Herbert G. Klein (April 1, 1918 – July 2, 2009[1]) was best known as United States President Richard Nixon's Executive Branch Communications Director.
Klein was a Life Trustee of the University of Southern California, and in 2007, the university established the Herbert G. Klein Lecture Series. The series features lectures at USC and in San Diego. The first lecture, in April 2007, was by J. Stapleton Roy, former U.S. Ambassador to China.[2] The second, in San Diego, was by Tom Johnson, former Los Angeles Times publisher and CNN executive. The April 2008 lecture at USC was by Clark T. Randt, Jr., then U.S. Ambassador to China.[3] Klein did much to support USC's efforts to become a global university.
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Herbert was the son of George J. Klein and Amy Marie Cordes. He married Marjorie G. Galbraight in Long Beach, California on November 1, 1941. The couple had two daughters.
Klein died aged 91 on July 2, 2009 after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in La Jolla, California, according to reports from his family.
Herbert Klein was a 1935 graduate of Theodore Roosevelt High School (Los Angeles) and earned a B.A. in Journalism in 1940 from the University of Southern California, where he was a Sports Editor for theDaily Trojan.
He is a National Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute and a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, serving on the board of directors from 1966 to 1968. Sigma Delta Chi officer, the national journalism society.
He wrote book Making It Perfectly Clear, an Inside Account of Nixon's Love-Hate Relationship with the Media, released by Doubleday in 1980, ISBN 0385140479.