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Telegram from MacGregor to Campaign
Headquarters RE urging vigilance. 4 pgs.
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10/26/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Khachigian to Haldeman RE: going on
the attack. 6 pgs.
47
42
10/24/1972
Campaign
Report
Statement for Senator Dole RE: upcoming
McGovern address on the subject of morality
in government. 26 pgs.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
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Telegram from Clark mac fregon
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40 Campaign Handguarten, with
attached droft copy
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memo
rhachigian to Haldeman, re:
10/26/72
[Doc 11]
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suffering in silence, with attached
[Doc 12]
draft copy
attachent :
Itandwritter notes "Veep-
memo to HRH 10/25/72,
n.d.
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Spach
Statement for Senator Dale, u!
10/24/TIC
(min)
[Doc 13]
me Honen d morality in
government, with attached
draft copy
N-4
memo
Ghachigian to Buchama, re!
10/21/72
comps
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last two weeks, with attached
draft copy
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Regist
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Report
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10/20/72
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Havoluritten me. Telecon 10/12/72,
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2:40 p.m. Poger thilds
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October 26, 1972
TELEGRAM FROM CLARK MACGREGOR TO CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS
Though you have received from me an earlier warning as to what
to expect in the final days of this election campaign, I wish to urge
even greater vigilance in the days ahead. The McGovernite movement
is desperate. They are faced with one of the most massive repudiations
in American electoral history, and as I reported in my memo of
October
, there has already been a resort to violence in order to
make silent the New Majority.
In the next few days you can expect some of the most vicious
smears ever used in any campaign. The McGovernites already have
planned to use every trick in the book they wrote on smear politics.
The McGovernites will throw forth phony "sabotage" charges as
cover-ups to their own attempts at political subversion. We know for
a fact that McGovernites are frantically going around asking people
to say they were saboteurs for the Republicans and then having these
fakes pass off their stories to senation-seeking reporters. These
are totally false stories.
The McGovernites also plan to enlist hordes of radicals to use
every conceivable means to harass and disrupt Republican election
eve and election day activities. For example, they will attempt to
Page 2
invade and disrupt our telephone bank operations to make it
impossible for us to complete our final canvassing. Take extra
precautions to protect your telephone facilities. Also be prepared
for the McGovernites to engage in self-inflicted operations and then
scream sabotage at the Republicans. It is a tactic fully expected.
Watch for election irregularities on election day. The McGovernites
are in all likelihood going to engage in disruptions at the polls and
make every attempt to keep the Nixon vote down.
In his speech on morality in government delivered on October 25th,
Senator McGovern referred to a "Washington peace gathering" and complained
of the arrests which were made. This so-called "gathering" was the
infamous May-Day Demonstration shoe purpose was to close down the
United States Capital. It was sponsored by the Trotskyite Peoples'
Coalition for Peace and Justice and would have turned the capital
into a trash bin were it not for Washington's men in blue. But if
Senator McGovern can refer to this riotous affair as a "peace
gathering, 11 he and his radical followers would do anything to make
the last days of the election campaign a shambles.
We are dealing with professionals who in their desperation will use
every source at their command. Please exercise extra skill and care to
continue our work to keep the greatest President we have ever had.
The time is now more than ever.
10/26/72
TELEGRAM FROM CLARK MACGREGOR TO CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS
Though you have received from me an
earlier
warning
as to what to expect in the
final days of
this election campaign, I wish to urge
even greater
vigilance in the days ahead. The McGovernite movement
is desparate. They are faced with one of the massive
and
repudiations in American electoral history, /as I reported
in
my memo of
October
there
has been a resort
to violence in order to make silent the New Majority
In the next few days you can expect some of
the
most vicious smears ever used in any campaign. The
McGovernited already have planned to use
every trick
in the book they wrote on smear politics.
The McGovernites will throw forth phony "sabotage" charges
as cover-ups to their own
attempts
at political
subversion. We know for a fact that McGovernites are
frantically going around asking people to say they were
saboteurs for the Republcians
and then having these
sensation-
fakes pass off their stories to
seeking reporters.
These are totally false stories.
The McGVernites alao plan to enlist hordes of radicals
to use every conceivable means to harass and
dismupt
REpublican
election eve and elecation day
activities.
For
example, they will attempt to invade and disrupt our telephone
bank operations to make it impessible for us to complete our
Page 2
invade and disrupt our telephone bank operations to make it
impossible for us to complete our final canvassing. Take extra
precautions to protect your telephone facilities. Also be prepared
for the McGovernites to engage in self-inflicted operations and then
scream sabotage at the Republicans. It is a tactic fully expected.
Watch for election irregularities on election day. The McGovernites
are in all likelihood going to engage in disruptions at the polls and
make every attempt to keep the Nixon vote down.
In his speech on morality in government delivered on October 25th,
Senator McGovern referred to a "Washington peace gathering" and complained
of the arrests which were made. This so-called "gathering" was the
infamous May-Day Demonstration shoe purpose was to close down the
United States Capital. It was sponsored by the Trotskyite Peoples'
Coalition for Peace and Justice and would have turned the capital
into a trash bin were it not for Washington's men in blue. But if
Senator McGovern can refer to this riotous affair as a "peace
gathering, 11 he and his radical followers would do anything to make
the last days of the election campaign a shambles.
