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Malek made his intentions for "responsiveness" clear in a December 23, 1971 memo to Haldeman--through pressure from the White House he planned to use federal departments to provide political favors and exact punishment. In a section of a memo headed "Politicizing the Executive Branch," Malek wrote Haldeman...
Then, when Malek pushed this general plan harder with Haldeman in a memo early in 1972, naming names of the people he thought would "ride herd" on the White House efforts, Haldeman began to warn him to stay clean. "You should try to stay almost completely out of this except at very top level," Haldeman scribbled on the memo. He underlined Malek's suggestion that his staff members carry out "Patronage and Personnel" responsiveness action "with a minimal amount of direction" from Malek himself...
...same memo, Malek, thinking big, suggested that Nixon might hold a cabinet meeting (possibly after the China trip, he said) to discuss the responsiveness program. Haldeman, however, tactfully rebuffed the zealous Malek from bringing his program too close to the Oval Office doorstep. "Don't worry about a Cabinet meeting," Haldeman wrote beside the suggestion...
Through the first stages of the program's implementation, Malek's name continued to appear on responsiveness up-dates to Haldeman. In one, he authored a special favor arranged for Sen. John Tower (D-Tex.), who was then pumping Texas oil money into the Nixon campaign...
...distance from himself. At one point, Sen. Joseph Montoya (D-N.M.) pressed Malek about the potential illegality of a grantsmanship proposal coming out of his office. Malek admitted that the proposal was potentially illegal, but he insisted that a staff member wrote it and said he forgot whether Haldeman had ever seen the proposal...