Chotiner

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Chotiner initially registered to vote as a <a title="Democratic Party (United States)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party%28United_States%29">Democrat</a>, but soon switched parties, joining the <a title="Republican Party (United States)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party%28United_States%29">Republicans</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-6">[7]</a> He involved himself in Republican politics, working on <a title="Herbert Hoover" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover">Herbert Hoover</a>'s unsuccessful presidential re-election campaign in 1932.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-morris-3">[4]</a> In 1938, the young attorney ran against longtime Republican incumbent <a title="Charles W. Lyon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W.Lyon">Charles W. Lyon</a> for the California State Assembly. Lyon <a title="Cross-filing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-filing">cross-filed</a> and secured his re-election by winning both <a title="Primary election" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_election">primaries</a>, defeating Chotiner in the Republican poll, and narrowly beating <a title="Robert A. Heinlein" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A.Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a> (who subsequently turned to writing <a title="Science fiction" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction">science fiction</a>) in the Democratic contest.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-7">[8]</a>

When <a title="Earl Warren" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Warren">Earl Warren</a> successfully ran for <a title="Governor of California" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_California">Governor of California</a> in 1942, Chotiner served as his field director.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-friend-8">[9]</a> However, he alienated Warren when, hoping for a favor in light of his 1942 support, he asked the newly inaugurated governor to decline to approve the <a title="Rendition (law)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendition_%28law%29#Rendition_in_the_United_States">extradition</a> of one of his clients to another state.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-9">[10]</a> Warren had Chotiner thrown out of his office,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-10">[11]</a> and the future <a title="Chief Justice of the United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States">chief justice</a> refused to let him have anything to do with his re-election campaign in 1946.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-morris-3">[4]</a>

According to Nixon biographer Earl Mazo, Chotiner stated that while people remembered him for "making" Richard Nixon, "the real man I created was Earl Warren".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-postfriend-11">[12]</a>...When the media discovered that Nixon had received reimbursement for political expenses from a fund set up by a private group, the nominee was severely criticized, and he was pressured to give up his place on the ticket.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-times-2">[</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-times-2">3]</a> Warren supporters, still smarting from the convention, had told reporters about the fund.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-41">[42]</a> Chotiner told Nixon that if he were forced off the ticket, Chotiner would hold a press conference and reveal the behind the scenes machinations that led to the candidate's departure, the ensuing furor being of no consequence to them, as both Nixon and Chotiner would be through in politics.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-maninthenews-0">[1]</a> His spirits revived by Chotiner's loyalty, Senator Nixon delivered the televised Checkers speech, resulting in an outpouring of public support.

After the speech, Nixon was angered at Eisenhower's hesitance to issue a statement backing him, and he dictated a telegram to his secretary, <a title="Rose Mary Woods" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Mary_Woods">Rose Mary Woods</a>, giving up his place on the ticket. Chotiner took the telegram and ripped it up, unsent.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-la-27">[28]</a> Nixon later praised him for his support, "In the whole fund matter, Chotiner was the strongest of all—like a rock."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-42">[43]</a> Eisenhower eventually supported Nixon, and the Republican ticket won a landslide victory in November....

Chotiner was slated to play a major role in the Eisenhower/Nixon re-election bid. However, he had represented two <a title="Atlantic City, New Jersey" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_City,_New_Jersey">Atlantic City</a> clothing manufacturers, the Kravitz brothers, who had been fined and debarred from further government contracts for fraud,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-postobit-5">[6]</a> and on April 25, 1956, a subcommittee of the Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations, looking into military procurement, subpoenaed him to appear before it. The senators wanted to inquire why a New Jersey firm which already had six attorneys would hire a California lawyer, especially one with close ties to Vice President Nixon.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-confer-48">[49]</a>

When Chotiner appeared before the subcommittee on May 2, he testified that he had been retained by the firm when it was seeking to expand to California, that he had conferred with Justice Department attorneys regarding the criminal charges, and that no special favors had been asked or given.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-confer-48">[49]</a> Under questioning by subcommittee counsel <a title="Robert F. Kennedy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F.Kennedy">Robert F. Kennedy</a>, the younger brother of committee member and future president <a title="John F. Kennedy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F.Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>, he also disclosed that he had been retained by New Jersey mobster <a title="Marco Reginelli" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Reginelli">Marco Regnelli</a> in an attempt to stave off a deportation order.

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Chotiner was involved in Nixon's successful 1968 presidential bid, but kept out of the public eye as special assistant to Nixon campaign manager <a title="John N. Mitchell" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N.Mitchell">John Mitchell</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-appoint-67">[68]</a> The California attorney served as liaison between the campaign and 14 Republican state organizations.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-la-27">[28]</a> He was able to place a "mole" on the <a title="Hubert H. Humphrey" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_H.Humphrey" class="mw-redirect">Humphrey</a> campaign press plane;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-mole-68">[69]</a> the agent sent back almost daily reports on off-the-record or unreported comments made by the Democratic candidate and his staff, and evaluations of their morale.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-mole-68">[69]</a> <a title="Kevin Phillips (political commentator)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Phillips_%28political_commentator%29">Kevin Phillips</a> said of Nixon's 1968 presidential run,

<blockquote>[Mitchell] and Murray Chotiner were the real people in the campaign, not the artificial public relations phonies who called Nixon "the product" as if he were some kind of underarm deodorant.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-useful-69">[70]</a></blockquote>

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On January 23, 1974, Chotiner was involved in an automobile accident on <a title="Virginia State Route 123" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_State_Route_123">Virginia State Route 123</a> in McLean, Virginia, by the home of <a title="Massachusetts" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> Democratic Senator <a title="Ted Kennedy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy">Edward M. Kennedy</a>, who heard the collision and called for an ambulance. The attorney suffered a broken leg, but appeared to be recovering. The evening before he was due to be discharged from the hospital, he started gasping uncontrollably, and X-rays revealed a blood clot near the lungs. Treatment was unsuccessful and he died of a <a title="Pulmonary embolism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_embolism">pulmonary embolism</a> at the <a title="Washington Hospital Center" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Hospital_Center">Washington Hospital Center</a> in Washington, D.C. Gerald R. Warren, Nixon's deputy press secretary, stated that President Nixon was "deeply saddened" by the news.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-times-2">[3]</a>

