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- Nov. 22, 1993: Died:Harry Robbins Haldeman
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Nov. 22, 1993 Where is The Great American Job?
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 29
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- <p> DIED. HARRY ROBBINS HALDEMAN, 67, Nixon White House chief of
- staff; of abdominal cancer; in Santa Barbara, California. Of
- all the President's men, H.R. (Bob) Haldeman was the most ferocious
- in his protection of his boss's interests. Like Nixon a native
- Southern Californian, Haldeman joined the J. Walter Thompson
- ad agency in the late 1940s. At about the same time, he began
- to admire young Congressman Nixon, an aggressive member of the
- House Committee on Un-American Activities. Haldeman joined Nixon's
- vice presidential re-election campaign in 1956, and in Nixon's
- 1960 campaign for President, Haldeman was his chief advance
- man. Although he counseled Nixon not to run, Haldeman managed
- Nixon's 1962 campaign for Governor of California. As campaign
- manager in the 1968 race, Haldeman realized that in order to
- win, Nixon must appear at ease and in control, so he created
- a campaign that presented a studiously relaxed candidate, "the
- new Nixon." As Nixon's chief of staff, Haldeman jealously guarded
- all access to the President--and would eventually play an
- essential role in the cover-up of the Watergate break-in. Within
- a week of the burglary in 1972, he was urging the White House
- to stymie the FBI investigation, a conversation recorded in
- the "smoking gun" tape that brought down the Nixon White House.
- Haldeman also oversaw a secret $350,000 slush fund for the Watergate
- burglars. He was convicted of obstruction of justice and lying
- to the FBI and a federal grand jury and was imprisoned for a
- year and a half. After his release, Haldeman worked for financier
- David Murdock in hotels and other businesses and advised start-up
- companies, staying in touch with the figure whom he had helped
- both create and destroy.
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