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...aged ten or 15 years," said one dismayed adviser), the President expressed a mixture of gratitude, anger, determination. He praised two of his missing, newly removed aides, White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and Domestic Affairs Adviser John Ehrlichman, as "dedicated people." Looking at former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, who also lost his job in the Watergate scandal shuffle, Nixon said, "We are going to miss you." Kleindienst replied, "It has been a privilege to serve with Richard Nixon"?and he left the room to more applause. Then the President's mood darkened and the old Nixon emerged...
Attorney General Richard Kleindienst was also summoned to Camp David. Though he had not been implicated in the Watergate scandal, many of his associates had been?so many that he had, properly, withdrawn from the investigation. Also, under his direction, the original Justice Department investigation and prosecution of the Watergate wiretappers had been lax and limited. No serious attempt had been made to find out who had ordered the wiretappers to break into and bug the Democratic National Headquarters last June, who had paid them, or who had approved the whole operation. Kleindienst offered his resignation voluntarily...
There was a rising clamor within the Justice Department itself for Petersen, at least, to remove himself from the case, as Attorney General Richard Kleindienst had done. A Democrat and former FBI clerk, Petersen shifted to the Justice Department in 1951 and rose steadily, especially under the more recent direction of former Attorney General John Mitchell...
...resignation of attorney general Richard G. Kleindienst '47 demonstrates an important distinction that must be emphasized in the Watergate case or any other public scandal. Behavior need not be criminal to be disreputable, and men may be unfit for public trust before being convicted on crime like perjury or obstruction of justice. If President Nixon recognized the necessity of accepting Kleindienst's resignation--submitted because of the attorney general's "close association" with those involved in the scandal, he must also recognize the unsavory light this logic casts on his entire Administration...
...Attorney General Richard Kleindienst pledged that the Justice Department's investigation of the Watergate case would be "the most extensive, thorough and comprehensive investigation since the assassination of President Kennedy . . . No credible, fair-minded person is going to be able to say that we whitewashed or dragged our feet on it." In fact, five months later only seven men had been brought to trial as a result of that investigation-the five directly involved in the break-in on June 17, plus a low-level White House consultant and a former White House staffer. Until recently, top officials...