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...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...
...Malek kept all potentially incriminating evidence a comfortable 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...
...later stage in the questioning, when Hamilton and others bore down on him about a memo he issued to John Mitchell about grants and special contract agreements for black groups that would in return support the Nixon campaign, exactly where the memo came from again slipped Malek's mind. He said...
...testimony is that I do not recall...giving any directions concerning the raising of campaign contributions from black grants or contract receipts...It [the memo] does say "From Fred Malek to John Mitchell." I do not recall signing or sending or reading this particular memorandum...I do not recall...