Mr. Malek advised President Reagan as a member of the executive committee of the President’s Council on Cost Control, as a member of the President’s Commission on Private Sector Initiatives and as a member of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
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I don’t think being a member of a Commission is close to equivalent to being Assistant the the President and Deputy Director of OMB under Nixon and an Ambassador, Chairman of the 1988 GOP convention and Bush’s campaign manager. He worked for Nixon and Bush. He sat on an advisory board for Reagan, probably at the urging of Bush or Jim Baker.
The point is that there are many members on a commission, and they are appointed frequently at the behest of someone else, not the President. I doubt if Reagan could have picked Malek out of a lineup. If he had been a movement conservative, as a former Deputy Director of OMB, he would have been considered for a Cabinet post or something important by Reagan. The fact that he was not tells me that he was a Nixon-Bush guy, not a Reagan man.
To tell you the truth, though, he has no business giving SP electoral advice inasmuch as his own electoral track record is abysmal.