Word: malek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, Harvard politicos would have hemmed and hawed and clawed at the turf on learning that Fred V. Malek, a reputed former hatchet man for the Nixon White House, was arriving in Cambridge to give an Institute of Politics seminar. Malek served from 1970 through 1972 as an aide to Nixon in charge of personnel management and later moved on to the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) as deputy director after the Watergate break-in. During this time he organized and ran the Nixon "responsiveness program," which reputedly worked through Federal departments to dole out White House...
...controversial Nixon aide, "communications chief" Clay T. Whitehead, to Cambridge, and the Institute's student advisory board made a huge fuss. But two years ago students were still morally outraged about the sordid revelations that a summer of Senate Watergate hearings had produced. This year, two weeks ago, when Malek arrived to conduct a study group called "Politics and Public Management," no one seemed overly anxious about, or even particularly aware of, Malek's past...
Agnew's staff was slashed 23% (from 39 to 30) as part of Nixon's general Executive cost-cutting operation. The way in which this was done irked Agnew aides. His chief of staff, Arthur Sohmer, got the orders for cutback in a telephone call from Fred Malek, the second-ranking official in the Office of Management and Budget. "Do we have any choice?" Sohmer asked. "No," said Malek. That was that...
...self-made millionaire (from a South Carolina tool company), Malek joined the Administration in 1969 as Deputy Under Secretary of HEW. He soon proved himself a fierce administrator. When Nixon ousted Interior Secretary Wally Hickel for his criticism of the Administration, it was Malek who swept into Hickel's office and told six of his top aides to clear out their desks by the end of the week. After John Mitchell left the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, it was Malek who ran the committee from his post as deputy director...
...chosen by Malek & Co. are in their 30s or 40s, bright and able, although in some cases wholly unfamiliar with the departments to which they have been assigned. By department, the Nixon changes include...