John McCain hires Fred Malek as his national finance co-chair. Turns out Malek worked in the Nixon administration, and worked to identify Jews in the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whom Nixon thought were conspiring against him.

There is some evidence that Malek's work resulted in the demotion of a couple of the individuals he identified as Jewish.

In 1988, when George Bush pere installed Malek as deputy chairman for the Republican National Committee, Woodward dusted off his notes and, with the Washington Post's Walter Pincus, further revealed that two months after Malek filed a memo on the matter--he'd counted 13 Jews, though his methodology was shaky--a couple of them were demoted. (Malek denied any role and said Nixon's notions of a "Jewish cabal" were "ridiculous" and "nonsense.") The 1988 story raised a predictable ruckus, and Malek beat a hasty retreat from the RNC.