Word: kleindienst
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...PLACE OF JUSTICE IS A HALLOWED PLACE. Not far from where that motto is displayed in the Justice Department's Washington headquarters, a new portrait was unveiled last week. The likeness was that of Richard Kleindienst, the first Attorney General ever to be convicted of a crime. A casualty of Watergate, he had pleaded guilty to testifying falsely before a U.S. Senate committee...
...mention of Kleindienst's conviction was made in the low-key 15-minute ceremony. It was clear that the department was trying to routinely follow its practice of displaying the portraits of all past Attorneys General. There is more apprehension over what to do about John Mitchell, the first Attorney General ever convicted of a felony (Kleindienst's crime was a misdemeanor). So far, Mitchell has not found time to pose for an artist...
JUSTICE, six-John Mitchell, Richard Kleindienst, Richardson, Robert Bork (acting Attorney General), William Saxbe, Edward Levi...
...monitoring and that the agency had never sought a legal opinion on the subject from the Attorney General or the White House. He did point out that Defense Secretary Melvin Laird had known what was going on, as had two Attorneys General, John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst, before a third, Elliot Richardson, had finally called off the monitoring in 1973, on grounds of dubious legality...
...affair precipitated by the over-zealousness of Sirica, the Ervin committee and journalists. The case against John Connally hinged on the testimony of one man, Jake Jacobsen, and would never have been brought to court in normal times. Even more regrettable was the conviction for perjury of Attorney General Kleindienst, who actually threatened to resign when asked by Nixon to interfere with the ITT case, but denied to Sen Edward Kennedy's committee that such a request had ever been made...