1. Franklyn Curran "Lyn" Nofziger was an American journalist, conservative Republican political consultant and author.
18 Facts About Lyn Nofziger
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Lyn Nofziger served as press secretary in Ronald Reagan's administration as Governor of California, and as a White House advisor during the Richard Nixon administration and again during the Reagan presidency.
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In 1966, Lyn Nofziger was named press secretary for Ronald Reagan's successful California gubernatorial campaign and served two years as Reagan's Director of Communications.
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Lyn Nofziger worked for Nixon's presidential re-election campaign in 1972 as executive director of the California Committee for the Re-Election of the President.
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John Dean, Nixon's White House counsel, wrote that Lyn Nofziger had helped compile the Nixon White House's enemies list.
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When Gerald Ford won the Republican nomination, Lyn Nofziger assisted with the Ford-Dole campaign, which lost the election to Democrat Jimmy Carter.
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Lyn Nofziger went back to work for Reagan as he began laying the groundwork for the 1980 campaign, serving as executive vice-chairman of Citizens for the Republic, a political action committee founded by Reagan.
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Lyn Nofziger never sought to be Press Secretary in the White House, it being in his words "a young man's job".
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Lyn Nofziger was instead named to the post of Assistant to the President for Political Affairs, and was employed in that position for about a year.
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Lyn Nofziger was a senior consultant for the 1984 Reagan-Bush Re-Election Campaign and a member of the 1985 Inaugural Committee.
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Lyn Nofziger ran political campaigns for Pat Buchanan and Steve Forbes.
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In 1987, Lyn Nofziger was investigated for allegedly violating the Ethics in Government Act when he lobbied on behalf of Wedtech Corporation, a defense contractor.
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Lyn Nofziger knew this, and for two years he did not lobby the Office of Political Affairs at the White House.
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Lyn Nofziger was indicted and later convicted of violating the law.
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Lyn Nofziger vigorously fought the indictment and conviction, which was eventually overturned on appeal.
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Lyn Nofziger wrote four Western novels with a hero named Tackett, a drifter who falls into situations that compel him to rescue women in distress.
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Lyn Nofziger died on March 27,2006, at his home in Falls Church, Virginia, from kidney cancer, aged 81.
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Lyn Nofziger's body was interred in National Memorial Park in Falls Church.