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Last week Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst testified at a bribery trial that the defendant had offered to contribute $100,000 to the Republican Party if certain stock fraud indictments were quashed...
...Administration, the key man in the process is Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst. In 1969 Kleindienst put together a judicial master list of sorts containing the names of some 150 possible candidates for Supreme Court vacancies. The roster has been used for nominations to lower courts as well. It is heavy with sitting judges and Establishment lawyers; Republican Administrations tend to tap prominent law firms for court talent. Says one Administration official: "We've produced lots of good judges, but we haven't produced the best. We've ignored the good law professors because they...
Finally, Mitchell and Kleindienst agreed on Mildred Lillie, a diligent and attractive California Court of Appeals judge with a firm record on law-and-order. As a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge in 1951, it was Mrs. Lillie who denied Ingrid Bergman permission to have a summer visit from her daughter, Pia Lindstrom, after the actress had left her family for Roberto Rossellini. In divorce cases, Judge Lillie practiced marriage counseling from the bench; one of her theories was that if the wife was crying at the hearing, the marriage could be saved. Her talents as a legal thinker...
...case of Rehnquist is more intriguing. He was, ironically, one of the chief architects of Mitchell's list of nominees, working closely with Kleindienst. Rehnquist seems to have had a strong internal White House lobby advertising his gifts. In any case, it was a sign of either haste or secrecy that Rehnquist's three children, watching the President's address, gasped when they heard their father's name. It was the first they knew of his nomination...
This peaceful life was interrupted because Rehnquist had made friends with Richard Kleindienst. another Phoenix lawyer and Goldwater enthusiast. When Kleindienst came to Washington as the No. 2 man in John Mitchell's Justice Department, he urged Rehnquist to join the Nixon team. In January of 1969, Rehnquist became head of the department's Office of Legal Counsel, which made him, as Nixon put it, "the President's lawyer's lawyer...