Noah Dietrich Quotes
If this loan becomes public information it could be the end of your political career.
Nixon’s brother Donald Nixon was a notoriously poor businessman and was in financial difficulties. The Vice President asked the Howard Hughes attorney if a loan could be arranged for brother Donald. Nixon told Dietrich that “My family comes ahead of my political career.” The $25,000 loan was arranged and “laundered” by coming from Frank Waters, a Hughes attorney to Nixon’s mother who in turn gave the money to Donald. He promptly spent it all and 2 weeks later Don’s business went under. No quid pro quo has ever been proved, although see Howard Hughes’ quotation.
Noah Dietrich, *, Industrialist and Manager of the Enterprises of Howard Hughes, Warning to then Vice President Richard M. Nixon
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Sung to the tune of an old English pub song, "Down at the Olde Bull and Bush." The Congressman also fancies himself a pianist.
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He was a conservative, Republican Congressman from Georgia when he made this statement complaining about the wast of mmoney by Federal Officials and bureaucrats. The thing that made this common complaint memorable is that several years later, he was appointed by President Donald Trump as Secretary of Health and Human Services. In less than a year in the office, he was forced to resign [fired] in disgrace for wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars chartering private airplanes for himself and his staff including one where he spent $25,000 to charter a plane from Washington DC to Philadelphia -- a two hour drive in his government car, less than $100 for the Amtrak train or $10 by the Greayhound bus. The scandal that erupted was made worse by the hypocricy.
Noah Dietrich was an American businessman, who was the chief executive officer of the Howard Hughes business empire from 1925 to 1957. (Even though these dates have been recorded as the official period of employment, Noah Dietrich continued to oversee and make executive decisions for the Hughes industries as late as 1970.) According to his own memoirs, he left the Hughes operation over a dispute involving putting more of his income on a capital gains basis. The manuscript of his eventual memoir, Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes, may have been a key, if inadvertent, source of novelist Clifford Irving's infamous fake autobiography of Hughes.
