Word: levi
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...President Ford's present Cabinet, the two outstanding intellects are probably Henry Kissinger and Attorney General Edward Levi, former president of the University of Chicago. Both are Jewish, which might or might not still be a barrier to the presidency. Kissinger, despite his current troubles with Congress, remains one of the most admired men in the nation; but like Jones of GE, he is disqualified (unless we amend the Constitution) by his foreign birth...
John Wilson, a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford, was provost at Chicago before becoming acting president in February, after Edward H. Levi left the post to become Attorney General...
...those who think it high time there was a woman on the court. And the so-called Jewish seat has been empty since Fortas' 1969 departure. Ford might look to his Cabinet, which includes Carla A. Hills, 41, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Attorney General Edward Levi, 64. Among other possibilities in the wide-open guessing game: Solicitor General Robert Bork, 48; California Republican Congressman Charles Wiggins, 47, and at least nine federal-appeals-court judges...
JUSTICE, six-John Mitchell, Richard Kleindienst, Richardson, Robert Bork (acting Attorney General), William Saxbe, Edward Levi...
...legality of the operations is questionable. The committee arranged for Attorney General Edward Levi to appear this week to discuss the matter. Allen admitted that the NSA had obtained no warrants for any of the 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...