I advised Ken Cole on July 24 that he, Ehrlichman, and
Harper could be briefed by Bob Teeter on the issue
information from the Wave II campaign polls. On July 26,
Cole confirmed that the three had not been able to set
a time for Teeter. On July 28, Tod Hullin said he would
try to schedule Ehrlichman with Teeter some time this
week. You may want to mention the availability of the
polling information directly to Mr. Ehrlichman as he
may want to consider the information as he completes the
Platform drafting.

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1) Kalmbach met with John Connally and will help him raise 1,000, thereby raising Kalmbach's quota to 11,000. Tom Watson will help Kalmbach.

2) Kalmbach hand delivered the Tom Jones, President of Northrop, letter to me on August 9. The request for the President to address the Los Angeles World Affairs Council has been sent to Parker. A response for your signature is attached at Tab A.

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Recommendation:

That Kalmbach's request that Jones stay on the Times-
Mirror Board of Trustees through November 7 not be changed

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Kalmbach reports that the "mysterious Mr. Finch" has asked to see him this weekend in California. Kalmbach expects the subject to be money but will decline any request for assistance.

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4) Magruder and Malek submitted to Clark MacGregor the budget decision memorandum attached at Tab B. No decision had been reached by MacGregor by August 11. A full budget committee meeting will probably be held next week. You may want to review the entire memorandum and discuss it with the Ehrlichman Political Group. The basic dispute concerns a cut in the advertising budget to increase the field operation and still stay within the Stans imposed 40,000 overall limit on the campaign. In addition to field expenses, Magruder and Malek cite several campaign areas where costs have exceeded budget projections. The most substantial items are direct mail (1,000); surrogate advance office (500); and voter bloc advertising (200). Magruder and Malek have included a 90 increase attributable to you (polling/ORC-40 and Chapin/Walker "Presidential appearance fund" - 50) to bolster their argument to MacGregor.

Advertising gets cut the most. The campaign spending legislation permits 14,000 in media expenditures, the original budget provided for 12,100, and if the campaign budget stays at 40,000, the advertising budget would be 6,200.

On a related budget matter, MacGregor has agreed to permit modest (300) joint advertising by local committees so that local Republican candidates can use the President's name in their advertisements. This authorization is required by the campaign spending legislation.

Len Garment

You have a copy of the Len Garment/Paul Weaver proposal to
recruit 25-30 top Democratic intellectuals with national
reputations. These intellectuals would run ads in The
New York Times and Washington Post to explain their dis-
agreements with McGovern. The cost would be 25,000 and
the decision is pending with MacGregor. 1701 also has a
Citizens organization that focuses on the second level
types, i.e. teachers and professors without national repu-
tations.

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1) The John Rollins/Tom Evans fundraising project for Senators, Governors, and Congressmen has been dropped.

2) The updated Dent analyses of Kansas and Iowa indicate the President retains his strength and should carry both states in the election. Dent's analysis of Missouri indicates the President should carry the state by an appreciable margin in light of the Eagleton affair. In Hawaii, the President is getting stronger though Dent does not yet predict a victory (copies of the analyses are attached at Tab C).

Tom Benham

ORC prepares an electoral vote projection system on their computer each election. The system Benham will establish fat no cost) for 1972 is described in the memorandum attached at Tab D. Basically, the system relies on all available polling data (which I help him obtain), past voting behavior, and Benham's "judgment".

Bob Ellsworth

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You talked with Taft Schreiber about the importance of
having a full-time organizational and fundraising man in
the Wall Street area... You asked me to check who was
working with Bob Ellsworth from 1701. Magruder had met
with Ellsworth and obtained the memorandum attached at
A check with Magruder on August 10 indicated
at Ellsworth is not being as active politically as
Colson had been led to believe. Second, there is no
fundraising occurring. Ellsworth never planned on doing
it, and Stans has specifically directed that no one
besides the two he has assigned to New York are to raise
money. You will recall that Schreiber characterized Stans'
two as very lazy and incapable of raising 1,000 out of a
10,000 potential. If Schreiber's suggestion of using
Gus Levy to raise funds in New York is to be implemented,
you will probably have to discuss the subject with Stans
personally. talking paper is attached at Tab

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Colson confirms /

John Connally

Magruder met with John Connally for 2 1/2 hours with
Peter Dailey and Bob Morgan on August 8 and 9. They
reviewed the Democrats for Nixon ads that will appear
next Wednesday, August 16. Magruder and Dailey have
been advised that you want to see the advertisements
before they are submitted to Connally so that you are
not in the position of reviewing materials already
approved by Connally.

There will be a direct mailing on Monday, August 14 if
the text is approved by Connally. According to Magruder,
Connally became somewhat upset when a "hassle over the
budget" for Democrats for Nixon developed with Stans,
Connally called Magruder and demanded a memorandum in
writing from Stans stating that 1701 would pay for the
mailing in the approximate amount of 1,000. The sum is
large and to be negotiated but is not an increase in the
campaign budget. Rather, the mailing will be part of
the revised mailing plan to ethnic Democrats. Magruder
obtained the memorandum, and Connally asked that Magruder
be his prime contact at 1701.

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Committee for the Re-Election of the President

(a) Peter Dailey requests an opportunity to present the bulk of the "finished" newspaper, radio, and TV ads and commercials for the campaign. This presentation would also cover the November Group's "media plan" based

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on several possible budget decisions. Dailey will undoubtedly
ask for your help in increasing the advertising budget within
the campaign. The entire prèsentation would take two hours,
with Peter Dailey, Phil Joanou, and Bill Taylor. On Tuesday,

August 15 the President is tentatively scheduled to meet
with the CIEP at 113 a.m. for 45 minutes and other miscel-
laneous appointments until 12:30 p.m. The presentation would
be given in your office or in the Roosevelt Room.

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