Dole's man in California.(presidential candidate Bob Dole; Ken Khachigian)

Nation, The, August, 1996 by Corn, David

Bob Dole has selected Ken Khachigian as head of his political operations in California. Khachigian started his political career in the Nixon administration on Patrick Buchanan's staff and there began to develop his reputation for aggressive and often vicious attacks on opponents.

As part of his crusade to save President Nixon from the clutches of Watergate, Senator Bob Dole in 1972 regularly unleashed blistering assaults on the Democratic Party, its presidential candidate Senator George McGovern and that old bugaboo, the liberal media. Often Dole was reading from a White House script written by a young political operative named Ken Khachigian, who in a note referred to his mouthpiece as "Hatchet Man Dole." Now, two and a half decades later, Khachigian and Dole have...

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