lucky time Richard V. Allen, Reagan’s First National Security Adviser, Dies at 88
Richard V. Allen, President Ronald Reagan’s first national security adviser, who was forced to resign after less than a year in office, much of it under a cloud of controversies that muted his voice in contributing to foreign and military policies, died on Saturday in Denver. He was 88.
His death, in a hospital, was confirmed on Tuesday by his son Michael, who did not specify a cause. Mr. Allen lived in Denver.
An international business consultant who for decades had cultivated clients in Japan and Portugal, Mr. Allen was a veteran political operative with conservative Republican credentials. He had written books on Cold War communism and was a foreign policy adviser to Richard M. Nixon in his 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns and a deputy national security adviser and later an economic adviser in the Nixon White House.
He had also been a focus of controversy over his political and business affairs. The head of a Grumman Corporation subsidiary told a Senate subcommittee that during Nixon’s 1972 campaign, Mr. Allen had solicited a $1 million contribution to the Committee to Re-elect the President in exchange for promising to help the subsidiary win sales contracts in Japan. Mr. Allen denied the allegation, which was not adjudicated.
ImageMr. Allen stood, at right, beside President-elect Richard M. Nixon in December 1968 at a news conference in Manhattan in which Nixon introduced him and Henry A. Kissinger as appointees to his forthcoming administration. Mr. Kissinger was named national security adviser and Mr. Allen his deputy. Nixon’s press aide, Ron Ziegler, was at extreme right.Credit...Neal Boenzi/The New York TimesAnd in the fall of 1980, during Reagan’s presidential campaign, Mr. Allen temporarily stepped down as the candidate’s foreign policy adviser after an allegation surfaced in news reports that he had used his connections in the Nixon White House to obtain consulting contracts for himself with foreign governments. Mr. Allen denied that allegation as well. After Reagan’s victory, he was named national security adviser.
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