Earl Mazo | |
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File:Earl Mazo WWII.png Mazo pictured during World War II | |
Personal details | |
Born |
Warsaw, Poland | July 7, 1919
Died |
February 17, 2007 Bethesda, Maryland, USA | (aged 87)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | journalist |
Alma mater | Clemson University |
Earl Mazo (July 7, 1919 – February 17, 2007) was an American journalist, author, and government official.
Education and early life[]
Born in Warsaw, Poland, Mazo migrated to the United States as a small child with his parents, Sonia and George Mazo.[1] The Mazos settled in Charleston, South Carolina where they lived in the Hannah Enston Building.[2] Mazo would later graduate from Clemson University.[1] During World War II, he served as a public relations officer with the U.S. Army Air Force's 385th Bomb Group and was stationed in the United Kingdom.[3][4][5]
Career[]
Mazo reported for Stars and Stripes, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Times, the Reader's Digest, and served for one year during the presidency of Harry Truman as a deputy assistant secretary of defense.[1] In later life, Mazo was employed as head of the professional staff of the United States Congress Joint Committee on Printing.[4]
In 1959, Mazo authored a biography of Richard Nixon, Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait.[6] The following year, he published a series of exposés on serious voter fraud in the United States which, he believed, cost Nixon the 1960 U.S. presidential election.[6][7] His reports prompted a successful appeal by Nixon to Mazo's editors to terminate the series of stories on the grounds that the U.S. could not afford a constitutional crisis at the height of the Cold War.[6] Nixon allegedly said to Mazo that "our country can’t afford the agony of a constitutional crisis – and I damn well will not be a party to creating one, just to become president or anything else".[8] Mazo would later express his disappointment at the decision, believing the series would have put him in contention for the Pulitzer Prize.[6][7]
Personal life[]
Mazo was widowed from his first wife, but later remarried. He died at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland from complications resulting from a fall at his home in Chevy Chase.[4][6]
Bibliography[]
- Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait, New York: Harper (1959)[9]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sullivan, Patricia (February 18, 2007). "Earl Mazo, 87; Richard Nixon Biographer". Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/17/AR2007021701356.html. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
- ↑ Stockton, Robert (October 2, 1972). "Building, Notables Linked". Charleston News & Courier. pp. B1. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=0oeUc68sgesC&dat=19721002&printsec=frontpage&hl=en. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
- ↑ Rooney, Andy (2008). My War. PublicAffairs. ISBN 1586486829. https://books.google.com/books?id=oRwbdEhI9f8C&dq=.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Regina Schatz and Earl Mazo". New York Times. November 27, 2005. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/fashion/weddings/regina-schatz-and-earl-mazo.html?_r=0. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
- ↑ "Report from the Front: Lt. Earl Mazo". Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina. http://jhssc.org/report-from-the-front-lt-earl-mazo/. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Earl Mazo, 87; Nixon biographer also covered politics for New York papers". Los Angeles Times. February 20, 2007. http://articles.latimes.com/2007/feb/20/local/me-mazo20. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "The drama behind President Kennedy’s 1960 election win". National Constitution Center. http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2016/11/the-drama-behind-president-kennedys-1960-election-win/. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
- ↑ Boller, Paul (1996). Presidential Anecdotes. Oxford University Press. p. 327. ISBN 0195097319. https://books.google.com/books?id=N0JRvfAIUFwC&dq.
- ↑ "Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait". OCLC. http://www.worldcat.org/title/richard-nixon-a-political-and-personal-portrait/oclc/456557. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
External links[]
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