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Richard Nixon Presidential Library
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4/9/1974
Personal
Memo
From Herschensohn to Haig, Jr. RE:
"President's Taxes: Support" 2pg
Monday, June 25, 2012
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DOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL RECORD [NIXON PROJECT]
DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT
SUBJECT/TITLE OR CORRESPONDENTS
DATE
NUMBER
TYPE
RESTRICTION
N-1
Memo
Bruce Herschenschn to Haig
4/9/74
J
DX*65]
re! "President's Taxes: Support"
FILE GROUP TITLE
BOX NUMBER
STAFF SECRETARY
119
FOLDER TITLE
[NIXON'S TAXES]
RESTRICTION CODES
A. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.
E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial cr
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G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.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H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.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:
Staff Secretary
Box Number:
119
Folder:
[Nixon's Taxes]
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[Item N-1]
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 9, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
ALEXANDER M. HAIG, JR.
FROM:
BRUCE HERSCHENSOHN B.H.
SUBJECT:
President's Taxes: Support
The following information was current at 5:00 p.m. re the support
expressed for the President on the subject of his taxes:
-- Letters and telegrams received since April 5 include 2, 058
"pro" and 68 "con", or a ratio of 97% pro and 3% con
-- Cash contributions received represent $23, 419. 36, $808.19 of
which was sent anonymously and cannot be returned
-- Approximately 3,000 letters have yet to be opened and categorized
-- IRS has also received money, but the amount is uncertain
-- Some very large efforts are underway from individual citizens
for collections
-- There are proposed loans to the President amounting to $245, 000
(this includes the Otto Passman suggestion sent to you earlier)
-- An offer by Otto Passman to purchase his Vice Presidential papers
for $1 million (memo from Timmons attached)
The following consensus was reached at a meeting attended by Len Garment,
Dick Moore, David Hoopes, Roland Elliott, Anne Higgins and Bruce
Herschensohn:
1. Wait until the end of the week, see how much we have, and see if
the effort is increasing or diminishing. Then someone from the
White House should officially announce that though the President is
extremely appreciative, he wishes to make the payment himself,
and he must request that no one make further contribution.
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2. In effect, we cannot have it both ways: we cannot tell people to stop,
and ask them to continue. But, within the announcement we can
have a very large plus by telling of the thousands of contributions
that have come in, and that it has become necessary to make a more
formal announcement than before because the contributions are
continuing on a massive scale and we do not want it to get out of
control, stressing the President's appreciation.
3. We can release some of the best and most human-interest oriented
letters that accompanied contributions.
4. To those who have sent contributions to the President, the letter
at Tab A will be sent by Roland Elliott with a return of their
money. Roland is keeping extremely accurate records of the funds
that are being sent in, when received, and when returned. This is
normal procedure.
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5. Those that were sent in anonymously, representing $808. 19 to date,
could be sent to one or more of the following:
a. Red Cross (for tornado victims)
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b. Other
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6. RNC is also receiving contributions and is awaiting our guidance for
letters.
7. Rabbi Korff has been sent approximately $25,000 for the President's
taxes which his contributors want given to the President.
8. Leonard Garment has noted that he feels we should move faster on
this (instead of waiting until the end of the week as proposed in item
#1). He feels we could run into some major accounting problems
if we hold off too long. He also feels that Anne Armstrong or Dean
Burch should contact the political people to insure that there is no
"encouragement" of contributions being done, and if there is to
request that it be stopped since that could be a major problem.
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