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...picture of Malek that emerges from the committee questioning is one of a shrewd operator who, although his involvement seems awfully suspect, managed unlike his colleagues to avoid any traceable connection to illegal activities...
...Malek began to report to Haldeman on plans for a "responsiveness" program in 1971, about a year after he came to his post as White House personnel aide from a term as under-secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...Malek made his intentions for "responsiveness" clear in a December 23, 1971 memo to Haldeman--through pressure from the White House he planned to use federal departments to provide political favors and exact punishment. In a section of a memo headed "Politicizing the Executive Branch," Malek wrote Haldeman...
...same memo, Malek suggested, "next, we will form a task force in each Department chaired by the Under-Secretary and containing the politically reliable Assistant Secretaries and sub-Agency heads...
Then, when Malek pushed this general plan harder with Haldeman in a memo early in 1972, naming names of the people he thought would "ride herd" on the White House efforts, Haldeman began to warn him to stay clean. "You should try to stay almost completely out of this except at very top level," Haldeman scribbled on the memo. He underlined Malek's suggestion that his staff members carry out "Patronage and Personnel" responsiveness action "with a minimal amount of direction" from Malek himself...