Ex-Nixon aide Herbert Klein dies at 91 in Calif. SAN DIEGO Herbert G. Klein, Richard Nixon's ex-White House director of communications and a former editor for Copley Newspapers, has died. He was 91.Sheriff: Same person has killed 3 in northern SC GAFFNEY, S.C. A sheriff says the shooting deaths of a peach farmer and two women in a rural South Carolina county the past week have been linked to the same killer.