We are dealing with professionals who in their desperation will use
every source at their command. Please exercise extra skill and care to
continue our work to keep the greatest President WC have ever had.
The time is now more than ever.
10/26/72
TELEGRAM FROM CLARK MACGREGOR TO CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS
Though you have received from me an
earlier
warning
as to what to expect in the
final days of
this election campaign, I wish to urge
even greater
vigilance in the days ahead. The McGovernite movement
is desperate. They are faced with one of the massive
and
repudiations in American electoral history,
/as I reported
in
my memo of
October
there
has been a resort
to violence in order to make silent the New Majority
In the next few days you can expect some of
the
most vicious smears ever used in any campaign. The
McGovernited already have planned to use
every trick
in the book they wrote on smear politics.
The McGovernites will throw forth phony "sabotage" charges
as cover-ups to their own
attempts
at political
subversion. We know for a fact that McGovernites are
f rantically going around asking people to say they were
saboteurs for the Republcians
and then having these
sensation-
fakes pass off their stories to
seeking reporters.
These are totally false stories.
The McGVernites alao plan to enlist hordes of radicals
to use every conceivable means to harass and
dismupt
REpublican
election eve and elecation day
activities.
For
example, they will attempt to invade and disrupt our telephone
bank operations to make it impossible for us to complete our
page 2
final canvassing. Take extra precausions to protect your
telephone facilities. Also be prepared for the
McGovernites
to engage in self-inflicted
operations and then scream
sabotage at the Republicans. It is a tactic fully expected.
Watch for election irregularities on election day.
The McGovernited are in all likelihood going to engage in
disruptions at the
polls and make every attempt to
keep the Nixon vote down.
In his speech on morality in government delivered on
October 25th, Senator McGovern referred to a "Washington
peace gathering and complained of the arrests which were
made. This so-called gathering was the infamous May-Day
Demonstration whose purpose was to close down the United
States Capital. It was sponsored by the Trotskyite Peoples'
Coalition for Peace and Justice and would have turned the
capital into a
trash bin were it not for
X
Washington men in blue. But if Senator
McGovern can refer to this riotous
affair as a "peace
gathering, " he and his radical followers would do anything to
make the last days of the election campaign a shambles.
We are dealing with professionals who
in their des-
peration will use every source at their
command. Please
exercise extra skill and care to continue our work to keep the
greatest President we have ever hand. The time is now more
than ever.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 26, 1972
POLITICAL MEMORANDUM
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H.R. HALDEMAN (Per Buchanan)
FROM:
KEN KHACHIGIAN
We have suffered in silence long eough. It's time to come out fighting.
There is the distinct appearance that we are acquiescing by our denials and
no comments. We need to go on the attack and to do it hard. It is time for
the same type of speech that Ed Muskie delivered in 1970 this time coming
from the Veep -- with a big build-up.
McGovern and the left, aided and abetted by the POST et al. are out to
destroy the President. They know they will lose and are going down as irres-
ponsibly as they can. But if this stuff sticks -- per McGovern's speech last
night -- they have it in their power to make the President a lame duck on
November 8th. Not by defeating RN, but by so undercutting his integrity and
authority that they will have effectively destroyed his ability to govern. Either
we turn that around, or the next four years are going to be unbearable.
Recommendation: The Veep goes on national television with a very low
key, but though, speech which Buchanan and I. can collaborate on. The theme
is that the McGovernites in their desperation are lying, maligning honorable
men, and engaging in the worst kind of divisiveness for their selfish personal
gain. Their goal is no less than the destruction of the President with lies and
demogoguery.
There need only be about five minutes of defensive stuff. Then we launch
into a major, devastating attack which could turn this whole thing around over-
night. McGovern won't be expecting it, and it could take him days to recover.
We now have the laundry list of McGovern immorality and corruption, the
bribes in his campaign, the smear tactics he used in 1962, 1968, and the smears
today, the quashing of the Bobby Baker inquiry, the brand new car he got, the
1968 campaign where he didn't reveal his secret contributors, the nepotism on his
own payroll, etc. Frankly, all these, taken together, could make McGovern
shrivel in hypocrisy.
Then we go through all the issues that McGovern is trying to cover up -- the
welfare, defense, and high budget stuff, plus his total surrender to North Vietnam
and finally all his irresponsible statements on J. Edgar Hoover, etc. It could break
his back.
I am perfectly aware that they think this is their issue, but we have enough now
to make it our issue. The risk is two or three points in the polls, but the gain
Page, 2
is our own integrity and keeping RN's ability to govern. Done right, this
01 1..11 hour could utterly destroy Magoo, and we ought to be willing to
take the chance and go with it.
POLITICALE MEMORANDUM
10/26/72
MEMORANDUM FOR MRX H.R. HALDEMAN (Per Buchanan)
FROM: KEN KHACHIGIAN
time x
We have suffered in silence long enoughz.
out
fighting
&
There is the distinct
appearance that we are ********* acquiescing by our denials
and no comments. We need to go on the attack and to do
it hard. It is time for the same type of speech that Ed
Muskie delivered in 1970 this time
coming from the
with a big build-up.
