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From Gooch to MacGregor, Malek. RE Door-todoor canvass, NYC. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/8/1972
From Odle, Jr. to Malek. RE Telephones. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/15/1972
From Marik to Magruder. RE Butz vs. McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/12/1972
From Malek to Evans. RE Canvass Kickoff. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/18/1972
From Marik to MacGregor. RE Volunteer Recruitment. 4 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/11/1972
The Presidential Election Picture in Philadelphia, Late August, 1972. 18 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], 8/1/1972
Clark MacGregor daily schedule, 9/19/1972. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Other Document], 9/19/1972
From Higby to Buchanan. RE Historical election results. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/18/1972
From Haldeman to Chapin. RE First Family. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/18/1972
From Magruder to MacGregor. RE LA Victory Dinner 1972. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/8/1972
From Magruder to MacGregor. RE Victory '72 Dinner Telecast. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/8/1972
Victory '72 New York Telecast. 4 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document Victory '72 New York Telecast. 4 pgs.], 9/26/1972
From TNT Communications Inc. to Finance Committee for the Re-Election of the President RE: comfirning agreement. 9 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 3/21/1972
From Magruder to Joanou RE: televsion and newspaper advertising beginnings. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/13/1972
From Odle, Jr. to MacGregor RE: attached weekly report. 9 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/31/1972
From Magruder to MacGregor RE: Maurice Stans having difficulty collecting on early pledges. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/15/1972
From Nofziger to Strachan RE: Robert Moore. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/29/1972
GOP News Service report RE: average American paying taxes. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 9/8/1972
From Donner for Easton to Nixon Chairmen RE: tax increases under McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/8/1972
GOP News Service report RE: taxes under McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], no date
GOP News Service report RE: higher taxes under McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], no date
GOP News Service report RE: 'McGovern trying to cover up fact that his programs would result in massive tax increases as all levels.' 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], no date
McGovern welfare/tax scheme (as revised for August). 5 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], no date
From Magruder to Haldeman RE: attached Luce to MacGregor memo. 5 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/25/1972
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From Gooch to MacGregor, Malek. RE Door-todoor canvass, NYC. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/8/1972
From Odle, Jr. to Malek. RE Telephones. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/15/1972
From Marik to Magruder. RE Butz vs. McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/12/1972
From Malek to Evans. RE Canvass Kickoff. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/18/1972
From Marik to MacGregor. RE Volunteer Recruitment. 4 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/11/1972
The Presidential Election Picture in Philadelphia, Late August, 1972. 18 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], 8/1/1972
Clark MacGregor daily schedule, 9/19/1972. 1 pg. [Subject: White House Staff] [Other Document], 9/19/1972
From Higby to Buchanan. RE Historical election results. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/18/1972
From Haldeman to Chapin. RE First Family. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/18/1972
From Magruder to MacGregor. RE LA Victory Dinner 1972. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/8/1972
From Magruder to MacGregor. RE Victory '72 Dinner Telecast. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/8/1972
Victory '72 New York Telecast. 4 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document Victory '72 New York Telecast. 4 pgs.], 9/26/1972
From TNT Communications Inc. to Finance Committee for the Re-Election of the President RE: comfirning agreement. 9 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 3/21/1972
From Magruder to Joanou RE: televsion and newspaper advertising beginnings. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/13/1972
From Odle, Jr. to MacGregor RE: attached weekly report. 9 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/31/1972
From Magruder to MacGregor RE: Maurice Stans having difficulty collecting on early pledges. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/15/1972
From Nofziger to Strachan RE: Robert Moore. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/29/1972
GOP News Service report RE: average American paying taxes. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], 9/8/1972
From Donner for Easton to Nixon Chairmen RE: tax increases under McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 9/8/1972
GOP News Service report RE: taxes under McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], no date
GOP News Service report RE: higher taxes under McGovern. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], no date
GOP News Service report RE: 'McGovern trying to cover up fact that his programs would result in massive tax increases as all levels.' 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Newsletter], no date
McGovern welfare/tax scheme (as revised for August). 5 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Report], no date
From Magruder to Haldeman RE: attached Luce to MacGregor memo. 5 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/25/1972
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Richard Nixon Presidential Library
Contested Materials Collection
Folder List
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
37
3
9/8/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Gooch to MacGregor, Malek. RE
Door-todoor canvass, NYC. 2 pgs.
37
3
8/15/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Odle, Jr. to Malek. RE Telephones. 1
pg.
37
3
9/12/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Marik to Magruder. RE Butz vs.
McGovern. 1 pg.
37
3
9/18/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Malek to Evans. RE Canvass Kick-
off. 1 pg.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Page 1 of 10
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
37
3
9/11/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Marik to MacGregor. RE Volunteer
Recruitment. 4 pgs.
37
3
8/1/1972
Campaign
Report
The Presidential Election Picture in
Philadelphia, Late August, 1972. 18 pgs.
37
3
9/19/1972
White House Staff
Other Document
Clark MacGregor daily schedule, 9/19/1972.
1 pg.
37
3
9/18/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Higby to Buchanan. RE Historical
election results. 1 pg.
37
3
9/18/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Haldeman to Chapin. RE First
Family. 2 pgs.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Page 2 of 10
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
37
3
9/8/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Magruder to MacGregor. RE LA
Victory Dinner 1972. 1 pg.
37
3
9/8/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Magruder to MacGregor. RE Victory
'72 Dinner Telecast. 2 pgs.
37
3
9/26/1972
Campaign
Other Document
Victory '72 New York Telecast. 4 pgs.
37
3
3/21/1972
Campaign
Letter
From TNT Communications Inc. to Finance
Committee for the Re-Election of the
President RE: comfirning agreement. 9 pgs.
37
3
9/13/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Magruder to Joanou RE: televsion and
newspaper advertising beginnings. 1 pg.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Page 3 of 10
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
37
3
8/31/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Odle, Jr. to MacGregor RE: attached
weekly report. 9 pgs.
37
3
9/15/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Magruder to MacGregor RE: Maurice
Stans having difficulty collecting on early
pledges. 1 pg.
37
3
8/29/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Nofziger to Strachan RE: Robert
Moore. 3 pgs.
37
3
9/8/1972
Newsletter
GOP News Service report RE: average
American paying taxes. 1 pg.
37
3
9/8/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Donner for Easton to Nixon Chairmen
RE: tax increases under McGovern. 1 pg.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Page 4 of 10
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
No Date
Subject
Document Type
Document Description
37
3
Campaign
Newsletter
GOP News Service report RE: taxes under
McGovern. 1 pg.
37
3
Campaign
Newsletter
GOP News Service report RE: higher taxes
under McGovern. 1 pg.
37
3
Campaign
Newsletter
GOP News Service report RE: 'McGovern
trying to cover up fact that his programs
would result in massive tax increases as all
levels.' 1 pg.
37
3
Campaign
Report
McGovern welfare/tax scheme (as revised
for August). 5 pgs.
37
3
8/25/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Magruder to Haldeman RE: attached
Luce to MacGregor memo. 5 pgs.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Page 5 of 10
Presidential Materials Review Board
Review on Contested Documents
Collection: H. R. Haldeman
Box Number: 318
Folder:
Campaign 25 Part IV Sept. 5 [Folder 1] [1 of 2]
Document
Disposition
96
Return Private/Political Memo, Gooch to MacGregor E' Malek, 9-8-72
97
Return Private/Political Memo, Odle to Malek, 8-15-72
98
Return Private/Political Memo, Marik to Magrader, 9-12-72
99
Return Private/Political Memo, Malck to Evans, 9-18-72
100
Return Private/Political Memo, Marik to Mac Gregor, 9-11-72
101
Return Private/Political "The Presidential Election Picture... [8-72]
102
Return Private/Political Schedule, Clark MacGnegor, 9-19-72
103
Retain
Open
104
Return Private/Political Memo, Higby to Buchanan, 9-18-72
105
Return Private/Political Memo, HRH to Chapin, 9-18-72
106
Return Private/Political Memo, Magruder to MacGregor, 9-8-72
107
Return Private/Political Memo, Magruder to Mac Gnegor, 9-8-72
108
Return Private/Political "Victory '72 new York Telecast," 9-26-72
109
Return Private/Political Ltr, TNT Comm to Gentlemen, 3-21-72
110
Return Private/Political Memo, Magruder to Joanou, 9-13-72
111
Retain
Open
112
Return Private/Political Memo, Odle to MacGregor, 8-31-72
113
Return Private/Political Memo, Magruder to Mac Gregor, 9-15-72
114
Return Private/Political Memo, Nofziger to Strachan, 8-29-72
115
Return Private/Political "CA GOP news Service #125," 9-8-72
116
Return Private/Political Memo, Donner to nixon Chairmen, 9-8-72
117
Return Private/Political "CA GOP news Service # 126, " n.d.
118
Return Private/Political "CA GOP news Service "127," = n.d.
119
Return Private/Political "CA GOP news Service # 128," 9-8-72
Presidential Materials Review Board
Review on Contested Documents
Collection: H. R. Haldeman
Box Number: 318
120
Return Private/Political "The McGovern Welfare /Tax Scheme" n.d.
121
Return Private/Political Note, Magruder to HRH, 8-25-[72]
122
Retain Open
Committee
for the Re-election
of the President
1701 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006 (202) 333-0920
September 8, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
THE HONORABLE CLARK MACGREGOR
THE HONORABLE FREDERIC V. MALEK
FROM:
GORDON GOOCH
SUBJECT:
Report on National Announcement of Door-to-Door
Canvass, New York City, September 7, 1972
On September 5, 1972, at 7:00 P.M., I was notified that the National
Announcement might be made in New York on September 7, 1972, and was
directed to make the necessary arrangements for a typical storefront,
with volunteers and decorations for an indoor announcement, but no
band or celebrities or crowd building for an outdoor event, in order
to emphasize the "people to people" aspect of the door-to-door canvass.
Confirmation of the event was not received until 2:00 P.M. on September 6.
There were no storefronts open in the New York City area, but one at
520 Madison Avenue was leased and open only for cleaning. In less than
24 hours, Fred Perrotta and Enid Feist arranged to have the place cleaned
and decorated, and volunteers were turned out sufficient to fill the
building to capacity and to block all sidewalk traffic on Madison Avenue
in front of the storefront, and appropriate letters for your signature will
be forwarded. The building was not air conditioned, and uncomfortable
heat levels were unavoidable.
As to other arrangements, I met with the Secret Service and White House
advance at the storefront the night of the 6th to comply with all of
their requirements and to obtain their approval.
As to Governor Rockefeller, I spent the morning of the 7th at his office
making the necessary accommodations to his wishes, and he furnished Jerry
Danzig to help with Press arrangements and to supervise the sound and
camera arrangements. Appropriate letters will be forwarded for your
signature.
Senator Dole was not confirmed in until 9:00 A.M. on the 7th, and I
met with his advance at the Governor's office. They were very helpful.
As you know, the timing was tight, since all principals (you and Barbara,
Senator Dole, Governor Rockefeller, and Mrs. Cox) were scheduled from
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separate places, and rendezvous had to be timed within five minutes. The
Secret Service very kindly let me use their radio net to accomplish this,
and I will thank the agent in charge. Also, the Governor's secretary,
Mrs. Whitman, and a volunteer, Lacy Warner, provided an indispensible
common link which should be recognized by you, and appropriate letters
should be sent by you, and will be forwarded.
Insofar as operations were concerned, it was necessary to adjust Mrs. Cox's
travel time en route in order to compensate for your and Senator Dole's
arrival, but use of the radio net made this possible. The event transpired
exactly in accord with the instructions I received.
As to the primary mission, press coverage of the door-to-door canvass,
Ann Dore advises that all networks made the story available and that
Mrs. Cox was featured, including the "Don't be surprised if Governor
Rockefeller rings your doorbell."
August 15, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
MR. FREDERIC V. MALEK
FROM:
ROBERT C. ODLE, JR.
