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From L. Higby to H.R. Haldeman. RE: Attack/Counterattack Operation. 4 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/8/1972
From Glenn J. Sedam, Jr. through Jeb S. Magruder to Clark MacGregor. RE: Residency of College Students for Voting Purposes. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 7/24/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. This document discusses a report of receipts and expenditures. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/7/1972
From Harry S. Dent to H.R. Haldeman. This document discusses the Maryland delegation and the re-election of the President. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/1/1972
From the Committee for the Re-election of the President. For Immediate Release - Third District Finance Chairman. This document discusses J. K. Holley, Jr. as head of fundraising in the third Congressional District. 2 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/1/1972
Title: Nuts and Bolts: The Republican Worker's Guide to Victory (Prepared by the Women's Division, RNC and Distributed by College of Republican National Committee). 10 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Brochure], no date
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. This document discusses Taras G. Szmagala as the new director of the Nationalities Committee for the Re-election of the President. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/2/1972
From William D. Novelli through Jeb S. Magruder to Clark MacGregor (cc: Paul Jones). RE: Revised Black Americans Brochure. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/2/1972
This document contains numerous newspaper clippings and titles that exhibit Nixon's dedication to supporting black Americans. 4 pgs. [Subject: Domestic Policy] [Newspaper], no date
Title: Black Americans. (Paid for by Finance Committee for the Re-election of President Nixon). 12 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Brochure], no date
From Clark Macgregor to Fred Malek. RE: Canvassing. This document discusses canvassers identify pro-Wallace voters. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/1/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. This document discusses McGovern's tax and welfare proposals. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/3/1972
Title: Excerpts from a Speech by the Honorable Clark MacGregor at the Luncheon for the Lawyers Committee for the Re-election of the President, Madison Hotel, Washington, D.C., August 3, 1972 (As prepared for delivery). 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], 8/3/1972
Title: Lawyers Committee for the Re-election of the President - Fact Sheet. 8 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], no date
From Clark MacGregor (Committee for the Re-election of the President). This document discusses the Democratic nomination of McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 7/20/1972
Title: Speech of the Hon. Clark MacGregor, Campaign Director, Committee for the Reelection of the President, Capitol Hill Club, Washington, D.C., July 13, 1972. 12 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], 7/13/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. Title: Hodgson Blasts McGovernites, Invites Labor Support. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/2/1972
(Speech)-Title: Address by the Secretary of Labor J.D. Hodgson to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- August 2, 1972. 7 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], 8/2/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President - Massachusetts Nixon Campaign. This document discusses seven members of the Massachusetts Committee for the Re-election of the President and includes statements. 14 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/1/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President - Statement by Clark MacGregor. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 7/28/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. This document discusses an announcement that James H. Boyce and John J. Hainkel will serve as cochairmen of the Louisiana Committee for the Re-election of the President. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/2/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. This document discusses Richard D. Murray being named the Regional Director for Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/1/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. This document discusses the naming of Thomas C. Reed as Regional Director for Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Hawaii, and Texas. 2 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/1/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President - West Virginia Chairman Named. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/2/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. This document discusses the naming of Raymond L. Brown as Regional Director of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/1/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. This document discusses the naming of Gordon Gooch as regional campaign director of New York and Pennsylvania. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/1/1972
From the Committee for the Re-election of the President. Title: Regional Campaign Director Named. This document refers to the Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, N. Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, W. Virginia region. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/1/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. Title: Regional Director Named. This document refers to the Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming region. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/1/1972
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This file contains:
From L. Higby to H.R. Haldeman. RE: Attack/Counterattack Operation. 4 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/8/1972
From Glenn J. Sedam, Jr. through Jeb S. Magruder to Clark MacGregor. RE: Residency of College Students for Voting Purposes. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 7/24/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. This document discusses a report of receipts and expenditures. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/7/1972
From Harry S. Dent to H.R. Haldeman. This document discusses the Maryland delegation and the re-election of the President. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/1/1972
From the Committee for the Re-election of the President. For Immediate Release - Third District Finance Chairman. This document discusses J. K. Holley, Jr. as head of fundraising in the third Congressional District. 2 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/1/1972
Title: Nuts and Bolts: The Republican Worker's Guide to Victory (Prepared by the Women's Division, RNC and Distributed by College of Republican National Committee). 10 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Brochure], no date
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. This document discusses Taras G. Szmagala as the new director of the Nationalities Committee for the Re-election of the President. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/2/1972
From William D. Novelli through Jeb S. Magruder to Clark MacGregor (cc: Paul Jones). RE: Revised Black Americans Brochure. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/2/1972
This document contains numerous newspaper clippings and titles that exhibit Nixon's dedication to supporting black Americans. 4 pgs. [Subject: Domestic Policy] [Newspaper], no date
Title: Black Americans. (Paid for by Finance Committee for the Re-election of President Nixon). 12 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Brochure], no date
From Clark Macgregor to Fred Malek. RE: Canvassing. This document discusses canvassers identify pro-Wallace voters. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/1/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. This document discusses McGovern's tax and welfare proposals. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/3/1972
Title: Excerpts from a Speech by the Honorable Clark MacGregor at the Luncheon for the Lawyers Committee for the Re-election of the President, Madison Hotel, Washington, D.C., August 3, 1972 (As prepared for delivery). 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], 8/3/1972
Title: Lawyers Committee for the Re-election of the President - Fact Sheet. 8 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], no date
From Clark MacGregor (Committee for the Re-election of the President). This document discusses the Democratic nomination of McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 7/20/1972
Title: Speech of the Hon. Clark MacGregor, Campaign Director, Committee for the Reelection of the President, Capitol Hill Club, Washington, D.C., July 13, 1972. 12 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], 7/13/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. Title: Hodgson Blasts McGovernites, Invites Labor Support. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/2/1972
(Speech)-Title: Address by the Secretary of Labor J.D. Hodgson to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- August 2, 1972. 7 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], 8/2/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President - Massachusetts Nixon Campaign. This document discusses seven members of the Massachusetts Committee for the Re-election of the President and includes statements. 14 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/1/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President - Statement by Clark MacGregor. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 7/28/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. This document discusses an announcement that James H. Boyce and John J. Hainkel will serve as cochairmen of the Louisiana Committee for the Re-election of the President. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/2/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. This document discusses Richard D. Murray being named the Regional Director for Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/1/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. This document discusses the naming of Thomas C. Reed as Regional Director for Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Hawaii, and Texas. 2 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/1/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President - West Virginia Chairman Named. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/2/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. This document discusses the naming of Raymond L. Brown as Regional Director of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/1/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. This document discusses the naming of Gordon Gooch as regional campaign director of New York and Pennsylvania. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/1/1972
From the Committee for the Re-election of the President. Title: Regional Campaign Director Named. This document refers to the Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, N. Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, W. Virginia region. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/1/1972
News from the Committee for the Reelection of the President. Title: Regional Director Named. This document refers to the Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming region. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 8/1/1972
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35
4
8/8/1972
Campaign
Memo
From L. Higby to H.R. Haldeman. RE:
Attack/Counterattack Operation. 4 pgs.
35
4
7/24/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Glenn J. Sedam, Jr. through Jeb S.
Magruder to Clark MacGregor. RE:
Residency of College Students for Voting
Purposes. 3 pgs.
35
4
8/7/1972
Campaign
Newsletter
News from the Committee for the Re-
election of the President. This document
discusses a report of receipts and
expenditures. 1 pg.
35
4
8/1/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Harry S. Dent to H.R. Haldeman. This
document discusses the Maryland delegation
and the re-election of the President. 1 pg.
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Page 1 of 6
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
35
4
8/1/1972
Campaign
Newsletter
From the Committee for the Re-election of
the President. For Immediate Release - Third
District Finance Chairman. This document
discusses J. K. Holley, Jr. as head of
fundraising in the third Congressional
District. 2 pg.
35
4
Campaign
Brochure
Title: Nuts and Bolts: The Republican
Worker's Guide to Victory (Prepared by the
Women's Division, RNC and Distributed by
College of Republican National Committee).
10 pgs.
35
4
8/2/1972
Campaign
Newsletter
News from the Committee for the Re-
election of the President. This document
discusses Taras G. Szmagala as the new
director of the Nationalities Committee for
the Re-election of the President. 2 pgs.
35
4
8/2/1972
Campaign
Memo
From William D. Novelli through Jeb S.
Magruder to Clark MacGregor (cc: Paul
Jones). RE: Revised Black Americans
Brochure. 1 pg.
35
4
Domestic Policy
Newspaper
This document contains numerous newspaper
clippings and titles that exhibit Nixon's
dedication to supporting black Americans. 4
pgs.
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Page 2 of 6
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
35
4
Campaign
Brochure
Title: Black Americans. (Paid for by Finance
Committee for the Re-election of President
Nixon). 12 pgs.
35
4
8/1/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Clark Macgregor to Fred Malek. RE:
Canvassing. This document discusses
canvassers identify pro-Wallace voters. 1 pg.
35
4
8/3/1972
Campaign
Newsletter
News from the Committee for the Re-
election of the President. This document
discusses McGovern's tax and welfare
proposals. 1 pg.
35
4
8/3/1972
Campaign
Report
Title: Excerpts from a Speech by the
Honorable Clark MacGregor at the
Luncheon for the Lawyers Committee for the
Re-election of the President, Madison Hotel,
Washington, D.C., August 3, 1972 (As
prepared for delivery). 2 pgs.
35
4
Campaign
Report
Title: Lawyers Committee for the Re-election
of the President - Fact Sheet. 8 pgs.
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Page 3 of 6
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
35
4
7/20/1972
Campaign
Letter
From Clark MacGregor (Committee for the
Re-election of the President). This document
discusses the Democratic nomination of
McGovern. 1 pg.
35
4
7/13/1972
Campaign
Report
Title: Speech of the Hon. Clark MacGregor,
Campaign Director, Committee for the Re-
election of the President, Capitol Hill Club,
Washington, D.C., July 13, 1972. 12 pgs.
35
4
8/2/1972
Campaign
Newsletter
News from the Committee for the Re-
election of the President. Title: Hodgson
Blasts McGovernites, Invites Labor Support.
2 pgs.
35
4
8/2/1972
Campaign
Other Document
(Speech)-Title: Address by the Secretary of
Labor J.D. Hodgson to the International
Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- August 2, 1972. 7
pgs.
35
4
8/1/1972
Campaign
Newsletter
News from the Committee for the Re-
election of the President - Massachusetts
Nixon Campaign. This document discusses
seven members of the Massachusetts
Committee for the Re-election of the
President and includes statements. 14 pgs.
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Page 4 of 6
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
35
4
7/28/1972
Campaign
Newsletter
News from the Committee for the Re-
election of the President - Statement by Clark
MacGregor. 1 pg.
35
4
8/2/1972
Campaign
Newsletter
News from the Committee for the Re-
election of the President. This document
discusses an announcement that James H.
Boyce and John J. Hainkel will serve as co-
chairmen of the Louisiana Committee for the
Re-election of the President. 1 pg.
35
4
8/1/1972
Campaign
Newsletter
News from the Committee for the Re-
election of the President. This document
discusses Richard D. Murray being named
the Regional Director for Maryland,
Delaware, and New Jersey. 2 pgs.
35
4
8/1/1972
Campaign
Newsletter
News from the Committee for the Re-
election of the President. This document
discusses the naming of Thomas C. Reed as
Regional Director for Arizona, New Mexico,
Colorado, Hawaii, and Texas. 2 pg.
35
4
8/2/1972
Campaign
Newsletter
News from the Committee for the Re-
election of the President - West Virginia
Chairman Named. 2 pgs.
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Page 5 of 6
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
35
4
8/1/1972
Campaign
Newsletter
News from the Committee for the Re-
election of the President. This document
discusses the naming of Raymond L. Brown
as Regional Director of Arkansas, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South
Carolina. 2 pgs.
35
4
8/1/1972
Campaign
Newsletter
News from the Committee for the Re-
election of the President. This document
discusses the naming of Gordon Gooch as
regional campaign director of New York and
Pennsylvania. 2 pgs.
35
4
8/1/1972
Campaign
Newsletter
From the Committee for the Re-election of
the President. Title: Regional Campaign
Director Named. This document refers to the
Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, N. Carolina,
Tennessee, Virginia, W. Virginia region. 1
pg.
35
4
8/1/1972
Campaign
Newsletter
News from the Committee for the Re-
election of the President. Title: Regional
Director Named. This document refers to the
Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon,
Utah, Washington, and Wyoming region. 2
pgs.
Thursday, September 08, 2011
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Campaign 24 Part II July 29 - Aug. 11, [1972] [2 of 2]
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Private/Political Memo, Hiaby to HRH, 8-8-72
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Private/Political Memo, Sedam to MacGnegor, 7-24-72
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Private/Political CREEP Press Release #8-32, 8-7-72
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Private/Political Memo, Dent to HRN, 8-1-72
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Private/Political CREEP Press Release #7-23, 8-1-72
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Private/Political Guide, "Nuts and Bolts," n.d.
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Private/Political CREEP Press Release # 8-10, 8-2-72
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Private/Political Memo, Novelli to Mac Gnegor, 8-2-72
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Private/Political Memo, MacGregor to Malek, 8-1-72
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Private/Political CREEP Press Release 8-14(3), 8-3-[72]
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Private/Political Ltr, MacGregor to Fellow Republicans, 7-20-72
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Private/Political CREEP Press Release #8-11, 8-2-72
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Private/Political CREEP Press Release #7-62, 8-1-[72]
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Private/Political CREEP Press Release #7-27 (28),7-28-72
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Private/Political CREEP Press Release #8-2, 8-1-72
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Private/Political CREEP Press Release #8-1, 8-1-72
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Private/Political CREEP Press Release #8-8, 8-2-72
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August 8, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR :
H.R. HALDEMAN
FROM I
L. HIGBY
SUBJECT :
Attack/Counterattack Operation
Of the key components of our campaign strategy for the fall,
probably the one that is suffering the most from neglect and
lack of proper organization is the attack/counterattack opera-
tion. This memo attempts to break down what the primary pro-
blems are associated with it, take a look at the reasons those
problems exist and propose some solutions.
PROBLEMS:
1. No Central Point of Coordination - Currently
there is no central point of coordination for the
attack apparatus. John Ehrlichman is offering his
briefing papers to surrogates and meeting with them
on an individual basis. Colson and his group are doing
the same, and even 1701 has their own writer who is
responsible for attack material.
2. Truncated Attack Scheduling Apparatus - Scheduling
takes place from two different locations. While their
is a problem it can be handled if it is closely monitored.
Of all the areas within this
this one is probably more
on track than any of the others.
3. Lack of Guidance - No one is really sure what our
strategy is in terms of using our surrogates or getting
out line out is to be. Colson has set it up so that he no
longer meets with the attack group but has Dick Howard
as his deputy meet with them. In effect you have Dick
Howard handling our attack line, supervised by Colson.
The original reason Colson was allowed and put into
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but another one of the "great thinkers and "grand
strategists". As a consequence, the man who is
supposed to be doing the implementating on attack/
counterattack (Colson) is no longer implementating.
He, by his own admission, seems to have too many
other things to do.
4. Working the Surrogates to Get Out the Line - Simply
forwarding materials if we can ever get unified materials
to forward to the surrogates will not be enough. These
need to be followed up by personal phone calls. A care-
ful look at what sort of situation they are going in to,
good advance work, and other preparations to make
sure that each appearance is maximized.
5. Lack of Writers - Currently both the Colson and the
1701 operation are long on administration but short on
good writers to crank out our line in the form that will
be picked up and used. We need to change this approach
and get a good stable of writers who are available all
the time with the facts and figures, programmed with
Buchanan and his people, to produce materials.
SOLUTIONS:
Essentially, like with any other operation, there needs
to be someone in charge. Ehrlichman is apparently
pushing you for this position, but I would recommend that
Colson is the person to use here and the person who should
have been doing this all along. We need Colson's total
involvement in implementation, including taking a serious
look at the surrogate schedule, plus meeting with the attack/
counterattack group on a daily basis to make sure our line
is getting out. Somebody needs to make it clear to Colson
that this is his job not Dick Howard's, and that he had
better start doing it. The problem here obviously has some-
thing to do with Colson's involvement with the Democrats
for Nixon; hopefully this can be diminished as soon as
Connally announces and Colson starts to pull out.
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1. Need for Setting the Line - There is a need to set
the line form day-to-day basis. For the next 100 days
we should stop considering it business as usual and
assuming Colson or somebody is covering and get
involved. I question the value of your 8:00 a. m.
meeting. Instead, perhaps you, Ehrlichman and
Colson should sit down each morning and review the
News Summary quickly, using it as a basis for making
sure all our charges are being hit on a daily basis.