Veep
If
question,
there
Я
McGovern
and the left,
aided and abetted by the POST et al. are out
to destroy the President. They know they will lose and
are going down as irresponsibly as they can. But xs if this
stuff sticks -- per McGovern's speech last night -- they
have it in their power to make the President a lame duck
on November 8th. Not by defeating RN, but by so undercutting
his integrity and authority that they will have effectively
destooyed his ability to govern. Either we turn that around
or the next four years are going to
be unbearable.
recommendation The Veep goes on national
television with a very low key speech
page 2
which Buchanan and I can collaborate on. The theme is
that the McGovernites in their desperation are lying,
honorable men, maligning
engaging
ink the worst kind of
divisiveness for their selfish
pessonal gain. Their goal is no less than the destruction
of the President
S with
lies and
damogoguery.
There need only be about five mintues of defensive
stuff. Then we
launch into a major, devastating
attack which could turn this whole thing around overnight.
McGovern won't be expecting
and it
take him days to
We now have the laundry list of McGovern immorality and
corruption, the bribes in his campaign, the smeak tactics he
used in 1962, 1968 and
the smears today, the quashing of
the Bobby LBaker inquiry, the
brand new car he got,
the 1968 campaign where he didn't reveal his secret contributors,
the nepotism on his own payroll Frankly, all these,
taken together,
make McGovern shrivet in hypocrisy.
Then we
go tthough all the issues
that McGovern is trying to cover up -- the welfare, defense,
high budget stuff, plus his total surrender to North Vietnam
and
finally all his irresponsible statements on
J. Edgar Hoover, etc. It
break his back.
I am perfectly aware that they think this is their issue,
page 3
but we have enough now to make it our issue. The risk is
two or three points in the polls, but
the gain is our
RN'S
own integrity and keeping
ability to govern.
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Done right,
this one half hour could
utterly
destroy
and we ought to be willing to take
the
and go with it.
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October 24, 1972
STATEMENT FOR SENATOR DOLE
Senator McGovern, who tonight addresses the American public
on the subject of morality in government, possesses one of the
shabbiest records of morality in government of any presidential
candidate in history. The McGovern record is replete with shady
deals, questionable campaign tactics, blatant examples of impropriety,
hypocrisy and disrespect for the American political process.
When the white knight gets up tonight, he will be doing so with full
knowledge that if but half of his record were known, he would not dare
go before the public in an act of pious sermonizing.
Until Senator McGovern answers each and every charge I am
outlining today, his credibility as a moralist cannot be respected.
In short, Senator McGovern has pulled one of the greatest whitewashing
acts in political history with his posturing on the subject of morality
in government. We are laying out that record today -- with the bark off - -
so the American public can see George McGovern for what he really is,
an opportunistic politician who has engaged in one of the dirtiest political
campaigns ever to cover up a record full of questionable conduct.
While George McGovern takes up the hatchet tonight, the American
public has the right to know the truth about the following subjects:
-- Henry Kimelman, Senator McGovern's chief fund-raiser, closest
political adviser, and personal confidante, is a multimillionaire who was
caught up in conflict-of-interest charges resulting from his tenure as
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personal assistant to former Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall.
Kimelman made his fortune: in real estate transactions in the Virgin
Islands. It is no accident that Udall was in charge of Virgin Islands
affairs as Secretary of the Interior.
During his last year in office, Udall made a decision which
directly benefited Mr. Kimelman. He approved a site in the Virgin
Islands for a new airport to take over the traffic from St. Thomas'
present landing field, Harry S. Truman airport. As reported in the
Washingtonian magazine in its August, 1972 issue: "Kimelman and
his family own a 275 - acre tract of potentially prime residential land
at Brewer's Bay, uncomfortably close to the Harry S. Truman Airport.
Its development possibilities would be greatly enhanced were HST
located elsewhere. 11
Kimelman participated in the decisions to abandon the HST Airport
and thus was directly involved in a massive conflict-of-interest, the
resolution of which would make him an even more wealthy man. It
was only when the Nixon Administration took over that the Udall
decision was revoked and Kimelman was denied the fruits of his
profiteering.
Now Mr. Kimelman is involved at the highest levels of the
McGovern campaign, and Senator McGovern has never repudiated Kimelman
for his direct activity in bilking the taxpayers for personal profit.
Page 3
Instead, Senator McGovern accepts tens of thousands of dollars from
Kimelman and has frequently vacationed at Kimelman's palatial
estate in the Virgin Islands -- making one wonder whether Senator
McGovern knows immorality in government when he sees it.
-- Moreover, Henry Kimelman, the wheeling-dealing, Virgin
Islands land manipulator is also a trustee for Senator McGovern's
blind investment trust. Of great interest is the fact that Kimelman
liquidated the trust and converted all stock holdings into cash and
bonds soon after it appeared Senator McGovern would win the
nomination and just prior to the fall of the "McGovern Market" in
May, 1972.
-- The moralist, George McGovern, has also yet to make public
comment on the many apparent violations discovered in his fund-raising
activities by the General Accounting Office. The McGovern activities
are riven with the lack of proper records, improper receipt of funds
from foreign nationals and inadequate identification of sponsors of
a political newspaper advertisement. Senator McGovern's great
concern for morality in government should also extend to the dummy
committees his campaign operation set up to help Playboy magazine
publisher, Hugh Hefner, to avoid gift taxes on his hugh. contributions
to McGovern.
