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Gabi Hayes

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16. from last paragraph in your link: Fred Malek! from what sarcophagus did they exhume that nazi?
Sun Jun 19, 2016, 12:21 AM
Jun 2016

here:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2011/04/malek_talks.html

When Malek was White House personnel chief, President Richard Nixon told him (via chief of staff H.R. Haldeman) to compile a list of all the Jews who worked at the BLS. (Yes, the 37th president of the United States was certifiable. He was also—despite his strong support for the state of Israel—an anti-Semite in an era when anti-Semitism was fast disappearing. For audio evidence, see "Tape snippet: July 3, 1971, on Jews in the Federal Government.&quot Malek obliged; he counted up all the Jews in the BLS and sent Nixon the number. That's the part of the story Malek cops to. Here is how Malek tells it in the Nixon Library's oral history:

lots more at the link.....well worth a read

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