This would be followed up, as I am sure it is anyway,
in the 8:15 a.m. meeting with a broader discussion of
what the line should be, but at least our basic line would
then be set. Colson should follow-up immediately after
the 8:15 meeting by Colson meeting with the attack group
comprised of the individuals here and at 1701.
By doing the above you've built Ehrlichman's role of
advising and consulting on the whole surrogate counter/-
attack line operation in while at the same time, removed
him from administering it. Also, with relatively little
time daily, you can maintain close touch with the opera-
tion. You can continue the "great Thoughts" meeting
that takes place on Monday and Thursday up in John's
office, but this brief meeting between you, John and Chuck
each morning can be for specific operational purposes.
You may argue that in effect you are investing Colson
with the power to set our line. This really isn't true.
In fact, the contrary is true. You've currently abdicated
to him the power to totally set our line by default.
In addition, you should tell John what you see his campaign
role as being so that he can relax and quit meddling around
in other areas.
2. Follow Up - Beside just setting the line we need to have
it distributed in a coordinated format. This should be
stressed in reorganization to make sure that we not only
are getting our message out, but doing it in a way that will
be used. Colson, Ehrlichman, and others should follow up
personally to get people to use the material.
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3. Writers - We need a group of writers assigned to
counterattack. Price should select those people he is
going to need for direct Presidential support and we
should turn over the balance of the writers, possibly
under Buchanan's direction, to handling writing for the
surrogates.
IMPLEMENTATION:
This may be the most difficult part. First, we need
to get Colson out of the Democrats for Nixon operation. Next
you need to make it clear to him that he is to be in charge of
counterattack and pull back on his other endeavor. As you in-
dicated, the most difficult part of this may be explaining it to
the President. He's the one that get's Colson started - and once
he is started there is no turning him off. Dropping the Connally
assignment is the natural time for the break to take place here
but you can start the 8:00 a.m. meeting now and begin forcing
Colson to move back into counterattack.
LH:pm
Strackan
MMITTEE FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT
MEMORANDUM
July 24, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: THE HONORABLE CLARK MACGREGOR
THROUGH:
JEB S. MAGRUDER
FROM:
GLENN J. SEDAM, JR.
SUBJECT:
RESIDENCY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS FOR VCTING PURPOSES
You have asked that we undertake a study of the question of whether
a student between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one may establish
a voting residence at his college, separate from the residence of
his parents, or whether he may be disqualified from voting in his
college community on the ground that he does not satisfy state or
local residency requirements for voting. Neither the Voting Rights
Act Amendments of 1970, nor the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the
Constitution, which lowered the voting age to eighteen, deal with
this particular issue. While it is indisputable under the Voting
Rights Act Amendments that a student between the ages of eighteen
and twenty-one, like all citizens, has the right to register up to
thirty days before an election and to vote for candidates for the
Presidency, it is unclear whether this may be done at a campus voting
precinct or must be done,either in person or by absentee methods,
at the domicile of the student's parents.
You may recall that a number of bills on this subject have been
introduced into Congress. One sponsored by Senator Cranston would
have required all states to enact laws specifically permitting
college students to vote in federal elections at campuses where
they are in attendance. Another measure, co-sponsored by Senators
Brooke, Hart, Hartke, Hatfield, Humphrey and Montoya, would have
amended the Voting Rights Act to require that any citizen who is
otherwise qualivied to vote in a federal election be permitted to
vote in any state or political subdivision which he declares to be
his residence for voting purposes, provided that he has not registered
elsewhere and that he has resided in the locale in question for thirty
days preceeding the date of the election. Finally, a joint resolution
introduced by Congressman Devine sought to amend the Constitution to
require that each citizen vote only at his legal domicile or "true,
1
ion. Clark MacGregor
July
1072
Page 2
fixed and permanent home to which, whenever he is absent, he has
the intention of returning.' None of these measures have come to
fruition and, in the absence of further action by Congress in this
area, the resolution of the question as it pertains to this November's
election has been left largely to state and local governments, which
have primary responsibility under the Constitution for establishing
voting requirements.
We have undertaken to research this issue on a state-by-state basis
and will report our findings to you at a later date. Our preliminary
reseach indicates that an increasing number of states are allowing
newly enfranchised college students to vote where they are enrolled
instead of permitting them to vote only in their home towns.
Opinions by the Attorneys General of Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Washington have basically concluded
that students may legally Vote in the campus community if they so
desire. These interpretations generally hold that, for purposes of
registering to vote, a minor over the age of eighteen, whether or
not financially independent, has the right to establish his own
domicile with or without the consent of his parents or guardian. The
fact that a minor voter who is a student resides in a dormitory or
other college residence, and not in his own apartment, is generally
of no relevance. The basic question to be answered is whether the
student registrant plans to return to his former home when his course
of studies is completed or whether he presently intends that his
college community serve as a permanant residence for an indefinite
period.
Courts in California and Michigan have declared certain statutes
imposing special burdens on young people in the exercise of their
franchise unconstitutional. In the Michigan case a statute creating
the presumption that a student is not a resident of the campus town
where his college was located was declared unconstitutional. In the
California case as Attorney General's opinion barring unmarried
persons under the age of 21 from establishing a residence for voting
purposes different from that of their parents was held violate of
state law and the United States Constitution.
We have been informed that requirements have similarly been liber-
alized by state court decision or legal opinion in Alaska, Colorado,
Delaware, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Vermont, Wisconsin and
the District of Columbia.
The Hon. Clark MacGregor
July 24, 1972
Page 3
While a general trend may be developing, it is not clear that the
ramainder of the states will all take a parallel approach to this
issue. For example, an opinion by the Attorney-Generral of Missouri
suggests that a declaration of abandonment of original residence
and intent to reside in a college community for an indefinite
period must be consistant with facts indicating such intent.
Organizational membership and statements of residence on tax returns
and contracts are cited as examples of such supportive facts.
Until recently there was wide variation in the factors which
individual states applied in reaching determinations on the question
of campus registration and in the emphasis placed on such factors.
Two types of criteria were generally considered:
1. degree of freedom from parental control - both
legally (e.g. emancipation by marriage) and financially (degree of
self-support) and
2. degree of attachment to the new community. Factors
which might be considered in examining this second issue might
include the purchase or lease of property, permanent employment,
payment of local taxes, location of one's bank account, registration
OF one's automobile, etc.
It is impossible to estimate in this report the effect which more
stringent state and local requirements like those set forth immediately
above will have in regard to the impact of the student vote in November.
Surely, such vote would be less concentrated, and therefore less easy
to organize, in those states where campus registration remains a more
difficult process. It will be necessary to make inquiry as to both
the existing statutory law in each state and the general practices
followed by election officials in interpreting such law before we can
provide a more definitive analysis of current developments on a per
state basis.
News from
the Committee
for the Re-election
of the President
1701 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006 (202) 333-0920
FOR NOON RELEASE
AUGUST 7, 1972
CONTACT: DeVan L. Shumway
(202) 333-7060
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WASHINGTON, D.C., August 7, 1972 -- The Finance Committee to Re-elect
the President today filed with the General Accounting Office its
Report of Receipts and Expenditures due on the fifteenth day preceding
the national convention.
Three other associated national committees, the Media Committee to
Re-elect the President, the Television Committee to Re-elect the
President and the Radio Committee to Re-elect the President, also
filed their reports.
The four committees received over 55,000 individual contributions
during the two months of June and July. The total number of contribu-
tions from the beginning of the campaign now exceeds 140,000.
Expenditures during the period exceeded receipts by $2,082,985,
resulting in a reduction of cash on hand at close of the reporting
period to $7,762,196 from a balance of $9,845,181 at June 1, 1972.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 1, 1972
MEMORANDUM TO:
H. R. Haldeman
FROM:
Harry S. Dent HS(us)
My office is in contact with a Mr. Ron Mitchell, member of the
Maryland delegation to the AIP convention, and chairman of the
Montgomery County, Maryland AIP. Mitchell contacted us
through the RN re-election organization in Maryland.
Mitchell told Wallace Henley of my office that he wanted to
assist us at the AIP convention if we had any pårticular wishes
we wanted carried out. We have simply told him that we would
like him to keep us posted on what is happening at the convention.
Mitchell felt that he could move the Maryland delegation to
initiate whatever we desired. He indicated action by the Maryland
delegation would have some import on the entire convention since>
the strength of the various delegations is apportioned on the
basis of their performance in 1968. Maryland, as you know,
delivered quite well for them at that time.
Committee
for the Re-election
of the President
1701 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006 (202) 333-0920
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: DeVan L. Shumway
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1972
(202) 333-6760
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THIRD DISTRICT FINANCE CHAIRMAN
Washington -- Chattanooga insurance man J. Kyle Holley, Jr.,
has been named to head fund-raising efforts in the Third Con-
gressional District for President Nixon's re-election campaign.
Announcement of the appointment was made jointly by past
Secretary of the Treasury Maurice Stans, now national chairman
of the Finance Committee to Re-elect the President, and by
William H. Houston III of Memphis, state finance
chairman.
In accepting his new position, Holley said, "It is grati-
fying to have this opportunity to help assure President Nixon's
re-election. It is vitally important to this Nation that his
leadership be continued for another four years, and I expect
my job will be made easier by the overwhelming support the
President enjoys among the people of the Third District."
Holley, who has been a qualifying and life member of the
Million Dollar Round Table for each of his 11 years in the
insurance business, is associated with the Volunteer State Life
Insurance Company. He is a member of the Chattanooga Associa-
tion of Life Underwriters and the Estate Planning Council.
(more)
2-2-2-2
Finance Chairman for Third District
He, has been active in the campaigns of a number of
Republicans, including Governor Winfield Dunn, Senators
Bill Brock and Howard Baker and Congressman Lamar Baker.
He was elected as a delegate to the State Constitutional
Convention in 1971.
A graduate of the McCallie School and Washington and
Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, he is married to
the former Barbara Mathews. They have four children and
are residents of Lookout Mountain.
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NUTS
- and
Dolls
The REPUBLICAN WORKERS' GUIDE TO VICTORY
I. BE ACQUAINTED with your Alderman, Council-
colors; should bear the information that the ca
man or other proper local authority and enlist
is the Republican precinct committeeman
his aid when your neighbors need help with
woman; that voting information or other assistar
"around home" problems of a public nature.
will be cheerfully given. The name, address a
J. KNOW THE CANDIDATES so you can discuss
telephone number of the worker should be prin
them with your neighbors.
on the card. A card should be left at each ho
whenever a call is made.
A Year-Round Job With a Simple Beginning,
Pays Off in Votes. START NOW!
B. The Canvass Book
THE PRECINCT TOOLS
The canvass book is the most important tool
the precinct committeeman and woman. It is a r
ord of every voter in the precinct or polling distr
A. Calling Cards
It should reflect the political trend of the precir
B. Canvass Book
who is not registered (in registration areas). It p
C. Card Index
vides a mailing list for campaign literature. It s
D. Vital Information on Voting
plies a possible audience for precinct, ward
county meetings and for radio or television part
A. Calling Cards
and house meetings during the campaign. The
The County Committee will find that an invest-
lowing information must be obtained:
ment in calling cards for the precinct workers will
pay dividends in votes. The cards should be in
1. First name, middle initial, last name, t
phone number and address of each vote
2. Party affiliation. (Tact and diplomacy are
quired.) If the elector votes at the Primary
GREETINGS, FELLOW AMERICANS:-
information is available at the local Board
I am your neighbor-You and I live in a free country
Elections, at the Court House, or at Cou
and it is our responsibility to keep It so. It can remain
Headquarters. Sometimes their friends kn
free only so long as the citizens take an interest in their
Never antagonize a voter by pressing
government and vote their convictions.
My job is to answer any question from people in our
point.
neighborhood about voting and elections.
3. Is the voter registered? (If required.)
time I can be of help.
Put this card where you can find It and call me any-
4. Does the voter usually vote at the Primary?
Your Republican Precinct Committee member,
5. Do any members of the family vote an abs
Name
voter's ballot?
6. Are there young voters, or those coming
Address
age? (Valuable information for new regis
Telephone No.
tions and Young Republican Club.)
7. Is the voter a permanent or transient reside
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8. Are voters newly naturalized or should be?
(Your help in getting them naturalized may
a final canvass taken six weeks
turn them Republican.)
paign. All changes should be re
9. Does voter require transportation on election
compiled of the following inforr
day?
the campaign:
10. Are there small children to watch while
1. All voters who will probably
parents vote?
2. All prospective Republican
In a large city precinct or a rural one which
tered.
covers many miles, competent help should be ob-
3. All voters who will cast a
tained in taking the canvass. The precinct should
ballot.
be divided to allow the canvasser ample opportu-
4. All voters to be transported
nity for productive calls. Remember you are build-
A copy of such lists should
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ing confidence and making friends.
County Chairman and a copy to
quarters.
C. Card Index
When the canvass is completed the data assem-
D. Vital Voting Information
bled should be transferred to a card index, ar-
Each precinct committeeman a
ranged alphabetically by streets and also alpha-
be equipped with the following
betically by voters' names.
1. Location of the voting place
One canvass of a precinct is not sufficient. It
2. A map of the precinct showir
should be re-taken at regular agreed intervals and
3. What are the registration red
4. Must persons changing
VOTER RECORD
register?
Ward
Precinct
Town
Name
5. When may persons register
Address
Elections.)
Telephone
Republican
6. Date of Primary Election;
Democrat
Independent
Special Elections (if any).
Registered
Yes
Eligible to register
Yes
7. Who may vote an absent vo
No
No
Necessary to transport or accompany to:
is the procedure?
Registration office
Polls
8. Who are the city, township,
Interests Information:
Republican office-holders?
(a) Business or profession
9. Who are the Republicans fo
(b) Other interests
the electors in your precino
next election? What offices
Names and relationship of members of household who
What are qualifications of tl
may cast Absentee Ballot:
NOTE: If any questions regar
election laws or Party stands
cannot answer, consult your co
Date
Signed
vice-chairman.
(Precinct Worker)
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of ideas on the issues. The more unique the meet-
COMMITTEES TO BE ORGANIZED
ing, the better the attendance. Choose Republicans
FOR WORK NOW
who are willing to open their homes for 25 persons
(more or less). Arrange a good, snappy program-
1. Registration
no long speeches. Plan light refreshments. Hold as
many as possible. In sparsely populated areas, of
2. Meetings
course, it will be necessary to vary the pattern.
3. Literature
4. Radio and Television
3. Literature Committee
Teen-agers may be members of this committee
5. Absentee Voting
to help in the distribution of literature. A system-
100% Organization means
atic plan for getting literature to each voter in
the precinct should be worked out well in advance
100% of Qualified Vote
of the intensive campaign drive. If the precinct or
county headquarters prepares special literature
A specific job to do attracts busy and able help-
some of the members of the literature committee
ers. Screen your workers now for Election Day-
may assist in research, "layout" and writing. They
Put your best team on the field.
can assist in preparing "fliers" announcing meet-
ings and special affairs. If funds permit, a "flier"
1. Registration Committee
can be prepared for the Absentee Voting Commit-
After-the lists have been made up from the can-
tee for last minute absentee voters saying in sub-
vass of the precinct a drive for registration should
stance that if the voter finds he will be away the
be made. The registration committee should be
precinct committeeman or woman will help him in
composed of those volunteers best qualified to
absentee voting. These may be distributed from
serve the needs of the precinct: Newly Naturalized
house to house.
citizens, Displaced Persons, etc. Particular atten-
tion should be given new citizens. They need your
4. Radio and Television Committee
help and friendship. This committee will function
The function of this committee is to build the
all through the campaign. Frequent checking
listening and viewing audiences for all political
should be done so every Republican elector may
broadcasts and telecasts. The members publicize
vote.
them; see that fliers are distributed (through the
literature committee); telephone the voters, if time
2. Meetings Committee
is short; arrange for listening and viewing parties
This Committee plans precinct meetings for the
(similar to house meetings); assist the county radio
voters, with emphasis on house meetings; assists
and television committee whenever needed.
the county committee in building county meetings,
rallies and caravans; assists with precinct rallies
5. Absentee Voting Committee
during the campaign period.
The number of persons required for the work will
Particular attention should be given to House
depend on the information concerning absentee
Meetings. These are "get acquainted" affairs. The
voters compiled from the canvass of the precinct.
intimacy of the home makes for a friendly exchange
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An over-all picture of possible absentee voters is
ORGANIZING THE PRECINCT
as follows:
FOR THE CAMPAIGN
(a) College students (a job for College Republi-
cans).
