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Around the White House, Haldeman is noted for his discipline and dedication to duty, traits acquired from his grandfather, who in 1922 founded an anti-Communist organization named the Better America Foundation, and a father whose abiding interest was the Salvation Army. His organizational talents appeared early: when he was 14, Haldeman turned the family's Toluca Lake, Calif., home into a summer camp for neighborhood children. Later, while at U.C.L.A. (B.S. in business administration), he managed the unsuccessful campaign for student body vice president of Jeanne Fisher, John Ehrlichman's wife...
...Haldeman joined the advertising firm of J. Walter Thompson in 1949, just as the Alger Hiss trial was in full swing, and again found himself under the spell of a crusading Nixon. By 1956 he had joined Nixon as an advance man and within four years, he was chief of the advance men in the presidential campaign. "I labeled him the chief of the frogmen because he and his crew were always hopping about," says Herb Klein. "His wife collects artificial frogs even...
Bacharach and Guitars. Haldeman's dedication to work carries over into his private life. Like Nixon, he is a stereo music fan, and prefers to work at home for an hour or two each evening with Burt Bacharach or guitar music in the background. Photography is his passion. He began shooting movies of the President and big state events last year with a camera he bought in a Bonn PX, and has since virtually filmed Nixon's every step. What socializing Haldeman does tends to be with like-minded members of the Administration. His closest friend in Washington...
...those gathered at U.C.L.A. to witness Haldeman's acceptance of the Alumnus of the Year award, the speaker's tongue-in-cheek hypothesis was good for a chuckle or two. But coming from a member of an Administration more noted for hostility to the press than for intentional humor, the Eastern Establishment Media-cabal theory was certain to be taken seriously by many Americans. It took the White House to set matters straight, in a statement that described Haldeman's fantasy as "jesting...
Others chuckled at Haldeman and responded in kind-with humor. Ted Lewis, Washington columnist of the dis-Establishmentarian New York Daily News, wrote a parody of the Haldeman speech. Wrote Lewis: "It is hard to believe, but once a week, as we get it, a gaggle of presidential aides meets secretly on how best to sell whatever Nixon policy is in trouble at the time. This group may be called the Secret Six. [The] closed-door conferees on image problems don't end their huddle until there is agreement on what is known as 'the password...