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While Justice Department officials refused to comment on the development, other sources close to the case confirmed that Attorney General Elliot Richardson had decided that the grand jury should look into the matter. They warned, however, that this does not necessarily mean that Richardson or the Justice Department's prosecutor in the case, U.S. Attorney George Beall, have decided to ask the grand jury to indict Agnew. TIME has learned that the Justice Department is, in fact, leaning toward a unique course: rather than seeking an indictment, it may ask the grand jury after hearing the case to issue...
Vorenberg was sworn in on May 30, two weeks after his colleague Cox, Williston Professor of Law, was selected by Elliot L. Richardson '41, now Attorney General. Vorenberg described himself as the "number two man" in Cox's investigation. He said he worked closely with Cox in planning the investigation, and that he was responsible for hiring virtually all of the Special Prosecutor's staff...
...investigation of Agnew's finances is reaching the point of decision. That decision-whether there is enough evidence to seek an indictment of Agnew, and whether, even if there is such evidence, an indictment can or should be sought-must be officially approved by Attorney General Elliot Richardson...
...restore confidence in the department, President Nixon named a star-quality Attorney General: Elliot Lee Richardson, a man who had not the slightest connection with Watergate and who could convince voters that justice would finally be brought to bear on those responsible for the scandal. Last week, as Richardson was dealing not only with Watergate but also with a whole new closet of dirty linen possibly involving Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, he was subtly but unmistakably rebuked for his performance by both the President and Vice President. The separately delivered scoldings only underscored the anomaly of his uncomfortable middleman...
...strong case for the moral commitment which liberal Harvard gentlemen bring to the military would be difficult to make. The wounded and homeless of Indochina could best testify to the "humanizing" influence of Harvard men such as Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, James Schlesinger '50, Henry Kissinger '50, Elliot Richardson '41, and Louis F. Fieser, Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, Emeritus, and the inventor of napalm...