A. The Mechanical Needs
(b) Traveling people whose itinerary is uncer-
tain.
B. Auxiliary Workers
(c) Voters who have definite plans to be away
C. Your Organization
on Election Day.
Meeting
(d) Voters whose employment is in a distant city
D. Booth Officials
or out of State.
(e) Sick and Disabled absentee voters:
The first step before calling an organization
1. Voters who are confined to their homes.
meeting of the precinct is to meet with the county
2. Voters in Senior Citizens Homes (if unable
chairman and vice-chairman to discuss the overall
to leave).
plans for the year, and particularly the campaign,
3. Voters in Private Rest Homes (if unable
be it local or state and national. Cooperation is the
to leave).
keynote to victory. The work of each precinct must
4. Voters in hospitals (private or public).
dovetail and become a single county unit of organi-
5. Voters in Veterans Hospitals (within pre-
zation.
cinct area).
The first job for this committee is to prepare the
A. The Mechanical Needs
lists, using the above categories as a basis. Such
1. Calling cards for your workers. (See Page 2,
lists should be compiled both before the Primary
Item A.)
and before the Election. The lists should also be
checked at regular intervals for corrections. The
2. A large map of the precinct.
committee members should be assigned specific
3. List of registered or prospective voters
areas and work systematically. It is highly impor-
marked "Republican"-"Democratic"-"In-
tant to get every vote. Care should be taken by the
dependent"-"Doubtful." This list can be pre-
committee chairman to assign specially equipped
pared from your canvass of the precinct.
persons to special jobs. Be sure to know the pro-
4. Election statistics for the precinct for the pre-
cedure for absentee voting and the last date for
ceding like elections (i.e. presidential statis-
such voting.
tics for the presidential race, state legislative
statistics for a state legislative race, etc.)
Remember
5. List of Party nominees (chosen at Primary or
100% Organization MEANS
Nominating Convention). Biographical and
100% of Qualified Vote
background material should be available.
B. Auxiliary Workers
Depending on the size of the precinct, the den-
sity of the population and the area it covers, aux-
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iliary workers may be secured from the following
groups:
3. Instruct in taking the canvas
1. Volunteers from the ranks of the men's and
Item B).
women's Republican Clubs (County, City,
4. Instruct on the card index (Se
Ward or Precinct).
C).
2. Young Republicans, College Republicans and
5. Give vital voting information
Teen-age Republicans-the latter to be used
Item D).
particularly for literature distribution.
6. Hold an open discussion of
3. Veterans (both men and women).
proaching voters when canvas
4. Non-partisan groups-service and social.
ers participating.
7. Ask workers to gather infor
5. Business and Professional men and women.
issues in which the voters are
i
6. Nationality groups.
ing notes which can be cat
7. Church groups.
possible obtain literature fro
8. Labor groups.
state or national committee for
9. Minority groups.
when making return calls. This
10. Farmers.
issues will be valuable to Con
didates as well.
C. Meeting of Workers:
Hold monthly meetings until Se
every week until Election Day.
As soon as practicable after the Primary or Nomi-
nating Convention an organization meeting of all
D. Booth Officials
workers should be called in each precinct. (If the
When making the precinct ca
Primary in your state comes late-organize NOW.)
should be on the alert for Republic
Invite the county chairman and vice-chairman to
attend.
the necessary qualifications for
work. The places to be filled for Pr
Ask each worker to bring a notebook. If possible
tion days are: Clerks, judges, chec
use a blackboard for instructions.
and challengers. These recruits S
1. Divide the precinct into sections which will
capacity for administering the ele
allow not more than 35 persons to each
the physical ability to withstand tl
worker. A complete canvass must be taken
arduous hours. Lists should be
I
and a drive for REGISTRATION conducted
prospects. Many votes are lost thr
at once. Care should be used in assigning
and uninformed election officials. /
the right worker to the right place and special
is a training school on a county-wid
people to special groups.
lican members of local Boards of
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2. Post the precinct map and have each worker
be glad to assist in this undertaking
make an outline of the district to be covered.
Supply calling cards. Distribute lists of can-
Inspire Your Workers With Enthu
didates and such literature as is available.
Party and Their Part in Its S
Stress Friendliness and S
Make Hard Work Interes
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MEETINGS AND RALLIES
2. Program
This Committee takes care of all the details of
The purpose of all mass gatherings in a cam-
the program. The psychology is to give the vot-
paign is two-fold: 1. To publicize and sell the Party
ers a good time. A fine program can be built with
to the voters. 2. To create fellowship between the
little cost. Entertainment should be interspersed
official county organization, the recruits and the
throughout the program and the accent must be on
voters.
a well-kept schedule of events. The Committee also
The only real difference between meetings and
sees to the printing of the program.
rallies is that meetings usually feature one big-
name speaker and are more formal, while rallies
3. Speakers
provide an opportunity for fanfare and entertain-
The Speakers Committee obtains the speakers;
ment. A General Chairman should always be ap-
sees that they are fully informed of the plans which
pointed by the County Chairman for all meetings
affect them; takes care of hotel reservations and
and rallies.
transportation; arranges for their entertainment;
gets advances on speeches for the publicity com-
THE COMMITTEES
mittee. Every effort should be made to include local
1. Publicity, Radio and Television
candidates for short talks.
2. Program
4. Decorations and Properties
3. Speakers
4. Decorations and Properties
Much of the success of the meetings or rallies
depends on an attractive hall of a size commensu-
5. Parade
rate with the anticipated crowd. People with an
6. Audience Building
artistic flare should be chosen for this Committee.
Attention should be given to make the platform
1. Publicity, Radio and Television
comfortable and eye-catching. This Committee
Contact the political editors of all papers within
is also charged with having sound equipment
the county-daily, semi-weekly and weekly; also
available and a properly lighted rostrum for the
the program managers of the radio and television
speakers.
station(s) personally. An initial story which is brief
5. Parade Committee
and snappy, containing local names and general
plans should be ready when the contacts are made.
A parade makes wonderful publicity and gives
Work up publicity stunts in connection with the
all county groups-women's clubs, Young Repub-
meetings and rallies. Arrange radio and television
licans, etc.-a chance to participate. A band, red
interviews. Obtain advances on all major speeches
flares and floats as well as flags and marching units
for the press, radio and television newscasters.
help to attract an audience. The Parade Committee
Distribute handbills. See that a Press table is avail-
must have the details well worked out, precision-
able near the speaker's stand in the meeting place.
timed and colorful.
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6. Audience Building
ballots are cast. The teams will take turns at the
All precinct workers and volunteers should be
polling place. As the teams change shifts the one
contacted as well as city and county employees
and election booth officials who should be the
being relieved will report back to headquarters and
nucleus of the audience. A telephone drive invit-
check the "Master List." Then the Telephone Com-
mittee will go into action and start a check with all
ing the voters should be put into effect. All clubs,
including the Republican Veterans, Young Repub-
voters who have not been to the polling place,
reminding them of the time the polls close. If it is
licans, etc., should be used in the building of the
audience. The precinct canvass book will serve a
found that transportation or sitters are required
separate lists must be made up and given to the
good purpose in the drive for an audience.
chairmen of the transportation and sitters com-
mittees. These two committees will then proceed
COMMITTEES TO BE ORGANIZED
to service the needs. The big "round-up" by the
Checkers Committee should occur in mid-after-
FOR THE ELECTION
noon, thereby allowing sufficient time to reach
every voter on the Republican precinct list.
1. Checkers
2. Transportation
2. Transportation Committee
3. Sitters
This Committee functions on Election Day. Driv-
4. Headquarters
ers should be on hand at the Headquarters at all
5. Telephone
times. The Chairman of the Transportation Com-
mittee must have a crew of well organized, careful
6. Ballot Security
drivers. The precinct should be divided into sec-
EVERY VOTE COUNTS.
tions small enough to give prompt service to the
DON'T MISS ONE!
voters who require it. As in the case of the Sitters
Committee, advance assignments can be made for
transportation from information gathered from the
1. Checkers Committee
Precinct canvass.
This Committee functions on Election Day (both
3. Sitters Committee
Primary and General). Its duty is to make sure that
every eligible voter in the Precinct casts his vote.
Sitters are just what the word implies and are
The Chairman of the Checkers Committee must be
a very important part of the Precinct organization.
supplied with a list of all persons who will vote the
The Committee will serve on Election Day (both
Republican ticket. Telephone numbers are abso-
Primary and General) as sitters in homes where
lutely necessary, The Committee will be divided
such service is required. The Chairman of the Sit-
into teams-the number to be determined by the
ters Committee will select the membership with
size of the precinct. Each team must be given a
careful consideration. Young people can be used
duplicate list on which to check the voters as their
on this committee. The canvass of the precinct
before the election may reveal specific advance
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assignments for which arrangements can be made
ahead of time. The Election Day assignments are
are present at the polling place. The Chairman of
"emergency." The Committee, therefore should be
this Committee is responsible for recruiting and
large enough to handle them efficiently.
training volunteers and for setting up a central
ballot security desk on Election Day to which in-
4. Headquarters Committee
fractions are reported.
This Committee serves in the Precinct Head-
quarters during the campaign and on Election Day.
They assist the precinct committeeman and woman
in all of the details and in the coordination of all
activities of all committees. They do the clerical
work and typing: receive the callers; act as an in-
formation bureau; they are the "jacks of all trades."
5. Telephone Committee
The business of this committee is telephoning.
The most important function is getting voters to
the polls on Election Day. At intervals during the
day lists of those who have not voted are given to
the Telephone Committee. The Chairman will then
assign specific areas to the members of the com-
mittee. It is each person's task to find out why the
elector has not voted. If transportation is needed,
A STRONG PRECINCT OR-
the Transportation Committe is notified. If a sitter
GANIZATION IS THE FOUN-
is required, that committee is notified and goes into
DATION UPON WHICH THE
action. A Committee of substantial numbers will
REPUBLICAN PARTY IS
make for efficiency.
BUILT. . IF PRECINCT
During the campaign the Telephone Committee
WORK IS WELL DONE
helps the Meetings and Radio Committees in build-
ELECTIONS WILL NOT BE
ing audiences. It may assume the responsibility of
LOST BY DEFAULT. . A
manning the telephones in the headquarters.
STRONG TWO-PARTY SYS-
6. Ballot Security Committee
TEM OF GOVERNMENT IS
This Committee functions on Election Day, how-
AMERICA'S PROTECTION
ever, comprehensive plans must be made early in
AGAINST A FEDERALIZED
the campaign. The Ballot Security Committee is
STATE.
responsible for seeing that every legal ballot is
counted and every illegal ballot is discounted by
assuring that trained volunteers, knowledgeable
in election law, voting procedures and ballot fraud,
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"THERE IS NO
SUBSTITUTE FOR VICTORY"
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Women's Division, RNC
Anne Armstrong, Co-Chairman
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News
from
the Committee
for the Re-election
of the President
1701 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006 (202) 333-0920
FOR IMMEDIATRE RELEASE
CONTACT: DeVan L. Shumway
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1972
(202) 333-6760
#8-10
WASHINGTON, August 2 -- Taras (Tary) G. Szmagala has been named
Director of the Nationalities Committee for the Re-election of
the President.
Announcement of his appointment was made today by Clark
MacGregor, Chairman of the Committee for the Re-election of the
President.
"I'm delighted to be able to enlist the aid of such an
outstanding man in President Nixon's behalf." MacGregor said.
"Im confident of his success, and look forward to support from
the Nationalities Committee."
Prior to his appointment as Director of the Nationalities
Committee, Szmagala served as a special assistant to Senator
Robert Taft, Jr., having joined Taft's staff in March of 1971.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1933, he served for a number of years
as an educator in the Parma, Ohio School system. Szmagala has
been active in politics since 1960, serving as a volunteer in
Senator Taft's campaign in 1964 and in the Nixon campaign in 1968.
"When the public has fully compared the inherent correctness
of the Nixon policies against the irrational and inconsistent
proposals of Senator McGovern" said Szmagala, "the President will
receive a substantial vote of confidence from the segment of
(more)
2-2-2-2
Nationalities Committee Announced for Nixon
voters made up of people of ethnic background, including
many young voters who can clearly perceive the difference
between radical rhetorical proposals and the reality of
workable programs.
"These people, who are proud of their heritage, know
that President Nixon has shown tangible and active evidence
of his interest in the problems of the ethnic populace, and
will begin to make known their support for him in no uncertain
terms. "
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Strachan
Committee for the Re-election of the President
MEMORANDUM
August 2, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HONORABLE CLARK MacGREGOR
THROUGH:
JEB S. MAGRUDER
FROM:
WILLIAM D. NOVELLI won
SUBJECT:
Revised Black Americans Brochure
Attached is a copy of the revised brochure directed to Black Voters.
cc: Paul Jones
THE CALL and POST, Saturday, February 5, 1972
Nixon Asks
For Civil Rig
President's Request
NATIONAL-STA'
Provides Needed
Ca
Projects Funding
By WILLIAM O. WALKER
[and
If the budget submitted to Congress last week
by President Richard M. Nixon is passed, it will
provide over two billion dollars for minority projects
SATURDAY, MARCH 18
and programs in fiscal year 1972.
This is the largest expenditure in these
categories by the federal government in the history of
the nation. These appropriations are for the purpose of
White Ho
carrying out the civil rights programs of President
Nixon.
This information was revealed to a group of
Negro leaders, in Washington, last Monday. The
meeting was called by Robert Brown, a member- of
Reports
President Nixon's White House staff.
In addition of the record amount to be spent in
D.
C.
The
HU
fiscal 1972, if Congress accepts the Nixon budget, the
White WASHINGTON, House has released
Of
allocations for minority programs as projected for
PRESIDENT NIXON
special report citing progress
1973, would go over two and half billion dollars.
in "civil rights and related
E1
ge
In addition to Federal activities
he
ings or leased space ar
social programs."
protection of
m-
located where there is a
The report listed forward
pt
in employment of blacks,
A
)r-
adequate supply of low-ant
Blacks for Nixon
steps education, justice, welfare, and
a
n-
moderate-income housing
t
available on a non discrimi
IS
minority business, housing
natory basis.
or
drug abuse.
Predict 'Surprise'
THE REPORT was released
Civil Rights
7
Enforcement
news conference. Top Admin-
during a recent White House
Primary responsibility for
istration blacks participating Rob-
enforcement of civil
For Democrats
in the briefing included:
Brown, special camuel assistant Jack-
By DAVID BRAATEN
Star Staff Writer
NIXON SUI
A group of black business- leaders
men, supporting President that
clergy and civic Nixon's
re-election has predicted of
ced Secretary approval of of Commerce grant Maurice Stans announ-
its people, especially Democrats the
effort "will surprise a lot
of 593,000 Washington, to help People's and Involvement loan funds totaling $7,
who have been taking
ed 168-room hotel. D.C. build a new Corporation - own-
black vote for granted."
The prediction came at a
held press in connection blacks
conference yesterday with a
has Grant
Personnel been named Management Specialist Carl
meeting of about 100 the
from across the country at aus-
Gramercy Inn, under the the
a Thom-
the Small
pices Re-Election of the President. the
of the Committee for
"we're tired of being in said
ministration at theSmithsonian of the Office Institution. of Personnel was Ad- As-
The
Small
Business
"THE NEW YORK VOICE"
ation loaned a
prity business-
or $2 Billion
its Programs
Swift OK Urged
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Chicago, Illinois
March 20, 1972
Nixon Asks Minority Business Aid
BY ARTHUR SIDDON
[Chicago Tribune Press Service]
neurs are eager to join the
in support of Nixon's requests,
WASHINGTON, March 19-
mainstream of the nation's
said the $63.6 million will ena-
capital in small business,
President Nixon asked Con-
commerce," he said. "Many
ble OMBE to expand funding
many of them minority busi-
gress today to give "swift ap-
need help in getting started-
of minority business develop-
nesses. More than 40,000 small
and increasing numbers are
ment organizations into addi-
business financings have been
proval" to a legislative pack-
age designed to aid minority
tional cities and increase its
completed by SBICs totaling
getting that help
business.
business assistance services.
