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...Harvard, too, Eliot met Emily Hale, an attractive Brahmin who may have been the most enduring love of his life. More than a thousand letters to her from England, to which Eliot migrated in 1914, form the most important part of the material locked up at Princeton...
...Frazier, who went on from his lace-curtain upbringing to acquire a Harvard degree and Brahmin persona, views himself as a romantic in mourning for his era's lost grace and style. The common man (H.L. Mencken's Boobus americanus) is to Frazier the root of the new Philistinism-"ignorant, ill-clad, ill-spoken...
Archibald Cox, the determined Special Prosecutor, refused to accept a unilateral Nixon "compromise" designed to circumvent Sirica's orders regarding the presidential tapes, and publicly protested Nixon's command that he desist from seeking further presidential evidence. Fired by Nixon, Cox bowed out with a Brahmin civility that inspired a fire storm of protest at his dismissal. Former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, too, stood as a staunch symbol of integrity in the celebrated "Saturday Night Massacre" by defying the White House decree that he fire Cox. Richardson resigned instead, further arousing national indignation...
ELLIOT L. RICHARDSON. A lifelong Republican, Richardson, 53, was born into a Boston Brahmin family and educated at Harvard (LL.B., '47), where he was a student of Cox's. As U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, he prosecuted Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine, who provided Sherman Adams' famous vicuña coat. After serving as Lieutenant Governor and attorney general, he joined the Nixon Administration in 1969 and became its most versatile handyman. In five years, he served successively as Under Secretary of State; Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Secretary of Defense and, finally, Attorney General. He had been...
Still, by the sheer course of momentous events, the handsome, well-spoken Richardson is, at 53, an ascending force in Washington. Born into a Boston Brahmin family and educated at Harvard (LL.B., '47), Richardson made a political name for himself as U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts by prosecuting Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine, provider of Sherman Adams' famous vicuna coat, on tax-evasion charges. A Rockefeller supporter in 1968, Richardson nonetheless was invited to Washington as an Under Secretary of State, and his cool, analytical grasp of complex situations attracted the attention of Nixon. Such tough thinking seemed...