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Richard Nixon Presidential Library
Contested Materials Collection
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Document Description
53
34
4/12/1972
Personal
Memo
From Strachan to Haldeman RE: "President's
Papers and Estate Plan" 1pg
Monday, June 25, 2012
Page 1 of 1
DOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL RECORD [NIXON PROJECT]
DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT
NUMBER
TYPE
SUBJECT/TITLE OR CORRESPONDENTS
DATE
RESTRICTION
N-1
Memo
From Strachan to Haldeman.
[DX##3]
Re: "President's Papers and Estate
Plan"
4/12/72
C
FILE GROUP TITLE
BOX NUMBER
STAFF SECRETARY
125
FOLDER TITLE
Papers Project [I]
RESTRICTION CODES
A. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.
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G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.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H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.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:
Staff Secretary
Box Number:
125
Folder:
Paper Project [I]
Document
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83
Return Private/Personal
[N-I]
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
April 12, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
GORDON STRACHAN
G
SUBJECT:
President's Papers and
Estate Plan
The President's Papers and Estate Plan is drifting off
track again. Just before the China Trip you directed Dean
to "get it done before it becomes moot. Nothing happened,
so I drafted a memorandum for John Ehrlichman's signature to
Dean on March 21st. Dean responded with an interim report
indicating that the Acting General Counsel of IRS would begin
working on some of the basic tax questions.
All this results in indecision and delay. You told me in
August that the President considered Dick Ritzel of Mudge
Rose the best estate lawyer around. Ritzel's plan, after
due deliberation with DeMarco, was submitted on December 23,
1971. It is John Dean's view that DeMarco and Ritzel are in
a contest. The only loser is the President.
It is my view that DeMarco's interim stop-gap Will proposal
is the worst result possible because it will delay a decision
until after November 7, 1972. If the President loses the
election, the goals of the President's Papers and Estate Plan
will be thwarted.
The solution seems to be for you and Ehrlichman to make the
decision whether the entire project is to be delayed until
after the election. If that is the case, you should approve
Dean's attached memorandum urging the President to execute
a stop-gap Will tomorrow when he meets with DeMarco. If you
and Ehrlichman decide to resolve the conflict between DeMarco
and Ritzel, you should disapprove Dean's memorandum and direct
him to have the final plan to you and Ehrlichman for review
by May lst.