$1.9 billion in risk capital, ac-
In a message to be sent to
The principal need, said the
cording to Nixon.
the Congress tomorrow, Nixon
President, is for
A Top Priority
sup-
"The President has asked
Restructuring Planned
asks for $63.6 million in
me to make minority business
Because so little of the $1.9
bout
billion actually went into mi-
1973 for
AND GUIDE
development one of my top pri-
orities," he said. "That is ex-
nority businesses, MESBIC
opu-
actly what I intend to do."
was formed by the Nixon ad-
use Conference
ess.
per
Nixon's MESBIC legislation
ministration to invest only in
minority business.
es
for 1972 would lower the cur-
hs
rent risks of sponsoring MES-
The MESBIC act proposed
by Nixon will restructure
al
BIC firms and make more
MESBIC to make it even easi-
loans available for minority
business starts, Peterson said.
er to obtain capital for minori-
Rights Progress
ty businesses, the President
Small Business Investment
said.
of
Companies are private invest-
"Opening wider the doors of
THE
ment firms which are eligible
opportunity for one-sixth of our
John
Jenkinspartment's director
to borrow from the Small Busi-
ess Administration at an in-
people is a social necessity,
D;
he
Com
the number of gen-
entive ratio.
which responds to an impera-
tive claim on our conscience,"
{ice of
These firms then invest their
said Nixon.
terpris
neral
artment
ssistan
Secretary of Commerce
$14.5 Million To Assist Minority Business
nd Sta
Maurice H. Stans today an-
of League. which The are remainder, some and Augusta, Ga.;
the I
nounced the scheduled awards
ions fc
of contracts totaling $14.5
negotiated, will presently be awarded being Tenn,; Richmond and Memphis, Nor-
The W
to million in the next two weeks
within the next
The
19 minority business
will be announc
THE
MIAMI
TIMES
Durham,
lights
development organizations
signed.
Miami,
Florida
Ohio;
An award to
1972
Jackson,
lquarters
event look upon in this the as a landmark
bers," Burrell said, "certainly
League and its 15,000 mem-
"The National Business
Little Rock-Pine
N.C.;
and
civil
and trade associations with
February
18,
for
the
offices in approximately 40
terprise
minority
Business Leagu
en-
FE
cities to provide improved
funds
totaling
movide
em
$1617,000
over
for business members opportunity services
two-year
a
Burrell, Washington. Business Berkeley League is G. in everywhere certain effort, that and minorities I am
389
M
minoritv
its the operating costs of help nine pay of
period
to
of
Nixon's as vice chairman president, of also President serves vinced country of the are becoming across con- the
Administration
PPORTS BLACK CAPITALISM
ATLANTA DAILY WOR LD, FRI., 2/4/72
sisted more than 50 small businesses. The suc-
cribed in his message to Congress as
cessful bidders have received more than $2,500,
mandate to establish and carry out federal pc
000 in contracts.
concerning minority enterprise and to coordir
The Small Business Administration awarded a
the related efforts of all federal departments
$345,525 Navy contract to Superior Tool Co., Inc.,
agencies." The President's expansion of the C
a minority-owned precision metal products manu-
merce Secretary's authority promises to sat
facturer in Fort Worth, Texas.
the often-cited need for improved coordination
the federal minority enterprise programs.
Secretary of Commerce Maurice H. Stans an-
President Nixon, in a message to Congre
nounced approval of a $2,366,650 loan for the es-
asked for legislation to provide more assista
tablishment of 19 fast-food restaurants to be own-
to MESBICs---Minority Small Business Inve
ed and operated by RI-
41
hicago,
Cleveland,
ment Companies which would make it easier
and Washingt
March
Is will go to All-
them to get loans from the Small Business Adm
Friday,
aintains its head-
istration.
for
The Administration has budgeted $700.000 0
-
a
the related efforts of
supporting has surprise a lot of
ed 168-room hotel.
$345,525 Navy contract to Superior Tool Co., Inc.,
agencies." The Presi
its the the
a minority-owned precision metal products manu-
merce Secretary's a
Personnel Management Specialist Carl Grant
facturer in Fort Worth, Texas.
the often-cited need f
black
has been named Personnel Director of the Small
the federal minority
a
press The THE THE THE the country at
Business Administration by Administrator Thom-
Secretary of Commerce Maurice H. Stans an-
President Nixon,
as S. Kleppe. Before this assignment, he was As-
nounced approval of a $2,366,650 loan for the es-
asked for legislation
aus- the
sociate Director of the Office of Personnel Ad-
tablishment of 19 fast-food restaurants to be own-
to MESBICs---Minor
ministration at theSmithsonian Institution.
ed and operated by RI-
1972
41
hicago, Cleveland,
ment Companies which
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and Washinarch
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have
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The Small Business Administration awarded a
the related efforts of all federal departments
of
ed 168-room hotel.
$345,525 Navy contract to Superior Tool Co., Inc.,
ats
agencies." The President's expansion of the C
the
a minority-owned precision metal products manu-
merce Secretary's authority promises to sat
Personnel Management Specialist Carl Grant
facturer in Fort Worth, Texas.
the often-cited need for improved coordination
at a
has been named Personnel Director of the Small
the federal minority enterprise programs.
erday
Business Administration by Administrator Thom-
Secretary of Commerce Maurice H. Stans an-
President Nixon, in a message to Congre
with blacks a
as S. Kleppe. Before this assignment, he was As-
nounced approval of a $2,366,650 loan for the es-
asked for legislation to provide more assista
at the
sociate Director of the Office of Personnel Ad-
tablishment of 19 fast-food restaurants to be own-
to MESBIC Minority Small Business Inve
the aus-
ministration at theSmithsonian Institution.
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41
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ment Companies which would nake it easier
for the
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Wednesday as the first mem-
the
nounced of $544,527 has Col-
continue a job and business
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amount to Virginia State proj-
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development program in
ily
awarded for two agricultural
ation with assist:
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San Bernardino, Calif., was lth
Batchelor. succeeded Roy
year.
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awarded recently by the lth
the
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vember Washington been serv. E. effort said,
Economic Development Ad-
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criminal court judge and civil
ministration of the U.S. De- )r.
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Allgood, director of institute of
re-
State University
rights leader to the seven-
partment of Commerce.
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the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration wi. u
and at VSC, approval by
burg.
member board is subject to
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ssmen th Secretary Stans is Richard E. Hughes, associate dean of the graduate
search the two projects was at a made recent
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Inc., 1653 North Mt. Vernon
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pays $38 nan
ACK
ERICANS
"Now I know all the words. I know all the gimmicks
and the phrases that would win the applause of Black
audiences and professional civil rights leaders. I am
not going to use them. I am interested in deeds."
President Richard M. Nixon
February 2, 1970
88% of the Black Americans who went to the polls in 1968
voted against Richard Nixon for President. The new
President, however, was determined to do two things.
First, he was going to be President of ALL Americans
because it was clear to him this was the right kind of
President to be.
Second, he wanted to prove to Black Americans that such a
President was entitled to a new look based not on words,
but on deeds that can be seen.
Here, then, is President Nixon's record of accomplishments
to date.
Not just words. But deeds. You be the judge.
BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
The President believes in economic independence for Blacks.
Here is a partial list of what he has done to help minority
business enterprise.
The Minority Bank Deposit Program
PURPOSE: to strengthen the lending capacity of minority owned banks
by increasing deposits, thereby helping other minority businesses and
individuals through increased loans.
RESULTS: Over $242 million has been deposited under this program,
exceeding the original goal by $142 million. Deposits are expected to
reach $300 million by early fiscal 1973.
Minority owned banks increased from 23 in fiscal 1969 to 38 in fiscal 1971.
Lending capacity increased by 33% leading to new minority businesses with
new jobs for Blacks.
This Program Represents the Largest Single Transfer of Economic Power
into Minority Controlled Economic Institutions in the History of this Country.
The Office of Minority Business Enterprise
PURPOSE: created in 1969 to increase grants, loans and guarantees to
minority businesses and Black trade associations.
RESULTS: total funding for minority business enterprise programs will
WALLACE
increase to an estimated $715.9 million in fiscal 1973.
THE PRESIDENT IS DOING MORE: He has proposed a new post of
Assistant Secretary for Minority Enterprise in the Department of Commerce.
Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Companies
(MESBICS)
PURPOSE: to provide a private sector channel for venture capital to
4
minority owned firms.
RESULTS: there are now 50 MESBICS (75 expected by early fiscal 1973
capitalized at over $16.8 million of private funds. The total capital that these
MESBICS can bring to bear is over $240 million. At the end of fiscal 1972,
422 new businesses had been financed and 4,407 high-quality jobs created.
THE PRESIDENT IS DOING MORE: He has proposed new MESBIC
legislation which would greatly expand the opportunity for capital to
minority owned firms.
Minority firm purchases by the federal government will have
increased from $3.8 million in fiscal 1969 to $175 million
in fiscal 1973 under the President. Federal 8a contracts to
minority businesses, through the Small Business Administration,
have increased from eight in fiscal 1969 ($9 million) to over
1,000 in fiscal 1972 ($125 million).
Small Business Administration Loans have zoomed from
$72 million in fiscal 1968 to $323 million in 1971.
President Nixon believes every group of Americans deserves
a piece of the action. His deeds prove it.
EDUCATION
Desegregation/Quality Education-40% of Black students
were attending all Black schools when President Nixon came
to office. He has dropped that figure to 12%.
In the South 68% of the Black students were in all Black
schools.
In the 1970-71 school year, only 9% were.
Over the past two years, the President has proposed, and the
Congress has made available $150 million to help schools
affected by Court desegregation decisions. In addition, the
President has signed a bill giving him a $2 billion increased
authorization for this purpose. President Nixon's objective
is to spend $2½ billion annually for these schools and to
upgrade the quality of education in disadvantaged schools in
all areas of the country.
He also has proposed work-study payments and subsidized
loans for deserving students whose families have incomes of
$10,000 or less.
Black colleges-On the question of the financial needs of
predominantly Black colleges, this Administration has come
through. In 1973 more than $200 million will be spent in
aid to these colleges, double the amount spent in 1969.
The President's deeds. Such is the material from which
progress is made, and this progress by the Nixon
Administration has shaped American and Black American
history. It is a proud part of the Administration's record.
Not words. Deeds.
BLACK APPOINTMENTS
President Nixon has appointed more Blacks to top level
government posts, including the White House Staff, than any
other President. He appoints them because he deems them
qualified. He wants to listen and then act upon Black needs.
Here are some specific examples:
Federal Judgeships-President Nixon has appointed 17 Black
Federal judges. There are more Blacks serving as Federal
judges today than ever before.
Military Justice-The President has named the first Black to
the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, the Supreme Court
of the military.
The Military-Twelve Black officers have attained general or
flag officer rank under President Nixon, as compared to only
two before. One of these is the Navy's first Black Admiral.
Ambassadors-The President has named seven Black
Ambassadors. He has also-appointed a Black delegate to the
United Nations General Assembly (out of a 6-member
delegation).
Communications-The President has appointed the first Black
ever to serve on the Federal Communications Commission.
Women-The President has appointed approximately twice
as many Black women to government positions as either of
the two Presidents before him.
President Nixon's record. A record of more Black American
appointments at all levels than were made by the two previous
administrations combined. A record you can see.
On White House Staff-Shown standing on White House steps are,
I to r, Lt. Col. Vernon Coffey, Army Aide to the President; Sally Anne Payton,
Staff Assistant to the President; Ray Gerald, Assistant to the Chairman, Council of
Economic Advisors; Robert J. Brown, Special Assistant to the President; Stanley
BLACK APP
President Nixon has appointe
Elizobeth Koontz
Robert Duncan
Benjamin Hooks
John Reinhardt
John Powell
Constance Newman
Ben Holman
Samuel Singletary
Chris Roggerson
Dr. Alfred 1 Edwards
Director Woman's
Judge. Military
government posts, including t
Member Federal
Ambassador to Nigeria
General Counsel, U.S.
Director of Volunteers
Assistant Attorney
Director of Minority
Director, Office of
Head of Rural
Bureau, Department
Court of Appeals
Communications
Commission on
In Service To America
General, Community
Affairs. ACTION
Voluntary Programs,
Development and
other President. He appoints
of Labor
Commission
Civil Rights
Relations Service,
Equal Employment
Conservation, Dept of
Department of Justice
Opportunity
Agriculture
qualified. He wants to listen a
Commission.
Here are some specific example
Federal Judgeships-Presiden
Federal judges. There are more
judges today than ever before.
Military Justice-The Preside
the U.S. Court of Military A
of the military.
Frank Kent
Patricia King
Arthur Reid
Albert E. Hampton
George Haley
Theodore R. Britton Jr.
Coiston Lewis
James Frazier
Samuel C. Jackson
John L. Jenkins
Associate Director for
Deputy Director,
Director of Inter-
Comptroller, Dept. of
Chief Counsel, Urban
Deputy Assistant
Commissioner Equal
Director, Office of
General Assistant
Director of Office of
Human Affairs, Office
Office of Civil Rights,
governmental Relations,
Housing and Urban
Mass Transportation,
Secretary for Research
Employment
Civil Rights
Secretary For
Minority Business
The Military-Twelve Black o
of Economic Oppor-
Health, Education and
Office of Economic
Development
Dept. of Trans.
and Technology
Opportunities
Department of
Community Planning
Enterprise, Department
tunity
Welfare
Opportunity
Dept. of Housing
Commission
Transportation
and Management,
of Commerce
flag officer rank under Presider
& Urban Development
Dept. of HUD
two before. One of these is the
Ambassadors-The President
I
Ambassadors. He has also app
United Nations General Asse
delegation).
Communications-The Preside
ever to serve on the Federal (
Samuel R. Pierce Jr.
T. M. Alexander Jr.
Howard Jenkins, Jr.
Samuel C. Adams, Jr.
John L. Costa
John L. Blake
Lutrelle F. Parker
Gloria Toote
Samuel J. Simmons
James E. Johnson
General Counsel,
Assistant
Member, National
Assistant Administrator
Commissioner,
Director, Job Corps,
Examiner in Chief,
Director of Voluntary
Assistant Secretary for
Assistant Secretary of
US. Treasury
Commissioner for
Labor Relations Board
for Africa, Agency for
Assistance Payments
Department of Labor
U.S. Patent Office,
Action Liaison,
Equal Opportunity.
Manpower and
Women-The President has ap
Department
Unsubsidized Insured
International
Administration, Health,
Dept. of Commerce
ACTION
Housing and Urban
Reserve Affairs,
Housing Programs
Development
Education and Welfare
Development
Dept. of Navy
as many Black women to gove
the two Presidents before him
President Nixon's record. A n
appointments at all levels that
administrations combined. A I
Calvin Banks
William H. Brown III
Stonley B. Thomas Jr.
Chief, Community
Chairman, Equal
Dep. Asst. Secretary
Assistant Division,
Employment
of Youth and
Dept. of Transportation
Opportunity
Student Affairs, Dept.
Commission
Health, Eduaction
and Welfare.
On White House Staff-Shown stan
I to r, Lt. Col. Vernon Coffey, Army
Staff Assistant to the President; Ray
President Nixon in conference
Economic Advisors; Robert J. Brown,
with his key Black advisors.
c Scott. Assistant the Director of (
HUMAN RIGHTS
Once again, President Nixon has preferred not to create mere
visions of progress, but to go after the problem itself.
Civil Rights-In 1969, $75 million was budgeted for civil
rights enforcement activity. The President has recommended
for fiscal 1973, a budget of $602.1 million, an 700% increase.
In fiscal 1973 the total Federal civil rights budget will almost
triple the budget of fiscal 1969-from $900 million to
$2.6 billion.
Legal Rights- The budget for legal services for the
disadvantaged has grown from $36 million in fiscal 1969 to
$69 million in fiscal 1973 under President Nixon.
Voting Rights-The Justice Department has acted to assure
that voting rights are not denied as a result of redistricting
or through re-registration of voters.
The President is committed to continuing the fight for equal
rights for ALL Americans until it has been won.
A record of striving for equal rights and opportunities.
Deeds you can see.
WELFARE
The President has proposed the replacement of the present
unfair, unmanageable, bankrupt welfare system with a new
system that's a lot better.
This new system holds much promise for the poor, since its
provisions for training, child care, work incentives, and
improved payment standards will help many on welfare to
make the transition to economic independence.
President Nixon has reinforced programs already in operation,
pending enactment of his welfare reform program.
Family Food Programs-The Food Stamp Program is
assisting nearly 12 million people, almost four times as many
people as in 1969.
And over eight million children will receive free or
reduced-price lunches in 1973, double the number in 1969.
Federal expenditures on food programs are nearly four times
the previous Administration's. The 1969 figure: $1.7 billion.
The new figure: $4.1 billion. All family food programs are
expected to reach 16.1 million people in 1973, more than
twice the 1969 figure.
Sickle Cell Anemia-President Nixon has asked for $15
million to combat sickle cell anemia, the first President to
attack this primarily Black disease.
Drugs-The President is spending $371 million to combat
drug abuse this year, six times more for rehabilitation and five
times more for drug education than ever before.
President Nixon's record. A record of concern for the
disadvantaged and impoverished people of America.
