Word: mardian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...records on the taps had disappeared. He ordered W. Mark Felt, now the bureau's No. 2 man, to investigate. Felt could not find out who had carried out what agents call "a bag job"?a burglary?on the FBI'S own files. Felt asked Robert C. Mardian, then an Assistant Attorney General, if he knew who had taken the documents. Replied Mardian: "Ask the President. Or ask Mitchell...
McCord stressed that he had also been in frequent contact with Robert C. Mardian, a former Assistant Attorney General and later a Nixon re-election committee troubleshooter, but he would not explain what they had discussed without assurances that he would be protected against further prosecution. He was scheduled to testify again this week, and promised to present some documentary substantiation of his charges...
...Hoover grew older and more irascible, high officials of the Nixon Administration knew that his displays of ill-temper were hurting the bureau, and they considered firing him. Mitchell and two of his top associates at Justice, Richard Kleindienst and Robert Mardian, discussed a search for someone to replace Hoover. Often mentioned was Supreme Court Justice Byron White, who has proved to be highly independent, although the FBI job does not necessarily require anyone of that lofty status. There could be some merit in de-emphasizing the FBI role with a lesser, but nevertheless unassailable choice. After Hoover died last...
Kleindienst and Mardian discussed possible successors, concentrating on three veteran FBI men and William C. Sullivan, former No. 3 man at the FBI. He had been forced out of the bureau by Hoover in 197 1 because he had disagreed too often with Hoover's ideas (TIME, Oct. 25, 1971), including Hoover's obsession with Communist subversion. The four possibilities were suggested to John Mitchell, who balked at the selection of anyone from within the FBI because he might prove to be just as independent of the White House as Hoover had been. Clearly the White House wanted...
When Gray left HEW in January 1970, the paperwork at HEW bogged down, and Finch developed a reputation as an inept administrator. Gray became an Assistant Attorney General, mainly at the urging of Mardian, a right-wing ideologue who had also worked with him at HEW. Gray impressed his superiors, Mitchell and Kleindienst, while heading the Justice Department's Civil Division. When Mitchell moved over to Nixon's re-election committee and Kleindienst became Attorney General, Gray was designated Deputy Attorney General...