Hugh W. Sloan Jr. (born November 1, 1940) was

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of the

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, Richard M. Nixon's 1972 campaign committee. Previously, he was an aide to White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. He resigned from the Committee to Re-elect over ethics concerns related to actions behind the

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and

Carl Bernstein Carl Milton Bernstein ( ; born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author. While a young reporter for ''The Washington Post'' in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward, and the two did much of the original n ...

, in their book ''

All the President's Men ''All the President's Men'' is a 1974 non-fiction book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, two of the journalists who investigated the June 1972 break-in at the Watergate Office Building and the resultant political scandal for ''The Washingto ...

'', portrayed Sloan as one of the few honest men they interviewed.

Life and career

Sloan was born in

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. He graduated with a B.A. (Honors) from

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in 1963, and then served in the

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until 1965. In 1965 he worked as a fund raiser for the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, then for the Republican National Finance Committee until 1968. In 1968 Sloan served as assistant finance director on the Nixon– Agnew Finance Committee, then after the election served as a personal aide to Nixon on the Presidential Transition Committee until early 1969, when he joined the

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as an assistant to Dwight Chapin on January 20. Under direction of Chapin, Sloan supervised the mail operation in the appointments office, which included handling all invitations to the president. He was also responsible for staffing and planning White House social functions until early March 1971.National Archives and Records Administration, Nixon Presidential Library Staff Biographies, Yorba Linda, Cal. That same year he married Deborah Murray and served as a finance/campaign expert for what was originally the Citizens Committee to Re-Elect the President, then headed by acting director

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, (who became deputy campaign director when John Mitchell resigned from the Justice Department to take up his political duties full-time in 1972). The organization was renamed to Committee for Re-Election of the President (CRP), with Sloan as its treasurer.

and

said that

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told them that Sloan knew nothing about the Watergate burglary or how the money he disbursed was actually used. Sloan resigned when he found out what the

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were up to and became a source for Woodward and Bernstein. Sloan was not identified by name in their ''

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'' stories about the Watergate scandal but was in their book about their reporting of it, ''

'', in which he was portrayed as one of the few honest men they interviewed. Sloan subsequently became a trustee of

. Since 1985 he has been a director of the

Manulife Financial Corporation Manulife Financial Corporation (also known as Financière Manuvie in Quebec) is a Canadian multinational insurance company and financial services provider headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The company operates in Canada and Asia as "Manulife" an ...

, a Canadian-based financial services group. From 1998 to 2008 he was deputy chairman of Woodbridge Foam, a supplier of urethane technologies to the automotive industry. Sloan is also a director of Wescast Industries, an automotive supplier whose stock trades on the

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Portrayal in film

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portrayed Sloan in

Alan J. Pakula Alan Jay Pakula (; April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998) was an American film director, writer and producer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards: Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture for ''To Kill a Mockingbird (film), To Kill a Moc ...

's 1976 film ''All the President's Men''.

References

External links

Manulife Financial Corporate profile

''Forbes'' corporate profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sloan, Hugh 1940 births Living people People from Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University alumni Members of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President New Jersey Republicans