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Maybe I just imagined that Fred Malek counted Jews in Richard Nixon's Bureau of Labor Statistics …

Slate's Timothy Noah is taking the Washington Post to task for declining to mention that Fred Malek, an investor in the club that wants to bring major league baseball back to the US capital, disgraced himself in the Nixon administration by taking a nose count of Jews in the Bureau of Labor Statistics (at Nixon's request). Noah notes that the last time Malek's counting was mentioned by the Post was June 30.
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