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From Billy R. Wickens to Rose Mary Woods RE: Dow Chemical Company's Politics. 2 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 2/26/1969
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Richard Nixon Presidential Library
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2/26/1969
Campaign
Letter
From Billy R. Wickens to Rose Mary Woods
RE: Dow Chemical Company's Politics. 2pgs.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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DOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL RECORD [NIXON PROJECT]
DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT
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TYPE
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DATE
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N-1
letter
Wickens to RMW re Wow Chemical
2/26/69
C(Nixon)
[DOC 26]
Co.'s politics
N-2
letter
Booker to Klein re Nixon administration
2/8/69
C(Nixon)
[Doc 27]
treatment of "black press"
N-3
letter
3/27/69
C(Nixon)
Doc 48]
Vallely to RMW re employment
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33
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MEMOS 1969 - R.M. WOODS (30/6, March/April)
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E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
B. National security classified information.
financial information.
C. Pending or approved claim that release would violate an individual's
F. Release would disclose investigatory information compiled for law
rights.
enforcement purposes.
D. Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy
G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.
or a libel of a living person.
H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
NA FORM 1421 (4-85)
Presidential Materials Review Board
Review on Contested Documents
Collection:
President's Personal Files
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33
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Memos - 1969 - R. M. Woods [3 of 6, March/April]
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BILLY R. WICKENS
5312 SWEDE ROAD
MIDLAND, MICHIGAN
FEBRUARY 26, 69.
MISS ROSE MARY WOODS
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
DEAR ROSE MARY:
I CALLED MR. ROBERT ELLSWORTH'S OFFICE TODAY ABOUT
THIS, BUT HE WOULD NOT TALK TO ME BECAUSE I COULD NOT GET
HIS OFFICE GIRL TO CONVINCE HIM THAT WHAT I HAD TO TALK
ABOUT WAS IMPORTANT.
I WANTED TO TELL HIM THAT, THE Dow CHEMICAL COMPANY
HAS AT ALL TIMES SINCE 1960 BEEN AGAINST RICHARD M. NIXON.
MR. TYRONE GILLESPIE, ASST TO MR. LELAND DOAN, PRESIDENT OF
THE Dow CHEMICAL COMPANY ( AT THAT TIME ) WENT TO THE
CONVENTION IN CHICAGO AND WAS IN THE FOREFRONT OF THE FRAIL
BUT REAL ATTEMPT TO NOMINATE GOLDWATER. MR. GILLESPIE ALSO
WAS AT O'HARE AT THE ORIGINAL MEETING WITH F. CLIFTON WHITE
WHEN THEY STARTED THE DRIVE TO KEEP THE POSITION OF TITULAR
HEAD OF THE PARTY, AND THE FOLLOWING GOLDWATER CAMPAIGN. THE
Dow CHEMICAL COMPANY IN 1964, MADE THEIR AEROPLANE AVAILABLE
AND SPENT A LOT OF MONEY IN SUPPORT OF GOLDWATER. THEY HAVE
DONE THE SAME FOR GEORGE ROMNEY. THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN KIND
TO RICHARD NIXON. IN 1968 THEY, THROUGH MRS. " RANNY " JOHN
E. RICKER, LAW PARTNER TO MR. GILLESPIE, SPECIAL ASST. TO
STATE CHAIRMAN ELLY PETERSON, AND DAUGHTER OF ONE OF THE
LARGEST STOCKHOLDERS OF THE Dow CHEMICAL COMPANY ( HER
MOTHER WAS A Dow ) DID ALL THEY COULD IN THE ROMNEY FOR
PRESIDENT CAMPAIGN. THEY WOULD NOT EVEN LISTEN TO THE NIXON
SIDE OF THE CONTEST. THEY WERE AND STILL ARE ROCKY PEOPLE.
MRS. RICKER RAN THE MEETING IN MIDLAND, THAT WAS
TO PLAN FOR THE NIXON TRIP TO THE TRI-CITY AIRPORT. SHE
ALSO WAS THE COORDINATOR THAT # KEPT PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE
AIRPORT // BY DELIBERATE 11 NON-ACTION " WHEN WE WERE IN
A TOUCH AND GO FOR MICHIGAN. As I TOLD YOU THEN, THE STATE
ORGANIZATION NEVER GOT OFF IT'S HANDS FOR NIXON.
CARL GERSTACKER, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF THE Dow
CHEMICAL COMPANY HAS DONE MUCH FOR ROMNEY, AND I WOULD
EXPECT CARL TO HAVE GEORGE BE IN ON THE Dow PITCH TO MR.
ELLSWORTH, ALONG WITH CONGRESSMAN AL. CEDERBERG OF OUR
10TH. DISTRICT. My SON WORKED FOR CEDERBERG IN THE OFFICE
THERE IN WASHINGTON, AL WORKS FOR THE Dow CHEMICAL.
Do NOT LET THIS INFORMATION GET TO CONGRESSMAN
CEDERBERG, AS HE HAS AGREED TO GIVE ME SUPPORT IN MY
ATTEMPT TO GET A NATIONAL APPOINTMENT. THE Dow CHEMICAL
HAS PLACED ME IN A POSITION WHERE I HAVE TO RESIGN OR
BECOME " A NOTHING " IN THE POLITICAL FIELD, WHICH I
AM NOT WILLING TO DO.
IF WE CAN JUST KEEP THE Boss IN WASHINGTON, AND
AT THE HEAD OF OUR GOVERNMENT FOR EIGHT YEARS HE WILL BE
ABLE TO BRING SOME NIXON PROGRAMS INTO FRUITION. THE Dow
CHEMICAL COMPANY WILL NOT BE AROUND IN 1972, WHEN WE NEED
THEM. THEIR HISTORY PROVES THIS, AND I WANTED YOU FOLKS
TO KNOW THIS EVEN AT THE RISK OF IT GETTING BACK TO MY
EMPLOYER, WHICH COULD BE UNPLEASANT.
SINCERELY,
BILLY R. WICKENS
5312 SWEDE ROAD,
MIDLAND, MICHIGAN
P.S. If it were my soy so, I would
suce make christian's skill