Page 4
-- Senator McGovern has failed to comment on what very
reliable sources say to be his participation in one or more highly
leveraged tax shelter deals involving foreign-made films,
many of them produced as "sexploitation" films. It has been
revealed to me by extremely reliable sources that Mr. McGovern
is sheltering his income by taking accelerated depreciation on these
foreign-produced films.
-- The same Senator McGovern who will be heardtonight attacking
morality in government in most likelihood will not discuss his own
permissiveness towards the trend of immorality in American life. In
an interview in Playboy magazine, August, 1971, Mr. McGovern was
asked for his views on traditional moral values. His direct response:"
"As for the change in sex mores, I'm not particularly concerned
about it. 11 It is no surprise, then, that Senator McGovern was one
of only five U.S. Senators in 1970 who voted against a Senate
Resolution rejecting the findings of the Commission on Obscenity and
Pornography. Senator McGovern's moralism, therefore, puts him on
the permissive side of the smut-peddlers who are polluting the
mails with their trash.
-- As a bomber pilot in World War II, Senator McGovern was
reported to have direct knowledge of two instances of war crimes, but
never reported them to the authorities. According to Robert Sam Anson
in his official biography on McGovern (McGovern: A Biography,
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972), McGovern heard two fighter pilots
Page 5
brag of shooting two Italian civilians off a bridge. McGovern did
not report what he heard to the authorities. On another occasion,
McGovern's own bombardier destroyed a farmhouse during a jettison of
the planc's bomb load in what one of McGovern's bomber crew described
as "cold-blooded murder. 11 When McGovern was told about this action,
he merely took the bombardier off his crew, but, again, did not report
it to authorities. The man who is all to quick to accuse Americans in
Vietnam of war crimes is on record as not reporting two of which he
had direct knowledge.
-- Senator McGovern's piety and moralism might also well be
questioned with regard to his performance during the political assassina-
tion of Tom Eagleton. While McGovern promised Eagleton in private
that he would have a chance to make his case before the country, the
McGovern staff was leaking telegrams to the press and engaging in
one of the most vicious back-stabbing operations ever reported. While
Tom Eagleton fought for his political life, McGovern table-hopped with
reporters in South Dakota laying heavy hints that Eagleton was to go
into the tank. The great moralist thus engaged in one of the most
duplicitous stiletto operations of political history. Yet he has the gall
to accuse someone else of immoral activities.
The moralist McGovern has also forgotten his moral principles
when it comes to campaign tactics. Senator McGovern, unfortunately,
has a long public record of dirty campaigning as reported in his biography
Page 6
and as recorded in today's newspapers daily. Robert Anson reported
that McGovern's victorious race for the Senate in 1962 was marred
by whispering campaigns against his opponent, Joe Bottum. Bottum was
falsely accused by McGovern campaign agents of belonging to a
variety of right-wing organizations -- from the Minutemen on down.
McGovern and his people also started the absolutely false rumor that
his opponent and wife were alcoholics. Scurrilous cartoons were
printed up with this vicious campaign lie as the main theme. Senator
McGovern never has apologized for his behavior in that campaign.
Senator McGovern in his race against Senator Karl Mundt, one
of the most honorable men in the Senate, said of Mundt: "I hated his
guts. 11 As reported by his biographer, McGovern went further to say:
"I hated him so much I lost my sense of balance. " This from the
man whose hallmark is decency and moralism.
And today, the dirty canp aign still continues with McGovern
likening the President of the United States to the hated dictator
Adolph Hitler. How moral is that, Senator McGovern? And McGovern
has put forth totally defamatory charges that the Republican party is
like the Ku Klux Klan. Without an ounce of proof, Senator McGovern
made the "white sheet" charge in what can be described as of the dirtiest
campaign tactics I've ever known. As reported in the Washington Post
on October 7, 1972, McGovern was asked what the proof was for
his charges, and he replied: "You'll just have to take it on my word.
11
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A gross slander, like the other McGovern campaign slanders, is
made with no more proof than that we must take the word of it man whose
a ptitude for distortion is remarkable.
-- George McGovern, the moral crusader, campares the late
murderous North Vietnamese dictator, Ho Chi Minh, to the father
of our country, George Washington, and then in his great moral
posturing asks us to join him in turning 17 million South Vietnamese
peasants over to a Communist bloodbath.
-- - - In George McGovern's re-election campaign in 1968, the
McGovern biography reports, McGovern's campaign bribed a man
called Chief Eagle Feather to experience a "vision" that McGovern
would win the election. In South Dakota, where the vote of American
Indians is quite important, McGovern used bribery to influence the
Indian vote with the Chief's visions and also provided buffalo and
steak feeds to all Indians who voted for Senator McGovern.
-- It has also been widely reported that the AFL-CIO advanced
-
George McGovern $30,000 to help pay for a recount in the 1962 South
Dakota Senate race. After the money helped insure his Senate
victory, McGovern then reneged on his promise to organized labor
to vote for repeal of section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act. The issue
was not the legislation, but whether or not the moral McGovern could
keep his word. According to George Meany, Mr. McGovern did not
keep his word.