SUBJECT:
Telephones
Thank you very much for sending me Howard Cohen's memorandum on telephone
answering. In the last few weeks, telephone traffic through our switch-
board has increased dramatically, and I have taken the following three
steps to alleviate it:
1. Ordered C & P Telephone Company to come up with a way in which to
operate two telephone consoles simultaneously. Their engineers have
found out how to do this, and the second simultaneous console will be
installed during the week of the convention. We are looking for another
experienced White House operator, like Ruby Youngs, to work with Ruby on
the board during the day.
2. Up-dated the staff directory and outside lines of all staff members.
Bruce Kehrli has agreed to distribute a copy of the staff directory to
every single person on the White House staff, thus allowing them to use
the direct lines which they should be using. Our telephone system is
not designed to have all calls coming through the board; most calls
should come in on a persons own individual direct-dial lines. By provid-
ing people at the RNC and the White House with a list of all of these
direct lines, we can hope to accomplish this.
3. Made certain that if traffic continues to increase on the board, a
third console can be installed to work simultaneously with the other
two.
Although we have a very modern and effective telephone system, psycholog-
ically we compare it to the White House's system, and it just isn't as
good. The White House has the best telephone system in the world, and I
guess it is my job to make ours as close a second as possible. We are
trying to do this, and it is helpful to have suggestions and comments.
Perhaps you might want to have Judy pass along this memo to Howard Cohen
if you think it is appropriate.
CC: Mr. Jeb S. Magruder
Abcc: Mr. Gordon C. Strachan
Committee for the Re-election of the President
MEMORANDUM
September 12, 1972
CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
JEB BOB MARIK S. MAGRUDER SHILL
SUBJECT:
Butz
VS.
McGovern
It occurs to Arthur Finkelstein and me that McGovern may have
exposed his flank in attacking Butz in farm country. If we
have any polls giving an in-depth analysis of Butz's strength
among farmers, they might show that Butz is stronger than
McGovern. That being the case, the Secretary could carry out
a carefully-planned counter-attack that might take all of
McGovern's attention, and cost him lots of stature. (Note:
Butz should not take McGovern on in prolonged battle if it
looks like McGovern can keep the offensive.)
CONFIDENTIAL
Commillee
0
for the Re-election
of the President
AVENUE, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006 (202) 333-0929
September 18, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
TOM EVANS
FROM:
FRED MALEK 7m
SUBJECT:
Canvass Kick-Off
I want to take this opportunity to thank you and your staff for the out-
standing efforts in making the Canvass Kick-Off a huge success. The
work of the RNC Fieldmen in roughly 20 cities was an integral part
of the program, and we could not have pulled it off without your help.
Moreover, your support and counseling regarding the entire program
was extremely helpful to us here.
Please extend my deep appreciation to Ed DeBolt and the others who
participated. You and Ed have put together one hell of a fine field
team, and their effectiveness was well demonstrated during the
past week.
CC: Clark MacGregor
VH. R. Haldeman
G.Strachan 5
Committee for the Re-election of the Presiden:
MEMORANDUM
September 11, 1972
CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
CLARK MAC GREGOR
FROM:
BOB MARIK
SUBJECT:
Volunteer, Recruitment
The telephone centers in the ten battleground states are geared
to recruit volunteers not only for their own operation, but for
other campaign activities as well.
The attached recruiting conversation (Tab A) will be used to
identify volunteers for door-to-door canvass and Election Day
activities. The names of the volunteers will then be trans-
mitted to the follow-up cards (Tab B), which will be passed on
to the Nixon field organization.
Where telephone centers are now in operation, Nancy Brataas will
coordinate recruitment in support of the door-to-door Canvass
Kick-off scheduled for September 16th.
CONF IDENTIAL
SUGGESTED OPENING
TAB A
"Hello! May I speak with *
, please?
This is
, and I'm a volunteer for
President Nixon. In the coming election, can the
President count on your vote?"
(* Use Mr./Mrs./Miss according to which voter you
think has answered the phone.)
FOR!
AGAINST
UNDEÇIDED
(Hesitant, Silent, Won't Say)
"That's great! In addition
"Thank you for talking with
"Well, it is an important
to voting for the President,
decision to make
and we
me. Good-bye!"
could you help with the
do hope you will join us
door-to-door canvass in
in voting for the
your area?"
President November 7th.
Thank you for talking
with me. Good-bye!"
YES
NO
to Canvass
to Canvass
COLOR KEY
YES
Red = "No"
"Wonderful! I'm marking you
-
"Could you give some time
to Helping
Green = "Go" (yes)
down as able to help. Your
on Election
during Election Day itself
name will be given to the
Day
to help turn out the vote
Volunteer Chairman who will
for the President?"
get back in touch with you.
Thank you again! Good-bye!"
SUGGESTED
NO
CONVERSATION
to Helping
At All
for
"Fine. The President will
CANVASS and
certainly appreciate your
vote November 7th. Thank
ELECTION DAY
your for talking with me.
Good-bye!
RECRUITMENT
CALLS
- KEEP THE FAITH
!
-
be through the
2.
your
be
say
5.
,
discussion
of
your
Plantie
Quite.
threty - for the President!
INSTRUCTIONS for PHONERS
DOOR-TO-DOOR CANVASS
and ELECTION DAY
RECRUITMENT CALLS
MAKING YOUR CALLS
1. Take a page or page-set from the box labeled "Ready for Recruitment Calls".
2. The computer pages you call from are "self-carbon"!
Be sure to write on just one set at a time! Press hard.
3. Always use a red ball-point pen. A ruler will help keep your place on a line.
4. Follow the suggested conversation (see reverse side of this page).
It's been carefully written to obtain the best results in the least possible time.
5. CALL REPUBLICANS HOUSEHOLDS ONLY. Republican households are those with an asterisk (*)
in the Tally Column (far left). Speak with whichever listed Republican answers the phone.
If the line is busy, no one answers, or a child or baby-sitter is the only person
there, don't mark anything; the phone number may be tried again later.
If the voter is deceased, has moved, or if you reach a disconnected, wrong or
non-working number, use your ruler to line out the name.
**6. According to the voter's response, circle the "F" (For), "A" (Against), or
"U" (Undecided) opposite that name in the Voter ID Columns.
Circle the "C" (Canvass) or "E" (Election Day ) in the "Will Help" Columns.
KEEPING TRACK OF YOUR CALLS
1. Tally your calls by putting a check mark () over the asterisk in the Tally Column
every time you reach a voter.
2. Total your calls page by page.
Count the number of checks () in the Tally Column and enter that total on
the Phoner's Tally Pad at your place to show the calls you completed for
that page.
Count the number of "F"s you circled and enter that total also.
WHEN YOU FINISH
A PAGE OR A PRECINCT
1. Put the page face down in the box labeled "Recruitment Calls Tried" and take the
next page from the box labeled "Ready for Recruitment Calls".
2. When you've called an entire precinct, ask your Supervisor to bring you a new precinct
to call.
**See the illustrated sample: "How to Mark the Computer Page for Recruitment Calls"
Form 190
TAB B
"WILL HELP" FOLLOW-UP CARD
DOOR-TO-DOOR CANVASS VOLUNTEER
City or Twp
Ward or Dist.
Prec.
PHONE: Area code ( ) -
NAME:
ADDRESS:
City
State
ZIP code
This person has volunteered to help canvass and is expecting to be
contacted by the Nixon Canvass Chairman.
Please follow up immediately.
Check () when contacted and scheduled.
(Form 351)
F
Blls
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PICTURE IN PHILADELPHIA
Late August, 1972
E. John Bucci And Associates
Public Opinion Surveys
Shirer Building
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
215 - Kingswood 4-5775
Associate Director:
Edward D. Gootman
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PICTURE IN PHILADELPHIA
Late August, 1972
Not since 1932, forty long years ago, has a Republican presi-
dential nominee carried the City of Philadelphia, although Thomas
Dewey came within 6,700 votes of doing so in 1948. This year, 1972,
the Republican party's hope of breaking the Democratic stranglehold
on the city's voters in national elections comes ever closer to
reality.
For the third consecutive month, for as long as we have tested
the two-man matching of Richard Nixon vs. George McGovern in Phila-
delphia, the President leads his Democratic challenger! Indeed,
were the presidential election actually to be held today, we would
project a Nixon win in Philadelphia with approximately 55% to
McGovern's 45%.
Whether the President can maintain his lead until November 7
will be seen in our future citywide surveys. Nonetheless, based
on our series of polls to date and given the failure of Senator
McGovern to improve his posture virtually everywhere we have sur-
veyed, we expect President Nixon to run extremely well in the city,
much better than in either 1960 or 1968. An even break or a victory
in Philadelphia is no idle dream!
The crux of the Nixon pull in Philadelphia is his ability not
only to capture solid support from among his own party's rank and
file, currently at 80%, but also to draw a substantial minority
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of the registered Democrats, a strong one-third. McGovern, on the
other hand, ekes out only a bare majority of the Democrats, many of
whom, of course, are blacks, and polls just 20% among Republican
identifiers.
Sentiment in the McGovern-Nixon contest has shifted only slightly
over the past three months, and this predominantly within the Repub-
lican camp itself. A movement to McGovern occurred just after the.
Democratic Convention -- McGovern gained 7 points, Nixon dipped by
11 points. After the Republican Convention, the previous pattern
re-emerged, and the August break of 80% to 20% among Republicans
may reflect the final crystallization of feeling in the President's
party. Democrats have consistently refused to grant McGovern more
than 50%-52% of their votes and have given Nixon a healthy 34%-37%.
The stability of the trend in vote intent is encouraging, for
it is probable that voters, informed about both candidates, will
hold on to their preferences. Also encouraging is the prospect of
Nixon's strength aiding Republican candidates for lower offices,
helping Philadelphia's Republicans to elect more state senators and
legislators than in recent history. (Please see Appendix.)
The story of the vote intent statistics over the past three
months is presented in Table 1.
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The blurring of party lines and the weakening of Democratic
party loyalties as so many disaffected voters cross to support
Nixon reflects in part an underlying racial composition of the
presidential vote. Over the course of the three months we have run
McGovern and Nixon head-to-head, between June and August, whites
have now grouped solidly in Nixon's corner, blacks are overwhelm-
ingly in the McGovern camp. The success of local Republicans like
Arlen Specter and Thacher Longstreth in winning support from blacks
is not being repeated this year, and the black voters have returned
to their traditional Democratic voting habit.
This sharp differentiation by race is very discouraging, given
the need for unity among peoples both in the city and the nation.
However, the practical impact is clear: Nixon is running well in
the white sections of Philadelphia, and it is here that his coat-
tails should be helpful in electing some local candidates.
The trend in preference for president by race in June, July,
and August is given in Table 2.
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TABLE 2: VOTE INTENT FOR PRESIDENT BY RACE: McGOVERN VS. NIXON
-- JUNE THROUGH AUGUST, 1972
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
WHITES
McGovern
24%
30%
19%
Nixon
68%
59%
71%
Don't know,
neither
8%
11%
10%
TOTALS
100%
100%
100%
BLACKS
McGovern
69%
73%
78%
Nixon
24%
16%
17%
Don't know,
neither
7%
11%
5%
TOTALS
100%
100%
100%
TOTAL ELECTORATE
McGovern
38%
41%
40%
Nixon
55%
48%
51%
Don't know,
neither
7%
11%
9%
TOTALS
100%
100%
100%
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The failure of George McGovern to make strong gains in Phila-
delphia -- a city which, after all, boasts 63% Democratic regis-
tration -- has been due to his inability to establish a positive
image among the city's residents. For today, far better known than
he was even months ago, McGovern has a personal and positive moti-
vational base of a mere one-tenth of the voters, no larger than
the number of voters favoring Nixon out of anti-McGovern sentiment.
Reasons behind McGovern support are almost entirely non-
personal. Only 9% of all voters refer to outright positive reactions
to McGovern himself in justifying their vote stance. And all of
these people talk of McGovern's views -- none of his personal
qualities, attributes, or capabilities, which seem to have dropped
out of sight in recent surveys. All the rest of the voters who
indicate a McGovern ballot intention volunteer motivations
extraneous to McGovern which would have been held, no doubt, by
any Democratic nominee.
