The influential television executive,who has died aged 77, made his name in the 1960s with Richard Nixon and became a formidable cog in the Murdoch machineRoger Ailes death offers exiguous relief to Fox News, and besieged by lawsuitsIn 1967,a 27-year-old Ailes was working on the Mike Douglas expose when he met and impressed Richard Nixon. The following year he was hired as a political consultant to be “Nixons executive producer for television”. Ailes successfully recast the awkward Nixon, whose presidential run in 1960 crashed after a stilted debate with John F Kennedy. The partnership with Ailes helped Nixon win the 1968 presidential election.
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Source: theguardian.com