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...leniency created wide controversy. Certainly, it was no shining example of equality under law. Many of the political radicals whom Agnew had condemned spent months in jail awaiting various conspiracy trials before being acquitted. The sidewalk mugger can spend years in prison for a $50 robbery. Nonetheless, Attorney General Elliot Richardson and, implicitly, Richard Nixon probably served the larger public interest by getting Agnew out of office the quickest way possible...
...assembled list aboard Marine One, his personal helicopter, to the mountaintop solitude of Camp David. There he dined alone in Aspen Lodge and, by the time he went to bed at 11:30 p.m., had winnowed the list to five names: Ford, John Connally, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Rockefeller and Elliot Richardson, even though Richardson had taken himself out of the running. He had quite properly argued the impropriety of the man most directly responsible for prosecuting Agnew benefiting from his downfall by succeeding...
...selected by then attorney general-designate Elliot L. Richardson '41, whose confirmation hinged on the appointment of a special prosecutor...
...McGill University in Montreal (like Ron Ziegler, Lewis supported himself by working as a tour guide), and then to England as a Rhodes scholar. When he came back to Canada, Lewis became active in the Canadian Commonwealth Federation, a moderately leftist political group to which Canadian Prime Minister Pierre-Elliot Trudeau also once belonged. Lewis became the group's national secretary. He was also the only one of its leaders, by his own account, who spoke French...
Police Chief Jerry Wilson, Mayor Walter Washington, Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson '41, and John R. Bartels Jr., administrator of the Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration, were named as defendants in the suit...