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1/13/1972
Campaign
Other Document
RE: Tentative press schedule- New
Hampshire/Maine. 3pgs.
48
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1/13/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Khachigian To Buchanan RE: Muskie's
television announcement for the presidency.
2pgs.
Wednesday, June 03, 2015
Page 1 of 1
MUSKIE News
11
SUITE 1004
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036
TELEPHONE (202) 833-3850
Scalled 1660 L STREET, N.W.
CONTACT:
Dick Stewart
Herb Hadad
(202) 833-3850
TENTATIVE PRESS SCHEDULE
NEW HAMPSHIRE/MAINE
JANUARY 13 - 14, 1972
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13
8:30 a.m.
DEPARTURE: Washington/National for Berlin,
N. H. via Electra Turboprop. (Northwest
Airlines, Gate N).
10:30 a.m.
ARRIVAL: Berlin/Municipal Airport.
10:35 a. m.
Berlin, N.H Union Hall to meet group of
local shop stewards.
11:40 a. m.
Converse Rubber Company cafeteria Plant I.
(CLOSED TO PRESS, ONE POOL REPORTER
12:10 p. m.
Converse Rubber Company cafeteria Plant II
for visit with employees. (OPEN TO PRESS)
2:20 p. m.
Visit Muskie Headquarters for meeting with
staff and Youth Coalition workers.
3:00 p. m.
Brown Paper Company, Cascade Mill, to meet
workers in Time Room.
7:00 p. m.
Le Chalet for reception with townspeople.
(BRIEF SPEECH)
8:30 p. m.
DEPARTURE: Berlin/Municipal for Concord/
Municipal.
9:10 p. m.
ARRIVAL: Concord/Municipal.
RON:
Concord, N. H. New Hampshire Highway Hotel.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 14
8:45 a. m.
Concord, N.H. Public event.
9:30 a. m.
Executive Council Chambers, State House,
for discussion session with New Hampshire
press corps. (TRAVELING PRESS POOL LIMITED
TO THREE)
11:00 a.m.
DEPARTURE: Concord/Municipal for Waterville/
LaFleur.
11:50 a. m.
ARRIVAL: Waterville/LaFleur.
1:00 p. m.
Waterville Maine. Filming of campaign spots.
(CLOSED TO PRESS
- more -
- 2 -
FRIDAY, JANUARY 14 (con't)
3:30 p. m.
DEPARTURE: Waterville/LaFleur for Portland/
International.
4:00 p. m.
ARRIVAL: Portland/International.
5:45 p. m.
Portland, Maine. Sheraton-Eastland reception.
7:45 p. m.
Fund-raising dinner. (SPEECH)
10:00 p. m.
DEPARTURE: Portland/International for
Washington/ National
11:30 p. m.
TENTATIVE STATE-BY-STATE SCHEDULE FOR JANUARY/EARLY FEBRUARY.
HONDAY, JAHUARY 17
am/pm
Cleveland, Ohio Columbus, Ohio
RON:
Columbus, Ohio
TUESDAY, JANUARY 18
Des Moines, Iowa, Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
RON:
D.C.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19
D. C.
RON:
D.C.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
RON:
New Hampshire
FRIDAY, JANUARY 21
New Hampshire
RON:
D.C.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 25
Illinois
RON:
Illinois
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26
Florida
RON:
Florida
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27
Florida
RON:
Florida
- more -
- 3 -
FRIDAY, JANUARY 28
Florida
RON:
Flordia
SATURDAY, JANUARY 29
Florida
RON:
Florida
SUNDAY, JANUARY 30
Florida
RON:
Florida
MONDAY, JANUARY 31
Florida
RON:
Florida
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1
Florida
RON:
D.C.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2
Pennsylvania
RON:
Wisconsin
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3
Wisconsin/Illinois
RON:
Wisconsin
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4
Wisconsin
RON:
Illinois
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Illinois/Missouri
RON:
Missouri
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 13, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
FROM: KENNETH L. KHACHIGIAN Den
Concerning Muskie's television announcement for the
Presidency last week, a few observations.
From a great many news accounts and by my own measuring
sticks, Muskie's announcement was somewhat a digression
from the Muskie image SO favorably created in November, 1970.
The appearance was wooden, mechanical, virtually devoid of
expression and generally will pale in comparison to his effective
riposte to RN last year.
My friend who rides the bus with me ( a Democrat who works
as an officer with a national labor union) thought the performance
laughable - - "all he needed was a shawl on his shoulders and
blanket over his knees. 11
However, we should learn from the performance as well.
It is not new to observe the presence that Muskie will seek in
his public announcements -- measured, calming, trust-invoking
and all the rest. It is not so much what Muskie will say in the
campaign but more how he will say it. I feel that to a great
extent, Muskie as an opponent will make issues in the 1972 cam-
paign somewhat peripheral. He will specialize in high-minded
rhetoric searching for the contrast that he hopes will have trust
triumph over trickery.
And here is where we have Ed. Whether or not they do, my
guess is that the American public wants to trust their President.
Thus, we must once again make use of -- in the Nixon presence --
the commodity which we monopolize in the campaign - - the
Presidency.
Muskie being presidential is no match for the President being
Presidential. Virtually every minute of air time we purchase for
serious RN statements should be televised in the White House --
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the Oval Office, the Lincoln sitting room, the Roosevelt room,
the Cabinet room. Every effort must be made to identify the
White House with Richard Nixon -- pressing the dignity and
even the majesty of a political ambience that Edmund Muskie
couldn't match in a million campaigns. What do you want --
Big Ed in Kennebunk, Maine or President Nixon in the room
in which he made plans to de-ice Chairman Mao.
Let the stump speech be solely for network news con-
sumption. Where we can control the surroundings, it has got to be
the Presidency -- over and over again.
I will add this -- I think we need to take a long look at diff-
erent rhetorical devices. The campaign will demand a change in
the approach, and I suggest that we need to lay before the Pres-
ident a whole raft of ideas on campaign pronouncements. Just
as we give him options for making policy, I am quite serious in
thinking he needs a great many more options in approaching the
campaign. We ought to get the best staff minds putting together
some of this stuff and perhaps have RN's direct guidance through-
out some of the process.