 Liedtke served as the chairman, director, CEO and president of Pogo until his retirement in 1991.Liedtke became the Texas finance chairman for Richard Nixon's Presidential campaigns in 1968 and 1972.In September 1972, columnist Jack Anderson obtained a report compiled by the House Banking Committee indicating that Liedtke admitted to investigators that he had raised $100,000 in Mexico for Nixon's campaign fund.