---wiki 6/14<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rise of Richard Nixon (1946–1952)<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-family: sans-serif;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray_Chotiner&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Rise of Richard Nixon (1946–1952)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Congressional races<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray_Chotiner&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Congressional races" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main articles: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_12th_congressional_district_election,1946" title="California's 12th congressional district election, 1946" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">California's 12th congressional district election, 1946</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_California,1950" title="United States Senate election in California, 1950" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Senate election in California, 1950</a></div>One of the first professional <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_manager" title="Campaign manager" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">campaign managers</a>;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMaisel2001321-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a> Chotiner was retained as a political consultant by Nixon's 1946 campaign for Congress against incumbent Representative Jerry Voorhis. He advised linking Voorhis with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">political action committee</a>, believed to be communist-dominated, run by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Industrial_Organizations" title="Congress of Industrial Organizations" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Congress of Industrial Organizations</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorris1990292.E2.80.93293-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a> The consultant was only able to devote a limited amount of time to the Nixon campaign since he was the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California" title="Southern California" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Southern California</a> campaign manager for the successful re-election bid of Republican Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F.Knowland" title="William F. Knowland" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">William F. Knowland</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKatcher1967257-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a> Chotiner coined the campaign slogan, "We will not surrender" for Knowland, implying that Democratic challenger <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers,Jr." title="Will Rogers, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Will Rogers, Jr.</a> would permit communism to take over the country.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorris1990292.E2.80.93293-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a> Both Republican candidates defeated their opponents.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorris1990334-17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a> Two years later, Chotiner served as Southern California campaign manager for the unsuccessful 1948 presidential bid of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_New_York" title="List of Governors of New York" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">New York Governor</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_E.Dewey" title="Thomas E. Dewey" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Thomas E. Dewey</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGellman1999286-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a>
Chotiner had parted ways with Governor Warren, and the popular governor, who was running for a third term, "wanted no part" of the Nixon campaign.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKatcher1967260-23" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[23]</a> Nonetheless, Chotiner sought to maneuver the future chief justice into an endorsement of Representative Nixon.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKatcher1967256.E2.80.93257-24" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[24]</a> Chotiner instructed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Republicans" title="Young Republicans" style="font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Young Republicans</a> head and future congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_F.Holt" title="Joseph F. Holt" style="font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Joseph F. Holt</a> to follow Douglas from appearance to appearance and demand to know who she was supporting for governor.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKatcher1967257-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a> Douglas repeatedly avoided the question, but with four days to go before the election and the Democratic candidate "close to collapse" from the bitter campaign, she responded to the latest Holt needle with her "hope and pray[er]" that Democratic gubernatorial candidate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Roosevelt" title="James Roosevelt" style="font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">James Roosevelt</a> would be elected.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKatcher1967261-25" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[25]</a> A delighted Chotiner had a reporter ask Warren about Douglas's reply, and the governor commented, "In view of her statement, I might ask her how she expects I will vote when I mark my ballot for United States senator on Tuesday."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKatcher1967261-25" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[25]</a> Chotiner publicized this response as an endorsement of Nixon, which Warren did not deny.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKatcher1967261.E2.80.93262-26" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a> Both Warren and Nixon won overwhelming victories on Election Day.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGellman1999335-27" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[27]</a>In September 1949, Nixon hired Chotiner as campaign manager for his upcoming 1950 run for the United States Senate.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorris1990532-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a> Helen Gahagan Douglas defeated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Boddy" title="Manchester Boddy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Manchester Boddy</a> for the Democratic nomination in a primary that badly splintered the Democratic Party, while Nixon had little effective competition for the Republican slot. Chotiner realized that Nixon could not beat Douglas by advocating more social welfare programs, so he advised his candidate to attack Douglas on the issue of communism, seen as a Democratic vulnerability.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPitney200148.E2.80.9349-19" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a> Echoing a theme used by Boddy in the primary, Chotiner linked Representative Douglas with leftist Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Marcantonio" title="Vito Marcantonio" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Vito Marcantonio</a> of the socialist<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Labor_Party" title="American Labor Party" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Labor Party</a>, listing the matters in which the two had voted the same way in a leaflet printed on pink paper—the "Pink Sheet"—and popularizing a label for Douglas<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAmbrose1988215.E2.80.93217-20" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a>which had been first coined by Boddy—the "Pink Lady".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGellman1999299-21" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[21]</a> However, the Northern California campaign chairman for Nixon, John Dinkenspiel, and his paid assistant, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Hancock" title="Harvey Hancock" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Harvey Hancock</a>, declined to use the Pink Sheet in their territory.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFry1980-22" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[22]</a> With the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Korean War</a> raging, Douglas also tried to depict Nixon as soft on communism, stating this in her first speech of the general election campaign, but that strategy was not successful, and Chotiner noted, "She made the fatal mistake of attacking our strength instead of sticking to attacking our weakness."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAmbrose1988215.E2.80.93217-20" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a>Chotiner's strategy in the Nixon congressional races remains controversial. Former congressman Voorhis dubbed himself "the first victim of the Nixon-Chotiner formula for political success".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVoorhis19739-28" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[28]</a> Democrats labeled him a master of dirty tricks who ruthlessly destroyed Douglas's political career by intimating that she was soft on communism.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_Los_Angeles_Times.27.271974-01-31-29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[29]</a> Chotiner's son Kenneth later stated, "I think he really believed [Douglas] was evil ... He would equate a liberal or a Democrat with a communist."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorris1990532-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a> Chotiner himself said of the campaign against Douglas, "We only stated the facts. The interpretation of the facts was the prerogative of the electorate."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBochin199031-30" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[30]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">1952 campaign<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray_Chotiner&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1952 campaign" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers_speech" title="Checkers speech" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Checkers speech</a></div>In 1952, Chotiner served as campaign manager for Knowland. Knowland cross-filed and won both major party primaries, virtually assuring his re-election.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_New_York_Times.27.271956-05-04-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a> The strategist also served as Holt's campaign manager in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_22nd_congressional_district" title="California's 22nd congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">California 22nd Congressional district</a> Republican primary. Senator Nixon endorsed Holt over State Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Tenney" title="Jack Tenney" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jack Tenney</a>, and Chotiner asked Nixon to supply him with Tenney's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee" title="House Un-American Activities Committee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">House Un-American Activities Committee</a> file—the state senator had once had communist leanings, though he had long renounced them. Nixon arranged for Chotiner to get the file, which was supposed to be for Congressional use only, though he apparently made no public use of the file in the campaign. Holt defeated Tenney in the primary, and went on to win the general election.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGellman1999407.E2.80.93408-31" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[31]</a>With the primary completed, Chotiner's attention turned to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Republican_National_Convention" title="1952 Republican National Convention" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1952 Republican National Convention</a> in Chicago. While the California delegation was pledged to Governor Warren, (who hoped to gain the Republican nomination for president in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokered_convention" title="Brokered convention" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">brokered convention</a>), the strategist realized that Nixon's best chance for advancement was in the nomination of General <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D.Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>, who was in a close battle with Senator<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taft" title="Robert Taft" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Robert Taft</a> for the party's nomination.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorris1990672-32" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[32]</a>Chotiner was quietly designated an alternate delegate to the convention as an original alternate had dropped out, and when Governor Warren learned of his selection, he "erupted ... furiously".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorris1990702-33" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[33]</a> Chotiner had volunteered to take care of many of the convention arrangements for the California delegation, and for the Warren campaign headquarters at the Conrad Hilton Hotel. Seeking to avoid a split with Nixon,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorris1990703-34" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[34]</a> who assured Warren that Chotiner was merely there to handle physical arrangements,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTECray1997231-35" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[35]</a> the governor grudgingly allowed Chotiner to retain his roles.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorris1990703-34" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[34]</a> When the California delegation's train arrived in Chicago, the Warren campaign found that the buses which Chotiner had arranged to transport the delegation to its hotel were covered with "Eisenhower for President" banners—which the governor's supporters hastily replaced with Warren signs.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTECray1997235-36" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[36]</a> Chotiner had an extra phone surreptitiously installed in the Warren headquarters so he could quietly communicate the latest developments to Nixon.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorris1990714-37" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[37]</a> He also remained in close contact with Eisenhower aide and future <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_the_United_States" title="Attorney General of the United States" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Attorney General</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Brownell_Jr." title="Herbert Brownell Jr." class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Herbert Brownell</a>. Warren paid a courtesy call on Eisenhower, and later wrote in his memoirs, "Imagine my surprise when the doorkeeper who admitted me to the general's suite was Murray Chotiner."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTECray1997238-38" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[38]</a> Eisenhower was nominated over Taft and Warren in a close, first-ballot victory.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorris1990729-39" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[39]</a> As a final indignity to Warren, it developed that Chotiner had overspent his budget, forcing the governor and others to pay hotel expenses from their own pockets.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlack2007209-40" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[40]</a>Despite Chotiner's maneuvering for Nixon, the senator was still uncertain if he should take the vice-presidential slot if offered. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Nixon" title="Pat Nixon" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Pat Nixon</a> wanted her husband to decline it. Chotiner argued to the Nixons that if the Republicans lost, Nixon would retain his seat in the Senate, that if he served as Vice President and re-entered private life, he would have a lucrative legal career, but that if Nixon did not move up to the Vice Presidency, with Senator Knowland relatively young and in good health, Nixon was likely to remain merely the junior senator from California for many years to come.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorris1990727.E2.80.93728-41" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[41]</a> Eisenhower offered Nixon the position, the senator accepted, and with Knowland's re-election bid all but won, Chotiner became Nixon's campaign manager.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_New_York_Times.27.271956-05-04-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a>Soon after Nixon's selection, controversy erupted over the senator's 1951 purchase of a home with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictive_covenant" title="Restrictive covenant" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">restrictive covenant</a> that forbade resale or rental to Jews. Chotiner, a Jew, successfully appealed to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League" title="Anti-Defamation League" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Anti-Defamation League</a> and the Jewish press for support for Nixon in the controversy, providing them with a list of Jewish causes which he had favored. Nixon's staff pointed out that the covenant was, in any event, invalid because of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S. Supreme Court</a>'s 1948 ruling in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_v.Kraemer" title="Shelley v. Kraemer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Shelley v. Kraemer</a>. The controversy "failed to gain fatal traction" but repeatedly surfaced in later Nixon campaigns.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGreenberg200448.E2.80.9349-42" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[42]</a>When the media discovered that Nixon had received reimbursement for political expenses from a fund set up by a private group, the nominee was severely criticized, and he was pressured to give up his place on the ticket.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTELydon1974-01-31-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> Warren supporters, still smarting from the convention, had told reporters about the fund.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlack2007216.E2.80.93217-43" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[43]</a> Chotiner told Nixon that if he were forced off the ticket, Chotiner would hold a press conference and reveal the behind-the-scenes machinations that led to the candidate's departure, the ensuing furor being of no consequence to them, as both Nixon and Chotiner would be through in politics.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMadden1970-10-12-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> His spirits revived by Chotiner's loyalty, Senator Nixon delivered the televised <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers_speech" title="Checkers speech" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Checkers speech</a>, during which he defended himself and emotionally stated he would not return a black and white dog that had been given to his children. Nixon received an outpouring of public support after the speech, but was angered at Eisenhower's hesitance to issue a statement backing him. He dictated a telegram to his secretary, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Mary_Woods" title="Rose Mary Woods" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Rose Mary Woods</a>, giving up his place on the ticket, but Chotiner took the telegram and ripped it up, unsent.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_Los_Angeles_Times.27.271974-01-31-29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[29]</a> Nixon later praised him for his support, "In the whole fund matter, Chotiner was the strongest of all—like a rock."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorris1990824-44" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[44]</a> Eisenhower eventually supported Nixon, and the Republican ticket won a landslide victory in November.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorris1990848.2C_863-45" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[45]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Man of influence", investigations (1953–1960)<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-family: sans-serif;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray_Chotiner&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: "Man of influence", investigations (1953–1960)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>
Despite his success in advancing Nixon's career, Chotiner was respected, but was not universally popular among the Vice President's backers. Frank Jorgensen, one of Nixon's first backers in the Voorhis race, said of the attorney, "I knew that Murray was very impatient with people who didn't have the IQ that he had. He had the habit of a man like that of tramping on them. He'd move ahead. He'd just leave the wreckage behind him, but he would get the job done."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEParmet1990192-49" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[49]</a> Nixon family friend and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier_College" title="Whittier College" style="font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Whittier College</a> trustee Herman Perry stated, "When Murray develops a little more of the techniques of public relations, I will be one of the first to recognize it and one of the first to give him credit ... The one thing I do not want him to do is be the quarterback and call the plays on the team on which I play."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEParmet1990193-50" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[50]</a>With Nixon as Vice President, Chotiner, "who loved politics and hated his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bail_Bonds" title="Bail Bonds" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">bail bonds</a> law practice in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills,California" title="Beverly Hills, California" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Beverly Hills</a>",<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTELungren200346-46" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[46]</a> moved part of his legal practice to Washington.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_Los_Angeles_Times.27.271974-01-31-29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[29]</a> The Californian was popular with many lawyers, reporters and politicians, and displayed a quick, though sardonic sense of humor.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTECannon1974-01-31-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> In November 1955, Chotiner's wife, Phyllis Lee, divorced him, stating that Chotiner was often gone for weeks at a time because of his business commitments.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_Los_Angeles_Times.27.271955-11-09-47" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[47]</a> On November 17, 1956, Chotiner married his longtime assistant, Ruth Arnold.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_Los_Angeles_Times.27.271956-11-20-48" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[48]</a>In 1955, Chotiner lectured at the Republican national campaign school.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_New_York_Times.27.271956-05-04-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a> He described his campaign philosophy:<blockquote style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I believe in all sincerity that if you do not deflate the opposition candidate before your own campaign gets started, the odds are you are doomed to defeat. I believe it is a smear to attack an individual on matters that have no relationship whatsoever to the campaign ... but it is not a smear if you point out the record of your opponent.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMadden1970-10-12-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></blockquote>Chotiner was slated to play a major role in the Eisenhower/Nixon re-election bid. However, he had represented two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_City,New_Jersey" title="Atlantic City, New Jersey" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Atlantic City</a> clothing manufacturers, the Kravitz brothers, who had been fined and barred from further government contracts for fraud,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTECannon1974-01-31-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> and on April 25, 1956, a subcommittee of the Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations, looking into military procurement, subpoenaed him to appear before it. The senators wanted to inquire why a New Jersey firm which already had six attorneys would hire a California lawyer, especially one with close ties to Vice President Nixon.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTETrussell1956-05-03-51" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[51]</a>
On June 2, 1956, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee" style="font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Republican National Committee</a> announced that Chotiner would have no role in the upcoming campaign.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_New_York_Times.27.271956-06-03-53" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[53]</a> On June 6, a House subcommittee disclosed that the California attorney had written to President Eisenhower asking the President to intercede on behalf of Stanley Weiss's low-cost charter line North American Airlines (NAA) before the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Aeronautics_Board" title="Civil Aeronautics Board" class="mw-redirect" style="font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Civil Aeronautics Board</a> (CAB). The attorney admitted inquiring of White House aides concerning the case, but denied using any influence on behalf of any client. White House officials said that they had done no more than ask the CAB when a decision might be expected in NAA's case, and that NAA had lost before the CAB anyway.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_New_York_Times.27.271956-06-07-54" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[54]</a>When Chotiner appeared before the subcommittee on May 2, he testified that he had been retained by the firm when it was seeking to expand to California, that he had conferred with Justice Department attorneys regarding the criminal charges, and that no special favors had been asked or given.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTETrussell1956-05-03-51" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[51]</a> Under questioning by subcommittee counsel <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F.Kennedy" title="Robert F. Kennedy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Robert F. Kennedy</a>, the younger brother of committee member and future president <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F.Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">John F. Kennedy</a>, Chotiner also disclosed that he had been retained by New Jersey mobster <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Reginelli" title="Marco Reginelli" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Marco Regnelli</a> in an attempt to stave off a deportation order. He testified that he never discussed his clients with Nixon, and had not used the Vice President's offices for business purposes.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27Time.27.271956-05-14-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a> In a press release, Chotiner fired back at Kennedy, suggesting that he had been subpoenaed for political reasons. Denying any influence peddling, Chotiner asked whether the subcommittee counsel could "explain whether any influence was used in connection with his own appointment as attorney for a subcommittee of a committee of which his brother ... is a member."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEParmet1990271-52" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[52]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Murphy_Malin" title="Patrick Murphy Malin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Patrick Murphy Malin</a>, head of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union" title="American Civil Liberties Union" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Civil Liberties Union</a> concurred that requiring Chotiner to testify had "overtones of political harassment."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEParmet1990271-52" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[52]</a> Time magazine summed up the hearings, "At week's end two points were clear: 1) Murray Chotiner had been sought out by, and had gone to work for, unsavory clients who obviously regarded him as a man of influence; and 2) on the basis of evidence so far adduced, he had been remarkably unsuccessful in wielding any."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27Time.27.271956-05-14-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a>Congress's investigations of Chotiner continued through much of 1956, and were eventually postponed until after the election.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_New_York_Times.27.271956-09-23-55" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[55]</a> The Senate subcommittee finally issued its report on September 5, 1957, placing no blame on Chotiner.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTETrussell1957-09-26-56" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[56]</a> The House investigation dragged on until 1958, by which time the focus of the investigation was on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Chief_of_Staff" title="White House Chief of Staff" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">White House Chief of Staff</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Adams" title="Sherman Adams" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sherman Adams</a>, who had sent Chotiner two letters regarding the airline matter.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalz1958-02-18-57" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[57]</a> Nixon parted ways with Chotiner after the Senate testimony, calling his predicament "a tragedy",<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTELydon1974-01-31-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> but by 1959, the two were friends again.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMazo195973-58" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[58]</a> Senator Knowland considered hiring Chotiner to manage his 1958 run for governor, but did not do so, and lost to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Brown" title="Pat Brown" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Edmund G. "Pat" Brown</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMazo195973-58" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[58]</a>Chotiner would play no visible role in the unsuccessful 1960 Nixon presidential campaign.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTELydon1974-01-31-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> Despite his status as a political outcast, Nixon's former campaign manager remained loyal to him, and remained convinced Nixon would one day be president.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTECannon1974-01-31-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Political wilderness and return (1960–1968)<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-family: sans-serif;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray_Chotiner&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Political wilderness and return (1960–1968)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Chotiner ran for the House of Representatives in 1960, proclaiming himself "vindicated and exonerated" by the fact that no adverse report had been issued against him by the Senate.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHill1960-03-27-59" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[59]</a> Chotiner claimed to have Nixon's backing in the run; however, Nixon declined to make an endorsement,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavies1960-06-08-60" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[60]</a> and the attorney was defeated by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonzo_E.Bell" title="Alphonzo E. Bell" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Alphonzo E. Bell</a> in the Republican primary.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBecker1962-08-12-61" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[61]</a>In early 1962, Chotiner managed the unsuccessful primary campaign of conservative California Senate candidate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Wright" title="Loyd Wright" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Loyd Wright</a>, who was easily defeated by incumbent Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H.Kuchel" title="Thomas H. Kuchel" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Thomas H. Kuchel</a> in the Republican primary. In August 1962, he joined Nixon's campaign for Governor of California against incumbent Democratic Governor Pat Brown as an unpaid volunteer.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBecker1962-08-12-61" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[61]</a> Chotiner and Nixon had a major disagreement, with the consultant opposing the candidate's decision to denounce the conservative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society" title="John Birch Society" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">John Birch Society</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_Los_Angeles_Times.27.271974-01-31-29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[29]</a> In its final weeks, the Brown-Nixon battle became an "alley fight", with legal battles over "smear" pamphlets distributed by each side.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavies1962-11-08-62" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[62]</a> Chotiner's involvement and the alleged use of his techniques were issues in the campaign,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchuparra199869-63" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[63]</a> with one bitter Republican describing him as "a millstone around our neck".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavies1962-11-08-62" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[62]</a> Brown defeated Nixon by five percentage points.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavies1962-11-08-62" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[62]</a>Five days after the election, Chotiner appeared as a Nixon defender on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_K.Smith" title="Howard K. Smith" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Howard K. Smith</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_K.Smith:News_and_Comment" title="Howard K. Smith: News and Comment" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">News and Comment</a> program on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ABC</a> in the episode entitled "The Political Obituary of Richard M. Nixon". Nixon nemesis <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss" title="Alger Hiss" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Alger Hiss</a> also appeared on the broadcast, and Hiss's participation led to such an uproar that sponsors pulled back from underwriting the program, and News and Comment left the air in the spring of 1963.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Museum_of_Broadcast_Communications-64" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[64]</a>Chotiner continued to practice law. In 1962, his wife Ruth obtained an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocutory" title="Interlocutory" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">interlocutory</a> divorce decree against him.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGreenberg1963-02-25-65" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[65]</a> After the decree became final, Chotiner married again in 1965.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_Los_Angeles_Times.27.271971-01-15-66" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[66]</a> In January 1966, attorney and land developer Charles W. Hinman was arrested and charged with plotting to have Chotiner murdered. Chotiner had represented Hinman's wife in a contested divorce case, and Hinman had been jailed for eleven days for failure to pay his fees.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_New_York_Times.27.271966-01-20-67" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[67]</a> No actual attempt on his life took place. Hinman was sentenced to between one and five years in prison.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_New_York_Times.27.271966-05-13-68" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[68]</a> In 1957, one of Chotiner's divorce clients had been killed along with her daughter by the client's estranged husband in the attorney's Beverly Hills office.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27Los_Angeles_Daily_Mirror.27.271957-07-19-69" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[69]</a>Chotiner was involved in Nixon's successful 1968 presidential bid, but kept out of the public eye as special assistant to Nixon campaign manager <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N.Mitchell" title="John N. Mitchell" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">John Mitchell</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDale1969-04-11-70" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[70]</a> He served as liaison between the campaign and 14 Republican state organizations.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_Los_Angeles_Times.27.271974-01-31-29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[29]</a> He was able to place a "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole(espionage)" title="Mole (espionage)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">mole</a>" on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_H.Humphrey" title="Hubert H. Humphrey" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Humphrey</a> campaign press plane;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpragens1988511-71" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[71]</a> the agent sent back almost daily reports on off-the-record or unreported comments made by the Democratic candidate and his staff, and evaluations of their morale.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpragens1988511-71" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[71]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Phillips(political_commentator)" title="Kevin Phillips (political commentator)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Kevin Phillips</a> said of Nixon's 1968 presidential run,<blockquote style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[Mitchell] and Murray Chotiner were the real people in the campaign, not the artificial public relations phonies who called Nixon "the product" as if he were some kind of underarm deodorant.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBonafede1970-05-301.2C132-72" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[72]</a></blockquote><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Presidential adviser (1969–1974)<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-family: sans-serif;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray_Chotiner&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Presidential adviser (1969–1974)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Federal lawyer (1969–1971)<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray_Chotiner&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Federal lawyer (1969–1971)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>The day after Nixon's election as President in November 1968, he asked Chotiner what job he would like, and Chotiner indicated that he wanted to be chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), but was told that was impossible.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEvansNovak197170.E2.80.9374-73" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[73]</a> However, Mitchell and soon-to-be White House Chief of Staff <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R.Haldeman" title="H.R. Haldeman" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">H.R. Haldeman</a> wished to see Chotiner given a position outside the White House, as they saw him as a rival. Accordingly, they proposed that Chotiner be made RNC executive director, to wield the real power with the chairman as figurehead. A reluctant Nixon, who was worried about Chotiner's hatchet-man reputation, finally agreed, and Chotiner wrapped up his affairs in California.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEvansNovak197170.E2.80.9374-73" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[73]</a>Chotiner was given an office at the RNC, nominally as the official in charge of tickets for the inauguration.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTELydon1974-01-31-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> RNC chairman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bliss" title="Ray Bliss" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ray Bliss</a> and his aides were disturbed by his presence, and were told he would be gone after January 20. Meanwhile, Nixon and his aides considered a new RNC chairman finally settling on Maryland Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Morton" title="Rogers Morton" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Rogers Morton</a>, who agreed to take the position once Bliss left, though Morton was not told of the promise to Chotiner. When the President-elect met with Bliss on January 10, 1969, he could not bring himself to fire the chairman. With the situation unresolved, and Morton's appointment unannounced, Chotiner sat in his RNC office for a month after the inauguration with nothing to do, as the RNC staff wondered at his presence.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEvansNovak197170.E2.80.9374-73" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[73]</a>Nixon, Haldeman, and Mitchell did nothing to clear up the situation, and Chotiner finally took action on his own and told Bliss that he was to take control. A shaken Bliss called Haldeman, who backed up Chotiner's account, and Bliss immediately resigned. Bliss's aides publicized the reasons for his resignation, and reporter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Broder" title="David Broder" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">David Broder</a> contacted Chotiner, who confirmed the story. Morton refused to be a figurehead for Chotiner, or indeed to have Chotiner at the RNC in any capacity, and so stated to the media. Mitchell dispatched his subordinate, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sears(political_strategist)" title="John Sears (political strategist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">John Sears</a>, to tell Chotiner he would have no place at the RNC. Chotiner took the bad news philosophically, stating that it was not the first time he had been treated badly, and that his estranged wife had predicted that Nixon would "screw" him.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEvansNovak197170.E2.80.9374-73" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[73]</a>However, some job still had to be found for Chotiner, who had wound up his California practice and sold his home. Haldeman refused to have him in the White House, and Nixon's aides deemed that the Democratic-controlled Senate was unlikely to confirm Chotiner for any post requiring its approval.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEvansNovak197170.E2.80.9374-73" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[73]</a> On April 10, 1969, acting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_United_States_Trade_Representative" title="Office of the United States Trade Representative" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Special Representative for Trade Negotiations</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore_R.Gates&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Theodore R. Gates (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Theodore R. Gates</a> appointed Chotiner as General Counsel to his office, as almost simultaneously, the White House announced Gates' replacement, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_J.Gilbert" title="Carl J. Gilbert" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Carl J. Gilbert</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDale1969-04-11-70" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[70]</a> On April 1, Nixon had issued Executive Order 11463, making the position of general counsel in that office a Schedule C, or political appointment, and significantly raising the salary of the position.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBonafede1970-05-301.2C132-72" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[72]</a> Nixon <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_secretary" title="Press secretary" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">press secretary</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Ziegler" title="Ron Ziegler" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ron Ziegler</a> stated that the salary had been raised because the new incumbent was expected to play a more active role than had previous holders of the position.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_New_York_Times.27.271969-04-12-74" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[74]</a><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-size: 13px; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; padding: 3px !important; width: 227px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chotinermemo.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Chotinermemo.jpg/225px-Chotinermemo.jpg" width="225" height="206" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Chotinermemo.jpg/338px-Chotinermemo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Chotinermemo.jpg/450px-Chotinermemo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1398" data-file-height="1278" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; font-size: 12px; padding: 3px !important; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="margin-left: 3px; border: none !important; float: right; background: none !important;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chotinermemo.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); display: block; border: none !important; background: none !important;"><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.24wmf9/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" style="border: none !important; vertical-align: middle; display: block; background: none !important;" /></a></div>Memo from Chotiner to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R.Haldeman" title="H.R. Haldeman" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Haldeman</a>suggesting Nixon "neutralize" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Cash" title="Johnny Cash" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Johnny Cash</a></div></div></div>On January 13, 1970, Nixon appointed Chotiner as a special counsel to the President, reporting to White House Chief of Staff Haldeman,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTESemple1970-01-14-75" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[75]</a> a move the chief of staff described in his diaries as a "mixed blessing".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHaldeman1994119-76" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[76]</a> Ziegler indicated that the new staffer would be handling "special projects of a wide variety", and The New York Times speculated that in view of his past, his duties would most likely be political.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTESemple1970-01-14-75" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[75]</a> Haldeman noted in his diaries that his new subordinate was to serve as the "inside White House man for political campaigns".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHaldeman1994119-76" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[76]</a> Chotiner served as liaison between the White House and Republican organizations in 31 states.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMadden1970-10-12-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> Chotiner taught at a March 1970 seminar for Young Republican leaders where he suggested that the Republican running against Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy" title="Ted Kennedy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Edward Kennedy</a> mention the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaquiddick_incident" title="Chappaquiddick incident" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Chappaquiddick incident</a> at every opportunity, while insisting that it was not an issue in the campaign. Chotiner stated, "If he says it enough times, I think the voters of Massachusetts will understand all about Chappaquiddick."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalters1970-03-15-77" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[77]</a>Chotiner was involved in recruiting Republican candidates in the unsuccessful attempt to get a Republican Senate majority in the 1970 elections.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEApple1970-04-06-78" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[78]</a> Some of Chotiner's friends stated that Nixon involved him in this project after news reports claimed that Nixon had abandoned his former campaign manager,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTECannon1974-01-31-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> however, Chotiner himself denied that and stated he had been made special counsel because some people in the White House had decided he could be useful.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBonafede1970-05-301.2C132-72" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[72]</a> The special counsel also coordinated Vice President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew" title="Spiro Agnew" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Spiro Agnew</a>'s campaign against "radic lib" senatorial candidates, including New York Republican Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Goodell" title="Charles Goodell" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Charles Goodell</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTELydon1974-01-31-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> who was subsequently defeated by Conservative Party candidate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L.Buckley" title="James L. Buckley" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">James L. Buckley</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_New_York_Times.27.271970-11-04-79" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[79]</a> Chotiner stated that his twenty-year association with Nixon made it possible for him to move on matters without needing to consult the President on every detail.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_New_York_Times.27.271970-06-11-80" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[80]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Final years (1971–1974)<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray_Chotiner&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Final years (1971–1974)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In January 1971, Chotiner and his third wife, Mimi, divorced on the ground of irreconcilable differences, after five years of marriage and a bitter, contested trial. Mimi Chotiner testified that the couple's matrimonial difficulties began when he left California to work for the Nixon campaign, while Murray Chotiner retorted that his wife had said that his government job in the Nixon Administration "wasn't good enough for her".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_Los_Angeles_Times.27.271971-01-15-66" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[66]</a> Mrs. Chotiner had refused to accompany her husband to Washington, stating at trial that she remained because her children were in California schools.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_Los_Angeles_Times.27.271971-01-15-66" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[66]</a> Murray Chotiner married again on May 30.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_Los_Angeles_Times.27.271971-06-11-81" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[81]</a>In March 1971, Chotiner resigned from his White House job and returned to the private practice of law.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_New_York_Times.27.271971-03-05-82" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[82]</a> He represented former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teamsters" title="Teamsters" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Teamsters</a> president <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa" title="Jimmy Hoffa" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Jimmy Hoffa</a>, who had been informally promised early parole from his jury tampering sentence. Chotiner wrote to Haldeman in November 1971, noting that no action on Hoffa's release seemed to be taking place, and President Nixon granted Hoffa clemency later that month. When Chotiner's role became public in 1973, he stated that he was proud of his actions on behalf of Hoffa.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_New_York_Times.27.271973-05-04-83" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[83]</a> Chotiner also lobbied the White House on behalf of milk producers, who were seeking increased price supports and who were major contributors to the Republican Party.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_Los_Angeles_Times.27.271974-01-31-29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[29]</a>During 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: none;">1972 presidential election</a>, Chotiner served as head of the Ballot Security Task Force for the Nixon campaign,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_New_York_Times.27.271973-12-19-84" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[84]</a> a job that The Washington Post described as "largely token".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTECannon1974-01-31-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> At the instructions of Mitchell, in March 1971, he hired out-of-work reporter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seymour_Friedin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Seymour Friedin (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Seymour Friedin</a> to present himself as a working journalist and travel with the campaigns of various Democratic presidential hopefuls. Friedin sent reports back to Chotiner, who edited them, had them typed by his secretary, and forwarded them to Mitchell (who had resigned as Attorney General in 1972 to manage Nixon's re-election bid) and Haldeman. When Friedin secured other employment in August 1972, Chotiner replaced him with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucianne_Goldberg" title="Lucianne Goldberg" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Lucianne Goldberg</a>, who remained in that capacity for the remainder of the presidential campaign. The two journalists were collectively code-named "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Chapman" title="Alger Chapman" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Chapman</a>'s Friend", and were paid $1,000 per week plus expenses from Chotiner's law office account, with the account reimbursed by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_Re-elect_the_President" title="Committee to Re-elect the President" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Committee to Re-elect the President</a> (CRP).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Ervin_Committee2005300.E2.80.93301-85" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[85]</a> The Committee reported the payments as reimbursement of his expenses, which the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Accounting_Office" title="General Accounting Office" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">General Accounting Office</a> opined was a violation of federal election law.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_New_York_Times.27.271973-12-19-84" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[84]</a> Chotiner, however, stated that there was "nothing underhanded or illegal" about the arrangement,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeever1974-01-31-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[12]</a> and Watergate prosecutors later chose not to prosecute CRP officials concerning the payments, deciding they could not prove criminal intent.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_Washington_Post.27.271998-02-04-86" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[86]</a>In April 1973, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_Union_Leader" title="New Hampshire Union Leader" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Manchester Union Leader</a> accused Chotiner of having organized the Watergate break-in. He responded by bringing suit for libel against the Union Leader and its lead investigator. In December 1973, the parties reached a settlement by which Chotiner received an undisclosed, but substantial, sum of money and the newspaper printed a front page apology and retraction of its accusations in its December 31, 1973 edition.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTE.27.27The_New_York_Times.27.271974-01-01-87" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[87]</a> Chotiner described Watergate in January 1973 as "a stupid, useless, inane experiment by people who have seen too many TV shows and especially too many productions of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible" title="Mission: Impossible" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mission Impossible</a>".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTECannon1974-01-31-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>According to The Washington Post, Chotiner was not close to Haldeman, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman" title="John Ehrlichman" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">John Ehrlichman</a>, and most other staffers at the White House and CRP.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTECannon1974-01-31-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> In a taped discussion of the fallout from Watergate, Haldeman told Nixon that his former campaign manager was not "wired in", and the President expressed strong opposition to Chotiner being used as a White House contact.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKutler2000280-88" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[88]</a> At the suggestion that Chotiner could defend him, Nixon worried that the attorney might not be willing to do so.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMaisel2001321-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a>Chotiner advised President Nixon to fire Special Prosecutor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Cox" title="Archibald Cox" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Archibald Cox</a> in October 1973 in what became known as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre" title="Saturday Night Massacre" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Saturday Night Massacre</a>, telling Nixon, "This guy Cox will use anything and everybody. It has to be taken away from him."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKutler1992401-89" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[89]</a> According to Nixon biographer and Chotiner friend Earl Mazo, he was convinced that "Dick wouldn't have had anything to do with [the Watergate break-in]" and was also convinced that the President would put the scandal behind him by the spring of 1974.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTECannon1974-01-31-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> According to his brother Jack, "[h]e always considered Nixon a genius."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Chotiner#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorris1990532-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a>==

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Murray Chotiner had been with Richard Nixon ``at the beginning.'' According to the 1990 book

Blue Thunder, by Thomas Burdick and Charlene Mitchell: ``In 1946, Nixon announced his candidacy for Congress, and Beverly Hills attorney Murray Chotiner showed up as a consultant

on his campaign staff. Chotiner counted Lansky's childhood friend and Las Vegas partner

`Bugsy' Siegel among his numerous mob-connected clients. During the period 1949-52, Chotiner defended clients in 221 organized crime cases.''

Chotiner would eventually be summoned by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to testify before the McClellan Committee about why so many of his clients were members of the Meyer Lansky syndicate.

Chotiner also appealed to the Lansky syndicate to fund Nixon's campaigns. The 1975 book

Mickey Cohen: In My Own Words--The Underworld Autobiography of Michael Mickey Cohen as told to John Peer Nugent describes how Chotiner arranged a fundraising dinner for Nixon's 1950

Senate campaign, which was entirely subscribed by members of the Lansky syndicate in

Hollywood and Las Vegas, through Cohen. He described the event: ``So now I put together this

dinner at the Knickerbocker Hotel.... Everybody around here that was on the pad naturally

had to go to the dinner.... Nixon made a speech. He made a hop, skip, and jump speech because the guy that really done all the speaking was Murray Chotiner.''

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During Richard Nixon’s campaign to represent his California district in the US House, his campaign manager, Murray Chotiner, arranges to have the Mafia raise money for Nixon. Los Angeles mob boss Mickey Cohen raises $75,000 for Nixon in return for unspecified political favors. Cohen will later claim that he raised the money on orders from one of his own bosses, Meyer Lansky. Cohen will sign a confession to the money raising while in Alcatraz Prison in 1962 ???. Chotiner, embarrassed by the revelation, will drop out of politics until 1968, when he rejoins Nixon in his campaign for president (see <a onmouseout="return nd()" href="http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a0950chotinermob#a110568nixonwins" onmouseover="return OL('November 5, 1968: Nixon Wins Narrow Presidential Victory')">November 5, 1968</a>). After Nixon’s victory, Chotiner will be named a special counsel for Nixon, joining Nixon’s White House staff.

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Murray Chotiner was born in <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USApittsburgh.htm">Pittsburgh</a> in 1909. He left school at fifteen but four years later he had obtained a law degree from Southwestern Law College.

A member of the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USArepublican.htm">Republican Party</a>, Chotiner worked for <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhoover.htm">Herbert Hoover</a> in 1932 and <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKwarren.htm">Earl Warren</a>, when he campaigned to be governor of California. Chotiner also managed the campaign of <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAnixon.htm">Richard Nixon</a> in 1950 when he defeated <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKdouglasH.htm">Helen Douglas</a>. Chotiner developed a reputation for running dirty tricks campaigns. Another of Nixon's advisors, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKgarment.htm">Leonard Garment</a>, said that Chotiner was a "hardheaded exponent of the campaign philosophy that politics is war" and that "politics is shabby most of the time, filled with lies and deceptions".

In a radio broadcast in 1956 <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USApearsonD.htm">Drew Pearson</a> claimed that in the 1950 election, Mickey Cohen, one of the leaders of the mob in <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlosangeles.htm">Los Angeles</a>, had raised funds for Nixon's 1950 campaign. According to Pearson, this deal was organized by Chotiner. This story was not confirmed until Cohen signed a confession in October, 1962. At the time he was in Alcatraz Prison. Cohen claims he raised $75,000 for Nixon in 1950 in return for political favours. This deal was arranged via Chotiner. In his autobiography, Cohen claims that the orders to help Nixon came from <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAClansky.htm">Meyer Lansky</a>.

As a lawyer, Chotiner obtained a reputation for working for organized crime bosses. In 1956 <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkennedyR.htm">Robert Kennedy</a> and <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbellino.htm">Carmine Bellino</a> began an investigation of Chotiner. They discovered evidence that a New Jersey uniform company that had been convicted of stealing from the federal government had paid out $5,000 to Chotiner. An informant told Bellino that the money was meant for <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAnixon.htm">Richard Nixon</a> to help prevent a possible prosecution by the Department of Justice. Chotiner received support from <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmccarthy.htm">Joe McCarthy</a> and the case against him was eventually dropped.

Chotiner's reputation had been badly damaged by this investigation and for a while he ceased working for Nixon. However, he returned in 1968 to help Nixon defeat <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhumphreyH.htm">Hubert Humphrey</a>. After the election Chotiner was appointed general counsel of the Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. The following year he was named special counsel to the president.

Soon after he took office Nixon established Operation Sandwedge. Organized by <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhaldeman.htm">H. R. Haldeman</a> and <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKehrlichman.htm">John Ehrlichman</a>, the two main field officers were <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKcaulfieldJ.htm">Jack Caulfield</a> and <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKUlasewicz.htm">Anthony Ulasewicz</a>. Operation Sandwedge involved a secret investigation of <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkennedyE.htm">Edward Kennedy</a>. Caulfield later admitted that Ulasewicz’s reports on Kennedy went to three people: Nixon, Chotiner and <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKrebozo.htm">Bebe Rebozo</a>.

According to <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WATcarterD.htm">Dan T. Carter</a> (The Politics of Rage) Chotiner was involved in the attempt to blackmail <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwallaceG.htm">George Wallace</a> about corruption in Alabama. This played an important role in persuading Wallace to announce that he would not be a third-party candidate in the 1972 presidential election.

Chotiner had returned to private practice as a lawyer in <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwashington.htm">Washington</a> by the time the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwatergate.htm">Watergate</a> break-in took place. However, he still maintained a White House telephone. His law offices were one floor above those of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CREEP).

<a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsummers.htm">Anthony Summers</a> (The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon) has pointed out that "at least one woman working on White House dirty tricks operations was carried on the payroll of his firm". <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKchaplin.htm">Dwight L. Chapin</a> was convinced that Chotiner was secretly involved in <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwatergate.htm">Watergate</a>: "There is a person who goes all the way back through this thing, and that is Murray Chotiner. He was in the White House... he leaves; the break-in happens. Murray was the operator for Nixon on God only knows what."

In an article published in the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/">Los Angeles Times</a> (31st March, 1973) it was claimed that Chotiner had received copies of the tape recordings that had been made by <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbaldwinA.htm">Alfred Baldwin</a> as a result of the bugging Democratic campaign headquarters in the Watergate building.

On 23rd January, 1974, Murray Chotiner was involved in a car accident outside the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwashington.htm">Washington</a> home of <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkennedyE.htm">Edward Kennedy</a>. Although he only suffered a broken leg he died a week later.

<cite>[<a target="_blank" onmouseout="return nd()" href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKchotiner.htm" onmouseover="return OL('">Spartacus Schoolnet, “Biography: Murray Chotiner,” August 2007.')">Spartacus Schoolnet, 8/2007</a>]  HMMM</cite><cite>=</cite>=wa poGoldberg a Veteran at Recording GossipBy George Lardner Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 4, 1998; Page A12When Eleanor McGovern complained loudly about a chipped-beef breakfast that never appeared, the Nixon White House was promptly informed.When her husband, 1972 Democratic presidential nominee George S. McGovern, started a speech by flubbing a joke, the president's men were quickly notified.And when McGovern was mortified one night in Chicago by an introductory speaker who complained of the McGovern campaign's lack of spirit, it was reported back to Washington by midnight. "McGovern looked as though he could crawl under the table," the Nixonites were told after the Oct. 10, 1972, dinner.The urgent reports, delivered to the White House by special courier, came from a $1,000-a-week spy planted in the McGovern press corps. Nixon, his White House tapes show, referred to her by her code name, "Chapman's friend."But the agent's real name was Lucianne Cummings Goldberg, now back in the news as the book agent behind the taping of former White House aide Monica S. Lewinsky's account of her alleged relationship with President Clinton.At $1,000 a week, a gigantic salary for a reporter in 1972, Goldberg recalled in a brief interview this week, "I was practically stealing because all I had were dirty jokes and gossip." She said Nixon "loved the dirty jokes and who was sleeping with who" even though it was "mainly techies sleeping with stewardesses."Only about 30 of Goldberg's reports to the Nixon camp show up at the National Archives today, and the only bit of salacious gossip in these concerns Goldberg's contention that Eleanor McGovern had collapsed on the campaign trail more than once, the first time having been in New Hampshire "when she heard that George was having fun with someone else.""Absolute and total fiction," George McGovern said with a laugh this week. If it had been true, "I would have been the one who collapsed." He said he never had time for any "fun" in New Hampshire or anywhere else. "I never worked so hard in my life," McGovern said. "I didn't even get to jog or stop to play golf."Eleanor McGovern said she did collapse in Cleveland on Oct. 19, 1972, as Goldberg reported, but called the rest of the account "idiotic."The records at the National Archives do suggest how heavily Goldberg has relied, throughout her career, on getting it all down on tape. As she put it in a 1973 interview with the General Accounting Office, her job "was to be a human tape recorder, passing on a verbal report of everything that happened in the McGovern campaign."Goldberg didn't type up her reports, even at day's end. Instead, she told the GAO investigators, she phoned in as often as five or six times a day, with a "wrap-up call at night." She started out just after Labor Day in 1972 as a representative of the Women's News Service and freelance book writer and was assigned a seat on the "zoo plane," the No. 2 plane in the McGovern entourage, so named by reporters because it carried mostly TV cameramen, technicians and newspaper photographers -- the "animals" of political campaigns.According to Goldberg, she didn't have to show any credentials to get her McGovern campaign tag. "I showed up at McGovern headquarters and there were three kids in ponytails and sandals," she said this week. "They said, 'Who do you work for?' I think I said I was writing a book. They said, 'Groovy.' "Actually, Goldberg was the second spy codenamed "Chapman's friend" to be assigned by the Nixon camp to infiltrate the Democratic opposition. The first was Seymour K. Friedin, a journalist who spied on various Democratic presidential campaigns for the Nixon White House until September 1972, when he got a job as London bureau chief for the Hearst newspapers. Nixon's longtime political adviser, Murray Chotiner, then hired Goldberg to replace him. She says she was recommended by conservative writer Victor Lasky, an old friend of her husband.White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and a few other Nixon advisers were informed of the changing of the guard in a Sept. 5, 1972, memo from Chotiner."We have a new Friend who joins the McGovern troupe tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 6, in Dallas," Chotiner said, attaching a list of journalists traveling with McGovern and his schedule for the next few days. "Nothing further available now."In the days that followed, though, Goldberg kept her tape recorder busy, talking and talking into it on the plane, on the tarmac, and at McGovern rallies. Her sometime seatmate, the late Merrill "Red" Mueller, an ABC radio news reporter, said in 1973 that his suspicions were aroused when Goldberg, ostensibly a columnist and book writer without urgent deadlines, kept running for the phones at every stop, but was told that "she checked out" when he relayed his concerns to the McGovern people.As Goldberg recalled it, her constant calls went straight to Chotiner's law office in Washington, where "they just kept some poor woman sitting up until 2 a.m.," typing up her reports. "Then a car would pick them up and take them to the White House."Some of those reports may have been destroyed before they got to the National Archives or even to Watergate prosecutors, according to researchers in charge of Nixon's records and related Watergate prosecution documents. Only about 30 of Goldberg's "Chapman's Friend Reports" can be found in the two collections. Goldberg's spying became public in August 1973 when she told about it to Washington Star-News reporter Bob Walters, a friend of hers. Records showed that she had been paid $8,000 in salary and an additional $11,932.35 in travel expenses; Chotiner paid her with law firm checks and was repaid by the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President on vouchers he submitted under his own name for "survey expenses."Watergate prosecutors considered charging Finance Committee officials with election law violations for making the payments without proper documentation but decided they could never prove criminal intent, especially in light of Chotiner's death Jan. 30, 1974, from injuries sustained in a Jan. 23 traffic accident."He was killed in a head-on collision with a truck on Shirley Highway and the name of the truck driver was George McGovern,"Goldberg recalled this week.That isn't quite right, however. The accident took place on Chain Bridge Road in McLean in front of the home of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). The only McGovern involved in the accident was Dr. Joseph D. McGovern, no relation to the presidential candidate, who was driving a car against which Chotiner's Lincoln Continental came to rest after being hit by the truck.Staff researcher Bobbye Pratt contributed to this report.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/goldberg020498.htm<cite /><center style="font-size: small; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1998 The Washington Post Company</center><cite>
</cite><cite></cite>tripod blog, hmmn<img src="http://ad.yieldmanager.com/pixel?id=1901600&t=2" width="1" height="1" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" /> Lucianne Goldberg could win the Chutzpah Award for her work as a literary agent fabricating tales of murder, corruption, and sexual dalliance within the Clinton administration. By her own admission, she worked for Nixon Special Counsel Murray Chotiner, as a dirty trickster for his Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), going so far as to infiltrate the 1972 Democratic Presidential campaign of Sen. George McGovern.Goldberg's boss Chotiner, as we shall show, was not only Nixon's campaign strategist from the beginning of his political career, but Chotiner was an attorney who was so mobbed up'' that between 1949-52, he defended 221 members of the Meyer Lansky syndicate. He was eventually subpoenaed by Attorney General Robert Kennedy to testify before the McClellan Committee on his dealings with syndicate boss and money-launderer Meyer Lansky. Chotiner had long-standing ties with Lansky's Murder, Inc.'' lieutenant Benjamin Bugsy'' Siegel, with syndicate member Mickey Cohen, who took over Lansky's Hollywood and Las Vegas operations after Siegel's murder, and with Lansky lieutenant Morris Barney Moe'' Dalitz, who founded the La Costa Country Club in California, where President Nixon, Murray Chotiner, Sam Ehrlichman, and others met in 1973 to fix their Watergate cover stories. These associations with Lansky's Murder, Inc.'' apparatus make Lucianne Goldberg the Ma Barker'' of Clintongate.Goldberg's son, Joshua, told this author that his mother also had a tie with Roy Cohn, who, like Chotiner became a Lansky syndicate attorney (in Cohn's case, after frying Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and then leaving his position as Sen. Joseph McCarthy's chief aide). As FBI and Army Intelligence records attest, Cohn was a homosexual who ultimately died of AIDS-related Karposi's sarcoma.Two of Chotiner's other Nixon-era cronies in the dirty tricks department were Marvin Liebman and William F. Buckley. Liebman, recently deceased, was also a homosexual, and Buckley publicly advocates legalization of drugs and pedophilia.Hardly a crew to be consulted on matters of Presidential morality!As for Lucianne Goldberg herself, who walks, talks, and acts like one of Chotiner's gangster molls, she wrote Madame Cleo's Girls, a 1992 novel with lurid details about a trio of high-class prostitutes.Still, before Goldberg became the den mother for Bush-leaguer Linda Bad'' Tripp, she hadreportedly represented Dolly Kyle Browning for a potential book deal about an alleged, early Clinton love affair, but critics debunked Browning's story.Next, Goldberg tried to get a book deal for the Arkansas state troopers who alleged that they had procured women for then-Gov. Bill Clinton.Goldberg and her son, Joshua, also confirmed that she has been a frequent collaborator of the two leading British intelligence operatives assigned to trash Clinton: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Lord William Rees-Mogg.<hr align="CENTER" width="75%" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" /><h2 align="CENTER" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">"I live for dish!"</h2>There is an extensive interview with Goldberg in the Feb. 2, 1998 issue of the New Yorker, which shows Goldberg shepherding former Bush-league Army Intelligence Command and Delta Force groupie Linda Tripp through the maze, toward committing what may soon be considered treason against United States. In late 1993, Goldberg states that Fox TV news Talk Show host Tony Snow introduced her to Tripp, suggesting her as an excellent author for a book on the death of Clinton White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster, since Tripp had been one of the last people to see Foster alive and had been an executive assistant to the White House counsel. Fox TV is owned by Lord Beaverbrook protégé Rupert Murdoch, who has also taken over the London Times, which has repeatedly carried assaults against President Clinton. Goldberg and Tripp quickly became cronies in their hatred of the Clinton administration.When Goldberg decided to promote a convicted perjurer, former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, for a book on Vince Foster instead of Tripp, Goldberg suggested that Tripp should instead write a book tentatively called, Behind Closed Doors: What I Saw Inside the Clinton White House. The proposal, which many of Tripp's friend believe was ghost-written by Goldberg, because its language was so profane, featured chapter titles like Mrs. President'' and The President's Women.'' Unfortunately, Bad'' Tripp could not write the kind of salacious style that Goldberg wanted.Tripp's name surfaced last summer in Newsweek, where she was a source for the claim that President Clinton had fondled a campaign volunteer named Kathleen Willey. Clinton's attorney Robert Bennett denounced Tripp as a liar.After this, Goldberg went to Washington in October to renew her acquaintance with Tripp, who had been transferred to the Pentagon. It was on this visit that Tripp told her about her fellow Pentagon Public Affairs worker Monica Lewinsky. Tripp said that Michael Isakoff on Newsweek's bimbo beat'' was pressuring her, and Tripp was fearful of Bennett calling her a liar again, if she talked about Lewinsky's alleged affair with the President. Goldberg claims that it was during this October meeting that she convinced Tripp to begin taping her conversations with Lewinsky. However, a senior editor of Newsweek, interviewed on CNN on Jan. 17, 1998, reported that she heard tapes of conversations between the two women from August 1997!According to Goldberg's questionable account, it was only when Tripp learned that her secret taping of Lewinsky had been illegal, that she went, on Jan. 12, 1998, to Kenneth Starr. They moved with snakelike speed,'' Goldberg told the New Yorker, describing the zeal with which Starr's office arranged for the FBI to wire Tripp for a face-to-face session with Lewinsky the very next day. Tripp was also instantly granted complete immunity from prosecution. At this time, Starr did not have any mandate to probe the Clinton-Lewinsky matter. Asked by the New Yorker why she got involved with Tripp, Goldberg sounded just like a gangster moll: I did it because it's f--king fascinating! I love dish. I live for dish.''<hr align="CENTER" width="75%" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" /><h2 align="CENTER" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Behind Regnery's doors</h2>In mid-1996, Lucianne Goldberg presented Regnery Publishers with a several-page prospectus for yet another tell all'' book against the Clinton White House, to be written by Bad'' Tripp. Regnery is another nexus of Get-Clinton operations, based in Washington, D.C. They published both Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's and Gary Aldrich's fractured fairy-tale smears on the First Family. Tripp wanted to write a book and she wanted a half-million for it,'' said Alfred Regnery, president of the right-wing publishing firm. Regnery Vice President Richard Vigilante's meeting with Tripp was arranged by Goldberg. Although Linda was very discreet, it was clear to me she was in the position to write a book with the potential to be a bestseller, a@ag la Aldrich's book,'' Vigilante said, referring to the fatuous compilation of lies by former FBI agent Gary Aldrich, Unlimited Access.But, James Moody, who had been hired as Tripp's attorney at the recommendation of Goldberg, said of the prospectus: It looks like something a senationalist would write. Linda wanted to write a nerd policy book about changes from President Bush's White House to President Clinton's. These look way too sensational for the way Linda talks.''When Goldberg was queried as to whether she had written the prospectus, she said: I know what I know, and I don't lie. I never, ever would write anything for a client.''And, of course, everyone knows that someone who worked as a CREEP dirty tricks'' agent for a mobbed up'' attorney, would never tell a lie.As for Tripp, the Washington Post pointed out that, heretofore, people have waited until they left $88,000-a-year jobs with the U.S. government, before asking for a $500,000 advance to write a book.Tim Weiner and Jill Abramson reported in the New York Times on Jan. 28, that Alfred Regnery had said: I know Lucianne Goldberg well. I introduced Lucianne Goldberg to Mark Fuhrman.'' Goldberg had been Fuhrman's agent for the bestseller on the O.J. Simpson case (published by Regnery), entitled Murder in Brentwood.When the New York Times questioned Alfred Regnery about Clinton Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr, he replied: I knew Ken Starr when I worked at the Justice Department.... I've known him since 1981, when I was a deputy assistant attorney general and he was a special assistant to the Attorney General, William French Smith.... We're friends. I see him three, four, five times a year.''In what other age would this relationship between a CREEP dirty trickster agent, peddling fabrications about the President to a right-wing publisher, who was in close contact with the Special Prosecutor targetting the President, not be considered a potential criminal conspiracy that ought to be put under a microscope by the Attorney General?It seems at the least an egregious violation of conflict-of-interest that Tripp, goaded by Goldberg, should seek a $500,000 advance for a tell all'' book on the Clinton White House (especially, while still part of the Executive branch) since her curriculum vitae states that from May 1993 until April 1994, she was Executive Assistant to then White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum. States Tripp on her job: I kept informed of the Counsel's responsibilities, views, interests and current policies governing particular matters of importance.... I provided a close working relationship with the Counsel to effectively and efficiently handle the issues and items which arose for action and decision.''Despite these seemingly significant responsibilities, Bad'' Tripp later testified that her complaint to Nussbaum that White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster was spending too much time on the Clinton family's personal affairs, fell on deaf ears. Certainly, Lucianne Goldberg thought Tripp could present some real dish'' on the Clinton White House Counsel Office, apart from having been the last person to see Vincent Foster alive.It is also significant that Colonel Bridges of the Pentagon's Public Affairs Office confirmed that Tripp has top secret security clearance on a need-to-know basis. She has had such security clearance for some time, since her curriculum vitae says of her 1988-89 job with Delta Force at Fort Bragg, North Carolina: The nature of this position is classified.'' Likewise, during 1987, she was an assistant to the Director of the United States Army Intelligence Command at Fort Meade, Maryland, which she states was a classified unit,'' where her responsibilities included tracking classified case files.''Did Tripp violate her top-secret clearance with her crony and adviser, Ma Barker'' Goldberg? This would seem to be a top priority for U.S. counterintelligence units to investigate.But, it gets worse.<hr align="CENTER" width="75%" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" /><h2 align="CENTER" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">"Consigliere" Murray Chotiner</h2>Lucianne Goldberg told the New Yorker that it was her friend Victor Lasky, the author of an acerbic 1963 book attacking President John F. Kennedy, who got her to become a CREEP dirty trickster, working for White House Special Counsel Murray Chotiner, infiltrating Senator McGovern's 1972 Presidential campaign, under cover as a journalist. In August, 1972 Goldberg told the McGovern campaign that she was working for the Women's News Service of the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), where her husband, Sidney, eventually became president.NANA was founded by a high-ranking Office of Strategic Services (OSS) officer, Ernest Cuneo. The news agency had several CIA agents in it, such as Priscilla Johnson McMillan, who had numerous CIA and State Department links, and who was working for NANA when she interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald in Moscow.As the New Yorker points out, after Nixon self-destructed, Goldberg never lost her hatred for Kennedy Democrats, becoming the agent for Leo Damore's 1988 Chappaquiddick exposé on Ted Kennedy, Senatorial Privilege.In the mid-1960s, Drew Pearson became a partner in NANA, and Goldberg would eventually become the literary agent for his column's successor, Jack Anderson, who was a favorite leak spot for all branches of the intelligence community.Once she was hired by Chotiner to travel as a journalist'' with the McGovern campaign, Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Year, by Anthony Lukas, reports her as saying: They were looking for really dirty stuff. Who was sleeping with whom, what the Secret Service men were doing with the stewardesses, who was smoking pot on the plane--that sort of thing.''It was just more dish'' to Lucianne Goldberg.S. Weissman, author of Big Brother and the Holding Company, reports that it was also Chotiner's dirty tricks'' operation against the McGovern campaign that was responsible for learning that McGovern's running mate, Sen. Thomas Eagleton, had had successful electroshock treatment for depression 20 years earlier. More than anything else, the Eagleton affair'' convinced voters that Nixon's opponent had poor judgment and was indecisive.Murray Chotiner had been with Richard Nixon at the beginning.'' According to the 1990 book Blue Thunder, by Thomas Burdick and Charlene Mitchell: ``In 1946, Nixon announced his candidacy for Congress, and Beverly Hills attorney Murray Chotiner showed up as a consultant on his campaign staff. Chotiner counted Lansky's childhood friend and Las Vegas partner `Bugsy' Siegel among his numerous mob-connected clients. During the period 1949-52, Chotiner defended clients in 221 organized crime cases.''Chotiner would eventually be summoned by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to testify before the McClellan Committee about why so many of his clients were members of the Meyer Lansky syndicate.Chotiner also appealed to the Lansky syndicate to fund Nixon's campaigns. The 1975 book Mickey Cohen: In My Own Words--The Underworld Autobiography of Michael Mickey Cohen as told to John Peer Nugent describes how Chotiner arranged a fundraising dinner for Nixon's 1950 Senate campaign, which was entirely subscribed by members of the Lansky syndicate in Hollywood and Las Vegas, through Cohen. He described the event: So now I put together this dinner at the Knickerbocker Hotel.... Everybody around here that was on the pad naturally had to go to the dinner.... Nixon made a speech. He made a hop, skip, and jump speech because the guy that really done all the speaking was Murray Chotiner.''If Lucianne Goldberg's assassination conspiracy friends--e.g., Christopher Ruddy and Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, who claim that Vince Foster was killed by a plot implicating the President--want to do a real service, they might probe how Goldberg's former dirty tricks'' boss, Murray Chotiner, died. What is known is that in January 1974, at the height of Watergate, Chotiner was killed in a hit-and-run automobile crash, and no one was brought to justice.There is one story that Chotiner's death was related to a decision by Henry Kissinger, that Kissinger implemented through his deputy, Gen. Al Haig, to force Nixon's resignation by commissioning a report, in August 1974, on the President's organized crime connections, which would have put a spotlight on Murray Chotiner. There is no question, as EIR has previously reported, that Kissinger and Haig were plotting behind President Nixon's back throughout his administration.Another report on Chotiner's death is that the hit-and-run driver that smashed into his car in McLean, Virginia was a Naval Intelligence officer. This version says that Chotiner survived the crash with only a broken leg, but was killed in the hospital a week later. And, the story continues that Chotiner's widow wanted to sue, but incoming President Gerald Ford gave President Nixon a blanket pardon.It is certainly strange that so many questions could surround the death of White House Special Counsel Chotiner, without anything like the spate of books, Internet gossip, and newspaper tittle tattle'' that Lucianne Goldberg's friends have dished'' out over the suicide of White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster. No special prosecutor ever investigated President Nixon or such top aides as Henry Kissinger for Chotiner's death.<hr align="CENTER" width="75%" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" /><h2 align="CENTER" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The British are coming</h2>Josh Goldberg told this author that his mother has had a longstanding relationship with Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, who has been among the principal right-wing conveyors of conspiracy theories peddled by lunatic Mellon heir, Richard Mellon Scaife, into the media mainstream. Almost as soon as Evans-Pritchard became the Washington bureau chief for the London Sunday Telegraph, and focussed every ounce of energy on destroying President Bill Clinton, this author had a conversation with Evans-Pritchard, in which he admitted that he was a second generation spawn of Her Majesty's Secret Service. His father, Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard had worked first for the Colonial Office as an anthropologist to help rig what is today the British destabilization of Sudan, and then, during World War II, Sir Edward worked with British military intelligence to mobilize the Senussi Bedouin tribes to found Libya. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, who once described his presence in the United States as an anthropological expedition,'' told this author that he had collaborated with MI6, since he covered both sides of the Central America war.Among the many right-wing conspiracy theories that Ambrose Evans-Pritchard foisted and then conveyed into the respectable'' press, was the Paula Jones case. It is Ambrose Evans-Pritchard whom Clinton-haters credit with helping Jones to shape her legal strategy. In the New York Times of Jan. 28, Evans-Pritchard confirmed what Josh Goldberg told me, admitting that he knows Lucianne Goldberg well: She was very nearly my agent,'' referring to his book, The Secret Life of Bill Clinton, which accuses President Clinton or his aides of having been involved, directly or indirectly, in mysterious deaths and conspiracies.In a sense, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's collaboration with MI6 pales before his role as a journalistic hitman for the Hollinger Corp., which owns Telegraph PLC. Hollinger was reorganized by Canadian-born Tory Conrad Black, from the Argus Corporation of E.P. Taylor, which ran British arms procurement during World War II and provided a Canadian base of operations for British Security Coordinator Sir William Stephenson and for the Special Operations Executive. Some of the board members of Hollinger include: Kenneth Starr's heroine, Lady Margaret Thatcher; Sir Henry Kissinger; and Bilderberg chairman and co-founder of the spy organization Kissinger Associates, Inc., Lord Peter Rupert Carrington.Lucianne Goldberg admitted to this author that she knows another leading British opponent of President Clinton, Lord William Rees-Mogg, the former editor of the London Times now owned by Rupert Murdoch. Of course I know Lord William Rees-Mogg,'' she said. I think he's been doing a great job against Clinton.'' Rees-Mogg's attacks upon the Clinton administration either appear in the London Times or in the U.S.-based newsletter Strategic Investment, which Lord Rees-Mogg co-edits with James Dale Davidson, founder of the right-wing National Taxpayers Union.No sooner did the Goldberg-Tripp-Lewinsky scandal break, than Lord William Rees-Mogg sped to the United States, apparently in search of DNA samples and other dirt dished up by his admirer, Lucianne ``Ma Barker'' Goldberg.=

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