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WASHINGTON – A top adviser to GOP star Sarah Palin was once dispatched by ex-President Richard Nixon to sweep Jews out of government service, newly released tapes show. Nixon aide Fred Malek's role as what Democrats call a “Jew counter” for the disgraced President was already well known, and he has spent decades apologizing for activities that later cost him a Republican National Committee job in the 1980s. But he remains a prominent GOP powerbroker. “The government is full of Jews,” Nixon griped to chief aide H.R. Haldeman in a July 1971 Oval Office recording released by the University of Virginia's Miller Center on Thursday. “Most Jews are disloyal.” The Republican President, who resigned amid the Watergate scandal in 1974, said he wanted Malek in charge of cleaning Jews out of “any sensitive areas.” “We've got to get a man in charge who is not Jewish to control the Jewish – do you understand?” Nixon said. “I sure do,” Haldeman answered. Ultimately, Malek turned over a list of more than a dozen Jews in the Bureau of Labor Statistics, files show. Most were fired. The Democratic Party fired off at least 13 e-mails to reporters blasting Malek – who ran George H.W. Bush's 1992 campaign – and forwarded unflattering stories about the new tape. Malek was recently named a budget adviser by Virginia's Republican governor, Robert McDonnell. “As Mr. Malek has said before, he has made mistakes in his life for which he has apologized, atoned and learned from,” Malek's spokesman Mark Corallo said. Back in 1971, Nixon only appeared dimly aware of the background of the West Pointer and Vietnam vet. “Malek is not Jewish?” he asked Haldeman, who replied that Malek was not. Many prominent Jews have rallied behind Malek, a successful GOP businessman and philanthropist, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), The Washington Post reported. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/06/04/2010-06-04_sarah_palin_aide_… http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/06/04/2010-06-04_sarah_palin_aide_… added by: cclark_productions