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Defending the Mitchell Doctrine in a letter to the Washington Post last week, Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst argued that Attorney Generals since Roosevelt's administration have authorized wiretaps without warrants in national security cases. From the time he assumed office, however, Mitchell has been faced with a Supreme Court ruling that requires him to obtain a warrant before making wiretaps. He is therefore the first Attorney General to defy the Fourth Amendment in this matter. He has also found it distressingly convenient, for legal and propagandistic reason, to classify radicals as subversives and to treat their activities as threats...
...that faded from public view after its heyday hunting Communists during the McCarthy era. With an expanded staff of 49 lawyers, Mardian will prosecute draft resisters and continue to investigate groups ranging from the Weathermen to the Jewish Defense League. According to his close friend, Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, Mardian is "a prodigious worker, brilliant lawyer and great believer in America. He knows what freedom...
While becoming a respected corporation lawyer in Pasadena, Mardian entered local politics as a member of the city's school board. In 1960, he met his chief political benefactor, Richard Kleindienst, who engineered Mardian's appointment as Barry Goldwater's Western field representative in 1964 and his similar job for Richard Nixon in 1968. Finally, Kleindienst, with Attorney General John Mitchell, got Mardian appointed general counsel under Secretary Robert Finch in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...right of John Mitchell, but the boss joins others in regarding Mardian as a first-rate lawyer and tireless prosecutor. Because Mitchell has shifted dozens of key cases to the revived Internal Security Division, Mardian is already considered the Justice Department's No. 3 man behind Mitchell and Kleindienst. One former colleague sums up: "He's remarkable for the clarity with which he thinks, but he's an absolutely cold-blooded political operator...
...Covering the course in 15:37 for the win, the lightweight eight coaxed by Fred Yalouris successfully defended the Boston Herald Traveler Trophy, won in last year's Head of the Charles. Winning oarsmen Al Kleindienst, Charlie Bradshaw, Dick Rutherford, Andy Narva, Howard Burnett, Kim Kiley, Dick Moore, and John Wolz are other reasons for the coach's high spirits...