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From Buchanan to RN RE: the Vice President's campaign role. 4 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 8/24/1970
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46
25
8/24/1970
Campaign
Memo
From Buchanan to RN RE: the Vice
President's campaign role. 4 pgs.
46
25
7/9/1970
Campaign
Memo
From W. Ernst Minor, via Chapin, to
Haldeman RE: the Vice President's 1970
campaign participation. Handwritten note
added by Haldeman. 1 pg.
46
25
7/29/1970
Campaign
Memo
From Chapin to Minor RE: using the Vice
President at campaign fundraisers. 1 pg.
46
25
7/17/1970
Campaign
Memo
From Chotiner to Minor RE: the Vice
President's role at a Wisconsin fundraiser. 2
pgs.
46
25
7/9/1970
Campaign
Memo
From Minor, via Chapin, to Haldeman RE:
the Vice President's 1970 campaign
participation. 1 pg.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Page 1 of 1
THE WHITE HOUSE
per
WASHINGTON
Art
August 24, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
Patrick J. Buchanan
THE VEEP AND THE CAMPAIGN OF 1970
Given this Scammon Wattenburg thesis which I believe is
right on the mark for Democrats we are in serious danger of
being driven back to our minority party posture. Our needs seem
crystal clear,
1. We cannot allow the Democrats to get back on the right
side of the Social Issue. This they are attempting to do right now
with tough talk, etc. They have to be branded and the brand must
S tick as permissivists, as indulgent of students and black
rioters, as soft on crime. This can be accomplished with their
record in the last Congress I believe. But for us to contest
with them primarily on the Economic Issue Big Spenders, etc. --
as the major assault seems to me not a prescription for success.
Republicans for forty years have been tarring Democratic Congresses
with "Big Spender" labels, and Democrats have been winning those
Congresses, lo, these same Forty Years.
The focus should be on tarring them with "ultra-liberalism"
and "radicalism" especially on the Social Issue where we are strong
and they are weak,
2. Where are the swing voters in 1970? We must assume left-
wing Democrats are going for their Democratic Candidates and Repub-
licans are going for Republicans, come hell or high water. The swing
voters are thus Democrats law and order Democrats, conservatives
on the "Social Issue, 11 but "progressive" on domestic issues. This
is the Wattenburg thesis and I think it is basically correct. How
to conduct ourselves then.
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Tar the Democratic Leadership specifically with the "radical"
label on social policy; tar thein as well with the "obstructionist"
label on the President's programs for reforming society, for
getting America moving.
Frankly, we should go after the "Daley Democrats. 11 No one
can do this better than the Vice President but we cannot get these
voters by using rehashed Republican arguments or stale
Republican rhetoric.
"Big Spenders" is a theme that might work, will work, with
our Republicans we are using it in all our GOP literature but
will it have any real bite with the union guy to whom big spending may
mean the medicare for his mom or old man ? (Foot-dragging Congress"
does not seem charged with much electricity, either.)
3. Scammon contends that a hard-line on riots etc. by
Democrats may anger "liberals, 11 but liberals have no place to go
anyhow except the Democratic Party. Just so, regular Republicans
have no place to go in 1970 (no Wallace) but the GOP. So, let's
go straight after the Daley Democrats.
4. The Vice President should win these Democrats to the
Presidential banner by contending that RN is a progressive on
done stic policy blocked by "obstructionists" in the left-wing leadership
of the Democratic Party; that RN is a hard-liner on crime, drugs and
P ornography, whose legislation is blocked by "ultraliberals" in the
Senate who care SO much about the rights of the criminal that they
forget about the rights of society; that the President is a man
trying with veto after veto to hold down the cost of living but is
being thwarted by radicals and wild spenders who would, given the
chance, create the kind of in flation that would put Indonesia in its
heyday in the shade; that the President is a man in foreign policy
who is moving toward peace with honor but whose efforts are being
attacked and undercut by unilateral disarmers and isolationists
who think peace lies in an abject retreat from the world and the
dismantling of the army, navy and air force. This is said strong
but these I would think would be the ways the Vice President could
best appeal to the patriotic, hard-line pro-medicare Democrats whore
the missing element in the Grand New Party.
