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...accepted the post after three of Elliot Richardson's first four choices declined, was offered the assignment just after ending a speech at Berkeley on the importance of faith in government. Said he later: "How could I refuse the job, having made a speech like that?" He seems an excellent nominee. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, a distinguished member of the Eastern Establishment which sometimes makes Nixon uneasy. More important, he is widely respected as what Ted Kennedy termed "a man of brilliance, judgment and sensitivity." He is also a Democrat, which will help create that...
...specialist in labor legislation and was a member of John F. Kennedy's brain trust in the campaign against Richard Nixon. Kennedy appointed him Solicitor General in 1961; he resigned in 1965 to return to Harvard. Among his law-school pupils in the '40s: Elliot Richardson and Ervin Committee Counsel Samuel Dash...
...Elliot L. Richardson '41, Nixon's attorney general-designate (now confirmed), chose Archibald Cox '34, to head the Justice Department's investigation into the Watergate scandal...
...related developments, Elliot L. Richardson '41 was confirmed by the Senate as the new Attorney General. Satisfied at Richardson's choice of Archibald Cox '34 as Watergate special prosecutor, the Senate approved Richardson, who fills the post once occupied by John N. Mitchell. Mitchell was indicted last week in connection with an unreported contribution to Nixon's campaign...
...accompanied by Elliot L. Richardson '41, whose nomination to be attorney general is pending before the committee. Richardson announced his selection of Cox last Friday to serve as special Watergate prosecutor...