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-- According to Ralph Nader's recent book, "Who Runs
Congress" Senator McGovern listed total expenditures for his
1968 re-election campaign as "none. " Mr. McGovern knows that
this is a patent falsehood; he also knows he was making full use of a
loophole in the old campaign law. But today he travels the country
bragging how open he is with regard to campaign contributions but has
never told the public about his secret campaign slush fund of 1968 --
the thousands of dollars which never showed up on the official contribution
lists.
- One wonders what moral attachment Senator McGovern holds
for the fact that his campaign headquarters in Los Angeles was used to
drum up publicity for riotous anti-war activities upon President Nixon's
visit to Los Angeles less than three weeks ago? Is it morality, Mr.
McGovern, to allow your campaign staff to actually threaten the
security of the Presi dent of the United States by whipping up organized
crowds of demonstrators? Is it fair political play? Will you explain
this to the American public in your address on morality in government?
-- Was it moral, Senator McGovern to announce your candidacy for
the Senate in South Dakota on April 18, 1962 and then stay On the federal
payroll as Food for Peace Director until July 17, 1962? Senator
McGovern was a candidate for Senator for 93 days before he resigned
his $21,000 a year federal job and spent 46 of those days in South
Dakota campaigning. Does this match up to the Senator's strict code
of ethics and heavy moralism?
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-- Jack Anderson reported on February 6, 1971 that Senator
McGovern exchanged a used Chevrolet for a brand new Pontiac in 1965
without paying any difference in cost. McGovern arranged the deal
through a Minneapolis business friend who paid the difference out
of his own pocket. Senator McGovern told Anderson that he treated
the whole affair as a "gift from a friend. " Is this the same type
of moral attitude in government we can expect from a President
McGovern?
-- It is also of great note that Senator McGovern voted in 1964 to
whitewash the Bobby Baker scandal as reported in the Rapid City (S.D.)
Journal of May 17, 1964. When the minority on the Senate Rules Committee
proposed to request witnesses to testify in the Baker case, McGovern
voted to turn down the request. There is not a little bit of irony in
the fact that Senator McGovern has traveled the country inveighing against
scandals but voted to pull the curtain over the major scandal of
the 1960's. Senator McGovern also opposed a motion to inquire further
into the finances or business interests and activities of members and
employees of the Senate. Now we know why. We wonder just what
Mr. Morality in Government had to hide.
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-- On March 9, 1967 the Washington Daily News reported that
Senator McGovern proposed that a committee on congressional ethics
be established to "consider cases of possible unethical conduct by
the members. " It's a good thing Mr. McGovern didn't propose
the same thing in 1959 when his brother-in-law Robert Pennington was
taken onto the McGovern Congressional Staff payroll while holding
down a job teaching history at Dakota Wesleyan University. In this
gross abuse of epotism, Mr. Pennington was a $8667-a-year employee
of his brother-in-law while pulling down a $4365-a-year job at Dakota
Wesleyan University. It was interesting that Mr. Pennington could work
nights and weekends for Senator McGovern and accept the taxpayers'
money for a substantial sum of money. After this impropriety was
uncovered in the Washington Daily News of April 17, 1959, McGovern
wrote hiş constituents back home, as reported in the Mitchell Republic
of April 21, 1959, that he regarded the practice of nepotism as "unethical. "
Is this what McGovern means by morality in government?
-- On April 19, 1963 the Washington Post reported that Senator
McGovern accepted a campaign contribution from Washington lobbyist
John A. O'Donnell who was promoting passage of the Phillipines
War Damage Act. Senator Fulbright at the time charged that "the
legislative process has been subverted" by the O'Donnell campaign and
that O'Donnell was unduly enriched by his activities on behalf of the
Phillipines. According to the Post article the campaign fund was for
"friendly Congressmen. 11 One wonders where this campaign contribution
fits in to Mr. McGovern's pious campaign against the "special interests. "
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- - Finally, one has to return to the Daniel Ellsberg case
to point out the ultimate in hypocrisy by Senator George McGovern.
Apparently, Mr. McGovern believes that just about everything is
immoral except for encouraging the publication of stolen top secret
government documents. It is a part of the public record that
George McGovern encouraged Ellsberg to take the stolen "Pentagon
Papers" to the New York Times and other publications. While
McGovern cries crocodile tears over a few pizzas sent to a Muskie
fundraiser, he always avoids public mention of his complicity with
Daniel Ellsberg's violation of federal law. This moral double
standard of McGovern' S is perhaps the grossest of indecencies
on the eve of his address to the nation on morality in government.
One wonders whether George McGovern as President of the
United States would think it "moral" to turn over highly classified
national security documents to the national media on a regular basis.
So while Senator McGovern preaches morality tonight, he might
well wake up tomorrow morning and explain to the American public his
attitude regarding his personal acts of questionable morality. Was it
moral, Senator, to encourage the leakage of top secret documents to
the press? Was it moral to engage in nepotism in the Congress? Was
it moral to accept the gift resulting in a brand new automobile from
your "friend?" Was it moral to engage in whispering and hate campaigns
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against your political opponents? Was it moral to bribe voter
support in your re-election contest of 1968? Was it moral to allow
your headquarters to be used to ship up potentially violent activity
against the security of the President of the United States ? These
and many other questions must be answered by George McGovern.
