Khachigian, K

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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5em; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em;">Kenneth L. Khachigian (born September 14, 1944, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visalia,_California" title="Visalia, California" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Visalia, California</a>) is an American campaign strategist, speechwriter, and attorney. He was a speechwriter for President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Richard Nixon</a> and was chief speechwriter for President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ronald Reagan</a>.

He is a veteran of nine presidential campaigns. Most recently, he served as a senior advisor to the presidential campaigns of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dole" title="Bob Dole" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bob Dole</a> (1996), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John McCain</a> (2000), and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson" title="Fred Thompson" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Fred Thompson</a>(2008).

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#Personal" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1 Personal</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#Career" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2 Career</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#Work_for_Nixon" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2.1 Work for Nixon</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#Work_for_Reagan" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2.2 Work for Reagan</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#Work_on_California_campaigns" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2.3 Work on California campaigns</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#Work_on_presidential_campaigns" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2.4 Work on presidential campaigns</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#Famous_speeches" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3 Famous speeches</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#In_popular_culture" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4 In popular culture</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#References" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">5 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#External_links" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">6 External links</a></li>

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He sits on the boards of the California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Chamber_of_Commerce" title="California Chamber of Commerce" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">California Chamber of Commerce</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon_Presidential_Library_and_Museum" title="Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSB" title="UCSB" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">UCSB</a> Foundation, the Armenian Eye Care Project, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaigns_and_Elections_Politics_(magazine)" title="Campaigns and Elections Politics (magazine)" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Campaigns & Elections Magazine</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a>

He served on the board of overseers of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Institution" title="Hoover Institution" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Hoover Institution</a> from 1986–1992, as a board member of the Armenian Assembly of America from 1983–1989, and as President Reagan's appointee to the National Institute of Justice advisory board.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a>

He received his BA in political science, with honors, from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Santa_Barbara" title="University of California, Santa Barbara" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">University of California, Santa Barbara</a> in 1966 and his JD from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Law_School" title="Columbia Law School" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Columbia Law School</a> in 1969.

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In January 1970, soon after graduating from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Law_School" title="Columbia Law School" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Columbia Law School</a>, he joined the Nixon Administration as part of the nationals goals research staff. In August 1970, he became staff assistant to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_G.Klein" title="Herbert G. Klein" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Herbert Klein</a>, the director of communications. He became involved in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,1970" title="United States House of Representatives elections, 1970" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1970 congressional midterm elections</a>, writing speeches and preparing political analyses. In the early months of 1971, his assignment was to generate support for specific administration proposals. In the spring of 1971, he was transferred with most of Klein's staff to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson" title="Charles Colson" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Charles Colson</a>, his duties remained unchanged.

By May 1971, Khachigian was working on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,1972" title="United States presidential election, 1972" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1972 Presidential re-election campaign</a>. In a memorandum of May 27, 1971, Buchanan described to the chief of staff, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R._Haldeman" title="H. R. Haldeman" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">H. R. Haldeman</a>, the duties which he proposed to delegate to Khachigian: "... to keep tabs on candidates, to keep the 'relevant' research on hand, to write materials needed to get into hands [sic] of various speakers, to communicate with party leaders and the like in states where opposition candidates appear."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a> By late spring of 1972, he was regarded as the White House's major research source on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern" title="George McGovern" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">McGovern</a> campaign.

In early 1973, Khachigian transferred to the President's speechwriting staff, working under chief speechwriter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gergen" title="David Gergen" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">David Gergen</a>, with the title of deputy special assistant to the President. At first his subject areas of expertise were agriculture, natural resources and the environment, and political and legal affairs. Beginning in June 1973, however, he took on the tasks of researcher and writer on issues and problems evolving from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate" title="Watergate" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Watergate</a> break-in.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a>

Khachigian worked for President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Gerald Ford</a> for two months, until the fall of 1974, before moving to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Clemente,_California" title="San Clemente, California" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">San Clemente, California</a> to write speeches and help Nixon write his presidential memoirs. In 1977, he served as chief researcher for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nixon_Interviews" title="The Nixon Interviews" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Nixon's interview</a> with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Frost" title="David Frost" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">David Frost</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a>

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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5em; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em;">Khachigian joined Ronald Reagan's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,1980" title="United States presidential election, 1980" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1980 presidential campaign</a>, having been recruited by Reagan's campaign manager, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Spencer(political_consultant)" title="Stuart Spencer (political consultant)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Stu Spencer</a>. Khachigian traveled on the campaign plane to punch-up speeches between campaign stops.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_note-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a> He helped coin the term "fatally flawed", which was used throughout the campaign, in reference to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SALT_II" title="SALT II" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II</a> with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Soviet Union</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_note-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[8]</a>