The chief motivation, indeed, cited by one-half of all McGovern
voters, is negativism toward the President, dissatisfaction with
the Nixon years or the Nixon personality. Others believe that
McGovern is better than Nixon, but mostly as the lesser evil
rather than as a positive improvement.
The weak party ties in this election are further demonstrated
by/the meager 3% who cite Democratic party loyalty on McGovern's
behalf. McGovern cannot even hold a meaningful bloc of loyal
Democrats who might otherwise have stayed within the party.
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For President Nixon, as in the past and as for any incumbent,
the singular dominant motivation for support is recognition of his
record in office, his experience, his know-how. Nixon supporters
are generally satisfied with his achievements, although most do
not specify in what particular areas they feel the President has
done well. Those who do, point to the war and the economy. Some
voters wish to continue the incumbent in office, believing that he
needs more time to carry out his programs. A group of voters react
sympathetically to the burdens carried by the President.
The only other significant reason behind a vote for Nixon is
hostility to McGovern, lower than in previous surveys, but still
at an important 11%. Apparently, as time goes by, voters' intentions
are holding rather firm, but their motivations are undergoing some
transformation, moving from a straight negative vote for Nixon
against McGovern to a rationalized or newly-felt positive sentiment
for Nixon.
Other reasons for favoring the President are minimal, including
belief that he is the better candidate or lesser evil, regard for
his personal qualities -- never a strong point and still not one --
and lack of knowledge of the Democratic nominee. Not a single
voter in the Philadelphia survey in August offers his Republican
party identification as a reason for a Nixon ballot, this despite:
the overwhelming support given to Nixon by his fellow Republicans.
This year, at least, Republicans do not need to rely simply on
their party leanings: They have found better and more substantive
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justifications upon which to base their votes, even though party
must implicitly play a role in that determination.
In summary, the President is currently in good shape in
Philadelphia. The combination of his performance in office and
negative feelings toward McGovern is sufficient to propel him into
the lead in this Democratic city. If the current pattern continues
to hold, the President just may break tradition and win the city
in November.
Table 3 is the composite picture of motivations behind support
of McGovern and Nixon in August. Table 4 offers a sampling of
verbatim comments made about Senator McGovern by our respondents.
Table 5 presents comments made about President Nixon.
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TABLE 3: COMPOSITE PICTURE OF MOTIVATIONS FOR FAVORING McGOVERN
OR NIXON FOR PRESIDENT
McGOVERN
40%
Anti-Nixon sentiment: He's backward and old school,
see results of four years of Nixon -- he's for rich
man, we need a change -- said he'd end the war and
it's still going on, don't think Nixon is doing too
good, hasn't done such a good job, against Nixon's
war policy, because I have suffered for the past
four years, I don't see anything Nixon has done for
my people, I'm a government worker and Nixon is not
doing that much for us, doing nothing for the poor
class of people, Nixon just isn't doing the job, don't
like Nixon, never went for him, Nixon is just bad, just
don't like the way Nixon is handling things, don't
like Nixon at all -- sneaky, don't happen to like
Nixon or his policies, he's played everything for
politics -- strung war out, hasn't done anything for
me, Nixon's a liar, Nixon has done things for the
black people but he's ashamed of it, don't want
Nixon at all
19%
Agree with McGovern's views: McGovern has a program
that reaches the majority of the people -- Nixon has
never thought much about poor, like his ideas, change
of economy, for the workingman, labor, feel that he
understands the poor people, the changes he's willing
to make, I think he'd help the poor people -- we need
help, he'll try and make some kind of budget, the war
primarily, I'm very anti-war, I feel he will do some-
thing about Vietnam
9%
McGovern is the better man: We need a change and
McGovern is the man, just wish that he can make it
better -- has to do better than Nixon, he'd run it
a little better than Nixon, don't think much of Nixon --
lesser of two evils, will do better job for us folk
6%
Democratic party identification: Democrats are more
for the poor people, I was always a Democrat
3%
Approval with reservations: He'll do a good job but
didn't like his change of running mate, I think he will
do better than Nixon -- I don't like this $6,500 welfare 1%
Miscellaneous reasons
3%
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TABLE 3: (Continued)
NIXON
51%**
Nixon's performance and experience
33%
General satisfaction with Nixon's record: He
knows what he's doing, seems to be doing pretty
good, highly approve of him, he has capabilities
to do the job and he's proven himself, like his
views, doing a wonderful job, doing a good job
in most areas, done a good job for the country,
doing a good job and you don't fire a good man,
I feel Nixon has the experience and has done a
good job, I think he has done a good job, is
capable and why chance McGovern?, I voted for
him last time and he turned out okay, I think
he's doing good and nobody can do better, I like
what Nixon has to say, his past record, I feel
he's doing all right -- my union is against him
but I just can't see McGovern
21%
Specific areas of accomplishment: Foreign
policy and improvement in economic situation,
has done a lot to help inflation, has done more
to help the war -- it wasn't his war, doing a
good job with Vietnam situation, better on
foreign policy, I think Nixon is doing a pretty
good job at home and in this war, bringing boys
back from Vietnam, not backing down to Communism,
trying to get the men back from Vietnam without
disgracing the U.S., I think he's done a good job
getting the troops out -- I don't agree with the
bombing
7%
Desire to leave the incumbent in: I feel he should
go back in -- started a lot -- a chance to finish,
don't think four years are enough to do what he
wants to do, don't change a horse in the middle
of a stream, has the experience
3%
Sympathetic reactions to Nixon's efforts:
Trying hard, he's doing a good job considering
what he walked into, he was left with all the
junk -- doing best he can
2%
Anti-McGovern sentiment: Hate McGovern, McGovern is
everything to everybody, against McGovern very much,
he's a goof ball and talks through his hat, can't see
McGovern in for anything -- has nothing to back him up,
don't like his views on Vietnam, too radical to suit me,
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TABLE 3: (Continued)
NIXON (Continued)
don't care for him -- have no faith in him -- he lies,
don't think he can do the job, does not represent me
at all, I'm against his amnesty policies and legali-
zation of drugs and his watered-down women's bloc,
you don't know how McGovern will do, don't like
the way he acts, he just doesn't know what he's
doing, don't like some of the groups McGovern has
affiliated with
11%
Nixon is the better man, lesser of two evils
5%
Nixon's personal qualities: Good man, I just like
him as a person
2%
Don't know McGovern
2%
Miscellaneous and no special reason
5%
DON'T KNOW, NEITHER
9%
TOTAL ELECTORATE
100%
** Individual reasons total greater than indicated vote percentage
because some respondents gave more than one reason.
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TABLE 4: ILLUSTRATIVE VERBATIM COMMENTS ABOUT SENATOR McGOVERN
FAVORABLE
I think he'd help the poor people. We need help.
Feel that he understands the poor people. He plans to do something
about the way things are, particularly for the poor.
McGovern has a program that reaches the majority of the people --
lower income.
Seems to be for working person and no big business.
He's for the workingman, labor.
He wants to try to straighten out the Vietnam war. He'll try and
make some kind of budget.
I like him. I feel he will do something about Vietnam.
The changes he's willing to make.
I think he would be a good leader.
UNFAVORABLE
I don't like McGovern. He doesn't know what he's doing.
McGovern does not represent me at all.
Don't like the way McGovern acts. Will not vote for him.
McGovern is a goof ball and talks through his hat.
Can't see McGovern in for anything. Has nothing to back him up.
Don't care for McGovern. Have no faith in the man. He lies.
McGovern is too radical to suit me.
Don't like some of the groups McGovern has affiliated with.
McGovern is no good.
McGovern not a chance.
I'm against McGovern's amnesty policies and the legalization of
drugs and his watered-down women's bloc.
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TABLE 5: ILLUSTRATIVE VERBATIM COMMENTS ABOUT PRESIDENT NIXON
FAVORABLE
I think he has done a damn good job.
Doing a good job and you don't fire a good man.
Don't change a horse in the middle of a stream.
I think Nixon is doing a pretty good job at home and in the war.
I think he's doing a good job considering what he walked into.
Mostly from the experience the man has had. He's done a lot to
help inflation.
He has the capabilities to do the job and he's proven himself.
He's doing a very good job, and he's trying to get the men back
from Vietnam without disgracing the U.S.
Doing a good job bringing back boys from Vietnam. Not backing
down to Communism.
I just like him as a person, and what he's been doing.
Keep him. Problems are overseas. Let's keep them there. Hoping
that Nixon will keep problems out of U.S.
Of course. He's doing an all right job. He was left with all the
junk. Doing best he can.
I voted for him last time and he turned out okay.
Nixon has done more to help the war. It wasn't his war.
I like what Nixon has to say.
I don't think four years are enough to do what he wants to do.
UNFAVORABLE
Don't like Nixon at all. Sneaky.
I'm very anti-war. Nixon's a liar.
Nixon ain't shown me nothing.
Nixon hasn't done anything for me.
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TABLE 5: (Continued)
UNFAVORABLE (Continued)
Nixon is more for corporations than the little man.
Nixon's not doing such a good job.
I don't see anything Nixon has done for my people.
I'm a government worker and Nixon is not doing that much for us.
Because Nixon ain't doing nothing for the poor class of people.
Seen results of four years of Nixon. He's for rich man.
Nixon has never thought much about the poor.
Nixon played everything for politics -- strung war out.
Just don't like the way Nixon is handling things.
Nixon has done things for the black people but he's ashamed
of it.
A - 1
APPENDIX
Historically, the pull of the winning presidential nominee
in the City of Philadelphia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
has tended to aid the candidates of his party for lower offices.
With respect to Philadelphia this year, the crucial question is
whether what has occurred in the past with a winning Democratic
presidential nominee can take place with a Republican winner. In
other words, will Nixon be able to assist his running mates as
Kennedy, Johnson, and, to some extent, Humphrey were able to
assist theirs?
All efforts must be made to turn that same tactic of straight-
party voting to Republican advantage. It is certainly a goal
toward which the President himself, when he visits the city and the
state, and all Republican forces must strive.
Given below in Tables A and B is a review of the election
results of 1968 and 1960, for the city and the state, as examples
of the similarity of voting patterns for the presidential and other
candidates. Both years saw Richard Nixon as his party's nominee.
Nineteen-sixty was a "normal" two-man contest and demonstrated at
both city and state levels an ideal pattern of party voting. Nine-
teen-sixty-eight, which was a three-way race, nonetheless provides
some insight as to voting behavior.
A - 2
TABLE A: PHILADELPHIA AND PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION RESULTS -- 1968
Office
Democratic
Republican
Vote
Percent
Vote
Percent
PHILADELPHIA
President
525,768
62.4%
254,153
30.1%
(Note: Wallace vote -- 63,506; 7.5%)
U.S. Senator
499,800
62.1%
305,597
37.9%
State Treasurer
509,656
64.7%
278,002
35.3%
Auditor General
531,730
67.4%
257,001
32.6%
Judge
513,651
65.3%
273,161
34.7%
Congress (All
districts)
532,346
66.6%
266,970
33.4%
PENNSYLVANIA
President
2,259,403
47.8%
2,090,017
44.2%
(Note: Wallace vote -- 378,582; 8.0%)
U.S. Senator
2,117,662
46.9%
2,399,762
53.1%
State Treasurer
2,329,335
52.2%
2,129,339
47.8%
Auditor General
2,451,785
55.0%
2,007,645
45.0%
Judge
2,309,716
51.7%
2,161,951
48.3%
Congress (All
districts)
2,286,363
50.6%
2,230,052
49.4%
A - 3
TABLE B: PHILADELPHIA AND PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION RESULTS -- 1960
Office
Democratic
Republican
Vote
Percent
Vote
Percent
PHILADELPHIA
President
622,544
68.1%
291,000
31.9%
State Treasurer
606,997
67.5%
292,507
32.5%
Auditor General
608,089
67.7%
290,094
32.3%
Judge
611,940
67.9%
289,559
32.1%
Congress (All
districts)
612,501
67.8%
290,941
32.2%
PENNSYLVANIA
President
2,556,282
51.2%
2,439,956
48.8%
State Treasurer
2,511,941
51.2%
2,395,770
48.8%
Auditor General
2,528,740
51.5%
2,383,178
48.5%
Judge
2,516,730
51.1%
2,412,525
48.9%
Congress (All
districts)
2,554,885
51.6%
2,396,322
48.4%
September 19, 1972/8:45 a.m.
