[top left corner] RN [Richard Nixon]
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10/22
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Z [Possibly Ron Ziegler who became Nixon’s press secretary] – indicate tomorrow
Preparing & recording 2 radio speeches
Harlow [Bryce Harlow, a Republican strategist and Nixon aide] – Harlow monitoring V.Nam [Vietnam]
Fl – Andrews -if take a poll – inform us immy.
G’ [in red: done] Rhodes [John Rhodes, House Minority Leader] says we’ve dropped on older people – use radio for Soc Sec spot & a nspr [newspaper] ad – nail the lie
R+W – sit down w/ RW + Moore etc. – in terms of their thot [thought] on tempo & content
how do you want him to hit HH [Hubert Humphrey] – how hard?
F? maybe have to bite V.N.
! [illegible] – keep Anna Chennault working on SVN [South Vietnam] – insist [illegible] on the 3 Johnson [President Lyndon B. Johnson] conditions
Z [Ron Ziegler] say for Fri – doing 3 hrs of TV spots
Moore -et al – get a reading on how they thk [think] we’re doing
Harlow – be sure cc [copy] of defense goes to DDE [Dwight D. Eisenhower, former President] & to our defense types.
RW – how do you want him to hit HH [Hubert Humphrey, Democratic Presidential Candidate for 1968] how hard shld [should] he go?
re: V.N. [Vietnam] bomb haltment:
Harlow – have Dirksen [Everett Dirksen, Senator from Illinois] & Tower [John Tower, Senator from Texas] blast this
Dirksen call LBJ [President Lyndon B. Johnson] and brace him w/ [with] this
-any other way to monkey wrench it?
Anything RN can do.
Rose [Rose Mary Woods, Richard Nixon’s personal secretary] – get her frd [?] Louie [illegible] – zing [?] on the SVN [South Vietnamese] – tell him hold firm
Dirksen – or someone
Rebozo [Charles “Bebe” Rebozo, Florida banker and businessman who was a friend and confidant of Richard Nixon] – have Smathers [George Smathers, Senator from Florida] threaten J [President Lyndon B. Johnson]
N [Richard Nixon] has learned staffers are dealing w/ H [Hubert Humphrey, Democratic Presidential Candidate for 1968] & N [Richard Nixon] is going to blast him –
the bets are off & N [Richard Nixon] very disapptd [disappointed]
hard evidence W/house [White House] is giving H [Hubert Humphrey, Democratic Presidential Candidate for 1968] stuff he’s not giving N [Richard Nixon]
will blast in major speech on V.N. [Vietnam] on Thurs –
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-ABC confirming 2 hrs 8:30-10:30 Mon nite
says he’ll do telethon – now AT&T problem
-G just 1 & 5 min. very good
C – booking [illegible] 11:30 Fri AM
tape Congress radio spot –
NO? – Las Vegas prop stop – rec H. Baker [Howard Baker, Senator from Tennessee]
F – press conf – 2 today – re polls
extra – hard drive
Ray A [Possibly Ray Arbuthnot?] – workers told RN [Richard Nixon] – not working as hard as ’60 [1960 Presidential Campaign]
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-ask him about Va. [Virginia]
– talk to Jack Kilpatrick [James J. Kilpatrick, newspaper columnist] (ch B)
column for Star – [illegible] paper
fnd of Buckley’s [William F. Buckley, author and commentator] –
give him honest shake on polls – outlook
-get Sun Times [Chicago Sun-Times newspaper] poll every day
B – [illegible] – can go three releases last couple days
pick out lines to be used in stump speech
Keo themes
– one theme for releases –
– harlow [Bryce Harlow] uncertain trumpet
miscalculation – can lead to wars
– most confused candidate in history
– go back to forgotten American theme
– admitted he can’t get the popular vote
can’t unite his party –
[top left] Add Harlow
– Harlow fly to V.N. [Vietname] – see Goodpaster [Andrew Goodpaster, U.S. Army General]
RN [Richard Nixon] sure military not for it.
