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From Kristol to Price RE: Campaign Rhetoric 1 pg. [Subject: Campaign] [Letter], 10/19/1972
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Richard Nixon Presidential Library
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Campaign
Memo
From Price to Nixon RE: "Vermont Royster"
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Monday, June 18, 2012
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Editors: DANIEL BELL
IRVING KRISTOL
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN.
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October 19, 1972
Mr. Raymond Price
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear Ray:
A good friend of mine, Professor Martin Diamond of the University
of Northern Illinois, rang me up with a suggestion as to the
kind of rhetoric the President might use to appeal to the
Democratic voter in the next two weeks. Obviously, the only
real danger the President confronts is "slippage" among those
Democrats who now intend to vote for him. Diamond suggests that
the President appeal for "a mandate for moderation" and "a rebuke
to immoderation." That kind of mandate, he feels, a lot of
Democrats would be happy to give him. It seems to me that he
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is right.
Very best,
Irving
Irving Kristol
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MEMORANDUM
THE PRES ENT ILAS SETN
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 21, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
THE PRESIDENT Rusi
RAY PRICE
SUBJECT:
Vermont Royster
I understand you're interested in some of Royster's current
thoughts.
When I asked him this week how he thought things were going,
his answer was "Holy cow!" Every sign he sees, he says, points
in the same direction as the polls; he's kept feeling things are bound
to change, but hasn't yet seen any sign of it.
He does have a column coming out next week picking up on the
line (was it Voltaire?), "May God protect me from my friends" --
meaning Watergate, etc., and whatever else some overenthusiastic
and underjudicious supporter might bungle into.
As for the campaign itself, he thinks it's been just fine -- that
McGovern's going to be doing everything he can to make you "put up
your mitts," but he still thinks you shouldn't. He still feels that
when you do campaign, you should take the high road -- showing your-
self, but keeping your speeches on what the Administration has been
doing, never mentioning McGovern, and never really attacking him:
"Make the contrast between the raucous voice and the calm one. 11
The surrogate attacks, he feels, have been good -- with Laird,
Rogers, Shultz, etc., answering McGovern in the areas of their own
responsibility but not getting into outright, across-the-board cam-
paigning.
He also likes the new Vice Presidential look -- and describes
himself as one who always thought there was a lot more to STA than
the critics saw.
The President
Re: Vermont Royster
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He thought the convention was, on the whole, pretty good
that "some of the White House people got a little paranoid" about
security in the Doral, too sensitive to criticism, etc. ; that to a
certain extent we "lack joie de vivre about politics;" but these
were minor matters, and we got "a good assist" from the demon-
strators, especially when they began pushing little old ladies
around.
Once when I'd been talking with him earlier, he mentioned
that he hoped we'd do a few things that would give the Wall Street
Journal something to wax really enthusiastic about since they've
got a policy of non-endorsement of candidates, it would be nice if
they could at least be cheering enthusiastically about some of the
specific things we were doing, rather than merely taking umbrage
at the opposition. When I reminded him of this this week, and
asked what sort of things he'd recommend that might produce such
enthusiasm, he mused that one of the disappointing things in recent
campaigns has been the disappearance of the formal speech the
waning of the old tradition of one speech on labor, one on the budget,
etc. He thinks it would be appropriate to make a "somewhat formal
statement" on your attitude toward economic matters price controls
monetary policy, taxes, the role of government in the economy, etc.
It's a subject everybody's interested in, and if done right it would Be
right up the Journal's alley. 11
Bob Bartley, who's currently running the Journal's editorial
page, is "very anti-McGovern and pro-RN" and Royster feels
would welcome the opportunity. (Bartley, incidentally, is also
a friend of mine and was the first person I tried to hire for our
staff here, but I couldn't get him to leave the Journal.)
One thing Royster feels is happening is that there's a large
measure of "the boredom factor. 11 TV particularly, wears a
candidate out in short order, in terms of public interest.
As for using Royster: he's told me before, and repeated it
again, that he wouldn't feel right about actually contributing any
writing that it would carry the seeds of a conflict of interest as
The President
Re: Vermont Royster
-3-
long as he's in the business of public commentary. He's glad to
talk things over, and I'll be continuing to call him from time to time.
In addition to his column, incidentally, he's now signed up with CBS
for a twice-a-week slot on radio and an appearance once every other
week or so on morning TV.
He was very appreciative of your note to him on his column the
other day.