SCHEDULE:
CLARK MacGREGOR
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1972
9:15 a.m. - Staff Meeting
10:00 a.m. - Hold for CM
11:00 a.m. - Anna Chennault
12:15 p.m. - Charlotte Ford w/Magruder (here)
12:30 p.m. - Conference Dining Room, White House - Luncheon w/General George
Olmsted and retired military personnel
2:00 p.m. - Press Conference, 3rd Floor Conf Rm, Women's Surrogate Program
4:00 p.m. - RN, et al - EOB Office
September 18, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
PAT BUCHANAN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Bob asked that you work up a meme for his review today that
covers the following points:
1. A study of the President's thesis that you should
look at elections in this century and you will see that
no Presidential candidate has ever was by a 2 to 1 ratio.
The optimum, or maximum ever attained was Reservelt
over Landon which was 63-37, or whatever it was. Get
the facts on that.
2. The optimum for a Republican is the Elsenhower land-
clide of 1956 where he got 57. 5% of the vote versus his
opponents 42. 5%. In other woods, a 15 point margin is
optimum for a Republican in these times, and that should
be our stated goal -- to equal the Eisenhower reelection
majority of 57.5%.
You should also develop a line for columnists making this point.
We should talk in this fashion -- not in the terms that we expect
our palls to go down, but rather that our goal in the ultimate pell
on election day, will be the 15 point spread that Eisenhower
ashieved.
LH:kb
Suptember 18, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
DWIGHT CHAPIN
FROM:
H. R. HALDEMAN
Mrs. Ninon, Tricia, Julie, Ed Nimen and EddCox should
be scheduled into all of the smaller states including the
southern states between now and the election. Of course
Hawaii and Alaska should be excluded unless it appears that
a trip to Alaska might be essential for the purpose of shoring
up Stevens.
It is also important that the family be heavily scheduled into
Massachusetts, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
With regard to southern states, none of the southern states
should feel that they are being taken for granted. For example,
some member of the family must be scheduled into Mississippi,
Alabama, Askansas, Louisiana, as well as in the states where
we have Senate contests we expect we have a good chance to win.
Whenever a member of the family goes into South Daketa, there
must be a particularly good advance job done to be sure that we
get a good reception in that area.
Don't overlook Senate contests in places like Montans, New
Mexico and Louisiana where we might have a chance to win.
Also, It is very important that at least case or two members of the
family go to Alabama and be seen with Blount. Of course, the other
reason for going to Alabama is to make sure that the Alabamians do
not consider they we are taking them for granted,
2
As far as the southern states are concerned, the President
will cover Atlanta and has already covered Florida. The
others should all -- except for Texas -- be covered by
members of the family, and the same is true of mountain
states and farm states, and the New England states --
Verment, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode
Island -- which are not on our target list.
Both Tricis and Julio would like very much to work in tours
to southern border states and also to the mountain states at
this time. We have been throwing them into the heavy media
areas long enough and while, of course, we should not rule
out such steas totally and particularly not rule them out for
the last two weeks, it might be well to give them a respite
from having to face the sharpies in the press corps in New
York, Chicago, Cloveland, Philadelphia, Los Anghles, et al,
and schedule them into states like Mississippi, South Carolina,
Virginia, Kentusky, Arkansas, Oklahoma and others, as well as
in the smaller towns in larger states like Texas where they will
be particularly well received. The same can be said of Montana,
New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Kansas and Nebraska, as
well as of other states of that type. Also, there should be par-
ticular emphasis on their schedules to be in towns that no national
eslabrity may have visited before.
HRH:kb
IC S.Strachang
COMMITTEE FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT
MEMORANDUM
September 8, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HONORABLE CLARK MacGREGOR
FROM:
JEB MAGRUDER
SUBJECT:
Los Angeles Victory '72 Dinner
The Victory '72 Dinner in Los Angeles will be held in the Ball Room of
the Century Plaza Hotel on September 27. In a recent conversation with
the Dinner Chairman, Ed Carter, he suggested the following program:
6:15 p.m. - Reception for approximately 100 Vice Chairmen who
were primarily responsible for selling tickets.
Mr. Carter requested that the President attend
this event.
7:00 p.m. - General reception for invitees
8:00 p.m. - The Dinner Program
Bob Hope is the proposed M.C. He will make the
welcoming remarks, etc.
Hope will be followed by another prominent enter-
tainer
Bob Hope will then make remarks and introduce the
President
The President speaks (the program will close
immediately).
Ed Carter will be responsible for getting Bob Hope and the prominent enter-
tainer mentioned in the program proposal. The question we must answer for
him is whether or not the President will participate in the reception at
6:15 for the Dinner Vice Chairmen.
Approve
Disapprove
Comment
COMMITTEE FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT
MEMORANDUM
September 8, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HONORABLE CLARK MacGREGOR
FROM:
JEB S. MAGRUDER
SUBJECT:
Victory '72 Dinner Telecast
The Victory '72 Dinner telecast will be held on September 26, Starting at
9:00 p.m.; the President's entrance will be at approximately 9:40 p.m.
The telecast will originate out of New York City and Chicago. The tele-
cast will be carried over closed circuit television in 25 to 28 cities
around the country. In each of the cities, surrogates and celebrities
will have primed the dinner audiences for the telecast. We must be sure
that the dinner program dovetails with the TV program. The telecast must
be simple, move fast and look good. As indicated in the attached script,
the control will be kept in New York, switched to Chicago during the
program and returned to New York for the President's address and close.
Our basic objectives, aside from raising money, will be: (1) to motivate
and inspire the campaign apparatus throughout the country: (2) to acknow-
ledge the contributions of all the people who are participating in the
campaign; (3) to blur the image of a group of Republican "fat cats" com-
ing together to buy the government for another four years. We can ex-
pect a blast from the McGovern camp on this very issue and it is suggested
that we seek to diffuse the charge in advance. The attached script there-
fore indicates no participation by celebrities and suggests that you,
Senator Dole and Anne Armstrong, along with the President and Mrs. Nixon and
the Vice President, serve as the major participants in the telecast. You
would introduce Senator Dole and Mrs. Nixon and act as Master of Ceremonies
for the telecast. It is suggested that Senator Dole comment on and narrate
a brief film clip of the Convention. Mrs. Nixon would briefly comment on
volunteerism and introduce the President.
Both audibly and visually, it should be stressed that the President is
physically at the New York Dinner and that the Vice President is at the
Chicago Dinner. In addition, it should be indicated that the President
has representatives at the New York Dinner from surrounding key states
such as New Jersey and Connecticut, etc. It is also suggested in the
attached script that the President and Mrs. Nixon enter at different times.
The telecast format can be built around the four items which you have
repeatedly pointed out as being necessary to any successful campaign:
CANDIDATE, MONEY, PEOPLE and ISSUES.
2
CANDIDATE - Re-elect the President!
MONEY - Each guest at the dinner will have paid $1,000 for his
plate.
PEOPLE - We might consider inviting a guest volunteer to each
dinner. The guest volunteer would be a carefully selected
"Little Guy" who would not otherwise receive recognition from
the top. Local politicians and celebrities would have to be
tactfully eliminated from the selection process. The selections
could be based on volunteers who had worked 1,000 hours or more --
"The 1,000 Hour People" -- which would also tie in nicely with
the $1,000 a plate dinner. The guest volunteer portion of the
program would demonstrate Presidential appreciation for the
foot soldier of the campaign and would be strongly reinforced
if Mrs. Nixon were to recognize by name the guest volunteer
present in each city. Guests could be made available to the
media after the dinner, giving maximum impact in the hometowns
in these key states.
ISSUES - The President and Vice President should make remarks in
concert. The nature of their comments and the issues to be
addressed will be decided by the White House.
Tony McDonald has been acting as Project Manager for our participation in
this event and has discussed this plan with Bill Carruthers and Mark Goode.
Attached is a copy of the contract we have signed with TNT.
Approve
Disapprove
Comment
VICTORY '72 NEW YORK TELECAST - SEPTEMBER 26, 1972
AUDIO
VIDEO
FANFARE AND SEGUE INTO APPROPRIATE
OPEN WITH LARGE COLOR MAP OF THE UNITED
NUMBER IDENTIFYING NEW YORK "GIVE MY
STATES, WITHOUT PRINT COPY.
REGARDS TO BROADWAY"
HOLD MAP FULL AND TIGHTEN TO THE N.Y. AREA,
FILLING SCREEN WITH LOGO AND COMING IN WITH
SUPER-IMPOSED PICTURE OF PRESIDENT WAVING
MAT IN TITLE LOGO "VICTORY '72"
DISSOLVE TO WIDE SHOT AND PAN NEW YORK
MUSIC UNDER FOR
AUDIENCE, SPOTLIGHTS MOVING OVER THEM
V.O. ANNOUNCER
KEEPING MAT TITLE OVER SHOT
(IDENTIFIES HOTEL, ROOM AND CITY,
IDENTIFIES FUNCTION IN FULL AND
ACKNOWLEDGES ALL DINNERS)
INTRODUCES DINNER CHAIRMAN, BUNNY LASKER
CUT TO LASKER AT LECTERN
(MUSIC ENDS WITH BUILD TO APPLAUSE)
LASKER WELCOMES GUEST AND INTRODUCES
LASKER
CLARK MacGREGOR
(FOLLOW SPOT ON MacGREGOR S/L)
WALK ON MUSIC AND APPLAUSE
WIDEN TO 2 SHOT AS MacGREGOR ENTERS S/L
MacGREGOR WELCOMING REMARKS TO NATION
AND CHICAGO
MacGREGOR
2
VIDEO
AUDIO
MacGREGOR INTRODUCES SENATOR DOLE
(FOLLOW SPOT ON DOLE S/L)
WALK ON MUSIC AND APPLAUSE
WIDEN TO 2 SHOT AS DOLE ENTERS S/L
SENATOR DOLE SPEAKS (6-7 MINUTES ON THE
DOLE
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION)
(LAST 4-5 MINUTES OF DOLE REMARKS WITH
V.O. - FILM HIGHLIGHTS OF CONVENTION)
DOLE TURNS PROGRAM BACK TO MacGREGOR
MacGREGOR TURNS PROGRAM OVER TO CHICAGO DIN.
MacGREGOR
SWITCH LIVE COVERAGE FROM NEW YORK TO
CHICAGO
FANFARE AND SEGUE INTO APPROPRIATE NUMBER
IDENTIFYING CHICAGO "CHICAGO"
OPEN WITH LARGE COLOR MAP OF THE UNITED
STATES, WITHOUT PRINT COPY. HOLD MAP FULL
AND TIGHTEN TO THE CHICAGO AREA, FILLING
SCREEN WITH "VICTORY '72" LOGO AND COMING
IN WITH SUPER-IMPOSED PICTURE CF VICE
PRESIDENT WAVING
MUSIC UNDER FOR
DISSOLVE TO SIDE SHOT AND PAN CHICAGO
V.O. ANNOUNCER
AUDIENCE, SPOTLIGHTS MOVING OVER THEM
(IDENTIFIES HOTEL, ROOM AND CITY,
KEEPING MAT TITLE OVER SHOT
IDENTIFIES BRIEFLY FUNCTION)
INTRODUCES DINNER CHAIRMAN, ARTHUR WOOD
CUT TO WOOD AT LECTERN
3
AUDIO
VIDEO
ARTHUR WOOD INTRODUCES SURROGATE M.C.,
(FOLLOW SPOT ON ANNE ARMSTRONG) CARRY TO
ANNE ARMSTRONG
LECTERN
ANNE ARMSTRONG INTRODUCES VICE PRESIDENT
TO MUSIC AND APPLAUSE
(HOUSE LIGHTS UP--FOLLOW SPOT ON VICE
PRESIDENT) CARRY V.P. TO STAGE INTER-
CUTTING AUDIENCE AS DESIRED.
