sentences:  Lester D. Friedman noted that Warner's response to the HUAC hearings was similar to other Jewish studio heads who "feared that a blanket equation of Communists with Jews would destroy them and their industry".Warner publicly supported Richard Nixon during the 1960 presidential election and paid for full-page ads in "The New York Times" "to proclaim why Nixon should be elected".In the wake of Nixon's loss to John F. Kennedy, however, the studio head made arrangements to attend a fundraiser at the Hollywood Palladium in honor of the president-elect.