Roger Stone served as a campaign advisor for Richard Nixon.
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The Health Ranger ReportAug 14, 2026
Sources agree Stone worked on Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign, but the Nixon Foundation and Snopes say calling him a campaign adviser overstates a junior scheduler's role, so the claim's 'advisor' label is contradicted. Some outlets (The Atlantic, NBC's summary of earlier coverage, Wikipedia's campaign list) describe him more loosely as an aide or campaign worker, which keeps the record contested.
What was said
… Roger Stone has been a long time friend, I think, of Alex, and definitely Roger has been a friend of Trump, an ally of Trump, for, I think, decades, actually. Roger Stone goes all the way back to Richard Nixon. Don't forget, he was, I think, he was a campaign advisor for Nixon, maybe more. So Roger Stone has been involved in the political circles of the GOP for literally, for decades, and yes, Roger is a rather, you know, polarizing person. No question about that. …
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Contradicts. Snopes rates calling Stone an 'adviser' to Nixon as overstating his role, and the Nixon Foundation said he was a junior scheduler on the reelection committee and 'not a campaign aide or adviser.'[1][4][5]
Contradicts. Politico reports that Stone 'was not a key player' in Nixon's administration and that the foundation disavowed the adviser characterization, while CNN quotes the foundation saying he 'was not an aide or advisor for the campaign.'[5][6]
Supports. Multiple sources say Stone worked on Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign, including as a young aide or operative who ran dirty tricks against Nixon's rivals.[2][3][7][8]
Context. Stone was 16 during the 1968 campaign and 20 during the 1972 campaign, and he himself claimed his real job was spying on Humphrey's campaign, so the dispute is over the size and title of his role rather than whether he was involved.[3][4][8]
Sources
8 sources: 3 fact-checkers, 4 tier 2, 1 not rated
- 1Was Roger Stone an Adviser to President Richard Nixon?snopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2Questions and answers about President Trump's Roger ...politifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 3Roger Stone: A Trump ally known for dirty tricksapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
- 4Nixon Foundation objects to calling Roger Stone an 'aide' to disgraced ex-presidentnbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: contradicts, context
- 5Nixon Foundation distances itself from Roger Stonecnn.com · tier 2 · cited for: contradicts
- 6Watergate Created Roger Stone. Trump Completed Him. - POLITICOpolitico.com · tier 2 · cited for: contradicts
- 7A Brief History of Roger Stonetheatlantic.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 8Roger Stone - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
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