(HOUSE LIGHTS OUT)
VICE PRESIDENT SPEAKS (APPROX. 10 MINUTES)
VICE PRESIDENT AGNEW
MUSICAL PLAY OFF AND APPLAUSE
AT CONCLUSION, HOUSE LIGHTS UP AND SPOT
V.O. ANNOUNCER TURNS PROGRAM BACK TO
CARRY VICE PRESIDENT BACK TO HIS TABLE
MacGREGOR IN NEW YORK
MacGREGOR THANKS VICE PRESIDENT
MacGREGOR IN NEW YORK / SPLIT SCREEN/ VICE
PRESIDENT IN CHICAGO WAVING AND WALKING
TO TABLE
MacGREGOR INTRODUCES MRS. NIXON
FULL SCREEN TO MacGREGOR
FOLLOW SPOT ON MRS. NIXON S/L AND CARRY
TO LECTERN
MRS. NIXON SPEAKS ON VOLUNTEERISM
MRS. NIXON
MRS. NIXON INTRODUCES THE PRESIDENT
FOLLOW SPOT ON PRESIDENT S/L AND CARRY
WALK ON MUSIC "HAIL TO THE CHIEF" AND
TO LECTERN
APPLAUSE
MUSIC AND APPLAUSE
PRESIDENT AND MRS. NIXON
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AUDIO
VIDEO
(OFF CAMERA - ESCORT TAKES MRS. NIXON OFF
STAGE)
PRESIDENT NIXON SPEAKS (APPROX. 15 MINUTES)
PRESIDENT NIXON
MUSIC AND APPLAUSE
AT CONCLUSION
DROWN OUT APPLAUSE WITH YOUTH SHOUTING
SPLIT SCREEN - NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
"FOUR MORE YEARS" AT YOUTH RALLY IN MIAMI
SHOWING PRESIDENT WAVING FROM LECTERN
AND VICE PRESIDENT WAVING FROM TABLE
MAT IN "VICTORY '72" LOGO
BLACK
Five minute pad to allow for applause, remarks over extending limit and/or other minor delay
TNT COMMUNICATIONS INC.
575 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK NEW YORK 10022 (212) 755-6300
March 21, 1972
Finance Committee for the Re-Election
of the President
Suite 272
1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20006
Gentlemen:
This will confirm that the following is the agreement between us:
1) We agree to provide to you all necessary facilities and services
for a color closed-circuit telecast on the evening of September 26, 1972
for up to one (1) hour's duration to twenty-five (25) cities on the attached
list marked Exhibit A, the origination and exhibition to be "live"
television.
2) We agree to provide, install and operate, or to arrange at our
expense for the operation, provision and installation of all facilities
necessary for the origination, transmission and exhibition of the color
closed-circuit telecast to the meeting locations selected in the twenty-
five (25) cities listed in Exhibit A. The facilities shall include, but
not be limited to, appropriate large-screen color television projection
systems at the meeting locations, television audio facilities including
coordination with local meeting locations public address systems;
screens; complete field engineering services for advance client contacts
and supervision of the tel ecast at each location; television long lines
and local loops and connections from the cities of network origination into
each of the meeting locations in the cities listed in Exhibit A; and
supervision and coordination of the entire closed-circuit telecast by
our network staff.
3) We have begun to and will complete reservations on your behalf to
appropriate meeting locations in the aforementioned twenty-five (25)
cities, for exhibition of the telecast in accordance with our standard
color television operating procedures for advance equipment arrival,
installation, testing and rehearsals. These reservations are subject
to booking by you and/or your affiliated organizations within the coming
two months; if an alternative meeting location is desired by you, it will
be submitted to us for our technical and cost approval. The firm
bookings made by you and/or your affiliated organizations will include
provision for our standard color television operating procedures, a copy
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of which is attached herewith as Exhibit B. The meeting location
rentals and local arrangements, including public address systems
and their operation, catering services, decorations, local enter-
tainment, local hall stagehands, etc., shall be borne by you and/or
your affiliated organization at each location.
4) (a) 1. We agree to provide and operate the necessary facilities
and to perform the services to direct and originate your
program live to the network. The program shall consist,
in general, of principal speeches by political leaders before
the audiences at the New York and Los Angeles meeting
locations.
2. You shall provide the speakers and program for the telecast,
but we will consult with and aid in developing an appropriate
program format, subject to your final approval.
3. We agree to provide the producing and directing, as required,
and the following production facilities and services: standard
color television origination unit consisting of three television
cameras, color television lighting and direction, cameramen
and other personnel together with audio microphones for move
into and setup, equipment tests and rehearsals in the New York
and Los Angeles origination locations, beginning early in the
morning of September 26th. The television move in, setup,
rehearsals and telecast will take place free of advance work
completed by you on decorations, scaffolds, platforming, seating
arrangements, public address system work, etc., so that the
television production is uninterrupted.
4. You agree to provide as part of your responsibility in the rental
of the origination locations and their facilities and services, the
decoration of the area of origination, including backdrop, drapes,
floor covering, any stage construction, props, seating, platforms,
or scaffolds. You agree to be responsible for the costs of all
"house" facilities, including but not limited to stagehands and
lighting facilities, the "house" power for lighting and television
facilities, the "house" drayage, and the "house" public address
system and its operation. The above shall not include the
manpower and equipment provided for this telecast by us, as
described above in subparagraph 4) (a)3.
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5) In consideration of the performance of the services and the
furnishings of the facilities and services by us under Paragraph (1),
(2), (3) and (4) (a) 1, 2, and 3 of the agreement, you agree to pay
us the total net sum of One Hundred Eighty Seven Thousand, Five
Hundred Dollars ($187, 500) payable as follows: $10,000 on or before
April 10, 1972; fifty percent (50%) on or before August 15, 1972; the
balance on or before the close of business September 15, 1972. It
is understood that the payment dates are of the essence and that
failure to pay on time will constitute adequate cause for cancellation
of the telecast by us. In the event of such cancellation, it is
further understood that such payment already received by us can
and will be retained, and there will be no return of same to you.
(a) When a city and meeting location is added to or sub-
tracted from those included in Exhibit A, we shall inform
you of the amount due in addition to or in subtraction from
the above, and this shall become due and payable or de-
ductible pursuant to the above schedule of payment dates.
The same procedure shall apply to addition or subtraction
of television originations to the network.
(b) If the telephone companies after surveys of each meeting
location should have to make any special construction
charges for facilities to accomplish this closed-circuit
telecast, these charges are not to be considered included
in the payment made to us under Paragraph 5) above, but
shall be an additional charge subject to your advance approval.
(c) If you require a videotape or kinescope recording and prints
of the program, or videotape playbacks of regions or local
exhibition of the telecast, you shall order them through us.
The charge for such recordings, playbacks and prints shall
not be considered included in the price under Paragraph 5)
above, but shall be an additional charge subject to your
advance approval.
6) If, for any reason occasioned by a fire, explosion, earthquake, accident,
flood, drought, embargo, riot, war or Act of God or the public enemy,
the telecast cannot be accomplished, either party-shall notify the other
promptly and either party shall have the right to cancel this agreement
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without liability of either to the other, except that those costs
which we have already incurred for the telecast and are not
cancellable or recoverable will be reimbursed to us by you. If
any individual cities on the attached list cannot be made available
for the telecast for any reason occasioned by an Act of God, lack
of telephone line clearance, or unavailability of proper meeting
locations, either party shall have the right to cancel the agreement
as to that location, and you shall not be liable for any payment
therefor, except to the extent that costs have been incurred in
arrangements therefor.
7) We shall be responsible for necessary licenses and pay all
taxes, license fees, social security taxes, unemployment com-
pensation contributions and other expenses and charges, except
as indicated otherwise in this agreement, with respect to the
furnishing by us of the facilities, services and personnel which we
are obligated to furnish hereunder.
8) In the event of failure in total or in part of any television projection
facilities provided by us, we agree to credit you on an equitable basis
related to the projection costs for such failure. When and if any
mobile unit providing the television origination facilities, or any
telephone company providing the television lines and loops, in the
event of failure in total or in part of any if its facilities utilized
for the program, makes reimbursement to us for such failures, we
agree to credit you fully with such reimbursement. There is no
guarantee by us of non-failure or quality of the television and it is
understood that we are not expected to make any reimbursement to
you except as already stated, as long as best efforts have been
used by us to accomplish the program.
9) We agree, at our own expense, to defend any litigation instituted
by others against you as a result of any acts or failure to act of our
company, its agents, servants, or employees in connection with the
telecast referred to herein; and further, we agree to indemnify
and hold you harmless against expenses, losses, or damages
therefrom.
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10) This agreement shall be binding on any successor or assignees
of either party.
11) Each party to this agreement represents that the individual signing
the agreement on its behalf is empowered to bind his organization to
the terms of the contract.
Your signature together with our signature below shall make this a
binding and enforceable agreement between us.
Very truly yours,
FINANCE COMMITTE FOR
TNT COMMUNICATIONS INC.
THE RE-ELECTION OF THE
PRESIDENT
By Manrice H. Stains
By n Halfern
SEPTEMBER 26, 1972 TELECAST
EXHIBIT "A"
CITY
Atlanta, Georgia
Baltimore, Maryland
Boston, Massachusetts
Carson City, Nevada
Charlotte, North Carolina
Chicago, Illinois
Cleveland, Ohio
Dallas, Texas
Denver, Colorado
Detroit, Michigan
Houston, Texas
Los Angeles, California
Miami Beach/Miami
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
Nashville, Tennessee
New York City, New York
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
St.. Louis, Missouri
San Francisco, California
Tampa/St. Petersburg
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CITY
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Washington, D.C.
Wilmington, Delaware
EXHIBIT "B"
OPERATING PROCEDURES FOR
COMMITTEE TO RE-ELECT THE PRESIDENT
LARGE SCREEN COLOR CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION
The basic division of responsibility is that the Committee and its local organization
are responsible for the hotel or auditorium meeting places and costs, and that
TNT Communications Inc. is responsible for all television facilities and services
and their costs. In order to coordinate the respective responsibilities effectively,
TNT Communications Inc. has adopted the following standard operating procedure.
TNT will make initially a tentative reservation for the meeting place room. This
reservation will be forwarded to the Committee in Washington, D.C. The
confirmation and firm booking of the meeting place and negotiation of the food and
rental costs will be the responsibility of the Committee and its local organization.
If the Committee or its local organization wish to change the location, their choice
should be forwarded to and reviewed by the TNT Operations Department for technical
suitability. When approved by TNT, the Committee or its local organization can
proceed to firm up the reservation. If there are technical or cost problems, TNT
will inform the Committee thereof, and the local organization may wish to reserve
another place subject to the same procedure.
In making a booking, following is a list of points to be covered by the Committee or
its local organization with the hotel or auditorium. Our experience is that most
hotels or auditoriums will not make an extra charge for these items. However,
the availability of the meeting room the day before the telecast is usually subject to
some additional rental charge to the customer. The Committee or its local
organization should exert every effort to keep any additional hotel or auditorium
charge to a very minimum, since these costs will be theirs.
In providing the meeting space, the hotel or auditorium must provide the following
facilities as part of the booking, without cost to TNT:
1) Accept delivery of the TNT equipment at least one week to ten days in advance
of the telecast date, September 26, 1972, and allow the equipment to remain at the
meeting place (but not necessarily in the meeting room itself) once it has been
delivered. The meeting place will take reasonable care that TNT equipment is not
damaged while at the hotel and/or auditorium.