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5. There is move afoot to "low-key" the Vice President's
campaign in 1970 to have him focus specially on the local issue
and not seek the national publicity. There is DO conflict between
garnering national publicity and helping local Senate candidates
the two are thoroughly complimentary.
The Democrats see Scammon's book are only now coming
around to recognize what we knew in 1966 and 1968 that a strong
statement in Oregon is more effective in getting to voters in New Jersey
than a banal statement in Trenton, Tenafly, Newark and Elizabeth. The
way for the Vice President to help the Senatorial Candidate is to
praise him to the skies, fine but to hammer the national
Democratic leadership in a manner that will keep our big press
corps excited and with us, that will get network time every night if
possible with our message; and so help every Republican Senatorial
Candidate while we are helping the local one.
Right now the Agnew tour is getting tremendous publicity as the
potential best show in town. All we hav e to do to forfeit that national
P ublicity is run around talking about "cattle and oil" in Casper,
as has been suggested already. We ought to remember also, that
when we give up the television time on the networks someone
else, namely our Democratic friends, gets it.
Mike Mansfield says the Democrats have no one to compete
with the Veep on the hustings. We have a tremendous advantage here --
which we should use, not throw away by talking about local issues
that carry no national wallop.
We should have something topical and tough for the national
media every day. If the Vice President can raise the Republican
Administration a few points in the polls and the President by his
decisions and actions raise it several more the effect will be like
raising the water level and all the boats in the lake will risc at once.
A hard-hitting tough campaign can help bring home Senators and
Congressmen who live or die on a few national percentage points.
6. Clearly, fromthe Scammon book, we should tax the
Democrats as being not only the party of "bugout" but the party of
bussing, the advocates of "compulsory infogration, 11 the party whose
last Attorney General banged down the door in Chicago in order to
testify on behalf of the Chicago Eight, the leadership that let this
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country turn into the porno capital of the world, and is blocking
RN's effort to change that. Also, the Democratic leadership has
altered its historic foreign policy position to kow-tow to student
radicals who bully-ragged those same leaders in the streets of
Chicago, etc. The Democratic Leadership should be portrayed as
selling out to the crazies in their own ranks and selling out the
interests and views of the good patriotic Democrats who number in
the millions. We might even say LBJ was destroyed by the "ultra-
liberals" in his own party.
7. We should stay on the offensive, taken the "out" (and
offensive)position even though we are the "ins" (and defensive) by
hammering at the "liberal Eastern Establishment" that is responsible
for what has happened 1.0 America, the "Establishment" that is
frustrating our efforts to right the wrongs in Society, the Establishment
whose wards are tearing up the colleges, the Establishment that
indulges rioters, etc. (Of course, said in better phraseology, but
the need to be on the offensive, to act as "outs" seems to me vital.)
8. The Economic Issue, To get into a debate on whether or
not we are in a "recession" seems to me a utterly foolish idea
since the very discussion of "recession" is surely not going to help us
and since anyone who is hurt in the current economic situation is not
likely to be convinced he is not being hurt by anybody's rhetoric.
Rather than debate whether or not the investors and brokers and
unemployed are being hurt, let's go after the Democratic radicals
whose wild schemes are frustrating our efforts to stop the rise
in prices. This is the Big Spender theme but in different
rhetoric, tougher rhetoric, equating the Democrats with the same
kind of ultraliberalism in spending that they follow on the Social
Issue.
9. Finally, to change the Vice Presi dent now into the
traditional Republican campaigner is to change a winning strategy for
a losing one.
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CONFIDENTIAL
Dowe or
OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
do we not have
WASHINGTON
a lock on
DETERMINED TO BE AN
July 9, 1970 campaign
ADMINISTRATIVE MARKING
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E.O. 12065, Section 6-102
By emp NAR, Date 7-21-80
scheduling
MEMORANDUM FOR
THE HONORABLE H. R. HALDEMAN
VIA DWIGHT CHAPIN
SUBJECT: THE VICE PRESIDENT'S PARTICIPATION IN CAMPAIGN '70
The Vice President will commence campaigning approximately
September 9th or 10th with a motorcade and rally in
Springfield, Illinois, culminating with a speech on the
courthouse steps.
