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President Nixon also announced the nomination of William B. Saxbe as attorney general to fill the post vacated by Elliot L. Richardson...
...evidence of Russian belligerency and above all by the frequency with which Nixon has distorted the truth and lied outright in the past. These deceptions range from his tales of respect for Cambodian neutrality when his bombers had been killing Cambodians for two years to his misrepresentations of Elliot Richardson's and Thomas Jefferson's political positions during his press conference last week. Henry Kissinger is of course correct in saying that questions about the motives behind the alert are symptomatic of what's happening to the United States; but it is the president, not the press, who has created...
John Herfort graduated from Harvard in 1968 and from the Law School three years later. He worked as a clerk in the First Circuit Court for a year, and when that job ended he went to work in the Department of Justice under Elliot Richardson...
Next day at his press conference, Cox indicated that he simply could not accept this order, since it totally transformed the rules under which he had been hired. Carefully refusing to be drawn into any blanket characterization of the President's action, Cox praised Elliot Richardson for acting with honesty and restraint throughout the high-stakes negotiations over the tapes. Pointedly, Cox noted that because Richardson had been empowered to select and hire him, he figured that only Richardson could dismiss him. He indicated clearly that he had no intention of resigning. Cox returned to his office, sipped...
...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...