Word: kleindienst
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April 30: He announces the resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman, calling them "two of the finest public servants it has been my privilege to know," and of Dean and Kleindienst. Nixon grants the new Attorney General the authority to appoint a special prosecutor...
...that his close subordinates endeavored to impede and frustrate lawful inquiries by duly constituted executive, judicial, and legislative entities concerning the unlawful entry into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, and the cover-up thereof, and concerning other unlawful activities including those relating to the confirmation of Richard Kleindienst as Attorney General of the United States, the electronic surveillance of private citizens, the break-in into the offices of Dr. Lewis Fielding, and the campaign financing practices of the Committee to Re-elect the President...
...Senate confirmation hearings for Attorney General Richard Kleindienst on April 19, 1972, California's Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke was asked if it was correct that he had had "no conversation" with anyone in the Justice Department about the fact that "the ITT people had promised to do certain things in San Diego" before the settlement of a federal antitrust suit against ITT. Replied Reinecke: "That is quite true." For those four words, Reinecke, 50, was convicted of perjury last week by a federal jury in Washington...
...They didn't work there very long if they did. Oh, [Clark] Mollenhoff said no, and Pete Peterson did. Neither one could get near the Oval Office. Len Garment said no, in a mild way. Dick Kleindienst said no once. Arthur Burns. And John Connally had to leave because of his recommendations on how to handle Watergate. He just didn't have enough information...
...Richard Kleindienst (powerful) perjures himself before the entire nation. Punishment: suspended sentence...