Word: kleine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Disneyland. The system will largely consist of Herbert George Klein as his "Director of Communications for the Executive Branch." Said Klein...
...Truth will be the hallmark of the Nixon Administration." He may have been setting too high a standard for any political regime. With six or seven "key aides," Klein will work in the Executive Office Building, just west of the White House, to coordinate the information pouring forth from the myriad federal agencies. "I won't have the power of veto," insisted Klein. "Extending the flow of news is what I'm interested in." But he admitted that the object of his new job, unprecedented in the Federal Government, will also be "to develop a better image...
There was some puzzlement, because Klein, a Nixon friend and adviser from the earliest days of the President-elect's political career, is not assuming the more traditional role of White House press secretary. That job will be filled by Ronald Ziegler, 29, a former California advertising account executive (Disneyland was his chief project) with neither political nor journalistic experience. Unlike Ike's James Hagerty or L.B.J.'s Bill Moyers and George Christian, Ziegler has never been close to his boss, and is not expected to participate in the high counsels of government...
...Herb Klein will handle the Administration's more general p.r. problems. Actually, he will be performing the same job that he held during the Nixon campaign, when he often acted as a stand-in for the candidate, enunciating policy, coordinating announcements from G.O.P. leaders throughout the nation. While some reporters were less than reassured by the implications of Klein's new post, few faulted the man himself on his past fairness and honesty in dealing with them...
Protestations of Probity. Compact (5 ft. 8 in., 180 Ibs.), often rumpled, Klein, 50, is a competent newspaper executive whose notable talent is neither writing nor editing but getting along with people. Incongruously, for a chief operative in a notoriously efficient political organization, Klein has always been a "dirty-desk" man who seems almost constitutionally unable to arrive for an appointment on time. As a political reporter for California's Alhambra Post-Advocate, he became friendly with Nixon in 1946, when he first ran for the House against Jerry Voorhis. Since then, Klein's journalistic career has been...