8'2Chronicle 28 Dec 70 Revelations of Nixon's Hatchet Man' By Vera Glaser and Chotiner as a hatchet Malvina Stephenson man." copyright 1970, Knight Newspapers Int To appease Chotiner, she Washington said, John Mitchell, now PRESIDENTNixon's Attorney General, and Rob- close and sometimes mys- ert Finch, now counselor to terious relationship with the President, offered Cho- Murray Chotiner, his con- tiner three other jobs troversial aide,willbe which he turned down. aired in a forthcoming "It was so ridiculous; book by Chotiner's es- I'm still laughing," Mrs. . tranged wife, Mimi. Chotiner said. "First was Postmaster General.I A sharp-tongued e x- model, Mrs. Chotiner plans said, 'Murray, you must be to string together what she kidding, it is a losing prop- describes a s "hilariously osition,' et cetera." funny" vignettes about her "He said, 'I didn't take husband's 25-year political it, I didn't take it." association with Nixo n, "I said, 'Well, what was which ultimately broke up the second one?' their marriage. "He •said it was head of The tie between the two MURRAY CHOTINER. Selective Service. That was men has fascinated observ- Similar looks ... and thinking when Hershey (General ers since 1946 when Choti- Lewis B. Hershey) still had ner managed Nixon's first it. I said, 'Murray, you've Congressional race. was nominated to the Cab- House request and asked never even been .in the inet. for a desk at GOP head- Chotiner service.' He said, 'I didn't , dropped out of Mrs. Chotiner said her quarter s. Bliss resigned take it, I didn't take it.' sight in the '50s after a husband told her he per- soon afterward, but re- Senate committee investi- "I said, 'I'm afraid to sona 11 y "fired" former fused to confirm that ask, what was the third?' gated him for alleged influ- GOP Chairman Ray Bliss Chotiner wielded the axe. ence peddling. He then in 1969 on orders from new- "He said head of ;Civil reappeared in Nixon's 1968 ly elected President Nixon. Chotiner expected to get Defense, at which point I Presidential race. the job, Mrs. Chotiner re- laughed my head off. I Reached in Akronit', , called, but she said Nixon Now 61 and a sp said, • 'Both you and Civil Bliss confirmed-that Ctioti- "shafted" him by giving it Defense have been a na- counsel in the White Hou ner called on him at White Chotiner's political chord' to Morton after "using Mr. tional joke for 25 years'." remain. controversial and .■■ largely supersecret. He was unavailable for comment, but has told re- or time to the obscure " House,", she chuckled, "Be- porters he cannot imagine Chotiner relationSliiP over job of general counsel to cause that's 'whom I have what material Mrs. Choti- the years was based on the special representative been sending my 'unpaid ner might have for a book. t-; "expediency," and noted for international trade ne- bills." that the two men possess a "I know plenty," MF14. gotiations. Shortly before she wed Chotiner said as she pre- number of similarities in Referring to the job as looks and thinking. Chotiner in 1965, she re- viewed her book in a tele- "political Siberi a," Mrs. called, he showed her his phone interview from her Both are "loners, with Chotiner cracked, "The nress- clippina-s. ( "He saves home in Newport Beach. many of the same habits. longer the title, the lousier every line of print about She revealedthather They even play the piano the job." h to f"). She said she husband is holding in his alike, the same type of rin- Born in Oak Park, Ill., was "horrified" at the crit- safe deposit box signed ky-dink music." Mrs. Chotiner's brief ical blasts and extracted a memoranda from Nixon One of Mr. Chotiner's modeling career was pur- promise from Chotiner promising Chotiner the pnoblems, according to his sued in Phoenix and Wash- never to return to politics, chairmanship of the Re- former wife, is a tendency ington, D.C. on which he rater reneged. publican National Commit-, to be "a blabbermouth." It Her book will be titled She predicted ixon tee in 1969. 'caused him to be relegated "In Care of the White would- shaft him ag The position went up for grabs again when GOP Chairman