Harry Dent | Former Nixon aide, 77
Harry Dent, 77, a former top adviser to President Richard M. Nixon who helped Nixon win the South, has died.
Bob McAlister, a longtime friend and Republican strategist, said Mr. Dent died Sept. 28 battling Alzheimer's disease.
In 1968, Mr. Dent helped play a major role in swinging conservative Southern primary voters to Nixon instead of Ronald Reagan and to Nixon again in the general election.
Mr. Dent was rewarded by being named special counsel to the president.
He was not involved in the Watergate scandal that swamped Nixon's second term, but he did plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge for "aiding and abetting" an illicit, secret 1970 campaign fund that steered nearly $3 million into Republican Senate and House races.
He was placed on unsupervised probation for a month. - Associated Press
Harry Dent, 77, a former top adviser to President Richard M. Nixon who helped Nixon win the South, has died.
Bob McAlister, a longtime friend and Republican strategist, said Mr. Dent died Sept. 28 battling Alzheimer's disease.
In 1968, Mr. Dent helped play a major role in swinging conservative Southern primary voters to Nixon instead of Ronald Reagan and to Nixon again in the general election.
Mr. Dent was rewarded by being named special counsel to the president.
He was not involved in the Watergate scandal that swamped Nixon's second term, but he did plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge for "aiding and abetting" an illicit, secret 1970 campaign fund that steered nearly $3 million into Republican Senate and House races.
He was placed on unsupervised probation for a month. - Associated Press
Harry Dent | Former Nixon aide, 77
Harry Dent, 77, a former top adviser to President Richard M. Nixon who helped Nixon win the South, has died.
Bob McAlister, a longtime friend and Republican strategist, said Mr. Dent died Sept. 28 battling Alzheimer's disease.
In 1968, Mr. Dent helped play a major role in swinging conservative Southern primary voters to Nixon instead of Ronald Reagan and to Nixon again in the general election.
Mr. Dent was rewarded by being named special counsel to the president.
He was not involved in the Watergate scandal that swamped Nixon's second term, but he did plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge for "aiding and abetting" an illicit, secret 1970 campaign fund that steered nearly $3 million into Republican Senate and House races.
He was placed on unsupervised probation for a month. - Associated Press
Harry Dent, 77, a former top adviser to President Richard M. Nixon who helped Nixon win the South, has died.
Bob McAlister, a longtime friend and Republican strategist, said Mr. Dent died Sept. 28 battling Alzheimer's disease.
In 1968, Mr. Dent helped play a major role in swinging conservative Southern primary voters to Nixon instead of Ronald Reagan and to Nixon again in the general election.
Mr. Dent was rewarded by being named special counsel to the president.
He was not involved in the Watergate scandal that swamped Nixon's second term, but he did plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge for "aiding and abetting" an illicit, secret 1970 campaign fund that steered nearly $3 million into Republican Senate and House races.
He was placed on unsupervised probation for a month. - Associated Press
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