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I did not see the ad, but destiny acted as though I had answered it,
when I was contacted by Murray Chotiner for Herman Perry, vice president
of the Bank of America. Perry later became vice president of the Western
Tube Corporation, a ClA front located in the Whittier Bank of America
building. But now he wanted to know only if I was a Republican and if I
was available.
My responses were both affirmative.
It was Perry who brought me out for an extremely brief meeting
with Howard Hughes. Hughes was handsome, dynamic, self-assured.
Somehow he had seen the FBI dossier on me, which had apparently been
compiled when I applied for a position with the Bureau after graduating
law school. Oddly enough, I had never heard back from the FBI directly.
"Nixon," he addressed me, "you have a magnificent political
future ahead. You will be able to steer your ship independently. But always
keep it in a tiny compartment of your mind that you do not own the
ocean. I do."
I never saw Howard Hughes face to face again.
* **
The seeds of my distrust of the Justice Department were sown in
1948 during the Alger Hiss case. Those people just sat on each other's
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