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Later in the week, Nixon addressed by phone some 2,500 diehard supporters who were attending a rally in Washington, B.C., that Korff had organized. Said the President: "Rabbi Korff s eloquence, his intelligence, his dedication, have been a great source of strength to me and all of us in these difficult times." In reply, Korff told the President: "We love you dearly." He brushed away a tear as he hung up the receiver...
Bizarre Plot. Some members of the President's inner circle, however, are a bit embarrassed by the genially egotistic rabbi. He also seems to be a bit of an embarrassment to other Jews. Last week Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, denounced him as "an apologist for rampant immorality [who] aspires to out-Watergate Watergate in the name of fair play...
Korff was born in the Ukraine, the son of a rabbi; his mother was shot during a pogrom. During World War II, Korff was a member of a group that bribed the Nazis to allow some Jews to leave Germany. After the war Korff was involved with the terrorist Stern gang, which fought to oust the British from Palestine. In 1947 he was arrested by the French for allegedly taking part in a bizarre plot to bomb London with propaganda leaflets attacking the British stand on Palestine. He denied any wrongdoing and the French later released him without trial...
Good Rapport. In the early '50s Korff became what he calls "a smalltown rabbi" while living in Rehoboth, Mass. Last summer, after his retirement (he suffers from a heart ailment), Korff determined to counter what he considered unfair attacks on Nixon. Starting with $1,000 that he had put aside for his and his wife's vacation, the rabbi began soliciting contributions and taking out ads supporting the President in some 25 newspapers round the country. Korff claims that his committee now has a membership of 2 million Americans who have given $1,000,000 to the cause...
...President and the rabbi seem to have developed a good rapport. At one point, the rabbi says, he told the President: "Had I been you, I would have made a bonfire and burned the tapes." Nixon's reply: "Where were you eight months...