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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...
Christian's New York is alternately tempting and repulsive, "one monstrous insult to the delicate spirit." A funeral director gladly offers to forget the bill for burying Christian's wife if he will come to work as a front man at the mortuary. An industrialist thinks he can use a little class in the jingle department...
Whatever his motivation, Kreisky's action was the most controversial of a long political career that had previously been marked by such studied caution that it won him the reputation of being Austria's most astute politician. Despite his background as the son of a wealthy industrialist, Kreisky joined the socialist movement at age 15. After the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, he fled to Sweden. Thirteen years passed before he returned home. First as a diplomat and then as Foreign Minister (1959-66), Kreisky deftly helped steer Austria on the course of political neutrality...
While clearly petty compared with the political-corruption charges, such gifts do raise serious ethical questions. President Eisenhower's top aide, Sherman Adams, resigned in 1958 after it became known he had accepted gifts including a vicuna coat from Industrialist Bernard Goldfine. Abe Fortas resigned in 1969 from the Supreme Court when it was revealed that he had accepted $20,000 from a foundation headed by Financier Louis Wolfson, for which he was an adviser...
...consultation," complained one Stockholm banker, adding that the Prime Minister had destroyed the congenial spirit of cooperation that linked businessmen and the Social Democrats during the regime of Palme's easygoing predecessor, Tage Erlander. "There is a feeling of uncertainty and unease about Palme," says a leading industrialist. "Does he understand that, basically, a country depends for progress on its financial possibilities? We doubt it." The direct, sensible Falldin, as another businessman put it, was looked upon as someone "who would immediately inspire much greater trust from all quarters. " Falldin still works his 460-acre farm in central Sweden...