Murray Chotiner (1909–1974) was an American political strategist,
attorney, government official, and close associate and friend of
President Richard Nixon during much of Nixon's political career. He
served as campaign manager for the future president's run for the
United States Senate in 1950 and for his vice presidential bid in 1952,
and managed the campaigns of other California Republicans. He was
active in each of Nixon's two successful runs for the White House in
low-profile positions. After Congress investigated Chotiner in 1956,
suspecting the attorney was using his connections to Nixon for
influence peddling to benefit his private clients, the Vice President
and his former campaign manager temporarily parted ways. Nixon recalled
him to work on his 1962 gubernatorial campaign and again for his
successful 1968 presidential bid. After Nixon was inaugurated in 1969,
Chotiner received a political appointment to a government position and,
in 1970, 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 remained an informal adviser to Nixon until 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.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1830:
A provisional government in Brussels declared the creation of the
independent and neutral state of Belgium, in revolt against the United
Kingdom of the Netherlands.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Revolution>
1910:
Manuel II, the last King of Portugal, fled to Gibraltar when a
revolution erupted in Lisbon and his palace was shelled. The Portuguese
First Republic was proclaimed the next day.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_II_of_Portugal>
1957:
Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1 , the first artificial satellite to orbit
the Earth, was launched by an R-7 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1>
1985:
Software developer Richard Stallman founded the Free Software
Foundation to support the free software movement.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation>
2003:
A suicide bomber killed 21 people and injured over 50 others inside the
Maxim restaurant in Haifa, Israel.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_restaurant_suicide_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
proscenium (n):
1. (in a modern theater) The stage area between the curtain and the
orchestra.
2. (in an ancient theater) The stage area immediately in front of the
scene building
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proscenium>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one
who deals the first blow.
--Ernst Kaltenbrunner
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernst_Kaltenbrunner>