In 1968, Larry O’Brien was appointed by Vice President Hubert Humphrey (D) to serve nationally as the director of his presidential campaign and by Howard Hughes to serve in Washington as his public-policy lobbyist. O’Brien was elected in 1968 and 1970 by the DNC to serve nationally as its chairman. With the upcoming Presidential election, John H. Meier a former business adviser to Howard Hughes, working with Hubert Humphrey is dispatched by O’Brien to feed misinformation to Richard Nixon though his brother Donald. Nixon’s brother, an old friend of Meier is taken out to dinner before the election, after it was clear that Nixon was going to win. Meier lies about his allegiance to get close to Nixon’s brother. Meier tells Donald that he knows about LBJ’s anger over how little Humphrey fought back against Nixon’s October Surprise.