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Richardson's other accomplishments and service are exemplary, but it is for his defiant action in the face of Richard Nixon that he will always be remembered. He later remarked to a close associate that the decision to resign had been an easy one. If only it were so easy for the rest of us to make the tough decisions, decisions in the public interest instead of our own. By crystallizing the issue so clearly, by virtually creating the Saturday Night Massacre, Richardson not only exposed the misdeeds of the Nixon administration but set an example of bravery...
DIED. ELLIOT RICHARDSON, 79, Attorney General for Nixon who resigned rather than obey the President's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox during Watergate; from complications after a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston...
...million Amount taken in by Stone's 1995 conspiracy-filled biopic, Nixon, during its first month of release...
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DIED. KEN W. CLAWSON, 63, director of communications for the Nixon White House in its final months; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. A staunch loyalist before and after the resignation, he once told the New York Times, "I'm just one of Richard Nixon's spear carriers and proud...