I hope he will re-tape his morality in government broadcast to
include these answers. But I fear we are going to get nothing but
massive cover-up activities to gloss over a record of highly
questionable conduct in personal and political affairs.
STATEMENT FOR SENATOR DOLE
10/24/72
Khachifian
drapt
Senator McGovern, who tonight addresses the American
public on the subject of Morality in Government, possesses
one of the
shabbiest
records of morality
in government of any pre sdential candidate in history.
The McGovern record is replete with shady deals, questionable
campaign tactics, blatant
examples of impropriety,
and
disrespe
for the American
political process.
When the white knight gets up
togight, he will be
doing
so with full knowledge that if but half of
his
record were known,
he
would not dare go before the public in an act of pious
sermonizing.
Until Senator Mc Govern answers
each and every
charge I am outlining today, his credib&lity as a moralist
cannot be respected. In short, Senator McGovern has pulled
one of the greatest whitewashing acts in political history
with his
posturing
on the subject of
morality in government. We are laying out that record
today with the bark off -- so the American public can
see George McGovern for what he really is, an opportunistic
politicaan who has engaged in
one of the direiest political
campaigns ever to cover up a record full of questionable
conduct.
10/24/72 - draft
Khachigian
STATEMENT FOR SENTOR ROBERT DOLE
Tonight, Senaytor McGovern is assx addressing the
nation хихихра on the subject of Morality in Government.
From past experience I expect Senator McGovern's speech
to be full of the same pious rhetoric that has marked
his campaign xx lately. Senator McGovern surely will
ga again lace MS his words with wild and desperate charges
of corruption and XX venality. What I also expect is
for Senator McGovern to ignore any mention of the McGovern
record on morality in government. Because there is still
time left, I ha am hopeful that Mr. McGovern will be able
to include in his speech tonight responses to AKMAXE
arra7-ef-questienable-aetiens- his own recofd of questionable
activities.
Я
While
George McGovern takes up the hatchet
bonight,
the American public has the right
to know the truth about
the following subjects:
chief fund-raiser,
-- Henry Kimelman, Senator McGovern's closest political
adviser, and personal confidante, is a mulfimillionaire who
was caught up
in conflict-of-intere$t charges resulting
from his tenure as personal assistant to former Secretary
of the Interior, Stewart Udall. Kimelman made his fortunes
in real estate transactions in the Virgin Islands. It is
no accident that
Udall was in charge
of Virgin Islands affairs as S cretary of the Interior.
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During his last year
in office,
Udall made
a decision which directly benefited Mr. Kimelman. He approved
a site in the Virgin Islands for a new airpor to take
over the traffic from St. Thomas' present landing field,
Harry S. Truman airport. As reported in the Washingtonian
magazine in its August, 1972 issue:
"Kimelman and his
family
own a 275-acre tract of potentially
prime
residential land at Brewer's Bay,
uncomfortably close
to the Harry S. Truman Airport.
Its development possibilities
would be greatly enhanced were HST located elsewhere
If
Kimelman participated in the
decisions to abandon
the HST
Airport and thus was directly involved in
a massive conflict-of-interest
the resolution
of
which would make him an even more wealthy man. It was only
the Nixon
when
administration took over that the
Udall decision was revoked and Kimelman was denied the fruits
of his profiteering.
Now Mr.
Kimelman is
involved at the highest
levels of the M cGovern campaign, and Senator McGovern has
never repudiated Kimelman for his
direct activity in
bilking the taxpayers for personal
profit.
Instead,
tens
thousand
of
dollars
Kimelman
and
Senator McGovern has frequently
vacation
at
Kimel-
S palatial estate in the Virgin Islands making one wonder
whether Senator McGovern
knows immorality in government
when
he sees it.
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morever,
Henry Kimelman, the wheeling-dealing, Virgin Islands
land manipulator is also a trustee for Senator McGovern's
investment
blind trust
Of great interest
is the fact that
Kimelman liquidated the trust and
converted all stock holdings into cash and bonds soon
after it appeared Senator McSovern would win the nomination
and just prior to the fall of the "McGovern Market" in May, 1972.
-- The moralist, George McGovern, has also yet to
apparent
make public comment on the many violations discovered in
his fund-raising activities by the General Acconting office.
The McGovern activities are riven with the lack of
proper records, impropter receipt of funds from foreign
nationals and inadeg identification of sponsors of a
political newspaper advertisement. SEnator McGovern's great
concern for marality in government should also extend to
the dummy committees his campaign operation set up to help
Playboy magazine publisher, Hugh
Hefner to avoid
gift taxes on his huge contributions
to McGovern.
-- Senator McGovern has
failed to comment on what
?
very reliable sources say to be his participation in one
or more highly
leveraged tax shelter deals involving
foreign- made films, many of them produced as
"sexploitation"
films. It has been
revealsed to me by extremely
reliable sources that Mr. McGovern is sheltering his income
these
by taking accelerated depreciation on foreign-produced films.