HOUSING
The President is building an outstanding record in the field
of housing and urban development, areas so important to
Black Americans.
Subsidized Housing-In 1969, there were 156,000 subsidized
housing starts for low and moderate income families. In 1973,
under President Nixon, that number has skyrocketed to
566,000. The President has also proposed a long-overdue
subsidized housing program which will allow rent to vary
according to income.
And an increasing number of Black non-profit organizations
are involved in this growth.
Fair Housing Programs-Under President Nixon, funds to
administer fair housing programs will increase in 1973 by
20% to $10.9 million. The President has approved federal
incentives to communities for moderate income housing and he
has promised to attack in court any community which uses
zoning or other devices as cover-ups for housing discrimination.
Urban Revenue Sharing-To help solve the problem of decay
in our cities, the President has proposed a revolutionary
program of revenue sharing which will place over $2 billion
in the hands of local officials for solving urban problems,
without all the usual federal red tape. but with the civil rights
protections that go with all Federal money. This means that
community people will be better able to determine what needs
to be done in their own communities.
Again, the record speaks louder than promises. A record of
achievement in solving today's housing and urban problems.
EMPLOYMENT
The President has a record of accomplishment that many
Black Americans have benefited from.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission-The President
has increased the budget of the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission to more than double its size under the last
administration.
Federal employment-Between November 1969 and
November 1971, while total federal civilian employment shrank
28,000, minority employment went up by 2,200; 20% of the
Federal work force is now minority.
Philadelphia Plan-The President's Philadelphia-type Plan
raised the number of working hours by minorities in federal
projects from 2% in 1969 to 15% in 1970.
This type of plan is now operating in 48 cities to increase
opportunities for Blacks in construction trades.
Manpower Programs-Last year there were 912,000 enrollees
in Department of Labor Manpower programs and about
54% were black.
Youth-More than 700,000 jobs and training opportunities
have been and are being opened to disadvantaged youths
through federal manpower programs.
Last year 824,000 disadvantaged youths were enrolled and
trained for meaningful summer jobs, and this year the figure
will rise to over a million.
President Nixon's record of more and better jobs for Black
Americans than in any previous administration. A record
you can see.
1972 is a year of decision. More Blacks than ever before will
be voting, and the question will be whether or not Black
votes will count. In 1968, the majority of the Black votes
did not count. They were taken for granted by the Democrats,
considered "in the bag." And it is a Democratic Congress
that has held up many of President Nixon's progressive
proposals on behalf of Black Americans.
President Nixon, without much Black support, has
demonstrated a genuine commitment to Black Americans,
and it shows in his record. His administration has exceeded
any previous administration in aid to minority enterprise,
aid to Black education, numbers of Black politcal appointees,
enforcement of civil rights, funding for the welfare of the
disadvantaged, support for low income housing.
Blacks can no longer afford to vote for a political party
automatically. We must vote for the man who demonstrates
a determination to enact programs in the best interest of
Black Americans. Look at the record and I think you will
agree with me that in 1972, President Nixon is that man.
Vote, and make it count this time.
Paul R. Jones
Executive Director
National Black Citizens
Committee for the
Re-election of the President.
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Hugh Sloan, Jr., Chairman
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"If we can provide the job opportunity and the opportunity for business
enterprise for Black people and other minority groups that this administration
stands for, then when I finish office I would rather be measured by my
deeds than all of the fancy speeches I may have made."
Richard Nixon
February 2, 1970
For reprints, please write directly to:
PAUL R. JONES
Committee for the Re-Election of the President
1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20006
COMMITTEE FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT State
PelI
1701 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. NW
WASHINGTON D. C 20006
August 1, 1972
(202) 333 0920
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FRED MALEK
FROM:
CLARK MacGREGOR
SUBJECT:
Canvassing
On the plane returning from Louisiana yesterday Senator Bob Griffin
expressed to the President Griffin's view that our canvassers were
making a mistake in identifying only pro-Nixon voters. Griffin told -
the President that our canvassers should also identify pro-Wallace
voters. (Griffin's view, which I tend to share, is that many
Wallace supporters do not realize or accept that Wallace is
definitely out of the race in the general election.)
The President asked Griffin if this should apply only to Michigan.
Griffin said NO, and added that public opinion surveys show the Wallace
voters generally throughout the Country break down into 2/3 for
Nixon and 1/3 for McGovern, and that therefore we should develop an
accurate list of pro-Wallace people everywhere.
The President has directed that our canvassers do as Griffin
recommended.
cc: Jeb Magruder
Dob Marik
Pat Hutar
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for the Re-election
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1701 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006 (202) 333-0920
FOR RELEASE: NOON , THURSDAY, AUGUST 3
CONTACT: DeVan L. Shurvey
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WASHINGTON, August 3 ---- Saying that Sen. George NcGovern's tax
and welfare proposals are "a prescription for economic disaster, 11
Clark MacGregor, Campaigo Director for the Nixon campaign today
announced the formation of a Lawyers Committee for the Re-election
of the President.
In remarks LO 200 lawyers at a luncheon in the Madison Hotel,
MacGregor said that while "Senator McCovern has demonstrated a
capacity for excessive and flamboyant rhetoric On the subject
of texation," during the Nixon Administration "personal taxes
have declined and taxes on corporations have increased. "
MacGregor urged the 200 lawyers present to "take this case
to the people as the campaign develops. "
The Lawyers Committee, headed by George D. Webster or
Washington, John E. Robson of Chicago and Richard W. Kiefer of
Baltimore, aunounced plans to involve 100,000 lawyers and their
families in the President's rc-election campaign.
Daniel J. Piliero, 29, of New York City, National Director of the
Lawyers Committee said that Lawyers would be asked to campaign not
only within the legal community but "to campaign throughout their
communities, exercising a leadership role in communicating the
President's outstanding record. "
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EXCERPTS WROM A SPEECH BY THE honorable CLARK MACGREGOR No THE LUNCHEON
FOR THE LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT, MADISON
HOTEL, WASHINGTON, D.C., AUGUST 3, 1972 (As prepared for delivery)
As the President has indicated, and as Frank Dale, the Chairman
of the Counittee for the Re-election of the President has reiterated, the
presidential election this year is going to offer the American people A clear
choice of directions they wish their country to take. That choice has
already become very clear in the area of national security policy. It
has become equally clear in the area of welfare policy. And today I want
to help make it clear in the area of tax policy.
This is one area in which America's lawyers con make an important
contribution. Senator McCovern has already demonstrated a capacity for
excessive and flamboyent rhetoric on the subject of tallation. It will be our
job to see that this ruetoric --- which will undoabledly become more excessive
and more Eleuboyant as the campaign progresses -- does not cloud the record
of the Nixon Administration's accomplishments in tax reform.
Let me set cut that record for you. Fact number one: Since President
Nixon entered the White House, personal taxes have declined and taxes on
corporations have increased. By the end of this calendar year, individual
income taxes will have decreased by almost 19 billion dollars. And, by the
end of this calendar year, excise taxes --- paid almost entirely by individuals
at the time of purchase -- will also have decreased by three and one-half
billion dollars. That is a total tax reduction for individual consumers of
more than 22 billion dollars.
At the same time, corporate income taxes will have increased by almost
5 billion dollars.
Fact number two: the greatest percentage of tax reductions have
benefitted low income groups, while taxes have gone up for high income groups.
Let me give you one example of how President Nixon's tax policies have helped
those wage carners at the lower end of the economic scale: this year, individual
Americans in the lowest income tax bracket will pay 82 percent less in income
taxes than they would have if the Tax Reform Act of 1969 and the Revenue Act of
1971 were not in effect. At the other end of the scale, persons with incomes
over 100,000 dollars will pay seven and one-half percent more in income taxes
this year.
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This does not mean that the tex-reform job is over. It is not. But
it does mean that the trumped up charges of tax inequity which will soon be
flowing from the McGovern fill-in-the-blank ticket will be based, not on fact,
but on a desperate attempt to create at least one Incue for the coming campaign.
As these Eacts demonstrate, the tax issue may well be a false issue.
And we must not allow it to pollute the streem of debate On the real questions.
The real question in donestic policy are: where is Senator McCovern going to
get the money to finance his fantastic welfare schemes? The answer is, from
increased taxes on the 81-million working men and women of this country or
from new inflation fueled by astronomical budget deficits.
What is Senator McCovern going to do to replace the jobs which will
be lost if his proposed 45 percent increase in corporation taxes is enacted?
The answer is that he doesn't know -- and neither does anyone else.
President Nixon has presided over an economic expansion which has
created nearly 4 and one-half million new jobs since he came into office. What
does Senator McGovern propose to equal that achievement? The answer is that he
proposes to give everyone 1,000 dollars as an annual handout. His program for
the aerospace workers who would lose their jobs in a McGovern Administration is
to give them welfare checks equal to 80 percent of their pay.
Such ill-conceived proposals don't constitute a rational program of
economic progress. They are a prescription for economic. disaster. And nothing
should be allowed to obscure that fact.
I hope you will help us take this case to the people as the campaign
develops. Tell the people the facts of President Nixon's accomplishments in
tax reform. Tell them that a second Nixon Administration will do even more in
the area of responsible tax reform. And then let us get on with the job of
building economic prosperity for all Americans in the next four years.
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LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR TRE RE-ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT
FACT SHEET
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The Lawyers Conwittee for the Re: election of the President vill be organized
in each of the 50 CLETAD and in the bistrict of Columbia. These committees
will be compriced of Advidory Croups, a State Chairson, various functional
corrittee chairmen nod area challmen. Iv addition, the Lewyers Committee
will consist of a National Advisory Croup and a Young Lawyers Committee
Advisory Croop. The National Advisory Group does consist of representatives
from every segment of the profession. It presently includes women lawyers,
young lawyers, black lawyers, Speainbespecking lawyers, law shcool deans
and professors and law students.
ACTIVITIES
The Lawyers Committee has developed an action program which will seek to
enlist the active participation of 100, lawyers and their families in
the President's re-election campaign. The program contemplates the use of
direct mail, telephone calls, and lawyer-to-layyer communication.
STATUS OF ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES
At the present time, there are Lawyers Committees in 40 states. The remaining
10 states will be organized shortly. A Young Lawyers Advisory Group has been
formed and will serve as a task force for special projects, including the
development and dissemination of issue material and the recruitment of young
lawyers and law students in the active ranks of those who support the President.
CO-CHAIRMEN
George D. Webster, Esq., of Washington, D.C.
John E. Robson, Esq., of Chicago and Washington, D.C.
Richard W. Kiefer, Esq., of Baltimore
are the Co-Chairmen of the Lawyers Committee. The National Advisory Group
which is presently still in formation consists of, at this time, nine past
presidents of the American Bar Association, officers of a variety of bar
associations, and representatives in all areas of the profession. It is the
most broadly based and comprehensive lawyers committee ever assembled.
NATIONAL DIRECTOR
Daniel J. Piliero II, Esq., of New York, serves as the National Director of
the Lawyers Committee and is a member of the staff of the Committee for the
Re-clection of the President.
JOHN E. ROBSON, ESQ.
Biographical Information
John E. Robson, 42, Chicago, Illinois, is one of three
co-chainmen of the national Lawyer's Comittee for the Re-Election
of the President. He is a senior partner in the law firm of
Leibman, Williams, Bennett, Baird, and Minow with offices in
Chicago and Washington, D. C.
A former United States Under-Secretary of Transportation,
Mr. Robson is Chairman of the National Advisory Council on Economic
Opportunity, Transportation Counsel to the Governor of Illinois,
and a trustee of St. John's College.
RICHARD W. KILEER, ESQ.
Biographical Information
Richard W. Kiefer, 58, Baltimore, Maryland is one of three
co-chaiumen of the national Lawyer's Committee for the Re-Election
of the President. He is a partner in the law finn of Hooper, Kiefer,
Cornell, and O'Ferrall.
He is a member of the Baltimore City, Maryland State, and
American Bar Associations. In addition, Mr. Kiefer is a member
of American Judicature Society and World Peace Through Law Center.
Area President of the Boy Scouts of America, he is President of
the Board of Directors of McKim Comunity Association and on the
Board of Directors of the General German Children's Home.
GEORGE 1). FEBSIER, ECO.
Biogra bical Information
Gentge D. Wibster, 51, Wishington, D. C., is one of three
of the Lawyer's Comittee for the re-Election of the
President. Le is a partner in the law firm of Marrot and Webster.
Is graduate of Harvard Law School, Mr. Webster is a trustee
for the United States Naval Academy Foundation and a trustee for
Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee. De is a former member
of. the Taxation Committee of the United States Chamber of Cammerce.
Mr. Rebster is the author of The Law of Associations (ASAF-1971)
and Coneral Counsel to the American Society of Association
Executives, American Apparel Manufacturers Association, Packaging
Machinery Kanufacturers Instituto, and National Sporting Coods
Association.
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TENTATIVE LIST OF STATE CONNTTTEE ATTINDEES
: National Advisory Committee
** Young Lawyers
ARIZONA
COLORADO
Frank Snell, Esq.
Charles W. Ennis, Esq.
Phoenix
Denver
Douglas Wall, Esq.
James W. Sanderson, Esq.
Placetaff
Denver
CALIFORNIA
CONNECTICUT
C. Douglas Kranwinkle, Esq.
Robert Taylor, Esq.
Los Angeles
Hartford
Harry J. Keaton, Esq.
Victor Muschell, Esq.
Los Angeles
Torrington
Edward Rubin, Esq.
Nicholas Longo, Esq.
Los Angeles
Putnam
James L. Denson, Esq.
John Murren, Esq.
Woodland Hills
Pairfield
Robert A. Seligson, Esq.
San Francisco
DELAWARE
Stanley Arnold, Esq.
Converse Murdoch, Esq.
Century City
Wilmington
William C. Farrer, Esq. *
Paul II. Boswell, Esq.
Los Angeles
Dover
Harry Hathaway, Esq. **
H. James Conaway, Esq.
Los Angeles,
Wilmington
Kenneth B. Wright, Esq. **
James McKinstry, Esq.
Los Angeles,
Chicago
John P. Hussey, Esq. **
Joseph Longobardi, Jr., Esq.
Los Angeles
Wilmington
Samuel C. Palmer, Esq. **
FLORIDA
Los Angeles
Cody Fowler, Esq. *
Tampa
JULINOIS
KANSAS cont.
Samuel Witwer, Esq.
George A. Lowe, Esq.
Chicago
Clathe
James 1.. Deccher, Esq.
keepleky
Chicago
Mark JV. Davis*
Henvy Pitts, M. .:
Louisville
Chicago
John Nordborg, Esq.
1.001.81ANA
**
Robert T. Spindall, Esq.
Philip Claveric
Rew Orleans
Albert E. Jenner, Esq.*
Chicago
MAINE
John L. Robson, Esq. - Co-Chairean
Willard 11. Linscott, Esq.
Chicago
Bangor
Louis V. Vafiades, Esq.
George Burditt *
Bangor
Chicago
John N. Kelly, Esq.
Portland
INDIANA
Thomas E. Needham, Esq.
Bangor
William Byer, Esq.
Anderson
MARYLAND
Mr. Jagen
KANSAS
Richard W. Kiefer, Esq. -- Co-Chairman
Robert L. Howard, Esq.
Baltimore
Wichita
John H. West III, Esq.
Rae E. Batt, Esq.
Baltimore
Kinsley
John G. Wharton, Esq.
Bob Wise, Esq.
Baltimore
McPherson
Thomas Bodie, Esq.
Joe F. Balch, Esq.
Baltimore
Chanute
William E Schotes, Esq.
Baltimore
Miss Dorothy Beaman
Baltimore
HARYLAND
NEW MEXICO
Howard Denis, Esq.
Avelino Cutierrez, Esq.
Gaithersburg
Albuquerque
MICHIGAN
NORTH DAKOTA
John Cummiskey, Esq. *
Harold L. Anderson, Esq.
Grand Rapids
Bismark
William T. Gossett, Esq.*
Cordon Schell, Esq.
Detroit
Dickinson
MINRESOTA
NORTH CAROLINA
Sidney Gislason, Esq.
J. Mr. Boxley, Esq. **
New Ulm
Raliegh
MISSOURI
OHIO
J. Barlan Stamper, Esq.
Kansas City
Barl Morris, Esq. *
Columbus
Clark A. Ridpath, Esq.
Kansas City
Thomas Bolon, Esq.
Columbus
Jerome Kraus, Esq.
St. Louis
William W. Falsgraf, Esq. *
Cleveland
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Stanley M. Brown, Esq.