September - Mostly Fund Raisers with occasional Fat Cat
receptions and rallies. The following states are on my
schedule, although not all of them are committed:
Wyoming, Casper
California, San Diego
Nevada, Las Vegas
New Mexico, Albuquerque
Tennessee, probably Memphis
Indiana, Indianapolis
North Dakota, Minot
Utah, Salt Lake City
Maryland
Illinois, mentioned above
As per your memo of July 7th to Dwight, the Vice President
has no intention of going into Pennsylvania, New York or
Massachusetts, but I do have plans for the Vice President
to campaign in the state of Texas. If you have a contrary
opinion, I would appreciate knowing in the very near future,
before I get involved in further discussions.
October - Some dates committed, holding last three weeks.
Respectfully, E
W. ERNST MINOR
July 29, 1970
DETERMINED TO BE AN
CONFIDENTIAL
ADMINISTRATIVE MARKING
E.O. 12065, Section 6-102
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. ERNIE MINOR By Emp NARS, Date 7-21-80
FROM:
Dwight L. Chapin
RE:
The Vice President
Harry Dent informs me that at a political meeting the other
day the President emphasized the fact that he wanted the
Vice President to do fund-raisers in Wisconsin and Florida.
This parallels the information which we had from Bob
Haldeman. The other two States that he had mentioned to
Dent are Maryland (where I assume you are already cam-
paigning) and Texas. This should settle once and for all
the question on Texas. Obviously, the Vice President is
going to be used there. On these fund-raisers, he wants
them done for candidates and not for the party.
DLC:ny
MEMORANDUM
(
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 17, 1970
FOR:
ERNIE MINOR
FROM:
MURRAY CHOTINER
I am recommending that the Vice President do a fundraiser in
Wisconsin on either September 19 or 25. According to the
tentative schedule dated July 9, both dates are open. The reason
these are the two dates is that Wisconsin people have made a
deposit and have a hold on the Milwaukee arena and auditorium.
They anticipate raising $400, 000 with 3800 people. The funds
will be used for their various campaigns.
An acceptance should not be made on the basis that the Senate
race is a target state at this time. It is in the category of "wait
and see" as far as the Senate race is concerned.
However, this is the first time that the people of Wisconsin will
be voting for a Governor for a four-year term. Our candidate is
Lt. Governor Jack Olsen and his opponent will be former Lt.
Governor Pat Lucey (D).
Although we should hold our six out of ten Congressional Districts,
there may be difficulty in the First District held by Congressman
Henry Schadeberg (R), who only won by 50. 9% in 1968.
We are going to make an effort to pick up the 7 C.D. which was
won by David Obey (D) in a special election when Mel Laird came
into the Cabinet. Our candidate in this District is Andre LeTendre,
immediate past President of the Junior Chamber of Commerce,
who has met with the President concerning his running.
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Obey won the special election by 51. 5%.
Wisconsin has been good to us convention-wise, as well as in
elections.
I believe in reciprocity and the insurance of brownie points.
A decision does not have to be made until August 1.
bcc:
Mr. Haldeman
Mr. Rumsfeld
*
*
"
OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON
July 9, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR
THE HONORABLE H. R. HALDEMAN
VIA DWIGHT CHAPIN
SUBJECT: THE VICE PRESIDENT'S PARTICIPATION IN CAMPAIGN '70
The Vice President will commence campaigning approximately
September 9th or 10th with a motorcade and rally in
Springfield, Illinois, culminating with a speech on the
courthouse steps.
September - Mostly Fund Raisers with occasional Fat Cat
receptions and rallies. The following states are on my
schedule, although not all of them are committed:
Wyoming, Casper
California, San Diego
Nevada, Las Vegas
New Mexico, Albuquerque
Tennessee, probably Memphis
Indiana, Indianapolis
North Dakota, Minot
Utah, Salt Lake City
Maryland
Illinois, mentioned above
As per your memo of July 7th to Dwight, the Vice President
has no intention of going into Pennsylvania, New York or
Massachusetts, but I do have plans for the Vice President
to campaign in the state of Texas. If you have a contrary
opinion, I would appreciate knowing in the very near future,
before I get involved in further discussions.
October - Some dates committed, holding last three weeks.
Respectfully,
E
W. ERNST MINOR