CONFIDENTIAL TO: Governor Clements FROM: Jim Francis DATE: August 24, 1982 RE: Jim Collins Peter and I feel that we must come up with a few nice things for you to say for the record about Jim Collins: 1. Long time family relationship between you and his family. 2. He's had a lifetime of service to his colimunity, state and country. 3. Collins is a conservative. Bentsen is not a conservative. 4. Collins is a hardworking, tireless campaigner. You may have some other ideas of things you can say nice about Collins without getting into his race. However, we feel it is important to our election that you not appear anti-Jim Collins.