Manchester
OKLAHOMA
NEW YORK
Douglas C. McKeever
Thomas W. Evans, Esq.*
Enid
New York
OREGON
Joseph W. Mullen, Jr. **
New York, N.Y.
Thomas K. Thorpe, Esq.
Portland
James D. Zirin, Esq. **
New York
WEST VIRGINIA
David Enq. :
Philidelphia
Ralph Charles Dusic, Jr. Esq. **
Joseph C. neight, Jr, Zsq.
Charleston
Philadelphia
Fred 1.. Davis, Jr., Esq. **
Paul Transfer, Roq.
Parkersburg
Invoice Barton
Warron Keck III, E.
Pittsburg
TEXAS
Lir. Carl Wash, Esq.
Robert C. Storey, Fsq."
Harrisburg
Dallac
Willing Leash, Esq.
Philodelphia
UTAH
Andres Day, Err.
Philadelphia
Reed L. Martineau, Esq.
Salt Lake City
James Park, Esq.
Pittsburg
VERMONT
Joel Walss, Esq.
Scranton
Hilton Vick, Esq.
Burlington
COUTEN CARCLINA
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Horace L. Bomar, Esq.
Spartanburg
Arthur Birney, Esq.
Fletcher C. Mann, Esq.
William J. Butler, Jr.
Greenville
Henry A. Berliner, Jr.
Charles H. Gibbs, Esq.
Charleston
David C. Murchison, Esq.
Dean Joseph P. Sneed
Edward T. TAit, Esq.
Durham
Churchill Elmore, Esq.
SOUTH DAKOTA
George Hamilton III, Esq.
Troy Jones, Esq.
Francis Addison, President,
Gettysburg
Union Trust Co.
WEST VIRGINIA
John S. Nolan, Esq.
Committee
for the Re-election
of the President
1701 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006 (202) 333-0920
July 20, 1972
Dear Fellow Republican:
Last week the Democrats met at Miami Beach, saw control of their party
seized by a new McGovern elite and proceeded to nominate a man who is,
quite simply, too extreme for the American people to accept.
What transpired at the Democratic Convention requires close scrutiny. I
am enclosing a copy of a talk I made at the Capitol Hill Club here in
Washington last Thursday to give you the benefit of our present judgment
on the significance of those events. I hope you will find it both interesting
and useful.
Some of us may have watched with satisfaction the disarray of the Democrats
at the Convention. We may have watched with satisfaction their nomination
of a man whose candidacy should be wholly unacceptable to the American
electorate. But we must recognize that a man who has staked out positions
so irresponsible and extreme as has Senator McGovern -- positions on Vietnam,
on national defense, on welfare, on taxes -- such a man constitutes a pro-
found threat to the future of this Nation. It is our job to see that the
electorate knows where Senator McGovern stands. We cannot permit satisfaction
to deter us from devoting our full abilities and energies to the job which
lies ahead, and that is defeating George McGovern and re-electing President
Richard Nixon.
We must recognize that the small core of McGovern elite who masterminded
seizure of the Democratic Party are politically disciplined and ruthless.
We must expect them to mount a vigorous and challenging campaign. In light
of this, there is no room for complacency in our drive to re-elect President
Nixon. The stakes are too high both for the Nation and for the world.
In the weeks and months ahead we will be joined by many thousands of
Democrats who believe that the new McGovern elite has rejected them and
that President Nixon's re-election is of vital importance. But the chief
burden --- even greater now than it was before the Democrats named George
McGovern as their candidate for the Presidency -- remains with us to assure
the Nixon victory in November.
Sincerely,
Clark MacCoregor
Clark MacGregor
Enclosure
SPEECH OF THE HON. CLARK MACGREGOR
CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR, COMMITTEE FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT
CAPITOL HILL CLUB, WASHINGTON, D.C.
JULY 13, 1972
Thank you very much, Paul, for that generous and blessedly brief
introduction. I particularly liked your reference to the one unsuccessful
political endeavor in which I have been engaged. As you know, after five
successful races for a seat in the United States House of Representatives,
I unsuccessfully sought to represent the people of the State of Minnesota in
the United States Senate. And after the unfortunate outcome of that particular
enterprise, as Paul has indicated, I was contacted by President Nixon.
Knowing that I faced imminent joblessness he gave me the opportunity to serve
him and his programs and policies in the legislative field in the role of
Counsel for Congressional Relations. I enjoyed that assignment very much.
I have known the President for a number of years. I think I first heard
him speak in the City of Minneapolis when he was a freshman senator. And I
remember being moved by his performance to voice the opinion to myself that
this man should someday be President of the United States.
I first worked for him in 1956 when another Minnesotan started a very
abortive 'dump Nixon' movement -- a gentleman whom you know is not running
for President of the United States this year. I haven't any word as far as
his 1976 plans are concerned, but he is now practicing law in Philadelphia.
In 1960 when I first ran for Congress I had an opportunity to learn more
of President Nixon, of his philosophy, of his deep beliefs that in many
respects mirrored mine, of his hopes and dreams for America; and finally, a
year and a half ago, following my defeat by Hubert Humphrey, I was privileged
to begin work in a new capacity to advance President Nixon's programs for
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peace abroad and progress at home.
I am a student of history, particularly American political history, as
is the President. Many people ask me what I have in common with the President;
I have something in common with him which is unique -- never before in
American political history have two men run against the same opponent in
successive general elections and both ended up in the White House.
Barbara and I were pleasantly surprised, two weeks ago today, to
learn what Mr. Frank Dale, the chairman of the Committee for the Re-election
of Mr. Nixon, John Mitchell, and the President had in mind for me as a new
assignmeht. And I say Barbara and I, because the President wants in this
campaign to make the American people aware of the truly remarkable record
he has achieved with the help of Barbara Franklin and others in identifying,
recruiting and placing in high decision-making positions, outstanding women
in America. He believes, and I do too, that Barbara and I having been a
political team in our own behalf, and to a minor degree in 1968 in the effort
to elect Richard Nixon President of the United States, can work effectively
together in this campaign to increase the visibility and the involvement of
Cabinet wives, women appointees, and wives of senior White House aides.
From Miami Beach
what we have seen is not the evolution of a great
political party. We are witnessing the emergence of a movement. This movement
is not representative of the American people, but embodies a minority com-
prising a new extremist elite. This extremist elite does not advance sound
programs of progress for all, but espouses dangerous concepts -- dangerous for
the quest for a lasting peace throughout the world, and dangerous to the goal
of tranquillity at home.
As of today, the Democrats are three fourths of the way through the
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Miami Beach take-over by the McGovern machine, and they have just one more
night to live with each other before splitting up and heading home. Of course,
quite a few of them packed up and went home several days ago -- 150 or so to
California, almost 60 to Chicago -- but all of them were on hand Monday night
when the Democrats proved, right at the outset, that the so-called "New Politics"
is a slick exercise in the same kind of power-brokering that has always
characterized their conventions.
Consider the very first maneuver of the McGovern machine. This came on
a vote to seat more women in the South Carolina delegation. McGovern was
quoted as favoring the challenge, yet his own aides were responsible for its
defeat. It was no accident. Rather, it was a calculated and coldly professional
exercise of old style parliamentary maneuvering.
To avoid an early vote on a procedural question which might have hurt
them had it come up at that time, McGovern aides directed delegations headed
by pro-McGovern men such as Senator Ribicoff of Connecticut, and Governor
Lucey of Wisconsin to shave their votes on the question. According to the
Washington Star, they directed pro-McGovern chairmen to switch delegate votes
which originally went in support of the challenge. So the challenge failed.
I am not at all certain how the women who were seeking equal repre-
sentation in the South Carolina delegation -- in accord with the reform
guidelines of the McGovern Commission
can square those actions with the
image of an open convention of representative delegates seriously and
equitably resolving questions on the merits.
All through the evening it was not the popularly-promoted image of a
group of independent free-thinking individuals voting their consciences on
questions arising in the electoral process. It was, instead, one of disciplined
blocs of delegates voting like rubber stamps on the orders of operatives
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outside the convention hall. On vote after vote the New York delegation
delivered its 267 McGovern votes wherever his operatives directed.
Indeed, the Monday night performance was characterized best by Mary
McGrory of the Evening Star in one succinct paragraph entitled Uses Old Arts.
Let me quote:
"The regulars are subdued and resigned. The opening hours of the
convention taught them that the McGovern forces have mastered all the
arts of the old politics that this convention was supposed to have
repudiated. They also have learned that discipline in the ranks is so
tight as to make Mayor Daley, who of course could not get in, look
slightly permissive."
On Tuesday night, with things in hand, the McGovern people decided to
show us even more of their new power politics -- they instructed their
delegates, according to CBS, that they would be permitted to vote their
consciences -- "within reason."
So what have these forces of enlightenment demonstrated about the
new politics? Not that it is necessarily evil, but rather that it is the
same old politics -- the politics which they so loudly deplored and which they
claimed they were throwing out. Roger Mudd had what I think is about as good
a description of the difference between the old and new politics as I have
heard: In the old politics the bosses told the people how to vote. In the
new politics they still tell them how to vote, but now they are supposed to
tell them why.
The fact appears to be that the chiefs in the McGovern movement are
quite as capable, and even more inclined to act just as cynically and ruthlessly,
as have any of the so-called political bosses whom they denounce.
Although Senator McGovern's hard core of supporters may not be bothered
by the discrepancy which exists between the image they try to project of
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themselves and the reality of their reactions, I am not at all sure that the
American people are prepared to ignore it.
I think, for example, when the American people look at the positions
Senator McGovern took during the early primaries, at the way he shifted those
positions his people had incorporated in the Democratic Party platform -- in
short, when they look at the juggling act Senator McGovern has been carrying
on in regard to the issues -- they are going to recognize that his operating
premise had been blatant political expediency.
This record began last winter, or even earlier, when the McGovern
campaign began to develop. His strategy was obviously to pre-empt the left -
to stake out positions more extreme than those of any other serious candidate,
and thereby to lay unchallenged claim to the loyalties of an ideologically
narrow but committed group of followers. That group would then provide him
with the organizational strength to deliver votes in the primaries and
delegates in the caucuses and state conventions.
So, early this year we heard Senator McGovern address himself to
welfare reform with a pledge to give $1,000 a year to every man, woman and
child in America. This was the core of his "share the wealth" scheme, and,
no doubt, it had considerable political appeal for that segment of the
electorate he was then trying to WOO. The program, he said, would cost $27
billion in additional taxes. At first he estimated that the increased tax
burden in the $12,000-$20,000 bracket would be $21. Later, he said it would
be $50 per person -- or $200 for a family of four. And later analysis suggested
significantly greater increases.
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Meanwhile, his estimate of the overall cost came under increasing
fire from people like Wilbur Mills, who has no small reputation in the tax
field, and from other prominent economists. Mr. Mills said the program was
out of balance by $43 to $76 billion.
Other outstanding economists commented on the McGovern program. There
have been many newspaper stories such as this recent Wall Street Journal
article headlined, "Economist Sees Recession if McGovern Plan Prevails."
The first paragraph reads:
"One of the nation's leading mathematical economists has charged that
implementation of Senator McGovern's economic program, at least in the
form he believes it would be most likely to pass Congress, would
lead to a recession in 1974 and an unemployment rate of 7 per cent."
The whole plan was so full of holes that, when it finally began to
be examined carefully, a number of liberals generally inclined in Senator
McGovern's favor were forced to unload some fairly harsh criticism. For
example, Tom Wicker of the New York Times said --- I quote:
"Expert economic analysis so impugns the program that it was either
extremely careless or deceptive to put in forward in that form."
So, Senator McGovern began to hedge: The $1,000 figure for every
man, woman and child was not necessarily firm; he was willing to adjust it.
Finally he withdrew the entire plan and sent it back to his economic advisors
for revision. We are still waiting to hear what the revised version promises
and what it will cost, because it is conspicuously absent from the Democratic
Platform drawn up by a committee dominated by Senator McGovern's campaign
aides.
This McGovern record on economics and welfare reform clearly deserves
Tom Wicker's label: either Senator McGovern has been "careless" or he has
been "deceptive." Perhaps he has been both.
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And Mr. Wicker isn't the only one who has been disenchanted with Senator
McGovern's elusiveness on the issues. The New Republic has recorded his
shifts on the question of estate taxes:
"In the January 13, 1972, speech at Iowa State University, he proposed
a tax of 100 per cent on estates over $500,000; the May 4th proposal
in The New York Review of Books reduces this rate to 77 per cent, and
in the May 22nd Wall Street Journal ad, McGovern says only that some
consideration should be given to increased rates on inheritances to an
individual of more than $500,000 He has been forced to backpedal,
contradict himself, and even acknowledge ignorance
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With that background we can turn with interest to the Democratic
Platform to see how the McGovern machine ultimately resolved the problem.
And how did they resolve it? Simply by not mentioning estate taxes at all.
Perhaps they were afraid of appearing "careless" or "deceptive" and thought
it best just to stand on the record of Senator McGovern's own varied positions.
The Democratic Platform lets you take your choice.
And consider the one issue Senator McGovern has used from the very
beginning to curry favor with the most liberal elements of the Democratic
Party -- the war in Vietnam. Just as the soundness of President Nixon's
policies has become increasingly clear --- as more and more American troops
have been withdrawn, as Vietnamization has proceeded and the South Vietnamese
have gained self-sufficiency -- as ARVN has demonstrated a real self-defense
capability -- Senator McGovern's attacks have grown increasingly irresponsible.
Finally, this spring his position had evolved to the point where he advocated
total withdrawal with no conditions whatsoever for the release of American
prisoners of war. He would, Senator McGovern said, "withdraw every American
soldier from Southeast Asia - lock, stock and barrel."
By early summer he was explaining that in carrying out such a
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precipitous withdrawal he would "take it on faith" that the prisoners of war
would be released. He pledged that he would go to Hanoi and beg -- if
necessary -- to get the POW's home. Throughout the campaign his position
was that no release could be obtained while we remained in Vietnam. In the
Senator's words:
"As long as we stay there, our prisoners are going to stay in their
cells."
And the Democratic Platform dutifully calls for "an immediate and complete
withdrawal of all U.S. forces in Indochina. "
Most of us thought that the McGovern position -- if incredibly naive,
if incredible historically -- was at least clear. But the Senator had one
more surprise for us day before yesterday -- the day after his maneuvers at
the convention had assured his nomination and he was beginning to look around
for ways to keep half the Democratic Party from walking out on him. This
past Tuesday George McGovern announced that he would keep a residual U.S.
force in Southeast Asia until the release of all prisoners of war.
If those McGovern delegates who were running the convention Tuesday
night, when the Platform was being considered, were truly a collection of
free-thinking individuals voting their consciences, that statement by their
hero--that statement renouncing the stand on which he based so much of his
campaign -- that statement would have led them to denounce George McGovern
unequivocally for selling them out on the issue which was closest to their
hearts.
But perhaps they knew what the headlines of the New York Times on the
front page advised all of us this morning -- "McGovern tells protesters he
will not shift his stands." Thus it appears that the developments of the last
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of McGovern in which he truly believes, but maneuvers based solely on
political expedience.
Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised by the McGovern delegates. They
are a bloc of new elitists, who having temporarily seized control of the
Democratic Party, are proceeding to exercise their political power. Exercise
of that power, evidently, is more important to them than the substantive
questions that face this country.
Having established their control of the party, they listened
reluctantly to George Wallace and then voted down every alternate plank
offered by the Governor. There was no negotiation; there was no compromise;
there was no effort to accommodate the three million-seven hundred and
fifty thousand Democrats who voted for Governor Wallace in the primaries.
And they were just as ruthlessly uncompromising in their treatment of
alternate planks offered by representatives of women's groups, poor people's
groups and others. They demonstrated the true extent to which they want
the Democratic Party to embrace the ordinary citizen, simply to the extent
that it turns control of the Democratic Party over to their elitist movement
and not one bit farther.
In an arrogance born of their success, these new elitists ignored the
reform principles which they espoused until Monday night and unseated delegates
representing two million California Democrats. In that arrogance these new
elitists have driven out of the councils of the Democratic Party tens of
thousands of its members who have labored over the years in its behalf.
These include members of the Senate, members of the House, Governors,
and outstanding county and local officials. The new elite has shut the door
in the faces of people they deem unfit to join their ranks. Their actions
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reflect the same conformist attitudes, the same intolerance of other
viewpoints which are characteristic of that small minority of radical youth
whose regular appearance on our television screens has become a common
feature of life today.
While I am not a great television watcher, I understand that George
McGovern was willing to rap last night with a group including one waving the
Viet Cong flag. Groups like these are welcomed into the new elite, while
outstanding public servants, working Democrats for twenty years or more,
were barred in the delegate election process or evicted from the Convention
Hall in Miami Beach.