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2) Provide space with A. C. power outlet, not necessarily in the meeting
room, for the TNT field engineer to test the television projection unit following
the arrival of the equipment and also several days prior to the telecast. This
will be arranged by the hotel and/or auditorium and the TNT field engineer
at a mutually convenient time.
3) Allow the telephone company television personnel retained by TNT reasonable
time and space to install the necessary television and audio lines into the meeting
room for the closed-circuit telecast, usually one or two days before the telecast
date.
4) Provide the meeting room on September 25, 1972, one complete day prior to
the telecast date, for installation of the TNT equipment.
5) Provide the meeting room the entire day of the telecast, September 26, 1972,
and up to two hours following the conclusion of the meeting, so that adequate advance
tests and rehearsals can be conducted on the TNT television equipment, and after
the show, it can be removed.
6) Provide the normal meeting place public address system and its operation.
7) Cooperate with the TNT field engineer to coordinate local speeches, room lights
and sound system with the telecast.
CC: Mr. Haldeman/
COMMITTEE FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT
MEMORANDUM
September 13, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
PHIL JOANOU
FROM:
JEB S. MAGRUDE
As our television and newspaper advertising begins in earnest, I
would like to make sure all states are fully aware of our plans on
a week-to-week basis. Therefore, we should plan to put together a
weekly schedule of buys for distribution to State Chairmen. This
weekly report, obviously, should be sent only after all buys have
been approved.
I think this is an important step in ensuring that our Chairmen have
knowledge of what we are doing here as well as making them feel that
they are part of the team.
Committee for the Re-election of the President
MEMORANDUM
August 31, 1972
GONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HONORABLE CLARK MAC GREGOR
THROUGH:
JEB S. MAGRUDER
FROM:
ROBERT C. ODLE, JR.
Attached is our weekly report.
DCC: Mr. H. R. Haldeman
CONFIDENTIAL
ADVANCE
Tour Office advancemen were assigned to-work with Department of
Agriculture advancemen on Secretary Butz's three day, five state
speaking tour. On August 15, Secretary Butz addressed the Amer-
ican Soybean Association in Columbus, Ohio; made an appearance
at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield; and spoke at a fund-
raiser for former Governor Dewey Bartlett in Enid, Oklahoma. On
August 16, he attended the Oklahoma Committee for the Re-election
of the President's leadership breakfast and then made an appear-
ance at the Sooner State Dairy Show. Secretary Butz also addres-
sed the Alpha Gamma Rho Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, on the
16. On the final day of the trip, the Secretary appeared at a
Young Voters for the President rally in Boise, Idaho. A Tour Of-
fice advanceman was assigned to each one of these stops.
CITIZENS
Out of a possible total of 455 potential state chairmen for our ten
groups (one only operates in five states) we have now appointed 340
chairmen and 235 have been cleared. (See attached list)
Kits became available this week and we are in business for the first
time.
Meetings were held in Maine and Massachusetts with A1 Kaupinen and
his staff, presenting the volunteer program to these state organi-
zations. Meetings were well attended, but you certainly don't get
the feeling that either state has a strong organization yet.
Our pilot/aviation situation continues to look better, but we are
losing some time due to printing delays. Our first six 45c pins
sold for $100 a piece. We have a 19 member blue ribbon committee
including names such as Colonel Frank Borman, Jimmie Mattern,
Professor Paul Cherington, etc. Our mailings will go out the week
after Labor Day and can be a big factor in the campaign if we do
it right. Much frustration in getting a statement from the Pres-
ident for this area. McGovern issued a strong one and will domi -
nate the trade press, which seems a shame, as we have the good
story.
Cooperation from the White House on the motorcyclist group has won
us good trade press.
The third layer of the citizens committees is now rapidly forming
in those committees that have filled their state chairmanships.
These state chairmen are now submitting the names of their five
vice-chairmen and these men are, in turn, submitting five addi-
tional names each.
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The committee of Hairdressers for the Re-election of the President
met at 1701 on August 28. This highly organized group has sub-
mitted its list of state chairmen and should prove most effective
as a vehicle for reaching millions of women before the election.
We are currently studying the feasibility of a mailing to the
beauty salons in 13 key states and its impact on the clientele.
Mr. Joseph Weir, National Chairman of this group, estimates that
as many as 20 million potential voters can be reached during the
month of October.
Another group, the Funeral Directors for the Re-election of the
President is rapidly forming and will have state chairs filled
within the next week.
Also to be noted is the coming meeting of the clergy group which
is scheduled for September 6. The responses to our inquiries
have been enthusiastic and we look forward to a successful meet-
ing with the clergy leaders.
On August 18, ten of the thirteen designated national committee-
men for the state legislators citizens committee met in Washington.
The goals outlined by the state legislators reflect those of the
Mayors and Municipal Officials citizens committee and the County
Officials, two groups previously formed on August 7. The three
groups of elected officials have the following goals:
1. Creation of a nation-wide structure of elected officials for
communication purposes.
2. Publicizing of the President's domestic programs and their
impact on states, counties and municipalities.
3. Obtaining a public endorsement of the Administration's
policies from as many elected officials as possible.
Each of the thirteen-man committees of elected officials is organ-
ized as follows: 1 national chairman, 2 vice-chairmen, and 10
regional chairmen, whose initial responsibility is to select a
state chairman for five assigned states in cooperation with the
overall state campaign chairman for the re-election of the Pres-
ident.
All state chairmen names for the three elected officials committees
should be submitted by September 1.
To capitalize the potential of elected officials Clark MacGregor
should send a letter to all state chairmen requesting state staff
and financial support.
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Various trade press publications have expressed interest in citi-
zens groups. For example Travel Trade (est. circulation 12-15,000)
was solicited in regard to the Travel Agents citizens committee.
The mailing list containing 13,000 names from the National Oil
Jobbers Council was placed at our disposal. Discussions with
the Petroleum Marketers citizens committee convinces us that
such a mailing provides a logical vehicle to attract the non-
college, under thirty group working for small petroleum marketers
as well as the marketers themselves who are representative of
middle income groups and want to volunteer their efforts.
A new activity has been established, Construction Industry for the
Re-election of the President.
LAWYERS
Telephone Campaign - Development of Volunteers: As of August 11,
the results of the Lawyers' Committee pilot telephone campaign
which was conducted in Kansas City, Missouri, are now available.
Using materials developed by the Lawyers Committee, including
nine separate booklets setting forth instructions for the various
different categories of volunteers, the Lawyers' Telephone Cam-
paign Committee in Kansas City called 1,318 lawyers. These tele-
phone calls were placed by the lawyers' wives. Because the pilot
was conducted on July 25, 26, 27 and 28, many lawyers were on
vacation. Only 676 lawyers were actually reached. We have received
copies of the Call Forms actually completed by the lawyers' spouses
who made the calls. The results are as follows: 334 lawyers support
the re-election of the President, or 50 per cent of those actually
reached; 140 are against the re-election of the President, or 20 per
cent of those actually reached; 202 lawyers indicated that they were
undecided. The comments which were received from the telephone
callers indicate that some Democratic lawyers in Democratic Kansas
City may have hesitated to publicly indicate their support for the
President. Perhaps the most significant result of the telephone
campaign was that it has been proven to be a most effective method
of securing volunteers. Ninety-three lawyers indicated that they
would be willing to volunteer their assistance during the campaign,
or 28 per cent of those who support the President.
For every 8 calls made, we developed one volunteer; i.e., 14 per
cent of those called agreed to volunteer. If one considers that
in all probability, members of the lawyers' household will agree
to volunteer their assistance with him, we have in fact generated
an even higher percentage of volunteers.
We intend to conduct this telephone campaign in every state on
September 13, 14, 15, 19, 20 and 21. Mrs. David Lindgren, a
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volunteer, has done an outstanding job in developing materials
and in orienting the Kansas City calls. She will continue on
a volunteer basis to lend such assistance as is necessary,
primarily in the 10 key states. Our YOung Lawyers National
Advisory Committee, consisting of one young lawyer in each
state, will also attempt to supervise and assist in the organ-
ization of the Lawyers Committee Telephone Campaign in 50 states.
The population of lawyers in the United States today is approx-
imately 350,000. If we were to reach by telephone 250,000
lawyers in September, we would develop approximately 40,000
lawyer volunteers, according to the results of the pilot. If
the lawyer volunteer brings with him one additional household
member as a volunteer, we would be approaching 100,000 volun-
teers volunteers from the legal community and their families.
This is our goal.
As of August 31, we will devote the major part of our efforts in
the next three weeks towards stimulating and supervising the
conduct of Lawyers Committee telephone campaigns in each of the
fifty states, but particularly in the target states. Our Lawyers
Chairmen will be asked to name and supervise Telephone Chairmen
in each of these states. Mr. Piliero will be traveling to the
target states in this connection.
National Advisory Committee: As of August 11, we have developed
a prominent National Advisory Committee, including nine past
presidents of the American Bar Association and other notable
members of the Bar from various areas, including women lawyers,
black lawyers, young lawyers, law professors and law school
deans.
Lawyers Committee Chairmen's Handbook: The Lawyers Committee
Chairmen's Handbook was distributed in advance of our August
3 meeting and the program outlined therein was the subject of
the briefings and workshop sessions. The handbook will be
completed in final form in the next several weeks and distrib-
uted to our Lawyers Committee Chairmen and their Area Chairmen
before September 1.
Local Spokesmen Activities: We are researching, with the use
of second wave and third wave information, and presently pre-
paring to implement, on a city-by-city basis, local spokesmen
programs which will identify in cities certain issues which
require attention. We will attempt to describe to the public,
through the media and through local appearances, the accurate
record which the Nixon Administration has achieved in specific
areas which lawyers are particularly suited to describe.
Selection of State Chairmen: The present status of our Lawyers
Committee is that we have Chairmen and Lawyers Committees organ-
ized in 42 states.
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Republican National Convention: The Attorney General addressed a
seminar of in excess of 100 lawyers on Wednesday, August 23rd at
2:00 p.m. The seminar was covered by a, number of representatives
of the media, including two networks. At the conclusion of the
seminar, we were able to develop some 80 lawyers who expressed an
interest in playing an active role in the Lawyers Committees in
their various states. We are presently taking steps to convey
this information to the Lawyers State Chairmen in the various
states in order that these lawyers may begin to work on our
program.
Black Lawyers Committee: On August 3 at Miami at the National Bar
Association meeting, a reception was held in honor of Judge Sam
Pierce, General Counsel, Department of the Treasury. Mr. Willie
Leftwich and a number of other individuals organized and conducted
the reception on behalf of the Lawyers Committee and the Black Vote
Divison. The meeting generated support among Black Lawyers for the
President and we are presently reviewing the names of those volun-
teering to serve in order that we may form a Black Lawyers Committee
and include in our State Lawyers Committees those black lawyers who
have agreed to serve.
Spanish Speaking Lawyers - We have coordinated with the Spanish
Speaking Voter Division and they have at our request provided
the names of seven prominent Spanish Speaking Lawyers whom we
have invited to join the Lawyers National Advisory Committee.
It is our hope that these leading Spanish Speaking Lawyers will
generate a number of other Spanish Speaking Lawyers who will
wish to serve in our various State Lawyers Committees.
The Administration's Minority Rights Record: As of August 11,
we are coordinating with Mr. Garment's office at the White House
in order to develop an article suitable for publication which
will reveal the progress which has been made in the area of
minority rights during this Administration. Mr. Marvin Rosenberg
and Mr. Edward Hummers, both practicing lawyers in the District,
have agreed to devote a great amount of time to the assembly and
organization of materials and it is expected that an article
suitable for publication will be available on or before September
15.
The Administration's Minority Rights Record: As of August 31, a
second draft of an article prepared by Mr. Rosenberg and Mr.
Hummers has been completed, describing the civil rights record of
the Nixon Administration. We believe that the article is suitable
for printing and will take appropriate steps to assist the author
in having it published and distributed. Liaison is being maintained
with Mr. Garment's office in this connection.
