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Right, but they needed a Catholic, so Fred Malek, who surfaced here as a fellow at the Institute of Politics in '75, got all enthused about Claude Brinegar, the president of Union Oil of California, young and Catholic and from the West Coast, Malek said. According to Haldeman, Nixon wasn't so sure. "His name doesn't sound Catholic to me." But Malek assured him that "he's Irish too." So after two weeks in office, Brinegar, the Irish Catholic appointee, revealed that he was a German Presbyterian...
...Malek found his wish come true in the form of a sagging tool manufacturing business in Orangeburg, South Carolina, called the Triangle Corporation. To this day Malek beams as he relates how he applied hard-nosed management techniques to turn a $1-million deficit into a $1-million profit in his few years in Orangeburg...
Since he left government, one might say Malek has wrung the maximum marginal return from his experience there. His selection as a study group leader, in fact, was based partly, Hayden says, on an article Malek published in the Fall 1972 Harvard Business Review called "Mr. Executive Goes to Washington." In the article, Malek says he will relate "the political and bureaucratic quicksands" that confront businessmen, and shows how "some former businessmen have avoided entrapment and carried out their programs relatively successfully...
Fifty-five people showed up at Malek's first study group to hear what he calls his "war stories." "There's definitely a demand for Malek here," Hayden says. "Hell, I mean whatever you say about Nixon you've got to admit he tried some new things...
...perhaps students today would rather hear Fred Malek than harrass him. Maybe the take-charge Malek of dossier number two fascinates them more than the controversial Malek of dossier number one. Even Hildy Simmons, who charges Malek with "selective memory lapses" about his White House role, says she guesses it's important "to know the enemy...