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    "ocrText": "Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nContested Materials Collection\nFolder List\nBox Number\nFolder Number\nDocument Date\nNo Date\nSubject\nDocument Type\nDocument Description\n45\n36\n3/4/1971\nCampaign\nMemo\nTo: H.R. Haldeman From: Charles W.\nColson RE: \"New Hampshire Politics.\" 1pg\n45\n36\n2/25/1971\nCampaign\nLetter\nTo: H.R. Haldeman From Roger E. Ailes\nRE: Copy from the REPUBLICAN NEWS\nabout conspiracy to dump John Snyder as\nsoon as possible from the State\nChairmanship. 2pgs\nThursday, March 15, 2012\nPage 1 of 1\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\na\nWAEHINIPTON\nMarch 4, 1971\nEYES ONLY\nMEMORANDUM FOR:\nH. R. HALDEMAN\nFROM:\nCHARLES W. COLSON\nSUBJECT:\nNew Hampshire Politics\nI have been picking up, through old friends and political acquaintances, a\ngood bit of scuttlebut out of New Hampshire. There is a surprising lack\nof enthusiasm in New Hampshire for Muskie. Many of the top Democrate\nare committed to him publicly, but underneath they show very little real\nexcitement. The consensus is that he is by no means a runaway - notwith-\nstanding the fact that he comes from a neighboring state.\nRoger Crowley, Democratic candidate for Governor last time, and a\nconservative, is leaning heavily towards Jackson. He refuses to say he is\nagainst Muskie, but he is going around the state saying very positive things\nabout \"Scoop\". The Manchoster Union Leader is strongly anti-Muskie, as\nyou would well imagine. Many Democrats seem to approve of the Presidents\nhandling of the war.\nMcGovern had a reasonably successful trip with the intellectuals and the New\nLeft, of which there is a significant bloc in New Hampshire. He will have\nthat vote solid (could be as high as 25%). If any kind of boomlet develops for\n\"Scoop\", Muskie is in very serious trouble because the Democratic Party\nin New Hampshire has historically nominated rather conservative Democrate\nlike Crowley and King.\nThe foregoing is just for your information. Some of it was, surprisingly\nenough, even reported in the Boston Globe this last week - the tenor being\nthat Muskie is not really generating any enthusiasm.\nThe only line which our political operatives should get out at every possible\nopportunity is that Muskie will, of course, sweep New Hampshire because lie\nis from Maine. People should expect that he will carry 90% of the vote. If\nhe does much less as it would now seem, the letdown could destroy his\nnational posture.\nEYES ONLY\n3 PRODUCTIONS INC. 888 Eighth Avenue. Suite 7F New York. New York 10019\nNew York 212-765-3022 Washington 202-544-6449\nFebruary 25, 1971\nCONFIDENTIAL\nMr. H. R. Haldeman\nChief of Staff\nWHITE HOUSE\nWashington, D. C.\nDear Bob:\nIt was good talking with you this morning. I think the\nleast they could do is give 09 royalties from that rock\nmusical \"Selling of The President\". I'll let you know\nhow things go with Senator Dola and the National\nCommittee. I'm anxious to get started down there. Also,\nI would like to work on any other officials you might suggest\nwho have the job of selling the President's proposed legis-\nlation to the Nation via TV.\nEnclosed is a copy from the Republican News which, I\nbelieve, is the party paper in Indiana. I thought you might\nbe interested in it. Don Tabbert, the man mentioned, is\nGovernor Whitcomb's closest adviser, although I understand\nhe takes his orders from Robert Matthews, former State\nChairman. Matthews was and reportedly still is Reagan's\nmidwest director over eleven states. I was told he is one\nof five men who had walkie-talkies on the floor working\nfor Reagan in the 1968 convention. He apparently continues\nto meet, along with various members of the Indianapolis\nlaw firm of Sparrenberger DuVall Tabbert and Lalley, with\nReagan-Birch people from across the country at O'Hare\nin Chicago on a regular basis. Apparently there is a\nconspiracy to dump John Snyder as soon as possible from\nthe State Chai manship by using the Governor's power to\nthreaten patronage jobs. If this happens, the feeling is\nthat President Nixon will have an extremely difficult\nuphill fight in Indiana and it will be played up nationally\nas a slap in the face to Nixon since he got such a plurality\nit\nin\nhad\nMurray Chotiner on this problem, and that Chotiner was up\nto date on it. I mentioned this to Bob Finch and gave him\nMr. H. R. Haldeman\npage 2\na memorandum on it when I talked with him about a youth\nstudy. Enclosed is the clipping from the Indianapolis\nStar that I had my man in Indiana send me. If there is\nanything you would like me to do in this regard, please\nlet me know. My contacts are good and I can find other\nreasons for being in Indiana as a cover.\nI will have ready this week a report that Attorney\nGeneral Mitchell asked me to prepare on Lyndon Johnson's\nuse of TV in 1964. So you might want to take a look at\nthat. I had to get some outside research done on it to\nkeep my identity down which amounted to Two or Three\nHundred dollars. I'm still trying to talk Martha\nMitchell into doing a talk show, and I still think it is\nan excellent idea as does Paul Keyes. Dick Moore and\nperhaps Herb Klein seem to be trying to kill the project.\nShe has made several appearances and will continue to\nmake appearances anyway, and it just seems to me that\nshe can be a tremendous asset in terms of color to the\nadministration as long as we have some form of control.\nI have a deal worked out for distribution by 20th Century\nFox Television. I'd appreciate a good word from you to\nJohn Mitchell privately if you agree with me.\nThanks for all your help with the RNC. I'll keep you\nup to date on what's happening there. Bill Carruthers\nnever got in touch with me so I assume everything is\ngoing well with TV. I sent him a letter offering my help\nand just got a one-line response back. I still think it\nwould be a good idea to coordinate between the RNC,\nyour office and Klein's office so that we can get a focus\non pro-administration spokesmen using television now\nthrough the 1972 election. l'll be in touch with you\nsoon.\nBest regards,\nROGER Kager\nPresident\nREA:hjs\nEncls."
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