Murray Chotiner
Murray M Chotiner was an American political strategist, attorney, government official, and close associate and friend of President Richard Nixon. He served as campaign manager for the future president’s successful runs for the United States Senate in 1950 and for the vice presidency in 1952. He also managed the campaigns of other California Republicans. He died in Washington, D.C. following an auto accident in January 1974.
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Murray M Chotiner was an American political strategist, attorney, government official, and close associate and friend of President Richard Nixon. He served as campaign manager for the future president’s successful runs for the United States Senate in 1950 and for the vice presidency in 1952. He also managed the campaigns of other California Republicans. He died in Washington, D. C. following an auto accident in January 1974, and Nixon mourned the loss of a man he described as a counselor and friend. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; his father moved the family to California and then abandoned his wife and children. He attended UCLA, and graduated from the Southwestern School of Law. He practiced law in Los Angeles, and branched out into public relations. He played an active part in several political campaigns and made an unsuccessful run for the California State Assembly in 1938. In 1942, he served as his field director for Earl Warren’s successful re-election campaign. According to a Nixon biographer, he asked the newly inaugurated governor to decline to approve the extradition of one of his clients to another state. He later described the Watergate break-in that occurred during Nixon’s 1972 campaign and that eventually brought down the Nixon administration as \”stupid\”, and when a newspaper accused him of organizing it, he sued for libel and won a substantial settlement. He remained an informal adviser to Nixon until he died in D.C. following a car accident in 1974. He is survived by his wife, two children, and a step-granddaughter.
He had a son and two step-great-grandchildren, all of whom were born in the U.S. and live in California. He worked on Herbert Hoover’s unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1932. In 1938, the young attorney ran against longtime Republican incumbent Charles W. Lyon for California State-filed and secured his re-filing and narrowly beating Robert A. Heinlein in the Republican poll. In the early 1940s, he brancled out intoPublic relations. In 1946, he worked for Nixon’s successful campaign for Governor of California, and again for his successful 1968 presidential bid. In 1968, he became a member of the White House staff. He returned to private practice a year later, but was involved in Nixon’s 1972 re- election campaign. He advised Nixon on how to deal with allegations of antisemitism and revelations that there were privately run funds to pay Nixon’s political expenses. In 1956, suspecting he was using his connections to Nixon for influence peddling to benefit his private legal clients, the vice president and his former campaign manager temporarily parted ways. The next year, Nixon hired him to run his 1950 Senate campaign against Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas. He then managed Nixon’s 1952 vice presidential campaign. In 1962, he was recalled to work on his unsuccessful 1962 campaign forGovernor of California. In 1972, he returned toprivate practice. He described many of his clientele as “unsavory, to say the least’
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