Sarah Palin aide Fred Malek helped former President Richard Nixon dump Jews from government

[RamboLiberal]

Source: NY Daily News


A top adviser to GOP star Sarah Palin was once dispatched by ex-President Richard Nixon to sweep Jews out of government service, newly released tapes show.

Nixon aide Fred Malek's role as what Democrats call a "Jew counter" for the disgraced President was already well known, and he has spent decades apologizing for activities that later cost him a Republican National Committee job in the 1980s. But he remains a prominent GOP powerbroker.

"The government is full of Jews," Nixon griped to chief aide H.R. Haldeman in a July 1971 Oval Office recording released by the University of Virginia's Miller Center on Thursday. "Most Jews are disloyal."

The Republican President, who resigned amid the Watergate scandal in 1974, said he wanted Malek in charge of cleaning Jews out of "any sensitive areas."

"We've got to get a man in charge who is not Jewish to control the Jewish - do you understand?" Nixon said.


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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Talk about ironic . . . . Jews used to say Israel's "best friend" was Nixon.

BLS controversy

In 1971, Richard Nixon became convinced the Bureau of Labor Statistics had come under the control of Democratic rivals and what Nixon termed a "Jewish cabal." He instructed aides Charles Colson and H. R. Haldeman to identify a list of Democrats and "important Jewish officials" at the agency.<10>

Malek provided the data on Democrats after a check of voter registration rolls, but balked at fulfilling the rest of Nixon's query. "I refused four times. The fifth time he came back and gave me a direct order through Haldeman, so I gave him a number. I regret my compliance. It was a mistake."<11> Two months after he sent the list, two of the officials on it were reassigned to "less visible jobs" within the Labor Dept.<12> Slate columnist Timothy Noah, however, asserts that a September 8, 1971 memo from Malek to Haldeman appears to contradict Malek's assertions of limited involvement, in which Malek states he has recommended to the Secretary of Labor "fairly drastic moves" including the "compromise" reassignment of three officials.<10>

Seymour D. Reich, chairman of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations during the 1990s, said "Malek made a mistake 18 years ago when he agreed to a regrettable request by President Nixon." But he added, Malek "has taken pains to assure the Jewish community that he realizes his error and that he intended no harm. I believe he is sincere."<13>


P.S. One more reason not to like Malek: deputy director of Nixon's re-election campaign (CREEP).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Malek

[11cents]

4. Uh, yeah, I used to hear Jews say that all the time.

Every time I visited my family: "Israel's best friend is Nixon." It's practically all I heard them say, as a matter of fact.

(Most Jews were and are Democrats and hated Nixon back in the day. That is, the ones who were actually human beings instead of components of the uniform entity known as "Jews" who "used to say ....")

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[no_hypocrisy]

8. It's a mistake to confuse Jews with Israel. There isn't a unanimous opinion about Zionism.

BTW, welcome to DU.

[aquart]

18. Another one who doesn't believe Israel has the right to exist.

How nice.

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. Sarah Palin Aide?

I thought he was Bob McDonnell's appointee.

McDonnell says he didn't know of Fred Malek's Nixon work, SEC settlement

[leftynyc]

12. Which Jews are you talking about?

My parents, along with the rest of our neighborhood, had a fucking party when he resigned. I've seen more disinformation on this site this week than in the 8 years I've been here.

[aquart]

19. My stepdad was a deep, red-hating conservative.

Not sure if he was that way before some stuff he'd ordered was confiscated by Castro, but the VietNam years were hell at our dinner table.

About 48 hours before Nixon resigned, he admitted that Nixon might have committed some crimes. It took that long.

So yeah, there were Jews who approved of Nixon. Not by the end, though. In my house.

[LeftishBrit]

2. Yikes. How nuts. But then anything to do with Sarah Palin is nuts.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Sigh. Republicon Family Pharisee Values. Again.

Ptooey.

[defendandprotect]

5. Yes, this is the sexist, racist, homophobic wing of the GOP...and there's only one wing!!

[Towlie]

7. I found a scrap of paper that says "Kissinger". Should I toss it in the memory hole?

[Renegades of Funk]

11. For Israel before she was against it?

[Doctor_J]

13. Don't tell William Kristol or Mark Levin about this

Stupid is their girl

[SoapBox]

14. How typical of St. Sarah QuitterMcMoneyWhore to...

put people like this around her.

[DavidDvorkin]

15. Israel is a useful, far away symbol

American Jews are uncomfortably close and disturbing.

That's the dichotomous mindset of the modern conservative.

[fatbuckel]

16. Keep dragging her back into the news. People must love her.

[Democat]

17. Why does Sarah Palin hate Israel?

And America?

[cali]

20. Why do so many people here consistently conflate Jews and Israel?

[Obamaknowzz]

21. Malek was on GHWBush's 1988 campaign and resigned....

along with a number of Nazi's:

Old Nazis, the new right, and the Republican party - Google Books Result
Russ Bellant - 1991 - Political Science - 148 pages
... Laslo Pasztor, Frank Stella, ... Bush adviser Fred Malek resigned from the Bush campaign after the Washington Post identified him as having compiled ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0896084183...

See p. 26 for list of Nazis on GHWBush's staff.
Coalition of American Nationalities was a subunit of the Republican Heritage groups and these known Nazi resigned from Bush's campaign in 1988:

Walter Melionovich

Frank Stella

Anna Chennault--she was interviewed by 60 minutes on Oct. surprise 1968

Laslo Pasztor

Radi Slavoff

Florian Galdau

Philip A Giorino

Ivan Docheff