How Baruch Became Nixon’s Rabbi

Baruch Korff with Richard and Pat Nixon following a reception at the White House, February 22, 1974

Baruch Korff with Richard and Pat Nixon following a reception at the White House, February 22, 1974

On March 15, 1974, President Richard Nixon introduced Baruch Korff to Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago. With outstretched hand, Nixon shouted amid several hundred Nixon loyalists, Meet my rabbi! The media seized on it and Baruch Korff was Nixon’s rabbi ever since.[1]


[1] The President and I, p. 3.