In 1981, Khachigian was named chief speechwriter and special consultant to the President. Within the first 100 days, Khachigian wrote <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Inaugural_address_of_Ronald_Reagan" title="First Inaugural address of Ronald Reagan" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Reagan's inaugural address</a>, his three main economic speeches, and the welcome home to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis" title="Iran hostage crisis" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Iranian hostages</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_note-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[9]</a>

He resigned after six months to return to the private sector in California; however, he would continue to write many of the major political and policy speeches throughout the President's two terms, including the 1984 nomination acceptance speech, the 1985 remarks at the former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp" title="Bergen-Belsen concentration camp" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bergen-Belsen concentration camp</a> in Germany, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Republican_National_Convention" title="1988 Republican National Convention" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1988 Republican National Convention</a> farewell address.

During the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,1984" title="United States presidential election, 1984" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1984 presidential campaign</a>, Khachigian served as chief campaign speechwriter, senior advisor, and director of issues and research.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_note-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[10]</a> He wrote the 1984 nomination acceptance speech and was one of only two campaign aides who accompanied President Reagan aboard <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_One" title="Air Force One" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Air Force One</a>throughout his landslide re-election. Khachigian also, along with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Spencer(political_consultant)" title="Stuart Spencer (political consultant)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Stuart Spencer</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Baker_III" title="James A. Baker III" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">James A. Baker III</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Darman" title="Richard Darman" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Richard Darman</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stockman" title="David Stockman" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">David Stockman</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Deaver" title="Michael Deaver" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Michael Deaver</a>, helped prepare Reagan for his presidential debates with Democrat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Walter Mondale</a>.

In May 1985, Reagan delivered a Khachigian crafted speech at the former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp" title="Bergen-Belsen concentration camp" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bergen-Belsen concentration camp</a> in Germany. In the previous month, the Administration had announced that Reagan would visit the Kolmeshohe Cemetery near <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitburg" title="Bitburg" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bitburg</a>, at the suggestion of Chancellor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Kohl" title="Helmut Kohl" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Helmut Kohl</a> of West Germany, to pay respects to the soldiers interred there. The visit was intended to be symbolic of the goodwill between the two countries, but unbeknownst to the Reagan Administration, 49 of the graves contained the remains of men who had served in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffen-SS" title="Waffen-SS" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Waffen-SS</a>. In an effort to placate the protesters, Reagan added a visit to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp" title="Bergen-Belsen concentration camp" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bergen-Belsen concentration camp</a> to his itinerary. Reagan famously said, "... we can and must pledge: Never again." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">TIME</a> magazine praised the address as a "skillful exercise in both the art of eulogy and political damage control".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_note-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[11]</a> Reagan biographer, Edmund Morris regards this as the best speech of Reagan's career.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_note-12" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[12]</a>

In August 1988, Khachigian drafted Reagan’s farewell address to the Republican National Convention in New Orleans, and then joined the Bush presidential campaign as an aide to vice presidential nominee <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle" title="Dan Quayle" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dan Quayle</a>. He traveled with Quayle for 10 weeks through election day, preparing him for debates and writing campaign speeches.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_note-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[13]</a>

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During the 1982 and 1986 California gubernatorial campaigns, Khachigian was senior adviser and principal strategist for Governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Deukmejian" title="George Deukmejian" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">George Deukmejian</a>. He also served as campaign chairman, campaign manager and senior consultant to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Lungren" title="Dan Lungren" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dan Lungren</a> for his two victories as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Attorney_General" title="California Attorney General" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Attorney General</a> and to U.S. Senate candidate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Herschensohn" title="Bruce Herschensohn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bruce Herschensohn</a> — engineering come-from-behind wins for Lungren’s first campaign and for Herschensohn’s primary victory in 1992. For Herschensohn’s dramatic upset victory, The San Francisco Chronicle’s leading political reporter, Jerry Roberts, described Khachigian as “the wily veteran GOP message-maker” and dubbed him “best manager” for his efforts.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_note-Board_of_Directors:Ken_Khachigian-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[15]</a>

Khachigian counseled <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Wilson" title="Pete Wilson" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Pete Wilson</a> in his winning U.S. Senate and gubernatorial campaigns, and in 1998 guided the successful statewide retention election of California Supreme Court Justice <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_Chin" title="Ming Chin" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ming Chin</a>.