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-- The same Senator McGovern
who will be heard
tonight attacking morality in
overnment
in most likeli-
hood will not discuss his own permissiveness towards
the trend of immorality in American life. In an interview
in Playboy magazine, August, 1971, Mr. McGovern was asked
for his views on
traditional moral values. His
direct response: "As for the change in sex mores, I'm not
particularly concerned about it." It is no surprise, then,
that Senator McGovern was
one of only five U.S. Senators
in 1970 who voted against a Senate Resolution rejecting
the find ngs of the
Commission on Obscenity and
Pornography. Senator McGovern's moralism, therefore, puts
him on the permissive side of the
mails
smut-peddlers who are polluting the
with their trash.
-- As a bomber
pilot in World War II, Senator
McGovern was
reported to have direct
knowledge of two instances of war crimes, but never reported
them to the authorities. According to Robert Sam Anson
in his official biography on McGovern
(McGovern: A Biography,
Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
1972), McGovern heard two
fighter
pilots
brag of
shooting two Italian civilians
off a bridge. McGovern did not report what he heard to the
authorities. On another occasion, McGovern's own
bombardier
destroyed a farmouse during a jettison of the
plane's
bomb load in what one of McGovern's bomber crew
des-
Maya
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cribed as
"cold-blooded murder
II
When McGovern was
todd about this action, he merely took the bombardier off
his crew, but again 1 did not report
it to authorities.
The man who is all to quick to accuse
Americans in
Vietnam of war crimes is on record as not reporting two
of which he had direct knowledge.
-- Senaotr
McGovern's piety and moralism might
also well be questioned with regard to his performance
during the political assassi tion
of Tom Eagleton.
While McGovern promised Eageeton in private that
he
would have a chance to make his case
before the country,
the McGovern staff was leaking telegrams to the press and
engaging in one of the most vicious back-stabbing operations
ever
While Tom Eagleton faught for his political
life, McGovern table-hopped
with reporters in South
Dakota laying heavy hints that Eageeton was to go
The
great moralist thus engaged in one of the most duplicitous
stiletto operations of political history.
Yet he has the gall to accuse someone else of immoral activities.
-- The moralist McGovern has also forgotten his moral
principles when it comes to
campaign tactics. Senator
McGovern, unfortunately, has a long public record of dirty
campaigning as
reported in his biography and as recorded
in today newspapers daily. Robert LAnson reported that
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McGovern's victorious race for the SEnate in 1962 was marred
by whispe ing campaigns against his
opponent, Joe Bottum.
falsely
by McGovern campaign agents
Bottum was accused of belowing to a variety of right-wing
organizations -- from the Minutemen on down. McGovern
and
also
started the
absolutely false
umor that his opponent and
wife were alcoholics. Scurrilous
cartoons were printed up with this
vicious
campaign lie as the main theme. nator McGovern never
has apologized for
his behavior in that campaign.
Senabor McGovern in his race against
Senator
Karl Mundt, one of the most honorable men inthe Sentace,
said of Mundt: "I hated his guts " As reported by his
biographer, McGovern went further to say: "I hated him
so much I lost my sense of balance." This from the man
whose hallmark is
decency and moralism.
And today, the dirty campaign still continues with
McGovern
likening the President of the United States
to the hated dictator Adolph Hitler. How moral is that,
Senator McGovern? And McGovern has
totally defamatory
charges that the Republican party is like
the Ku Klux
an
Klan.
Without
ounce of proof,
Senator McGovern
"
as
made the white sheet charge in what can be described
of the direiest campaign tactics I've ever known. As
reporte d in the Washington Post on
October 7, 1972,
McGovern asked what the proof was for his charges, and he
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repolied: "Youx 1ljust have to take it on my word
"
A gross slander, like the other McGovern campaign slanders,
is made with no more proof than
that we must take the
word of a man whose
aptitude for
distortion is
remarkable.
-- George McGovern, the moral crudader, compares the
late murderous North Vietnamese dictator,
Ho Chi Minh,
to the father of our country, George Washington, and then in
his great moral posturing asks us to join him in turning
17 million
South Viehnamses peas.
over to
a Communist bloodbath.
--- In George McGovern's re-election campaign in 1968,
the McGovern biography reports, McGovern's campaign bribed
a man called Chief Eagle Feather to
experience
a "vision" that McGovern would win the election. In South
Dakota, where the vote of American Indians
quite impor-
tant, McGovern used bribery to influence the
Indian
vote with the
hief's visions and also provided buffalo and
for
steak feeds to all Indians who voted
Sen ator McGovern.
-- It has also been widely reported that the AFL-CIO
advanced GEorge McGovern $30,000 to help pay for a recount
in the 1962 South Dakota Senate race. After the moneh
helped insure his S e nate vicotry, Mc G overn then reneged on
his promise to organized labor to vote for repeal of section
14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act. The issue was
not the
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legislation but whether or not the moral McGovern could
keep his word. According to George Meany, Mr. McGovern did
not keep his word.
-- According to Ra 1ph Naders recent
book
"Who Runs Congress?" Senator McGovern lis ted total expedditures
for his
1968 reelection campaign as "none. " Mr. McGovern
knows that hhis is a patent falsehood; he also knows he was
making full use of a loophole in the old campaign law.
But today he travels the coutnry bragging how open he is
with
regard to campaign contributions but has
never
told the public about his secret
of 1968
the
which never showed up on the official contribution
lists.
wond
what moral attachment S Enator McGovern
holds for the fact that his campaign headquarters in Los Angeles
was used to drum up publcity for riotous anti-war activities
upon President Nixon's visit to Los Angeles less than three
weeks ago? Is
it morality, Mr. McGovern to allow your
campaign staff to actually threaten the security of the
Preside nt of the United States by whipping up organized
crowds of demonstrators
?