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American Bar Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 10 -
16: We conducted a hospitality suite in San Francisco, as planned,
and were able to enlist the active support of a significant number
of lawyers and their spouses. These lawyers and spouses have been
recommended to the various Lawyers Chairmen in the states. A great
deal of support was generated among Democrats and Republicans.
SPANISH-SPEAKING
Our Spanish-speaking caucus was a disappointment to Spanish-speaking
participants because of the White House agenda. Speakers Elliott
Richardson and Len Garment held only minor interest for Spanish-
speaking. Drop-in by Julie was enthusiastically received. There
were minor confrontations with Cuban and Puerto Rican groups.
The California caucus was characterized by factionalism and internal
leadership disputes which resulted in a lack of unanimous support
for the proposed delegation statement.
In our Cuban press conference we discussed the President's position
on priority issues for Cubans.
In our meeting with New York Puerto Ricans we discussed New York's
Puerto Rican players and hierarchy; disparities in employment and
funding; effect of changing National priorities in New York. The
spokesman was Angel F. Rivera, OEO Regional Director for New York.
We were able to reach agreements on several key issues thus fur-
thering our campaign activities.
In a meeting with Ben Fernandez we discussed the poor image and
recent negative publicity of recent NHFC functions. We then
encouraged smaller and less extravagant affairs.
We met with Sally Willis, Mike Lesser and Bill Novelli, of the
November Group to review copy for Spanish-speaking direct mail
brochure and preliminary scripts for radio and television
commercials.
SPOKESMEN RESOURCES
We initiated the scheduling of caucuses for all the state delegations
during the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. In addition,
we scheduled speakers at the caucuses for Black, Spanish and Youth
delegates to the Convention. The caucus teams were made up of four to
five high-level Administration spokesmen from the Cabinet, Sub-Cabinet,
White House staff, and Independent Agency Heads. The purpose of the
caucuses was to give the delegates close contact with members of the
Administration and to provide the regional press with material for
release in their home states.
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We also scheduled high-level Administration spokesmen into press
conferences held each day during the Convention at 10:00 a.m. and
4:00 p.m. at the Doral Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida.
We scheduled a reception on behalf of Clark MacGregor for the
Chairmen of the State Committees for the Re-election of the
President who were in Miami for the Convention. The reception
was held at the Doral Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida.
We scheduled celebrities into the Clement Stone Reception, the
Caucus teams participating in the State delegation caucuses,
the Volunteer Reception, the Heritage Groups party, the Nomi-
nation Rally at Marine Stadium, the Victory Party at the
Americana Hotel, the Women's Achievement Brunch, the Worship
Service, the Nixon Navy Flagship, and the Convention Platform
for each session.
ADDENDUM -- AGRICULTURE
The agricultural platform was finalized at the Convention, and
reads very well. It provides the contrasts with the Democratic
farm platform that we had sought. Hyde Murray and others did a
fine job on the wording.
Our basic campaign pamphlet is on its way to our State Farm
Families for the President chairmen. So far the only criticism
of the pamphlet has come from Indiana, and we do not consider
that criticism to be valid. In general the pamphlet has been
very well received, though it will arrive too late for distri-
bution at many of the county fairs.
USDA announced that it will reduce export subsidies on wheat
within the next few days. This action will not be greeted
with enthusiasm by wheat farmers, and will undoubtedly be used
by McGovern in his campaign as evidence that the Nixon Admin-
istration really does not care about the nation's farmers.
Roy Battles of our staff has begun to work with farm organi-
zations in planning a major "Get out the Vote" appeal for late
October and early November. This will be done through news-
letters, magazines, letters, invoices, and any other available
means of written communications. The appeal will be made on a
non-partisan basis, of course, but the strategy is that it will
be of primary benefit to us since we should receive the support
of well over 50% of the recipients.
APPOINTMENTS & CLEARANCES
National Committee
State Chairmen
Appointed Cleared
Appointed Cleared
MOTORCYCLISTS
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22
OPTOMETRISTS
13*
13*
49
44
PHARMACISTS
12
12*
40
32
LIFE UNDERWRITERS
13*
13*
50*
35
SECURITIES
13*
8
23
9
VETERINARIANS
13*
12
49
43
SAVINGS & LOAN
12
5
27
12
HIGH PERFORMANCE
13*
13*
44
33
COMMERCIAL BANK
7
7
18
0
MUTUAL SAVINGS
1*
1*
5*
5*
114
90
340
235
Pilots - 19*
* - completed
0 - (Mail campaign - we are not doing state clearances on these)
bcc: L. Higby
COMMITTEE FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT
MEMORANDUM
September 15, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
CLARK MAC GREGOR
FROM:
JEB S. MAGRUDER
During our budget meetings is has become apparent that Maurice
Stans is having difficulty collecting on early pledges; in particular,
the ones that Herb Kalmbach has not been able to follow-up on.
In talking to a number of people about how we might be able to
alleviate this problem and possibly increase our contributions,
an idea was brought to my attention that I think has some merit.
We would schedule a dinner meeting in the near future for all of
those people that have pledged to contribute but have not completed
their contribution.
You and Stans could host the meeting which should attract most of
these people and possibly if the Vice President were available, he
could make a drop by, but the main purpose of the meeting would be
to show a series of our television commercials. I think we all agree
that these are outstanding and should attract tremendous interest.
At the end of the showing we should make a pitch that we will be
unable to show these commercials unless all of the pledges are
completed and even with all pledges completed, we may need additional
funding.
I feel that by doing this we would probably receive most of the
pledges and possibly raise an extra million dollars or more in funds.
California Committee
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for the Re-election
of the President 1670 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90017 (213) 484-1330
August 29, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR GORDON STRACHAN
FROM LYN NOFZIGER xn x
RE: Robert Moore
Here's a guy who ought to hear from the President.
Enclosure
BUS ATTACKED
Hippie Type
Rescues
Delegates
MIAMI BEACH (AP) - A
member of the South Carol-
ina delegation to the R epubli-
can National Conventi on re-
counted last night he ow a
heavy-set hippie type car. ne to
the delegates' rescue after
protesters blocked their but S.
The bus was stalled in tr af-
fic about six blocks from Con n-
vention Hall when demonstra-
tors swarmed around it, cut-
ting the radiator hose and
slashing the tires with knives.
The delegates and alter-
nates abandoned the bus af-
ter the overheated engine
died, delegate Gay Suber of
Columbia, S.C., said later.
Between the delegates and
the hall was a jeering crowd
of protesters, he said.
"One of our men was hit in
the jaw, another had his coat
ripped off his back, eggs
were hitting everybody and
things looked real bad until a
big black man who was
dressed the same as the hip-
pies stepped out in front of us
and told us to follow him,
Suber said.
'He picked up one fellow
by the neck and shook him
and threw him down and kept
others from getting at us. He
was big enough to manhandle
any of them," Suber said,
adding that the man identi-
fied himself as Robert Moore
of Columbus, Ga., a Vietnam
war veteran.
"He stayed with us all the
way until we got to the police
perimefer, and then he dis-
appeared."
#125
CALIFORNIA
GOP News Service
Angeles, CA 90017
Contact:
Jack Easton, News Director
September 8, 1972
(213) 484-8404
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"Last year the average American worked through April to pay all
the taxes his government forces him to pay," according to Arch Monson
of San Francisco, Northern California chairmen of the Business and
Industry Committee for the Re-election of the President.
"If George McGovern gets into office the American working man
can expect to work an additional month for Uncle Sam. The programs
McGovern is promising in his campaign speeches will cost the average
American family of four (based on the average wage of $12,500) more
than $1,000 in increased taxes.
"That means that the working American can expect to work the first
half of the year just to pay his taxes. And that does not take into
account all the wild ideas McGovern has in mind that he doesn't dare
talk about on the campaign trail.
"What it all adds up to is a whopping tax increase under a McGovern
administration. George McGovern's election truly means that the American
would no longer be the master of his own destiny-at least for the near-
ly half a year that the tax collector would be waiting for his pay-
check.
"McGovern's goldmine may sound like a great idea to his campaign
advisors, but it certainly is false hope for the person who is working
to pay those tax bills."
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California Committee
for the Re-election
of the President
1670 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90017 (213) 484-1330
MEMORANDUM
September 8, 1972
TO:
Nixon Chairmen
FROM: Al Donner for Jack Easton, Communications Director
RE:
Tax Increases Under McGovern
Enclosed are several news releases on the above subject. Please
try to place them in your local papers with local persons as the speakers.
Also enclosed is a package of materials detailing some of the tax increases
that would be necessary if George McGovern implements some of his programs.
The background material will help you and your speakers criticize
McGovern accurately for his many programs that create a demand for huge
tax increases. Let's make this feature of candidate McGovern well-known!
#126
- CALIFORNIA
GOP News Service
1670 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90017
Contact:
Jack Easton, News Director
DRAFT RELEASE FOR LOCAL USE
(213) 484-8404
"The average American family of four making $12,500 a year faces a
tax bill twice as big as it now pays if George McGovern becomes President,"
charged today.
"Just a partial tally of McGovern's proposals for new spending shows
that the American working man faces huge tax increases if McGovern gets
his fancy programs enacted,"
said.
"McGovern says there will be no new taxes if he becomes President,
but the fact is that everything he proposes is going to cost more -- money
that only is available in sufficient quantities in the paychecks of America's
working people.
"For example, he has endorsed a medical program that will cost an
additional $7.7 billion in higher payroll taxes -- and that is just a small
part of the $60 billion price tag for that one program,"
continued.
"McGovern's total package is difficult to determine, because he is
constantly revising his programs. But the effect of virtually all his
proposals is to raise taxes to intolerable levels,"
said.
"McGovern is clearly trying to pull the wool over the eyes of America's
working people. I don't think he will be successful at it. I think that
his double-talk will result in a landslide victory for President Nixon in
November."
-- 30 -
111
#127
CALIFORNIA
GOP News Service
1670 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90017
Contact:
Jack Easton, News Director
DRAFT FOR LOCAL USE
(213) 484-8404
"George McGovern thinks he has discovered gold. The trouble is,
he found it in the pay envelopes of America's working people."
That assessment was made today by
A
"McGovern is telling the American people what he thinks they want
to hear--big new programs-that are supposed to solve everything from
poverty to tooth decay!
"What he doesn't tell the American people is that virtually every-
thing he is proposing will cost billions of dollars more than the present
federal revenues.
"George McGovern has an answer to that, too. His answer is to tell
the American public before the election that he will close tax loopholes
and find enough money to pay for his programs, then discover after the
election that there really is not enough money to do the job.
"So he comes back to the old stand-by, the American working man
next January and taps the perennial source of money for big government pro-
grams.
"There is no doubt about it,"
emphasized.
"If McGovern enacts just half the programs he is proposing the American
working man will pay a much bigger piece of his income to the tax collector.
I predict that if just half of McGovern's big programs are enacted that the
average American working man will pay twice as much to the federal collector
as he is now. If
-- 30 --
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#128
CALIFORNIA
GOP News Service
1670 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90017
Contact:
September 8, 1972
Jack Easton, News Director
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(213) 484-8404
"George McGovern is trying to cover up the fact that his programs
would result in massive tax increases at all levels," Dr. William
(9-8)
Banowsky charged today. The president of Pepperdine University and
the Los Angeles chairman of the Committee for the Re-election of the
President said that "candidate McGovern has promised so much to so
many that the American people face massive tax increases if he becomes
President.
"Just a partial total of the McGovern proposals reaches over the
$100 billion mark in new money needed. Excluding welfare, he has made
miscellaneous proposals that will cost in excess of $90 billion--give
or take a few. He has endorsed a medical care program that will run
another $60 billion and his constantly changing welfare programs will
add many billions more," Banowsky noted.
"McGovern's much-touted defense slashes and tax law revisions will
only raise about $50 billion.
"There is no way Mr. McGovern can deliver half what he promises
without saddling the American people with massive tax increases. He
owes the American public an honest tally of just what his programs will
cost, and just how much the average American working man is going to
pay in higher taxes," Banowsky said.