– this might make SVN [South Vietnamese] govt. fall
– tomorrow RN [Richard Nixon] blandly say US shld [should] pause [underlined] under conditions J [President Lyndon B. Johnson] laid down in N Orleans [New Orleans]
ie go further than present position
if conditions are not met that J [President Lyndon B. Johnson] laid down then we would approve bomb pause
but H [Hubert Humphrey, Democratic Presidential Candidate for 1968] is wrong in saying pause [underlined] period
to give away our trump card w/o getting this much would be bad
they’re selling out SVN [South Vietnam]– leave new admin to hdl [handle]
make a communist Asia –
wld [would] have to go into Thailand.
Bebe – N [Richard Nixon] mad as hell –
W House staffers (many) [written above: Clifford [Clark Clifford, Presidential advisor], Califano [Joseph A. Califano, Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson] & L. Thompson] are now talking to H [Hubert Humphrey, Democratic Presidential Candidate for 1968] giving info they’re not giving N [Richard Nixon]
thot [thought] that at Al Smith dinner they had an understanding
now is going to blast LBJ [President Lyndon B. Johnson] – Thurs.
(Bebe – our private polls show we lead in every one of critical states.)
talking to H [Hubert Humphrey, Democratic Presidential Candidate for 1968] & working w/ Ball [George Ball, Johnson presidential advisor who opposed escalation of the Vietnam war]
Har – Harlow [Bryce Harlow] – try Burke, Radford, Guenther
find out what’s going on
Les Arends [House Representative from Illinois] – Mel Laird [House Representative from Wisconsin and later Nixon’s Secretary of Defense]
have Dirksen call J [President Lyndon B. Johnson]
Har [Bryce Harlow]– Scranton [William Scranton, former Governor of Pennsylvania] call Vance [Cyrus Vance, former Deputy Secretary of Defense]
heard rumor – N [Richard Nixon] very distressed what’s going on
Har [Harlow] – tell Dirksen if don’t get 3 conditions N [Richard Nixon] will blast bomb halt
Agnew [Spiro T. Agnew, Nixon’s running mate and later Vice President] – go see Helms [Richard Helms, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency] –
tell him we want the truth – or he hasn’t got the job.
10/22
[crossed out] E/Chot.- Kl [Possibly Herb Klein, national communications manager for Nixon’s 1968 Presidential campaign] – Agnew hit on [underlined] popular vote –
[underlined] report mid day – Chot E etc have done
also surrogates –
who handling etc.
– gamesmanship on CBS – feel of our figures.
– Ck Minn. today – late polls?
FL– any results on phone operation
M-G – get G – up TV budget by another million because Dems tendency to blitz & they now have the $
G – be sure our spots are now effective
Moore strongly against W. Wallace
– have screening?
gut issues – hitting strong enuf [enough]
have to step up –
? raised $300M for one 5-min Dem spot
Chot-Kl [?] – in South – danger that H’s [Hubert Humphrey, Democratic Presidential Candidate for 1968] going to be Pres.
— [illegible] attack on popular vote
E – popular vote attack on HH [Hubert Humphrey, Democratic Presidential Candidate for 1968]
F – step up pollsmanship
1st step – local state chmn [chairman]– put out their [illegible] run optimism deal in terms of press
esp. Charlie [possibly Charles Colson, counsel to candidate Nixon’s Key Issues Committee, and later Special Counsel to President Nixon] – talking to press
– not much more for RN [Richard Nixon] to do
will hit hard – hope for the best
M – keep grinding – don’t let them let up.
put out some of [illegible] polls – as local polls
but as ORC [Opinion Research Corporation] poll – Missouri –
Klein [Herb Klein] – what papers talked to – [illegible] on book – etc.
report
– esp. concerned re G. & TV – feels not tough enuf. [enough]
P. Hitt [Patricia Reilly Hitt, longtime Nixon supporter and later Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon administration] – get reading on bumper strip day
Kl [Herb Klein] run something on what was done
– ride hard on Rhyne [possibly Charles Rhyne, a Nixon classmate at Duke University Law School] & P. Hitt –
get on people to get to work
Pat [possibly Patricia Hitt] skip mtgs [meetings] & stuff – just ride on our troops.
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T
VC [?]– want to know today what ORC time lag is
– how far behind is report from field work
is this wave the last –
or do we get something next Thurs.
& need to know when the thing is through
Check Tex. & Minn.