Is
it fair political play?
Will you explain this to the America n public in your address
on morality in government
-- Was it moral, Senator McGovern to announce your
candidacy forthe Senat in South Dakota on April 18, 1962
page 9
and then stay on the federal payro
as
Food for
Peace Director until July 17, 1962? Senator McGovern was
a candidate for Senator for 93 days before he resioned his
$21,000 a year federal job and spent 46 of those days in
South Dakota campaigning.
Does this
match up to the Senator's strict code of
ethics and
heavy moralism?
-- Jack Anderson reportal on February 6, 1971 that
Senator McGovern exchanged a used
Chevrolet
for a brand new Pontiac in 1965 without paying any difference
in cost. McGovern arranged the deal through a Minneapolis
business friend who paid the difference out of his own
pocket. S nator McCovern told Adherson that
he
treated
the
whole affiar as a "gift from a friend." Is this
the same type of moral attitude in government we can expect
a
President
from Sanator McGovern?
It is also of great note that Senator McGovern voted
in 1964 to whitewash the Bobby Baker scandal
asseported in Rapid City (S.D.) When Jound the of May 17,1964
minority
on the Senate Rules Committee proposed to request
witnesses to testify in the Bake r case, McGovern
(voted)
to turn down the request. There is
not a little
bit of irony in the fact that Senator McGovern
has traveled the country inveighing against scandals but
voted to pull the curta in over the major scandal of the 1960's.
Senator McGovern also opposed a motion to inquire furthe r into
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the finances or business interests and activities of members
now
why.
and employees
of the
Senate.
We womer just what
Mr. Morality in Governement had to
hide.
in the Rapid City (S.D.) Jouranal of May 17, 1964.
--- On March 9, 1967 the Washington Daily NEws reported
that Senator McGovern proposed that a committee on congressional
ehhics be established to "consider
cases of possible
unethical conduct by the
members. " It's a good thing
Mr. McGovern didn't propose the same thing in 1959 when
his borther-in-law Robert Pennington was taken onto the
McGovern Congressional Staff payroll while holding down a
job teaching history at Dakota Wesleyan University. In
this gross abuse of nepotism, Mr. Pennington was a $8667
-
a
year employee of his borther-in-law while pulling
down
a
$4365
a
yea r job at Dakota Wesleyan University.
It was interesting that Mr. Pennington could work nights and
weekends for Senator McGovern and accept the taxpayers' money
for
a
substantial
sum of money.
After this impoopriety was uncovered in the Washington Daily
News of April 17, 1959, McGovern wrote his constituents
back home
as reported in the Mitchell
Republic of
April 21, 1959 that he regarded the practice of nepotism
as "unethcial." Is this what McGovern means by Morality
in government?
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On
April 19, 1963 the Washington Post reported
that S e nator McGovern
accepted a campaign contribution
from Washingbon lobbyist John A. O'Donnell
who
was promoting passage of the Phillipines War Damage Act.
Senator Fulbright at the time charged that
the legislative
process has been subverted" by the O'Donnell campaign and
that O'Donnell was unduly enriched by his activities on
behalf of the Phillipines. According to the Post article
the campaign fund was for "friendly Congressmen. " One
wonders where this campaign contribution fits in to Mr.
McGovern's pious campaign against the "special interests. "
If
Ttl
above
-- Finally, one has to return to the Daniel Ellsberg
case to point
out the ultimate in hypocrisy by Senator
George McGovern. Apparently, Mr. McGovern believes that
just about everything is immoral except for
enoouraging
the publication of stolen top secret government
documents.
It is
a part of the public record that George McGovern
encouraged Ellsberg to take the stolen "Pentagon Papers"
to the New York Times and other
publications. While
McGovern cries crocodile tears over a few
pizzas sent
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to a Muskie fundraiser, he always avoids public mention
of his complicity
with
Daniel
Ellsberg's
violation of fedeoral law. This moral double standard
of McGovern's is perhaps the
grossest of indecencies
on the eve of his address to the nation on
morality
in government.
One wonders whether George McGovern as President of
the United States would think it
"moral" to turn over
highly classified national security documents
to t he national media on a regular basis.
So while
Smaator McGovern preaches morality tonight,
he might well wake up tomorrow morning and explain to the
American public his
attitude regarding
his personal acts of questionable morality. Was it moral,
Senator, to encourage the leakage of top secret documents to
the press? Was it moral to engage in nepotism in the Congress?
Was it moral to accept the gift resulting in a brand new
automobile from your "frined?" Was it moral to engage in
political
whispering and hate campaigns against your oppoants? Was
it moral to bribe voter support in your reelection contest
of 1968? Was it moral to allow your headquareers to be used
to whip up
potentially violent activity against the
security of the President of the United States? These and many
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other questions must be answered by George McGovern. I hope
he will re-tape his morality in government broadcast to
include these answers. But I fear we
are going to
get nothing but
massive cover-up
activities to
gloss over a record
of highly questionable conduct in
personal and political affairs.