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48
36
7/24/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Kehrli to Colson RE: Weekend News
Review and Bartlett. 1 pg.
48
36
7/24/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Khachigian to Buchanan RE: Sunday
News Shows. 2 pgs.
Wednesday, June 03, 2015
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MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 24, 1972
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
MR. CHUCK COLSON
FROM:
BRUCE KEHRLI
Por
SUBJECT:
Slogan
The July 24 Weekend News Review contained the following note:
Bartlett had no trouble finding the "missing faces"
in McG's Dem ranks during survey in York, Pa.
There is an insurance agent who backed HHH but
now will vote RN because "I feel more secure with
him. 11
Referring to the underlined portion, it was noted that this could be
a good line -- Be safe with Richard Nixon.
cc: H.R. Haldeman
Alexander P. Butterfield
Ron Ziegler
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 24, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
PAT BUCHANAN
FROM:
KEN KHACHIGIAN
Here is the most egregious material out of yesterday's
performances on the interview shows things which I believe
we ought to jump on right away -- one way or the other.
Eagleton was asked what he thought about Jane Fonda making
anti-war broadcasts from Hanoi. His answer:
11
I know Jane Fonda is a sort of a blithe,
floating figure, a free-thinker and a free-whecler. I
wouldn't try to circumscribe where she would visit. I
would not enthusiastically support broadcasting in North
Vietnam, but I am not going to try to control Miss Fonda or try
to tell her how to live her life and I suspect she will not try
to tell me how to live mine.
"
His absolute refusal to outrightly repudiate what Jane Fonda has
done is a blow against the men who are fighting and who have fought
in Vietnam. Can you imagine what would have been said if the same
descriptions were made of "Tokyo Rose" or others of her ilk.
Perhaps the VFW, American Legion and several on the Hill ought
to go directly after Eagleton on this. Fletcher Thompson has been
giving Jane hell, maybe he do it to Eagleton as well.
McGovern made three statements on "Face the Nation" which are
very vulnerable. Asked: "If in fact you were President and you pulled
all the American troops out, and the North Vietnamese posed some other
condition and you didn't get the prisoners back, what do you do then
He responded: "Well, I think it's in our interest to get out in any
event, Mr. Morton. 11 I.e., we get out even if the POW's don't come
back. This is a flat-out statement of a mission that the POW's are
secondary in importance to getting out of Vietnam. This statement
got very little press attention, and it ought to be clevated this week.
Page 2
Asked by Dave Broder if a "McGovern Administration" would
have taken the same action of intervention as we did in the Detroit
busing case, McGovern responded: "I think not, Mr. Broder. 11
First, Griffin ought to be told about this as he may have missed it.
Second, 1701 ought to call our guns in Michigan and tell them about
this that McGovern would not have given them one ounce of support
in their battle against busing.
Finally, McGovern suggested that we had provocateurs who would
go to Miami "to cause trouble in order to win sympathy for the
candidates they are demonstrating against. " This was to offset Dole's
quote of last week. We should make the point again and again that
Rubin, Hoffman and others have endorsed McGovern. They are
McGovern supporters. If they do anything to mess up our convention,
McGovern should be held at least partially responsible. Moreover,
unless McGovern has any names of provocateurs, he better quit
accusing us of trying to stage a backlash at Miami. He is impugning
our integrity, and nameless allegations of this sort are surely beneath
the dignity of a U.S. Senator.