Ex-Nixon aide Herbert Klein dies at 91 in Calif.

Herbert G. Klein, Richard Nixon's ex-White House director of communications and a former editor for Copley Newspapers, has died. He was 91.

Klein died Thursday after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, family members told the Union-Tribune.

Klein became a special correspondent for Copley after serving with the Navy in World War II. He covered Nixon's 1946 congressional campaign for Copley, starting an association that would eventually lead him to the White House.

Klein accompanied Vice President Nixon to Moscow in 1959 for historic meetings with Soviet Premier Nikita …