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...Edna Stebbins Gallery of the First Unitarian Church is offering a unique opportunity to delve into the mind of a man whose ambition was once to be president of Harvard. Elliot Richardson ended up as attorney general instead, and evidently works out his frustrated goal in his doodles, which are on display here until Monday. Raffle tickets are being sold--the winner to get a Richardson doodle of his or her very own. Be the first on your block...
...CLASS of '74's Class Day subcommittee served the seniors and Harvard poorly by extending a Class Day invitation to Elliot L. Richardson '41. Richardson, the seniors' fourth choice for the invitation, was secretary of defense for the first two of six months in 1973 during which the United States mercilessly and criminally bombed Cambodia. Although Richardson resigned last October as attorney general on a supposed matter of principle, he had presumably felt it in accord with his conscience nine months earlier to defend and help perpetuate Nixon's war policies--policies which had led to the terror bombing...
...White House lost last fall. That fight led to Nixon's firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his assistant William Ruckelshaus...
Three days later, what gets out is Nixon's announcement that Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean and Kleindienst have resigned, that Elliot Richardson is being appointed Attorney General with authority to name a special prosecutor and that he, the President, takes full responsibility for what has happened. Nixon also recalls that at his second inaugural he gave each Cabinet member and senior White House staffer a special four-year calendar marked to show how many days remained in his Administration. It began with 1,461, and on the day he delivers the speech, he says, "It showed exactly 1,361 days remaining...
Former Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson '41 will be the Class Day speaker at Commencement this year...