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...left Washington disappointed--had high aims--but I am not disillusioned," Malek says now. "And if I had it all to do over, I'd go into politics, again. I think it's a fascinating experience...
...Watergate Committee concluded in its report that, while the responsiveness program strained the limits of legality in its treatment of grants and personnel hiring, there was no hard evidence to incriminate Malek himself. Malek will tell you today he feels no qualms about his government experience (he served as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget after leaving CREEP) and that his only regret is that he was not able to implement the hard-nosed managerial programs that he envisioned in 1969 as a headstrong young HEW undersecretary...
...Malek's clipped, matter-of-fact insistence that Watergate didn't effect him or his outlook much reflects the Malek of dossier number two: an arch-typical straight arrow who sped up an upwardly mobile path in the military and in business, and found that political realities cramped his style and ultimately dragged him down into a quagmire he says he didn't see forming...
After graduating from West Point in 1957 and serving in the Green Berets, Malek attended Harvard Business School. "I had the good judgment to pick Harvard and Harvard had the good judgment to pick me," Malek will tell...
When he received his business degree, Malek bided his time working for a management consultant firm in Los Angeles while he shopped around on the side for a business of his own--a business in which he could, as a student said he put it in study group, "find true manhood and success" by being his own boss...