Biography
Nofziger was born and reared in Bakersfield, California. He served in the United States Army. He earned a B.A. in journalism from San Jose State College in San Jose, California, and would work for sixteen years as a reporter, editor and Washington, D.C., correspondent for Copley Newspapers and Copley News Service.
In 1966, Nofziger was named press secretary for Reagan's successful gubernatorial campaign in California, and served two years as Governor Reagan's Director of Communications. After Richard Nixon's election as U.S. President in 1968, Nofziger served the Nixon White House as deputy assistant to the president for congressional relations and the Republican National Committee as its deputy chairman for communications. Nofziger worked for Nixon's presidential re-election campaign in 1972 as executive director of the California Committee to Re-Elect the President.
As Governor Reagan set his sights on the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, Nofziger served his campaign as press secretary, convention director and director of the California campaign. When Gerald Ford won the Republican nomination, Nofziger assisted with the Ford-Dole campaign, which lost the election to Democrat Jimmy Carter and the Carter-Mondale campaign.
Nofziger went back to work for Governor Reagan as he began laying the groundwork for the 1980 campaign, serving as executive vice-chairman of Citizens for the Republic, a political action committee founded by Reagan. With the run at the White House in full gear in 1979, Mr. Nofziger served as deputy chairman for finance for the Reagan for President organization. Reagan won the election, defeating Carter's campaign for a second term.
Nofziger never sought to be Press Secretary in the White House, this being in his words "a young man's job". Jim Brady was named Press Secretary. Nofziger was instead named to the post of assistant to the president for political affairs in the White House, and Nofziger was employed there for about a year. Mr. Nofziger was a senior consultant for the 1984 Reagan-Bush Re-Election Campaign and a member of the 1985 Inaugural Committee.
Nofziger also ran political campaigns for Pat Buchanan and Steve Forbes.
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