"By my estimates the average family of four making about $12,000
a year will pay about $1,000 more in federal taxes under a McGovern
administration," Banowsky concluded.
-- 30 --
III
THE McGOVERN WELFARE/TAX SCHEME
AS REVISED FOR AUGUST
$1000 PER PERSON
-- There is no substantive change in Senator McGovern's $1000
per person no-work, giveaway, welfare scheme. A guarantee of $4000
per family of four still comes out to $1000 per person.
-- The Senator reiterated and reaffirmed his support for every
high-spending scheme he committed himself to in the McGovernite
platform of last month. The health insurance plan he has endorsed
would by itself cost $60 billion for which he makes no provision in
today's new tax program.
DANGEROUS DEFENSE CUTS
-- The American citizen loses from every standpoint from his
$32 billion proposed defense cut. First, gaining this new revenue would
be done at the sacrifice of America's security, making our nation second
to the Soviets, unable to maintain our essential defense and unable to
negotiate further arms agreements with the Soviets. Second, the supposed
added revenue would come from Senator McGovern's wiping out of $32
billion worth of defense-related industries - millions of jobs and billions
of dollars in lost wages.
2.
HIGHER TAXES
-- The McGovern proposals have overstated the facts and cannot
yield the amount of revenue he claims. For example, his proposal on
raising tax rates for capital gains would have to exempt property now
owned and purchased under the present tax laws. His phased program
of higher taxes would mean less revenues. Second, if full taxation was
to be made on capital gains, full tax losses would have to be allowed on
capital losses from such income -- reducing McGovern's projected
revenue gain much further. Third, a panic would be created in the
securities markets the likes of which we have not seen since 1929.
Investors would dispose of securities indiscriminately; the incentive to
invest would be taken away; and the effects would be felt throughout the
country in a pervading lack of confidence in the growth of our economy.
Finally, Mr. McGovern forgets that nearly 10% of all stocks are held
by pension funds plus that which is held by mutual funds and the insurance
industry. By removing capital gains treatment, he would threaten the
income of the entire pension fund system upon which the American working
man depends for his retirement -- not to mention the insurance policies
upon which his future may be staked. In short, the income-producing
ability of pension funds and other retirement vehicles would be stripped
away, driving into old-age poverty millions of workers.
3.
HALTING ECONOMIC GROWTH
-- Nearly $6 billion of the estimated revenue McGovern says he
will create would come from repealing provisions of the law enacted by
his colleagues in the Congress upon the recommendation of the President
to speed the growth of our economy. McGovern's plan would halt economic
growth.
-- McGovern says he will do away with the percentage depletion
allowance but then recognizes the national energy crisis and is prepared
to offer a subsidy for domestic oil production - so the net-revenue gain
McGovern foresces comes very possibly to zero. He can't have it both
ways.
***
WHAT IT MEANS:
More generally, what will McGovern's proposals mean to the
average American in a language that he can understand instead of in
the language of McGovern's Philadelphia lawyers and Washington economists?
The welfare rolls will swell. Millions of more Americans would go
directly on welfare -- paid for by the guy who always pays the welfare tab:
the middle-income American worker.
There is still no work requirement under McGovern's $1000 per
person program. To millions of Americans he is saying: don't worry,
you don't have to work; we'll give you $1000 per person and some other
American will work to pay you your welfare.
4.
Taxes. The too-high taxes at every level of Government would,
under George McGovern proposals, go sky-high. There is no other
way to pay for his comprehensive program of social engineering --
his public works programs, his guaranteed jobs, guaranteed welfare
and new subsidies.
Inflation. If Americans think they have inflation now, they need
only look forward to George McGovern's new soak-the-middle-class
scheme. Basic to the McGovern proposal is having the Government do
everything for everybody. More Government spending means more
inflation. More inflation is going to mean: higher food prices,
transportation costs, education costs, housing costs - - a general rise
in the price of everything Americans purchase. Everything for everybody
means more inflation for everybody.
IN SHORT:
What can be made of George McGovern's pilgrimage to Wall Street to
unveil his latest insult to the American public's intelligence?
-- McGovern's latest scheme means a permanent WPA program
with a permanent ever-expanding federal payroll; a program which
would dwarf the make-work programs of the dark Depression days. The
old CCC might become under McGovern, the WWW: The Workless Welfare
Wonders.
5.
-- McGovern's plan is a clear benefit to his running-mate Sarge
Shriver who, under present law, pays 73% of his income in federal taxes.
Under George McGovern's proposal, Mr. Shriver gets a tax reduction
of 25% - which no doubt means more yachts, tennis courts and Cardin
suits.
*** At the very time the galloping inflation which began in the mid-1960s
is coming under control, George McGovern announces that he, in effect,
with his high government spending schemes, puts increased inflation at
the top of his priority list. Too bad for Sarge Shriver; his 25% tax cut
would get wiped out by McGovern's guaranteed inflation.
-- In pure and simple terms, on August 29, 1972, George McGovern
announced his proposed wipe-out of the average American working man.
With his high tax and high welfare scheme, George McGovern would
seal the coffin on the guy who works hard, supports his family, pays
his taxes and is trying to get ahead. The McGovern policy is a stay-behind
policy not a get-ahead policy.
-- In the end it comes down to this: George McGovern has now
introduced three welfare plans within the last few months. Each one
guarantees millions of more Ameri cans on welfare and billions of more
dollars in high taxes. Just once, it is hoped that Senator McGovern will
climb the platform somewhere and announce his plan for the American
working man instead of new welfare plans to soak the working man.
Committee
for the Re-election
of the President
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alifornia Committee
for the Re-election
of the President 1670 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90017 (213) 484-1330
11 August 1972
To:
Clark MacGregor
From: Gordon Luce
I talked to Jeb Magruder today about a problem that further confirms
the need for coordination between Washington and our campaign leader-
ship in California.
Last week I received the attached memo from Jeb canceling the Presi-
dent's planned visit to San Diego after the convention. I was very dis-
appointed in light of Fred Malek's information about the President's
polls in Orange and San Diego County. The coming and going of the
National Convention along with the Arnholt Smith publicity this year in
San Diego have left scars which I'm sure affect the polls.
This week Bob Finch held a press conference (please note attached clip-
pings) and announced in San Diego that the President would probably
kick off his campaign here.' This has triggered new comment and anti-
cipation in the community and probably has caused the demonstrators
to start plotting all over again.
We are now in an awkward position = to cancel would hurt San Diego. If
we proceed, the "cat is out of the bag". The announcement also received
wide coverage in Los Angeles on radio and TV.
The Governor and I are both concerned that we are not given the oppor-
tunity to handle these critical events. I personally feel embarrased in
my own community since I kept this story confidential for several months,
made certain arrangements, and now find Finch's assistants are making
the plans. I suggest the following:
1)
That the Committee schedule an event for the President in
San Diego in the near future.
2)
That the Governor and I be the first to know and make the
announcement.
3)
That Bob Finch understand that such intrusions into our
campaign work run the risk of hurting the President's
chances in these areas as well as run the risk of disrupt-
ing future California campaigns.
- 1 -
To:
Clark MacGregor
11 August 1972
4)
That the Vice President consider September 16th, the nation-
wide kick off date, as a time for his appearance in this com-
munity.
We will still reelect the President in spite of.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Best regards,
Gordon C. Luce
GCL/glw
cc: Governor Ronald Reagan
Fred Malek
Jeb Magruder
Lyn Nofziger
Marvin Collins
Committee for the Re-election of the President
MEMORANDUM
August 21, 1972
CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
MR. GORDON LUCE an
JEB S. MAGRUDER
SUBJECT:
Special Event in California
Mr. MacGregor has asked me to respond to your memorandum to him
of July 21, regarding the kick off of the President's campaign
in San Diego in mid-September.
After a great deal of consideration and discussion, it has been
decided that there will no special event in San Diego during
the month of September.
CC: Governor Reagan
Mr. Robert Mardian
Mr. Frederic Malek
Mr. Lyn Nofziger
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San Diego, Wednesday, August 9. 1972
Nixon aide
REPEAT OF '68 CAMPAIGN HINTED-
Nixon indicates kickoff here
hints campaign
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
but the newsmen and staff would again
to start here
San Diego officials including Mayor
be housed in the San Diego area, Finch-
Wilson.
said.
By GEORGE DISSINGER
A nationally televised campaign kick-
"The President started out here suc-
EVENING TRIBUNE Politics Writer
off program is being considered for San
cessfully in 1968 and he would be miss-
President Nixon may come to San
Diego, Finch said.
ing a bet if he doesn't do it again," said
Diego after this month's Republican Na-
He said the President probably will
Albert Harutunian, San Diego business-
tional Convention as he did after the
stay about a week in Southern Cali-
man who is a strong Nixon supporter
1968 convention to launch his campaign
fornia after the convention before mak-
for reelection.
and friend of Finch.
ing a planned trip to Japan for confer-
If he does, there would be some ele-
ences with the new Japanese prime
The city could score a point by hav-
ments of sentiment and peace-making
minister.
ing newsmen come here directly from
with San Diego which suffered some
Finch said the planning for the Japa-
sweltering Miami Beach to "our gor-
disappointment when the national con-
nese trip will shape the proposed San
geous country," he said.
vention was switched to Miami Beach.
Diego program.
Nixon has called San Diego his
Nixon has been reported planning to
"lucky city" and some of his close sup-
hold a "political" press conference
porters said they believe he would like
shortly in Southern California after the
to start out here again on the campaign
convention. He has declined to answer
trail.
Presidential counsellor Robert H.
political questions until after he has
been nominated by the convention.
Finch, in San Diego for several speak-
ing engagements, said today Nixon has
Finch said the San Diego visit, if it is
indicated he wants to come here after
planed well, will make amends to the
the convention closes Aug. 23.
city for the manner in which the GOP
Finch said the decision probably will
convention was switched.
be made next week after conferences
Mayor Wilson took exception to some
involving the White House staff and
of the reasons given by GOP officials
for moving the convention. saying that
(Continued on page A-1, Col. 1)
San Diego was fully capable of hosting
it.
Finch said there is some concern that
some summer visitors to San Diego
might he displaced from hotel rooms
by the large media group and adminis-
tration officials who would accompany
the President here.
In 1963, Nixon spent a week here
right after the convention accompanied
by several hundred newsmen and staff
people, most of whom stayed at the
A-2
THE SAN DIEGO UNION
Thursday, August 10, 1972
Bahia Motor Hotel on Mission Bay.
This year, the President would prob-
ably stay at his home in San Clemente
AFTER CONVENTION
Nixon May Open Bid Here
President Nixon may make
If his appearance here
The President's visit here
his first "political" appear-
were properly planned and
could take the form either of
ance of the campaign in San
conducted it could help make
a public appearance before a
Diego, presidential aide Rob-
amends for the later decision
large audience or a major po-
ert Finch said yesterday.
to move the convention to
litical news conference.
The President is expected
Miami Beach, Finch soid.
"Of course, since it would
to fly to the Western White
be a presidential appearance
House in San Clemente im-
it would be nationally tele-
mediately after the Repubii-
vised." Finch said.
can National Convention in
POLITICAL QUERY
Miami Beach ends Aug. 23.
He will meet early in Septem-
The President has declined
ber in Hawaii with the new
to answer purely political
Japanese prime minister,
questions until after the con-
Kakuei Tanaka.
vention.
The campaign kickoff could
Finch said the decision on
come between these times.
the appearance here probably
will be made next week in
NOT DECISION
Washington. Preparations for
"He's indicated his desire
the meeting with Tanaka will
40 come here," Finch said.
influence the decision, he said.
But nothing has been de-
A former California lieuten-
cided yet."
ant governor and Nixon Cabi-
Mr. Nixon came to San
net member. Finch now is a
Diego for a rest and planning
domestic affairs adviser to
session after his nomination
the President. He answered
in 1968. He has called San
newsmen's questions before
Diego "my lucky city" and is
addressing the Phi Alpha
believed to have influenced
Delta law fraternity con-
Inct
to
wention of Town and Country