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b) The Attorney General agrees that Timmons should continue to act as Chairman of Magruder's task force on the RNC Convention;

c) The Timmons memorandum for Magruder on hotel accomodations, transportation, and seating is attached at Tab A per your request;

d) The Ehrlichman and Timmons recommendations for Convention Appointments is attached with a talking paper for the Attorney General at Tab B.

a) Magruder will attempt to implement Buchanan's suggestions
for Muskie's trip to Chicago and Milwaukee this weekend.
The suggestions include: Black pickets with "Conyers for
President", "No Bigots for President", etc.; leaflets in
the South Side encouraging demonstrations at the Hilton
where Muskie will speak; letters to Chicago papers, and
an Ogilvie statement hitting Muskie on his black Vice
Presidential statement and pro-busing stand;

b) The Attorney General cancelled the "political meeting" with Rumsfeld, Kleindienst, LaRue, Flemming, and Magruder. I shall attend when it is again on the Attorney General's schedule;

c) Press policy at the Committee for the Re-Election of the President includes: Francis Dale as the official for quotation spokesman; the Attorney General or Magruder in a minor situation" will determine whether or not Magruder should talk with the press on a background basis; any involvement by the Attorney General is denied; no one besides Magruder may speak with the press; Martha Mitchell receives help from the Committee because the Committee would "help any key Republican"; Nunn and Sloan are raising day-to-day expenses only; a Committee Press Spokesman will be added in January.

4) Harry Dent's Recommendations are as follows

a The Vice President should sign the Gerald Ford Congressional Committee fund raising letter if the draft were changed to delete the negativism and hucksterism;

b) Congressman Jim McClure should receive White House
support in his attempt to replace Jordan of Idaho in 1972.
The Vice President's office (Art Sohmer) has been advised;

what does that imply?

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c) He is increasingly concerned that the Attorney General is not spending enough time on the hard organizational decisions: Harry Flemming is doing only the most obvious, lightweight work; the "political meetings" (last one held on June 30) are not reaching decisions; there are no regional men active yet, etc. Dent believes that the Attorney General is just too busy with his Justice, domestic policy, and NSC responsibilities. He has no "political staff" at Justice and is simply inundated with pending Campaign decisions submitted by Magruder. Subjects that you have raised with the Attorney General that indicate he is too busy include: state by state Campaign leader dinners, recommendations on state leader assignments, and a strategy for the primaries.

Magruder concurs that the Attorney General is too busy and has not been able to focus on the accumulating hard Campaign decisions.

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2) Secretary Stans met with Hugh Sloan, Lee Nunn, and Herb
Palmbach on September 29. They reviewed Stans' fourteen points
oncerning financial control of the Campaign. Stans sent
Hugh Sloan to the Attorney General with fourteen points and
he joint Attorney General-Stans decisions are:

1} The Budget Committee will have representatives
om the Finance Committee for the Re-Election of
the President, but the Campaign Chairman makes the
final decisions;

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Any Citizens organization will be merely a division

of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President.
instead of an independent unit;

d) There will be no fund raising activities until
after the November 9 RNC dinners. The RNFC will be
controlled by the Finance Committee for the Re-
Election of the President beginning November 10 or
January 1 depending on a decision to be made by the
Attorney General and Stans at a later date;

Hugh Sloan is acting Chairman of the Finance
Committee for the Re-Election of the President until
Stans decides to accept the post or an interim
Chairman (General Clay or Tom Patton) is chosen;

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£) The Attorney General is currently retaining
complete financial control, exercised through Hugh
oan until Stans decides whether to accept or reject
the position of Finance Chairman for the Campaign.

q)

Preliminary budgets for the Committee for the
Re-Election of the President ($23,000,000) and for
the Finance Committee ($3,000,000) have been sub-
mitted to Stans but not put in final form for review
by you and the Attorney General yet.

2) The Vice President's re-drafted fund raising letter for the Congressional Committee will go out on October 9.

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4) Colson sent you a memorandum noting a Justice Department Anti-Trust Division investigation of the milk producers association exemption, which was upheld by the District of Columbia Federal District Court in 1956. John Dean verified the report. Colson urges his own non-involvement.

Lee Nunn forwarded a letter from John Rarick (D-La.) to Secretary Hardin about a new merger of milk producers and what type of control is to be exerted.

The subject is covered in paragraph 2 of the talking paper for the Attorney General.

Harry Dent Matters

1) The Attorney General called Harry Dent to say that "the Zampaign organization in the key states has not yet been developed to the point where we could be sure of having the right people there." (At Key state dinners at the White House.) The immediate result is that the October 21 dinner for the New York people has been indefinitely postponed. The Attorney General doubts whether any Key state dinners can be held before January 1, 1972. Dave Parker is preparing a memorandum tracing

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the Presidential request for these dinners back to February

1971.

2) Also, the Attorney General advises that any Presidential
eception for members of the RNC should be delayed until
the spring.

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A young Aide to Senator Gurney mistakenly attributed to
Harry Dent statements about Gurney's Vice Presidential
'opportunities.

4) At the Delaware reception on October 5, John Rollins talked
to the President about a fourth party situation. The President
called Dent and told him to have Rollins meet with you and
perhaps the Attorney General. The subject is presumably the
fanding of the black candidate project that the President
discussed with you on the Spirit of '76 while returning from
Alaska.

Arrange meeting for Haldeman, the Attorney General and
John Rollins

Arrange conference telephone call for Haldeman, the
Attorney General and John Rollins

Other

John Dean

Father McLaughlin will hold a fundraising dinner in Rhode Island on November 4. When you asked John Dean to turn off the project, it was too far along letters of invitation had already been sent. Dean did talk with Father McLaughlin, but did not accept Dean's advice to stop the project. In addition, Ray Price told Dean "not to worry, " that there would be no incidents, and that the event would be held "with restraint."

Murray Chotiner

Magruder

Magruder reports that the Attorney General informed Chotiner that the $1,500 per month services of "Chapman's Friend" would

be terminated,

You received a carbon of a memorandum from Chotiner to the Attorney.
General suggesting that "Lee Nunn, or someone like him", should
be contacting "Governors and Senators and other VIPS".

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