The Nation - News from Sept. 11, 1989

Frederick V. Malek, who resigned as a top Bush campaign adviser and deputy Republican party chairman last fall over a controversy from his days as a Richard M. Nixon White House aide, is being recruited by the Administration to run next year’s economic summit with major Western allies, the White House said. Malek, 51, has apologized for the 1971 incident, when he wrote a memo on how many top Bureau of Labor Statistics officials were Jewish. He has said he wrote the memo only after ignoring several earlier demands from then-President Nixon for the information. Recently the business executive has met privately with leaders of American Jewish organizations--both to tell his side of the story and to convey his apologies. Jewish leaders said they and their organizations accepted Malek’s apology.