Word: malek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort of expected to see this guy brandishing a meat cleaver and wearing a string of shrunken heads around his waist," Jim Hayden '77, the head of this year's student advisory board, says. The board knew all about Malek, of course--about his responsiveness program and his appearances before the Senate Watergate Committee's closed sessions--and they were conscious of the controversy Malek might arouse. "But we found Malek really isn't like we expected; he's very competent in management and makes a good impression," Hayden says. "We thought things would go all right...
Hildy Simmons, a member of Malek's study group and a Kennedy School of Government student, also says she knew about Malek and "responsiveness." So what did she think when she saw his name posted among the study group leaders? "I thought it was sort of amusing--peculiar. But I guess everybody's opinion has to be heard," she says. Besides, Simmons says that Malek leads a good study group...
...then, is Fred V. Malek? Was he indeed a hatchet man under H.R. Haldeman who devised schemes to illegally circumvent the Civil Service and other federal departments in rewarding Nixon's friends and punishing his enemies. Did he con the Ervin Committee when he denied having authorized a White House grantmanship proposal drawn up by his staff, which he himself admitted would have proved illegal if implemented? Let's call this dossier number one on Fred Malek...
However, according to dossier number two on Malek (prepared largely by Malek himself) he is at heart a can-do management expert who, he claims, spent only about one per cent of his time on "responsiveness" while at the White House and CREEP. Watergate was the last strand in a web that entrapped an efficiency-minded businessman and his brilliant ideas, according to this picture. Malek was, he points out, one of the few Nixon aides to avoid indictment. "I still don't think anything I did was illegal," he says...
James Hamilton, a southern lawyer who questioned Malek closely in Ervin Committee executive sessions as assistant majority counsel, knows the book on Malek as well as anyone. Hamilton says that all the suspicious information on Malek's role in the White House and "responsiveness" lies in the Senate Hearing reports...