To those Democrats who have been kicked out of their Party because
they were too temperate, too moderate, too tolerant, we Republicans say:
"Join us in supporting the re-election of a man who truly represents
the aspirations and the dreams and the hopes of a vast majority of
Americans.
"Join with us to re-elect a man who does not denounce his country,
but who sees the good in America even as he works to solve fts
problems."
If any Democrat, or Democrat-voting Independent, is distressed by
what he sees on the front page of the Washington Post this morning -- a story
headlined, "A Party Out of Harmony -- Hatchets Are Sharpened Instead of
Buried,' he should know we have no hatchets. We have an open door, and we
welcome all to our cause. We welcome all, regardless of age, race, sex,
regardless of any other arbitrary compartmentalization of the individual
American. We invite all to work with us in the next four months, and in the
ensuing four years, to build on a remarkable record of accomplishment under
the leadership of Richard Nixon. When you consider where we have come in
advancing the cause of peace in the last three and a half years, we ask you
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to help us advance it further.
Then consider the situation with the shooting war in the Middle East,
which the leadership of Richard Nixon under the guidance of Bill Rogers
and Assistant Secretary of State Joe Sisco reduced to a non-shooting situation
through a cease-fire and the maintenance of that cease-fire. Then consider
the accomplishments in Southeast Asia in terms of the reduction of human
cost, to say nothing of the financial cost. And, when you consider the
remarkable execution of a plan long in the mind of Richard Nixon in opening
a new initiative to the People's Republic of China without jeopardizing
any on-going commitments to other nations; when you comprehend the truly
sweeping nature of agreements that Richard Nixon has executed with the Soviet
Union, you appreciate something of the accomplishments that have been
realized in the last three and a half years in advancing the cause of peace.
And we have just made a beginning.
The record of accomplishment in domestic matters would be just as
outstanding -- had the Congress of the United States shown the President of
the United States the courtesy to bring his programs to a vote. Our problem
in Congress is not winning the votes. Congressional Quarterly says, for the
first three years of the Nixon Administration, that President Nixon won
three-fourths of the votes in the House and Senate where he took a position --
three-fourths of the votes from the Democratic Congress.
Our problem is bringing his enlightened programs of reform to a vote --
welfare reform, for example. Revenue sharing would increase the capability
of state and local government to deliver services to people; it would
decentralize the power structure which was over-centralized in Washington in
the sixties. The Nixon programs in the health field would build upon our
excellent system of private institutions to extend a better quality of health
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care and coverage to all Americans. His programs in the environmental field,
his willingness to undertake a breathtaking reorganization of the Executive
Branch -- all these proposals await action in the Congress.
In the State of the Union message a year ago January, President Nixon
said to the Congress, "I offer you a very broad, sweeping program of reform
here at home." The President did not expect the Congress to act precipitously;
he did not ask it to swallow the reform program whole. He asked members of
Congress to work cooperatively with us in the Executive Branch to accomplish
what the American people expected us to accomplish. And the President has
more than kept his bargain, but a Congress controlled by the political
opposition denies him the chance to realize at home the same measure of
remarkable accomplishment that he has achieved abroad.
I say today, to Democrats who have been excluded, evicted, or otherwise
offended by the proceedings of Miami Beach and who cannot bring themselves
to join this new elite group with its extreme views, join us now as independent
thinking, responsible Democrats, as political neutrals, or as new Republicans.
Join us now in re-electing Richard Nixon -- for the good of our nation and the
benefit of all mankind.
Thank you very much.
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HODGSON BLASTS MCGOVERNITES, INVITES LABOR SUPPORT
MILWAUKEE, August 2 -- Secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson today charged Senator
George McGovern and his followers with "freeze-out tactics and far-out policies"
and invited American workers to "take a second look" at the Republican Party
and join in re-electing President Nixon this fall.
Noting that past Republican efforts to win support of organized labor
have been "an uphill battle," Hodgson said that "the old automatic political
responses and alignments simply don't fit the current scene. "
The McGovern forces, he said, "wrote a new set of rules and then used
the new rules" to dominate the Democratic Party and nominate the South Dakota
Senator. "It is little wonder now, as union members see their leaders spurned
and their views rejected, they are looking favorably toward other political
leadership. "
Speaking to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Hodgson described 1972 as a "watershed year. " American
workers, he said, will support the Nixon Administration because of its "respect
for organized labor, its basic fairness in labor law enforcement, its willingness
to work jointly with labor on mutual problems and its total support for collective
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Citing Administration programs with appeal for labor, he preised the
"historic new job safety law, major unemployment compensation and Social Security
advances, a cut in worker income taxes. "
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"Finally," he continued, "after five lean and adverse years, inflation
was brought under control to a point where real wages of workers rose
impressively. "
The Labor Secretary acknowledged that "there will still be those
who, out of tradition or habit or other equally persuasive reasons, will choose
to support what is called the new breed."
But he cited a Gallup Poll of union families which showed, he said,
"that for every four that supported the other guy, five supported President
Nixon
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"All will not come our way," he said, "but to those who do, let me
say this -- you will be welcome and you will not be uncomfortable. You will
be endorsing a strong economy and a strong America -- a strong America that
believes in strong unions
that serve both their members and their nation
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FOR RELEASE: Wednesday, August 2, 1972
6:30 P. M. CDT
ADDRESS BY
SECRETARY OF LABOR J. D. HODGSON
TO THE
INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL
STAGE EMPLOYEES
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN AUGUST 2, 1972
A SECOND LOOK
I would like to citc a couple of important facts of life at the outset
of these remarks.
I suppose there are no more experienced observers of the American
political scene than the officials of America's great labor unions. Your
experience has taught you to distinguish myth from reality. You have learned
to resist the temptation to kid yourselves; and you are equally immune to
being conned by others. So when a public official comes before you, he is
wise to forego the usual excesses of rhetoric and visionary promises that he
may be fond of sprinkling on less knowing gatherings.
I'm forced to recognize a second fact of life. I'm here as a Republican
and I know that for at least 40 years Republicans haven't exactly been
"white hat" guys with most American labor unions. And though over the years
a lot of Republican office holders have tried to demonstrate by their
performance that they deserved the support of organized labor; it was pretty
much an uphill battle all the way.
But in 1972 something momentous is happening. Change, dramatic change,
has hit our political scene. I don't think any of us are quite smart enough
to know just what the extent of that change may bc, or just how. much it means.
But We all better examine it closely because the old automatic political
responses and alignments simply don't fit the current scene.
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This changing scene -- this watershed year of 1972 -- is what 1 want
to talk about today. I believe the time is ripe to make a forthright
suggestion. To everyone, but especially to those who have always looked
in just one political direction, I suggest that in the political climate
of 1972 a second look at the candidates and their positions is well worth
your time and attention.
I'm not going to try the old hard sell on you this morning. But I am
going to suggest that this year We have a new political ballgame. And in
any ballgame it helps to know the score. It also helps to take a look at
the players, at their batting averages, and how they 've performed.
Let's look at comparative performance for a moment, first from the
standpoint of labor's self-interest.
On one hand we see what I can only call the freeze out tactics and
far-out policies of the McGovernites. Never in memory has a responsible
segment of an American political party been subjected to the old freeze-out
tactic more unceremoniously than were the American labor unions at Miami.
Labor leaders who had reason to feel they were the backbone of the Democrat
Party found themselves on the outside looking in.
And when they looked in what did they see? They S2W a candidate who.
may have been a conspicious champion of Dakota wheat farmers but who had
been on just about every side -- top side, bottom side, back, front, and
no-side -- of issues important to American workers.
They saw a platform that gave a dutiful nod to the interests of
organized labor but one that labor played little part in writing. But
mostly they S3W a new group moving in and taking command of the party --
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a group not easy to describe without being unfair. Perhaps the term
"utopians" is as good as any. Certainly they were the opposite of realists.
Realists don't reject their friends -- the McGovernites did. Realists
don't thumb their nose at political experience -- the McGovernites did.
Realists check out things before they make crucial decisions -not the
McGovernites. Realists don't substitute sociological experimentation for
economic progress; and, though at this stage of the game no one can be
quite sure, that is what the McGovernites seem to favor. Realists don't
believe leadership is enhanced by weakness -- the McGovernites avowedly do.
I suggest to you that these are not characteristics of the party so
much of organized labor supported for S0 many years. And that's one half
the story of why we have a new ballgame this political year. That's why the
other team on the field deserves and-is getting a second look. And those who
are taking a second look see something interesting happening. They find
that while the one team has been rocketing away from labor into à far out
orbit, the other team has been moving in.
What will those who take a look at the other team see? First of all
they'll see a team that has not been performing in the way that organized
labor once expected and predicted. In 1968 it was predicted that once he
became President, Mr. Nixon would trot out a package of anti-labor laws.
They said he would fight increases in unemployment compensation, in the
minimum wage, in Social Security and so on. They said such things as worker
training and manpower programs would be sliced. They worried about unfair
enforcement of Landrum-Griffin, Davis-Bacon, and other laws of interest to
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But these predictions went astray and the worries proved to be mis-
placed. These things just didn't happen.
Not that everything came up roses. In turning the country around --
turning it away from war, social unrest and inflation -- unemployment got
higher than anyone wanted. It took longer than expected to cool infla-
tion. Wage and price controls had to be installed to speed the economic
recovery everyone wanted. And no one likes wage and price controls,
perhaps least of all the President, who found himself forced to use them.
While these things didn't score well with labor, there were some
distinct counterbalances: a historic new job safety law, major unemploy-
ment compensation and Social Security advances, a cut in worker income
taxes. Finally, after five lean and adverse years, inflation was brought
under control to a point where real wages of workers rose impressively.
In international matters, in our strong defense posture, in
promoting productivity, technology, and collective bargaining there was
a large measure of labor-administration harmony. The same was true of
endeavors to bring sanity to the social scene and to rid our communities
of crime.
The Administration's respect for organized labor, its basic fairness
in labor law enforcement, its willingness to work jointly with labor on
mutual problems, and its total support for collective bargaining were
always there.
In spite of some differences, clearly the Federal government under
President Nixon has been in the hands of a professional, a professional
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who is a realist and an activist. Issues were faced and dealt with.
The status quo was something to be reformed, not protected.
I know the IATSE has a reputation as a supporter of social improve-
ments and progressive change. Here, too, you might take another look.
To the surprise of many, President Nixon has been the architect of change
-- sweeping change. He opened new lines of communications with China
and Russia to lead us out of the old cold war psychology. He negotiated
new arms limitations agreements to open, up the path to peace. In four
years. he completely overturned the pattern of budget outlays with respect
to defense and human resources -- in 1969 outlays for defense repre-
sented 44% of the national budget while outlays for human resources
represented only 34%; today that picture is almost exactly reversed.
And the President has sponsored widespread social improvements -- from
welfare reform to guaranteed health insurance coverage for workers and
their families.
It has been a long time since any President has shown such skill
in leading the nation out of one cra and into another. Ironically,
this obvious fact has been often overlooked. The advocates of sudden,
radical change scream so loudly we cannot hear the different beat we
are already marching to.
It may be that for many in organized labor who have had such a
long association with the other party, this kind of record would still
not have been enough to warrant consideration. Old allegiances don't
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But meanwhile something had happened to that other party. A new
group wrote a new set of rules and then used the new rules to capture
the big prize. How many union officials were delegates to the conven-
tion where this all happened? How much attention was paid to the views
of those who did attend? Wasn't this the convention that was supposed
to assure "equitable representation"? Considering its past support
and its vast following, did organized labor have equitable representa-
tion? It is little wonder that now, as union members See their leaders
spurned and their views rejected, they are looking favorably toward
other political leadership.
It should be a surprise to no one that local union lodges and
local union leaders by the dozen are breaking with tradition and
announcing their support of President Nixon. And it should be no
surprise that when Dr. Gallup took the pulse of union families across
the nation as he did 'last week, he found that for every four that sup-
ported the other guy, five supported President Nixon! What a switch!
That, my friends, is the political story of our life time. It is
not a story of just a few disgruntled top union leaders rejecting a
maverick candidate as some have tried to portray. It is rather a story
of widespread grass roots disenchantment by the American worker and
his family a disenchantment with the utopians, with their tactics,
their policies, and their candidate.
Now I've been in what I call the "people business" a long time
And the very least I have learned is that people don't change en masse
overnight. There will still be those who, out of tradition or habit
or other equally persuasive reasons, will choose to support what is
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called the new breed. But I again suggest the situation warrants a
second look, a fresh look, this year. All will not come our way, but
to those who do, let me say this -- you will be welcome and you will
not be uncomfortable. You will be endorsing a strong economy and a strong
America -- a strong America that believes in strong unions -- unions like
the IATSE that serve both their members and their nation well.
The next four years will provide these United States with great
opportunities -- with the greatest opportunity of this century to play a
leadership role in the search for lasting peace, with the chance to create
an expanding economy, without inflation or war, with new reforms to produce
an enhanced quality of life for all citizens.'
The promise is great; the choice is distinct; the welcome will be
hearty. Certainly 1972 is the time for all to take a second look.
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MASSACHUSETTS NIXON CAMPAIGN
BOSTON, August 1 -- Lt. Governor Donald R. Dwight announced
today that seven of Massachusetts' most outstanding citizens have
formed a Massachusetts Committee for the Re-election of the
President.
The seven, who will serve as Honorary Chairmen of the
Committee, are: U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, Ambassador Henry
Cabot Lodge, HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson, former U. S.
Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Governor Francis Sargent,
Transportation Secretary John Volpe and business and civic
leader Lloyd B. Waring.
Dwight also announced that he and Mrs. Adele Malone of
Waltham will serve as Co-Chairmen of the Massachusetts Committee,
directing the activities of the campaign.
Dwight, 41, of Wayland, was elected Lt. Governor in
November, 1970 on the same ticket as Gov. Sargent. In 1969-70,
he had served as Commonwelath Commissioner of Administration
and Finance, the highest appointive office in the state.
Mrs. Malone, who served as Co-Chairman of the 1968 Nixon
campaign in Massachusetts, has also participated in the guber-
natorial campaigns of Gov. Sargent and Secretary Volpe.
Active in business and civic affairs, she was selected
Woman of the Year in 1963 by the Boston Herald-Traveler.
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Massachusetts Nixon Campaign
[Statements by Amb. Lodge, Secretary Richardson, Hon. Leverett
Saltonstall, Secretary Volpe, Lloyd Waring, Lt. Governor
Dwight, Mrs. Malone and Republican State Chairman Otto
Wahlrab are attached].
STATEMENT BY U.S. SENATOR EDWARD BROOKE
I am convinced that this effort, begun today, can
lead to a victory for President Nixon in Massachusetts
November 7. I am committed to do all I can to insure the
President's re-election. Despite the polls and pundits,
we, who support the President, can take nothing for granted
in any state. In Massachusetts we have a challenging task,
but we can succeed by waging a vigorous and positive campaign
based on the President's achievements in building the frame-
work for a permanent structure of peace. I know we can,
and I believe we shall, succeed.
STATEMENT BY LT. GOVERNOR DONALD R. DWIGHT, CO-CHAIRMAN
OF THE MASSACHUSETTS COMMITTEE FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF
THE PRESIDENT
The campaign in Massachusetts to re-elect the
President starts here and now. I am tremendously honored
to have been chosen Chairman of this campaign, and with
Cq-Chairman Adelle Malone, am excited by the challenge
that lies ahead.
For challenge it is.
I am not kidding myself about the difficulty of the
job. The President won only 32 per cent of the vote in
Massachusetts four years ago. Registered Democrats out-
number Republicans here by more than a two to one margin.
But the four-year record compiled by President Nixon
has earned him the respect of thousands in this state who
did not vote for him in 1968. I am heartened by the recent
Massachusetts poll which shows the President trailing
Senator McGovern by only several percentage points.
The campaign for the presidency will be intense and
full-scale. Every member of the Honorary Committee has
pledged his total support to the efforts of Mrs. Malone and
me. With the unanimity, breadth and strength of this group --
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comprised of Governor Sargent, Senator Brooke,
Ambassador Lodge, Secretaries Richardson and Volpe,
Senator Saltonstall and Lloyd Waring -- we are well begun.
The President has already announced his intention
to run solely on the issues. This is the only kind of
campaign I would involve myself in.
I will soon announce the appointment of an executive
director, and we will open headquarters here in Boston. We
will build a statewide organization in Massachusetts and,
with dedication and hard work, we will strive to put this
state in the victory column for the Republican Party in
November.