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In addition to his work on the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush-Quayle campaigns, he served as a senior advisor to the Bob Dole, John McCain, and Fred Thompson presidential campaigns.

He served as national senior adviser to presidential nominee <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dole" title="Bob Dole" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bob Dole</a> in 1996. He ran Dole’s California campaign and oversaw all scheduling and issue planning for the state.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_note-17" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[17]</a>

He was a senior adviser traveling with Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John McCain</a> to New Hampshire, South Carolina and California during the primaries, as McCain sought the 2000 Republican Presidential nomination. Subsequently, he served as an adviser to the Bush-Cheney campaign nationally and in California.

Most recently, he served as senior advisor to Fred Thompson's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008" title="United States presidential election, 2008" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2008 presidential campaign</a>.

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Inaugural_address_of_Ronald_Reagan" title="First Inaugural address of Ronald Reagan" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">President Reagan's First Inaugural Address</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Welcome home ceremony remarks for the hostages taken during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis" title="Iran hostage crisis" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Iran hostage crisis</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Acceptance speech at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Republican_National_Convention" title="1984 Republican National Convention" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1984 Republican National Convention</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1985 remarks at the former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp" title="Bergen-Belsen concentration camp" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bergen-Belsen concentration camp</a> in Germany</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Farewell address at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Republican_National_Convention" title="1988 Republican National Convention" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1988 Republican National Convention</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In the 2008 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_drama" title="Historical drama" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">historical drama</a> film based upon <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost/Nixon(play)" title="Frost/Nixon (play)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the play of the same name</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost/Nixon(film)" title="Frost/Nixon (film)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Frost/Nixon</a>, actor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Jarret" title="Gabriel Jarret" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Gabriel Jarret</a> portrays Khachigian, who serves as the lead researcher for the Nixon team.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_note-18" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[18]</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_ref-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a>} <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bhfs.com/People/kkhachigian" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Biography at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck"</a>. Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. Retrieved 2009-01-05.</li>

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<li id="cite_note-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_ref-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a>} <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=13761" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Former A.S. President Recounts Career"</a>. The Daily Nexus. 2007-04-13. Retrieved 2009-01-02.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">dead link</a>]</li>

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<li id="cite_note-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_ref-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a>} <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nixon.archives.gov/forresearchers/find/textual/khachigian.php" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Kenneth L. Khachigian Textual Materials"</a>. Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved 2009-01-05.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">dead link</a>]</li>

<li id="cite_note-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_ref-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a>} Gold, Sylviane (2008-11-02). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/movies/moviesspecial/02gold.html?pagewanted=2&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/N/Nixon,%20Richard%20Milhous" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"The Interview That Was a Play Becomes a Film"</a>. The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-01-04.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_ref-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a>} Cannon, Lou (2000) President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime. PublicAffairs, p. 73.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_ref-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a>} Paterno, Susan (August 16, 1988) "The Speech Writer: OC Man Helps Reagan Bow Out In Style". The Orange County Register, p. A13.</li>

<li id="cite_note-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_ref-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a>} Curtis, Diane (May 9, 1981) "An Ex-White House Speechwriter Compares the Styles of Reagan and Nixon". United Press International.</li>

<li id="cite_note-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_ref-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a>} <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bhfs.com/People/kkhachigian" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Biography at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck"</a>. Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. Retrieved 2009-01-08.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_ref-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a>} Doerner, William R. (May 13, 1985) "Paying Homage to History". Time.</li>

<li id="cite_note-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_ref-12" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a>} Beitiks, Edvins (1999-10-17). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1999/10/17/STYLE15203.dtl&hw=NANCY+REAGAN&sn=009&sc=381" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Embattled Author Braves Enemy Turf"</a>.The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2009-01-08.</li>

<li id="cite_note-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_ref-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a>} <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/02/palin_problem/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah Palin?"</a>. Salon. 2008-10-02. Retrieved 2009-01-08.</li>

<li id="cite_note-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_ref-14" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a>} Marinucci, Carla (2007-06-04). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=17261" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"The Spin Cycle: Thompson Hires Veteran California Pol"</a>. The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2009-01-08.</li>

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<li id="cite_note-16" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Khachigian#cite_ref-16" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a>} <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-141786155.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Thompson On Heels of Frontrunners, Adviser Says"</a>. National Public Radio. 2007-07-19. Retrieved 2009-01-08.</li>

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