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...clues as to why it was dropped. He says the administration was preoccupied with antiwar dissent, the success of the September 15 Moratorium, the October 15 Moratorium in particular. Magruder's first job was to work on this, working for Haldeman with the aid of a memo from Dwight Chapin, which he gives in his book. The memo begins, "If the president decides to announce escalation on November 3, it will then be hard to contain the November 15 Moratorium...
What could that possibly mean? The only discussion going on then was how big a cut would he come out with. Astonishment that he announced no cut in that particular speech. He sure didn't announce escalation. But that's what he was considering. And I think that Chapin gives a hint as to why they decided to postpone that. I think, in short, that Moratorium program that looked like a liberal thing and certainly did not look effective at the time, because it didn't get him out--I think it seems to have derailed a plan to mine...
...support of a belief that the 1969 moratoriums induced the administration to put off escalation plans, he cited a memo from presidential appointments secretary Dwight Chapin to Magruder, published in Magruder's book, in which Chapin said that a November 3 presidential announcement of escalation would make it "hard to contain" the moratorium scheduled for November...
...There was astonishment that Nixon announced no troop cut in that particular speech," Ellsberg told the Niemans. "He sure didn't announce escalation--but that's what he was considering. And I think that Chapin gives a hint as to why they decided to postpone that...
...Mitchell, warning that "any suggestion of the introduction of political influence into the IRS would be very damaging to him [Nixon] and his Administration, as well as to the revenue system and the general public interest." Thrower said he next got a call from Nixon's appointments secretary, Dwight Chapin, who reported that Mitchell had passed along Thrower's complaint and therefore no conference with the President was necessary. "Thereupon," said Thrower, "I submitted my resignation...