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...firing. They did so as a last resort. An Ohio state grand jury that looked into the case had indicted only students for their part in the rioting that preceded the shooting. Former Attorney General John Mitchell had refused even to convene a federal grand jury. His successor, Elliot Richardson, had done so, and eight Guardsmen were indicted. But after hearing the evidence, Federal Judge Frank Battisti had thrown out the charges on a technicality...
...160th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, and it sent Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn into a fit of hyperbole as he opened the first valve on the Isle of Grain. Benn held aloft a souvenir bottle of the crude and announced to an assembly that included U.S. Ambassador Elliot Richardson: "This is much more significant and historic than the moon shot, which only brought back soil and rock...
...Elliot Richardson, LL.D., Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...because he thought Wilson was leading the U.S. into war against Germany. He argued his isolationist case with reason and eloquence-and he proved right about the result of Wilson's policies. Yet papers hinted at "a befuddled mind," and Bryan's political career was ended. Elliot Richardson, now Ambassador to Britain, is the rare example of a successful American dissenter. But if his public resignation as Attorney General in 1973 had not been accompanied by great publicity and public anger at the President-Richardson too would probably now be a political has-been...
...suburban kids who took up guitar in the early '60s and then wrote sentimental lyrics about people they had never seen. Pete Seeger was really there. In the '30s and '40s he had travelled all across the country with Woody Guthrie. Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter, Cisco Houston and Ramblin' Jack Elliot, from the cottonfields of California to the West Virginian mining towns. "...I am proud of the fact that my songs seem to cut across and find perhaps a unifying thing, basic humanity..." Seeger said in response to the inquisition of HUAC prosecutor Frank S. Tavenner. "I know many beautiful songs...