HON. HENRY CABOT LODGE, SPECIAL ENVOY OF THE
PRESIDENT TO THE VATICAN
President Nixon has achieved much in many ways,
particularly in making this dangerous world a more
peaceful place. His leadership is directly responsible
for bringing about new and more stable relationships with
Peking and Moscow. Added to the shrinkage of American
involvement in Vietnam, the improved access to Berlin
and the ceasefire in the Middle East, they constitute
a notable turn away from war. For this he deserves --
and, I am sure, will receive -- the endorsement of his
fellow Americans.
STATEMENT BY MRS. ADELE MALONE, CO-CHAIRMAN
OF THE MASSACHUSETTS COMMITTEE FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF
THE PRESIDENT
I am delighted to have been selected as a member of
the Massachusetts organization to re-elect the President. As
a woman, a business woman and a mother, many of the Presidents'
policies have affected me personally. As a woman, I have
seen what he has done to enable women to develop and utilize
the tremendous abilities and talents which we as a group possess.
From child-care centers and tax allowances for working mothers,
to increased job opportunities from the lowest to the highest
level, the President has recognized, encouraged and utilized one
of America's greatest assets: the talents of all its people.
As a businesswoman I can appreciate his efforts to
control inflation and stabilize the economy. As with the great
majority of Americans, I am willing to accept certain government
controls which will help to make America's economy stronger
and healthier.
Finally, as the mother of five sons, I have the utmost respec
for and confidence in the President's efforts in behalf of
world peace. I feel that his sincere attempts to restore peace
to the world will result in boys being able to grow up into men,
men who can enjoy living without threat of war.
I am firmly committed to the re-election of President
Nixon for the good of America and the world. We feel confident
that Massachusetts voters will also judge the President on his
accomplishments and will cast their votes on this basis rather
than along strict party lines.
STATEMENT BY SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE
ELLIOT RICHARDSON
I am very much honored and personally delighted
to be a part of the unified State-wide effort to re-elect
a great President whom it has been my privilege to serve
in the Cabinet of the United States.
I am honored to be part of what I am sure will be
a successful campaign to inform and convince the people of
Massachusetts that Richard M. Nixon deserves their strong
support in pursuing his vital initiatives to renew our
nation's faith in itself, and to build bridges to span years
of international misunderstanding and hostility.
Under the dynamic leadership of its Co-Chairmen,
Lt. Governor Donald R. Dwight and Mrs. Adelle Malone, the
Massachusetts Committee for the Re-election of President
Nixon will coordinate an energetic effort to air the issues
before all voters in the Commonwealth.
I am confident that the Committee's work will result
in putting Massachusetts in President Nixon's column on
November 7.
STATEMENT BY THE HONORABLE LEVERETT SALTONSTALL
President Nixon has earned the right to lead this
nation for the next four years by his outstanding per-
formance in the White House. Few men have brought as
much skill, experience, intelligence and dedication to
the presidency as Richard Nixon.
His initiative for peace abroad and proposals for
re-ordering our domestic priorities mark him as one of our
greatest Presidents.
I heartily endorse President Nixon and his out-
standing performance the last four years. I will do every-
thing in my power to help re-elect him.
STATEMENT BY GOVERNOR FRANCIS SARGENT OF MASSACHUSETTS
I am delighted to announce the formation of the
Massachusetts Committee to re-elect the President, We
are fortunate to have secured a team of excellent talents.
The Massachusetts Committee will be headed by Sen. Edward
Brooke, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Secretary of HEW
Elliot Richardson, Secretary of Transportation John Volpe,
Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, Lloyd Waring and myself. Lt.
Governor Donald Dwight will be Chairman and oversee the
daily operation of the Committee.
All of us here today are dedicated to the job of
insuring victory in the fall. All of us are confident
that victory is within our grasp. President Nixon has
compiled an impressive record over the past four years. His
foreign policy has been imaginative and his domestic programs
hold and far-reaching. He has gone further in the pursuit
of peace than perhaps any man in this century. In short,
President Nixon has a record of accomplishments that has
earned him the respect of millions of Americans. I am
proud and happy to be a part of the team that will work
to insure the re-election of Richard Nixon as President.
STATEMENT BY SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION JOHN VOLPE
I am delighted that Lt. Governor Donald Dwight and
Mrs. Adele Malone have been named to head the Massachusetts
effort to re-elect President Nixon. This is a highly-respected
team, combining the best aspects of government and private citizen
involvement. Each is fully capable of conducting a vigorous and
forthright campaign for the President in Massachusetts.
I am confident that Lt. Governor Dwight and Mrs. Malone will
carry the Nixon record of accomplishment to all Massachusetts voters,
and will elicit the same strong support from Massachusetts voters
that the President enjoys in so many other areas of the nation.
I know that Massachusetts voters, Republicans, Democrats and
independents -- when presented with the facts -- recognize and
support proven leadership. I am confident that the Nixon Campaign
Team in Massachusetts will work unceasingly for the re-election of
the President who:
-- has brought increased chances of a meaningful peace in the
world through his productive meetings with the leaders of the Peoples'
Republic of China and the Soviet Union,
-- has brought half a million troops and virtually all our ground
combat forces home from Vietnam,
-- has cut the costs of the Vietnam war by $20 billion,
Statement by Secretary of Transportation John Volpe
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-- has reduced the military forces of the country to a level
lower than that prevailing in the first year of the Kennedy Admini-
stration despite a population increase of more than 20 million in the
intervening years,
-- has reduced U.S. expenditures on defense, space and foreign
affairs, from 44 to 34 percent of the whole in the past three years,
-- had the courage to take bold steps to control inflation and
spiralling prices,
-- faces domestic challenges with thorough long-range plans in
addition to taking substantial steps to ameliorate immediate problems,
-- has returned the word "respect" to domestic as well as
international affairs.
Don Dwight and Adele Malone will carry this message to Massachusetts,
Republicans, Democrats, independents, and I will be delighted to help
them in any way I can.
STATEMENT BY OTTO WAHLRAB, CHAIRMAN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS
REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE
I look forward to the re-election of President
Nixon this November and I believe that Massachusetts will
contribute to his victory.
With the able assistance of Lt. Governor Dwight
and Adelle Malone, we will mount a vigorous campaign to
carry the President's record to the people of Massachusetts.
President Nixon, through the exercise of moderate
and effective leadership, has restored confidence in the
government which the American people have not enjoyed since
the days of Dwight David Eisenhower.
The Massachusetts Republican State Committee will
work closely with the Committee for the Re-election of the
President to put the Commonwealth in the Nixon column this
year.
The combination of Richard Nixon and Edward Brooke is
a great team for the Republican ticket in Massachusetts. I
expect that they will be an asset to all Republican candidates
in this state in 1972.
STATEMENT BY LLOYD WARING, CHAIRMAN, MASSACHUSETTS
FINANCE COMMITTEE FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT
The re-election of President Nixon is essential
to the continued stability of the United States at
home and in our relationship with the world community.
The President, during his first term in office, has
amply demonstrated his ability to correctly assess the
domestic and foreign priorities of the United States.
His willingness to meet those priorities with innovative
actions and firm resolve has given a sense of purpose to
the American people that can only result in a restoration
of that esential element most basic to a strong and free
society, faith in ourselves and in our government. We
must not lose the momentum the President has given us.
His re-election will insure we do not.
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STATEMENT BY CLARK MACGREGOR
Senator McGovern's direct and personal attack on President
Nixon today has done a disservice to America's interest. This can
only be the actions of a candidate desperately seeking to divert
attention from dissension in his own ranks by attempting to exploit
the yearnings of the American people for peace just 10 days after
private negotiations have been resumed in Paris.
Without even availing himself of White House briefings that
have been offered to him on the actual conditions prevailing in
these talks, Senator McGovern has seen fit to accuse the President
of the United States of misleading the American people about them.
Senator McGovern must bear a heavy responsibility for the conse-
quences of his intemperate remarks. It is no wonder that the Hanoi
Foreign Ministry has today cited him as the champion of its own
program for victory in South Vietnam, even to the point of endorsing
Senator McGovern.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., August 1 -- President Nixon's Campaign Director, Clark
MacGregor, announced today that Republican State Chairman James H. Boyce,
50, of Baton Rouge and John J. Hainkel, 34, a Democratic member of the
Louisiana House of Representatives from New Orleans, will serve as
Co-Chairmen of the Louisiana Committee for the Re-election of the President.
MacGregor said that "This bi-partisan Louisiana team will jointly
direct the campaign programs designed to carry Louisiana for President Nixon
for the first time."
Boyce, President of the Boyce Machinery Company in Reserve, Louisiana,
was chairman of David Treen's gubernatorial campaign earlier this year.
He has been active in the Republican Party since 1960.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the City National Bank,
Baton Rouge and immediate past Metro Chairman of the Baton Rouge National
Alliance of Businessmen.
Hainkel is a two-term state legislator who graduated from Tulane
University Law School. He served as an editor of the Tulane Law Review
and was a member of the Order of the Coif.
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WASHINGTON, August 1 -- Clark MacGregor, Campaign Director for
the Committee for the Re-election of the President, has named
Richard D. Murray, 34, of Ft. Atkinson, Wisconsin, as Regional
Director for Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey.
Murray will provide direct liaison between the national
campaign headquarters in Washington and the campaign organizations
in each of his three states.
A former Wisconsin District Director for the Small Business
Administration in Madison, Murray has also served as Special
Assistant to Counselor to the President Robert Finch when he
was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and as Vice
President of NASCO Industries in Ft. Atkinson.
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WASHINGTON -- RICHARD D. MURRAY (R) OF Ft. ATKINSON, RECENTLY APPOINTED
REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF THE NIXON CAMPAIGN FOR MARYLAND, DELAWARE, AND
NEW JERSEY, DISCUSSES STRATEGY WITH FREDERICK V. MALEK, DEPUTY CAMPAIGN
DIRECTOR OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT.
MURRAY WILL PROVIDE LIAISON BETWEEN THE NATIONAL NIXON CAMPAIGN
HEADQUARTERS IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL AND THE CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATIONS IN HIS
THREE STATES.
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WASHINGTON, August 1 -- Clark MacGregor, Campaign Director for
the Committee for the Re-election of the President has named
Thomas C. Reed, 38, of Ross, Cal., as Regional Director for
Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Hawaii and Texas.
Reed will provide direct liaison between the national
campaign headquarters in Washington and the campaign organi-
zations in each of his 5 states.
Reed is Republican National Committeeman for California
and a member of the California Republican State Central Committee.
A graduate of Cornell University and the University of
California, Reed was employed at the University of California's
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in 1959-1962. He is President
of Quaker Hill Development Corp. and a Director of Bradley
Producing Corp.
He worked on the presidential campaign staff of Senator
Barry Goldwater in 1964 and served as North California Chairman
of the Reagan for Governor Committee in 1966.
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AUGUST 1, 1972
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WASHINGTON -- THOMAS C. REED (R) OF Ross, RECENTLY APPOINTED REGIONAL
DIRECTOR OF THE NIXON CAMPAIGN FOR ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO, COLORADO, HAWAII,
AND TEXAS DISCUSSES STRATEGY WITH FREDERICK V. MALEK, DEPUTY CAMPAIGN
DIRECTOR OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT.
REED IS A MEMBER OF THE CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
AND REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN FOR CALIFORNIA,
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WEST VIRGINIA CHAIRMAN NAMED
WASHINGTON, August 2 -- Clark MacGregor, President Nixon's
national Campaign Director, has announced that Howard V. Corcoran
of Wheeling will direct campaign efforts in West Virginia for
the November 7 election.
Corcoran is a general partner in A.E. Masten and Company,
a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange.
Commenting on his appointment, Mr. Corcoran stressed the goal
of "a maximum 55-county grassroots campaign." Noting that "West
Virginia has been taken for granted by the Democrats for far too
long," he predicted that "many thousands of West Virginians who
have voted for the Democratic ticket in past years will turn to
President Nixon this fall.
"The Democratic nominee is out of step with the people of West
Virginia and of the Nation," he said. "On November 7 a significant
majority of West Virginians are going to help give President
Nixon an overwhelming mandate for another fours years in the White
House."
A Co-chairman of a national committee to mobilize grassroots
support in President Nixon's 1960 Presidential race, Mr. Corcoran
(more)
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WEST VIRGINIA NIXON CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN
subsequently served as Republican State Chairman from 1961
until 1964 and as chairman of the state Nixon campaign Committee
in 1968. In addition to serving as chairman of the West Virginia
campaign this year, he will be a delegate-at-large at the Repu-
blican National Convention later this month in Miami Beach.
Corcoran is married to the former Margaret Sears and has been
active in numerous professional and civic organizations.
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WASHINGTON, August 1 -- Clark MacGregor, Campaign Director for
the Committee for the Re-election of the President, has named
Raymond L. Brown, 36, of Pascagoula, Miss., as Regional
Director for Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
and South Carolina.
Brown will provide direct liaison between the national
campaign headquarters in Washington and the campaign organizations
in each of his 6 states.
A former college and professional football star with the
University of Mississippi and Baltimore Colts, he is a partner
in the law firm of Megehee, Brown, Williams and Corlew, Pasca-
goula.
He served as law clerk to former Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court Thomas Clark in 1962-1963.
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WASHINGTON --- RAYMOND L. BROWN (R) OF PASCAGOULA, RECENTLY APPOINTED
REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF THE NIXON CAMPAIGN FOR ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI
ALABAMA, GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA, DISCUSSES CAMPAIGN STRATEGY WITH
FREDERICK V. MALEK, DEPUTY CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE RE-ELECTION
OF THE PRESIDENT.
BROWN WILL PROVIDE LIAISON BETWEEN THE NATIONAL NIXON CAMPAIGN
HEADQUARTERS IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL AND THE CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATIONS IN EACH
OF HIS SIX STATES.
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Washington --- Clark MacGregor, national campaign director of
the Committee for the Re-election of the President, has
appointed Gordon Gooch of Washington, D. C., regional campaign
director for New York and Pennsylvania.
Mr. Gooch was formerly general counsel of the Federal Power
Commission. As one of ten regional directors in the Nixon
re-election effort he will provide direct liaison between the
national headquarters and the campaign organizations in his two
states.
Prior to becoming general counsel of the FPC in 1969, Mr.
Gooch practiced law with the Houston law firm of Baker, Botts,
Shepherd and Coates.
A native of Fort Worth, Texas, he received degrees from
Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and the
University of Texas Law School. He served as law clerk to former
Chief Justice Earl Warren.
He is married to the former Patricia Campbell of Tulsa,
Oklahoma, and they have two children.
GORDON GOOCH (right), past general counsel of the Federal
Power Commission and newly named regional campaign director
for the Nixon re-election campaigns in New York and
Pennsylvania, meets with Frederic V. Malek, national deputy
campaign director, in Washington, D. C., to map strategy
for his two states. He will provide liaison between the
Washington headquarters and the state campagin organizations.
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REGIONAL CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR NAMED
Washington -- Clark MacGregor, national campaign director of
the Committee for the Re-election of the President, has
appointed Peter R. Sawers of Evanston, Illinois, regional
campaign director for Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Mr. Sawers is vice president and second ranking officer
of Robert H. Hayes and Associates, Inc., a Chicago management
consulting firm.
As one of ten regional directors in the Nixon re-election
effort, he will provide liaison between the national head-
quarters and the campaign organizations in his seven states.
Mr. Sawers has been active at the local and regional
levels in a number of past campaigns, including President
Nixon's 1968 race, when he served as chairman of Citizens for
Nixon in the Sixth, Tenth and Thirteenth Congressional Districts
in Illinois.
A graduate of Yale University and the Harvard Graduate
Business School, he is married and has three children.
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REGIONAL CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR NAMED
WASHINGTON -- Clark MacGregor, national campaign director of
the Committee for the Re-election of the President, has appointed
Richard Richards of Ogden, Utah, regional director for
eight western states, including Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada,
Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
.
Mr. Richards will provide direct liaison between
the national campaign headquarters in Washington, D. C., and
the Nixon re-election committees in each of his eight states.
A native of Ogden, he was educated at Weber Junior
College and the University of Utah Law School. In the past
he has worked with U. S. Senator Wallace F. Bennett and former
Congressman Lawrence J. Burton, and he was Utah State Republican
Chairman from 1965 until 1969.
He is married to the former Annette Bott and they
have four children.
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RICHARD RICHARDS of Ogden, Utah (right), newly named regional
director of the Nixon re-election campaign for eight western
states, meets with national deputy campaign director Frederic
V. Malek in Washington, D. C., to map campaign strategy for
Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and
Wyoming. Richards has worked with U. S. Senator Wallace Bennett
and Congressman Lawrence Burton and is a past State Republican
Party Chairman.