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Nixon moved quickly to fill some of the gaping holes created in his staff. He named General Alexander M. Haig Jr., Army Vice Chief of Staff, to take over Haldeman's duties temporarily; Leonard Garment, a White House aide, to replace Dean; and Defense Secretary Elliot Richardson to succeed Kleindienst as Attorney General (see page 30). Former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard was, said Ziegler, the most likely choice to fill Richardson's spot as Defense Secretary. By week's end no one had yet been assigned the full range of Ehrlichman's chores, but Kenneth R. Cole...
Signatories of the letter included James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, William E. Alfred, professor of English, Elliot Forbes '40, Peabody Professor of Music; William Paul, McKay Professor of Applied Physics; Roger R.D. Revelle, Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy; and David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences...
Members of the Faculty of Law reacted favorably to President Nixon's appointment of Elliot L. Richardson '41 to the post of Attorney General Monday, but many of them said yesterday that a person outside the administration should head the Watergate investigation...
...know if I have-or want -any political future in Massachusetts." With that glum assessment, Secretary of Defense Elliot Richardson responded to mounting criticism of his order last week to shut down 40 military bases and reduce many others, including several in his home state of Massachusetts. An estimated 42,800 military and civilian jobs will be eliminated at a saving of some $375 million a year. Says a Pentagon official: "We have never hit so few places so hard before...
...resumption of U.S. bombing in Laos was described by Defense Secretary Elliot Richardson as a response to "a flagrant violation" of the Laotian cease-fire by the Communists. Washington officials said that the B-52s went into action after a North Vietnamese regiment led an attack on the Tha Vieng area in the Plain of Jars. U.S. embassy sources in Saigon, however, dismissed the attack as a minor action-"perhaps a squabble over rice." After two days the raids halted, which suggested that the B-52s were used more to dramatize U.S. dismay over the deteriorating situation in Indochina...