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Herbert G. Klein | Nixon aide, newsman, 91

Herbert G. Klein, 91, Richard Nixon's White House director of communications and a former editor for Copley Newspapers, died Thursday of cardiac arrest at his home in La Jolla, Calif.

Mr. Klein became a special correspondent for Copley after serving with the Navy in World War II. He covered Nixon's 1946 congressional campaign for Copley, starting an association that would eventually lead him to the White House.

He accompanied Vice President Nixon to Moscow in 1959 for historic meetings with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The next year, he represented Nixon in setting the terms for the first televised debates between presidential candidates.

Mr. Klein resigned as Nixon's communications director in 1973, a year before the Watergate scandal forced the president to step down.

He later joined Metromedia Inc., a national non-network broadcasting group. In 1980, he went back to Copley Newspapers as editor in chief.

- AP

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