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This, from @TimothyNoah1 back in 2007, is the obituary that Fred Malek deserves: slate.com/news-and-polit…
@TimothyNoah1 2. One thing to bear in mind? The horrifying details of a paranoid president purging Jews from his administration only emerged years later. None of this was known when Nixon was forced from office.
@TimothyNoah1 3. There’s no ambiguity. We have the tapes. Nixon: "The government is full of Jews. Second, most Jews are disloyal…. Bob, generally speaking, you can’t trust the bastards.” And then at his behest, Malek embarked on a Jew count, and sidelined or forced some out.
@TimothyNoah1 4. We never really know what’s going on inside a White House until years after its occupants have left power. But this episode haunts me—what otherwise reasonable people can do in sycophantic service to a mercurial and paranoid president, without anyone even knowing.
