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Nixon Enemies List entry for
Nick Newman:

List and position:Second, #389
Name as originally listed:Nick Newman
1972 location:Omaha, NE

Comments

Name/Date:Murray NewmanSep 5, 2010 9:49am
Comment:Nick Newman was the same person as CM Newman.........see posting for CM Newman. CM Newman died in 1973.
Name/Date:Peter B. NewmanSep 6, 2010 5:11pm
Comment:I NOW SEE THAT THIS IS VERIFICATION THAT MY FATHER (C.M. "NICK" NEWMAN) WAS INDEED ON THE ENEMIES LIST TWICE...

1) My father (Calvin Mark "Nick" Newman) was George McGovern's midwestern campaign chairman.
2) My father was, I believe, the only person to be named on the list TWICE - as apparently those making the list didn't know that Nick Newman was the same person as C.M. Newman.
3) Unhappily, my father died a few months before Nixon was forced to resign from the presidency in disgrace.
4) My uncle, Murray Newman, was a major contributor to McGovern's campaign - but he was only marginally involved in the actual campaign. However, Nixon wanted to have two identified "enemies" in every state, so my uncle got enlisted to join my father on the list.

The question I'd like to see asked about the Enemies List is: What was the reaction of the individual families to seeing their relatives on the list?

We were astonished that Nixon would bother to identify my father and uncle, as they were not really part of the national political scene. Nixon was a paranoiac though, and needed to have someone to hate in every state. It's a sorry tale - my father was a community leader, a philanthropist, and an all-around decent guy. And no one's enemy. But one of our presidents saw enemies everywhere, whether real or not.

Peter B. Newman
Name/Date:Peter B. NewmanSep 6, 2010 5:22pm
Comment:ADDITIONAL iNFORMATION from Peter B. Newman:

DOBirth: January 29, 1926
DODeath: May 13, 1973

President, Hinky Dinky Food Stores

education:
BA Stanford University
MBA University of Chicago

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