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...KING'S MEN, by Robert Penn Warren, is based on the rise and fall of Huey Long, whom no one could put together again because he was dead. Of course, Henry E. Petersen wasn't around to try. 8 p.m., Sunday 7 p.m., at Brandeis University's Spingold Theater in Waltham...
Best directed the Agnew team. The Justice lawyers were led by Henry Petersen, head of the criminal division and the man whom Vice President Agnew had accused in his Los Angeles speech of being out to get him as a personal trophy. Again the discussions exploded into arguments. As a condition of any deal, Petersen insisted that all of the evidence against Agnew be made public; Richardson was convinced that this was necessary so that there could be no charges from Agnew and his followers that he had been railroaded. Petersen also joined Maryland U.S. Attorney George Beall...
With that, Richardson faced the task of trying to persuade Petersen, Beall and his staff that in the best interests of the country, Agnew should be allowed to go free if the right formula could be worked out. TIME has learned that, in order to placate his aides, Richardson took the unusual step of allowing anyone who could not live with that decision to make a public statement of his objections. He gave his word that any dissenter would not damage his career at Justice by speaking...
...Nixon's Justice Department of trying to destroy him with "malicious, immoral and illegal" news leaks. Contrary to Agnew's claim in his speech that he was being hounded by trumped-up claims, Nixon said that the charges "are serious and not frivolous." Nixon also defended Henry Petersen, the head of Justice's Criminal Division, who Agnew said was out to bag him as a trophy. Said the President: "If I did not support Mr. Petersen's handling of the investigation, he would have been removed by this time...
...served subpoenas on TIME and Newsweek, plus reporters for both magazines, the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the Washington Post, the Washington Star-News, CBS and NBC. Subpoenas also were headed for Attorney General Elliot Richardson, Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus and Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen...