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After Nixon's resignation,
Malek went on to a successful
14-year career with the Mar-
riott Corporation. But the
BLS affair periodically came
back to haunt him.
The anti-Semitism issue
came up in 1976, when Bob
Woodward and Carl Bern-
stein published The Final
Days, their account of the last
throes of the Nixon presiden-
cy. The book devotes several
paragraphs to the BLS affair
and Woodward and Berns-
tein's account does not differ
significantly from the story
Fred Malek tells today.
The issue came up again in
1982, when President Ronald
Reagan appointed Malek to
the U.S. Postal Service board
of governors. During his
Senate confirmation hear-
ings, he referred to his regret
over his judgment in the BLS
affair.
Early in last year's race for
the Republican presidential
nomination, George Bush
tapped Fred Malek to manage
the New Orleans convention
that produced the Bush-
Quayle ticket. After the con-
vention he was rewarded with
the position of deputy chair-
man of the Republican Na-
tional Committee.
Today, Malek looks back
with pride on his role at the
convention. "I think I helped
put together a meaty, compel-
ing convention," he says.
"When we went to New
Orleans, we were a dozen
points behind in the polls;
when we left we were ahead.
I was at least partly respon-
sible, and further earned Mr.
Bush'S respect."
And then came Malek's
September surprise; Bob
Woodward's story appeared
on Sept. 11, and in a matter
of hours, Malek was out of the
campaign.
To a degree, he argues, the
furious reaction to the revived
BLS story was a product of
the supercharged campaign
environment. And the
shadow of anti-Semitism had
already crossed the cam-
paign. "The week before," he
says, "there was information
about the ethnic coalitions,
about Nazi connections by
some of the members. This
raised in the minds of the
press the question of whether
George Bush had people
working for him that were
fundamentally anti-Semitic."
The stories about his ac-
tivities in 1971, he suggests,
were fuel on an already rag-
ing fire.
He also maintains that his
associations with the Nixon
administration contributed to
the firestorm of reaction. The
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