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From Rita E. Hauser to Rose Mary Woods RE: Hauser's campaign participation. Attachment of Hauser's 1972 campaign activities. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 3/31/1971
From Rita E. Hauser to Rose Mary Woods RE: Lack of acknowledgement towards supporter's hard work (specifically Committee to Re-Elect). 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 12/18/1972
From Rita E. Hauser to Rose Mary Woods RE: Work during campaign. 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 12/20/1972
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From Rita E. Hauser to Rose Mary Woods RE: Hauser's campaign participation. Attachment of Hauser's 1972 campaign activities. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Memo], 3/31/1971
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50
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3/31/1971
Campaign
Memo
From Rita E. Hauser to Rose Mary Woods
RE: Hauser's campaign participation.
Attachment of Hauser's 1972 campaign
activities. 2pgs.
50
36
12/18/1972
Campaign
Letter
From Rita E. Hauser to Rose Mary Woods
RE: Lack of acknowledgement towards
supporter's hard work (specifically
Committee to Re-Elect). 2pgs.
50
36
12/20/1972
Campaign
Memo
From Rita E. Hauser to Rose Mary Woods
RE: Work during campaign. 1pg.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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MEMORANDUM
Date
3/31/71
From RITA E. HAUSER
To
Rose Woods
After much soul searching and several
talks with John (who asked me about
participation in the '72 campaign), I
decided to put off the idea of a judge-
ship until I am older, less zappy and
generally ready to "retire". I feel
very good about this decision, as I was
upset at the thought of not being able
to work my heart out again for RN in '72.
I saw John this morning, and thought
you might like to see the ideas we
discussed for my campaign participation
starting now. Any thoughts? John also
told me about the small group of six or so
to be announced soon as a general cover.
I told him I thought the group should have
a woman on it. The time is really here
for a woman in politics to be assigned
something other than "woman's work". I
think he agrees.
Anyway, do tell the President I am in the
act and very happy about it. I think it
will beAhard race and I am delighted to
help the good cause again.
Love.
R
March 31, 1971
To: John N. Mitchell
From: Rita E. Hauser
Subject: Hauser 1972 Campaign Activities
Pursuant to our discussions this morning, I
propose the following activities on my part, subject to
your approval:
1. Intelligence Operation: I would gather a
small group of loyal Nixon people who are close to the scene
in the Left of the GOP and to include those with expertise
on Lindsay, Gardner, Goodell, Common Cause, et al, to meet
informally. The group would continue to gather information
on the plans of any of those who might oppose RN in the
primaries or in the media; it would track Lindsay closely;
it would follow the plans of Common Cause.
Sometime in the near future, I would submit
an analysis, to be updated periodically, on the expected moves
of these people, as well as McCloskey, Hickel and Hatfield.
The people I have in mind have, in the past,
been very helpful in supplying me with information, and I can
count on all of them. Some include people active in the peace
movement, who would be kept on the outer fringe of my group
but hand-held enough to be very useful.
I would like to keep this operation small and
quiet, with the group meeting from time to time in my office
or home. We would need a modest budget for entertainment
expenses, telephone, etc., and some travel, as I want to
touch base with contacts on the Left in California and Wisconsin.
I would think $2,500 would be right for a time.
Please advise on the above and let me know how
to effectuate the details.
2. I would like to begin acceptance of TV and
debating appearances, to be arranged at the outset through
Sen. Dole and the National Committee. This has been my forte
these past few years, and I think it is important to begin
public supportive debates for RN.
3. When you surface in command, presumably sometime
in early 1972, I would like to be your assistant for such duties
as you and I think I can best do. I can be in Washington for
three days a week and then step up after the Convention.
REH
Holdems
RITA E. HAUSER
130 EAST END AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. 10028
file
December 18, 1972
Dear Rose:
I wanted to wish you a very happy New
Year to come. You are often in my thoughts, and I hope
all goes well for you.
My life is back to normal. Being a
top partner in a major Wall Street law firm has
advantages which I am enjoying, and my family is well, too
There is an unhappiness to note, and
it is one which baffles me and disturbs me. Many of us
who gave so much of ourselves this past year for the
great victory of the President seem, as of this writing,
quite out of things. In fact, it pains me to say that
none of us who made up the Members of the Committee to
Re-Elect (Max Fisher, Tom Pappas, Frank Dale, etc.)
have yet even to receive a word of thanks from anyone
for our efforts. Phone calls to Bob Haldeman are
simply never returned, and letters are unanswered.
Have the President's most loyal
supporters and defenders, who took all the heat for
him on several unpalatable issues during the Campaign,
been simply superseded by the new friends in the Team-
sters Union? Many of us have been asking one another
whether we simply are no longer wanted.
RITA E. HAUSER
130 EAST END AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. 10028
Do you know the answer to this
question? I cannot answer this when it is put to me,
as it has by very many persons these last ten days.
I personally wrote to Bob and asked
to see the President about a matter of interest to
me. I have never had the courtesy of even the
slightest reply. Does this mean I am no longer
welcome? If so, I would like to know why, in order
to determine my own future relationships. Or is it
simple inadvertence?
I assure you Rose, it was not easy
to take on the toughest anti-Nixon groups and to
wean some of them over, or to get the maximum
favorable press for Nixon in the campaign by hours
of talk with press people not generally favorable to
the White House. Or, most important, to break into
groups inhospitable to us in the past.
I don't know if it is fair to burden
you with these questions, but in the light of all
put forth in the past, and some in Nixon's darkest
hours out of office, for him, for our Party and all
our common goals, Ihave to put them to someone lest
I draw the wrong conclusions.
I hope you will speak to Bob for me,
********** indeed even to the President, for I am
full of sorrow before a situation I frankly do not
comprehend. Perhaps you will be good enough to call
me one of these days about it.
Love.
Rita
December 20, 1972
Rita Hauser to rmw
"Merry Christmas"
"II wanted to tell you to have a good Christmas -- then also that
I sent you a letter yesterday. I was feeling very blue - an awful
lot of us who worked our heart out in the campaign and no one
has heard a word.
Tom Pappas/ Frank Dale/ Rita Hauser/ Max Fisher, / Frank Borman/
Mayor of Dallas/ Ed Nixon.
"What bothers me -- why are they takking off all these peopl ?
"I talked with Clark MacGregor -- I have talked with John Mitchell --
Clark said he is shocked and embarrassed -- completely left out of it. "