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Ron Hoffman
Professor, UH-Manoa Economics, 1963 - 1967
Ronald Hoffman and the Nixon White House
When he had just taken over as the chairman of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, he [Herbert Stein] hired a young staff economist named Ron Hoffman (brother of Dustin Hoffman). Almost immediately, John Dean, then White House counsel, came to see my father to tell him that he had to fire Hoffman. Apparently, Ron Hoffman had signed a public anti-war letter. The FBI, or whoever, said that showed he was not loyal and not qualified. My father said that this was a free country, that Ron Hoffman was hired as an economist not as a political flack for RN, and that he would not be fired because he disagreed with some aspect of Nixon policy. After much worrying, Hoffman was allowed to stay and performed well.
Ben Stein, New York Times columnist, from his eulogy for his father, Herbert Stein, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Richard Nixon, January 1972 ñ August 1974.
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