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15. Fred Malek?!

DUers of a certain (ahem) age should recognize that name. Hatchet man in the Nixon administration, Malek was the man who acquiesced to Nixon's obsession with Jews in figuring out who was Jewish in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS kept putting out accurate jobs and other economic figures that showed what a failure Nixonomics was, and Nixon was incensed with the liberal bias of the facts. Malek provided Nixon and his dark twin henchmen Haldeman and Ehrlichman with the ammunition they needed to oust two veterans of the Bureau, and presumably cow those remaining.

Malek was also the eager hack who carried out Nixon's desire to see more politicization at government agencies, so that the bureaucracy more closely reflected the philosophy of the Executive. Malek's standard excuse for his involvement in all kinds of chicanery is to plead that he wasn't that involved, and he was in no position to stop whatever was going on. It's served him well throughout his crooked career, and it looks like it will carry him through the present campaign. May it be his last, and this career agent of corruption can leave the halls of government forever.