and his aides
were delighted.
Not fully realized until now by the
Muskie camp, Bayh over the past two years
But their delight should have limits.
quietly built up a California network of al-
The exuberant young California leaders
lies - particularly by tireless campaign-
scarcely knew Muskie before Saturday's
ing in the successful drive for a Democrat-
ic state legislature.
dinner and felt little better acquainted
with him after three hours.
While Muskie was quibbling with his
speechwriters last Saturday over how to
The distinction has political signifi-
describe Mr. Nixon's disregard of Senate
cance that applies generally through the
wishes on Cambodia, McGovern delighted
nation's most populous state. Visiting the
the Californians by broadly accusing the
State Democratic Central Committee's
President of flatly violating the Cooper-
convention here. Muskie was riding a
Church amendment.
bandwagon moving much faster than is
generally understood back in Washington.
ON THE PERSONAL side. Muskie's
If the polls fail Muskie. he has neither alli-
biggest problem may be Assembly Speak-
ances nor ideology to fall back on in Cali-
er Robert Moretti. 34. a rising power in the
fornia.
state and a warm comrade of Bayh. Ac-
cordingly, Moretti has requested fellow as-
Whatever the future. Muskie's present
semblymen to delay any endorsement of
overwhelming superiority in the polls, cou-
Muskie.
grams.
rity Administration as
I
UC Aide Sees Medical Plan By '72
Dr. Lee described the
dicting that the cost of m
present as one of "growing
cal care would rise from
crisis" in medical care in the
present S67 billion to $111
By Ernest Rapley
cradle-to-the grave national
ference of Teamsters direc-
ry," he said.
United States because of in-
lion by 1975 and to $156
Labor Writer
health insurance for every-
tor and council chairman,
He cautioned that the pro-
creasing costs, growing short*
lion by 1930.
Congress will adopt a pro-
body.
disclosed that the council will
posals "must be carefully ex-
ages and maldistribution of
He advocated major
postal for national health in-
The nearly 500 delegates at
take a leading role in legisla-
amined by Congress and the
health personnel and failure
gional experiments in the
surance "not long after
the conference today were
tion to replace Medi-Cal.
people with these objectives
to provide the poor and dis-
nancing and delivery
in mind:
advantaged with quality
health care before a natic
1972.' Dr. Philip Lee, chan-
discussing national health in-
He predicted it wouldn't
health care.
cellor of the University of
surance proposals.
have the support of Governor
health insurance progran
Increasing the availibility
California Medical School
The council described Sen-
Reagan's administration but
He quoted the Social Secu-
started.
and accessability of quality
here, believes.
ator Kennedy's bill as "es-
he thought it would be suc-
medical health care services
He gave this opinion at the
sentially a blending" of bills
cessful because of popular
"which means that the ca-
opening luncheon yesterday
introduced previously by him
support.
pacity of the system must be
of a California Council for
and Rep. Martha Griffiths
Dr. Lee. for m deputy
expanded": improving the
Health Plan Alternatives'
(D-Mich.) and proposals of
director of the Department of
quality of health care: distri-
two-day conference at the
the Social Security Depart-
Health, Education and Wel-
bution of medical care costs
Villa Hotel in San Mateo.
ment of the AFL-CIO.
fare, thought the national
"in such a way that income
The council, supported by
Governmentinsurance
health insurance
is not a determinging factor
all sections of organized la-
would pay more than half of
adopted by Congress "may
in access to needed serv-
bor in the state concerned
the health expenses of the
begin as an extension of
ices", providing more pre-
with medical care and soar-
nation's people under Kenne-
Medicare and a major revi-
dictable costs and a mecha-
ing costs. is opening a cam-
dy's bill which also provides
sion of the Medicaid pro-
nism to control rising costs
paign in suport of a bill by
for a $200 million crash pro-
gram."
more effectively than is now
Sen. Edward Kennety
gram to eliminate cancer.
"I think it will eventually
done by publically-financed
(D-Mass.) to provide
Einar Mohn, Western Con-
be universal and compulso-
and health insurance pro-