Word: petersen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Petersen who decided that the political sabotage activities of Los Angeles Lawyer Donald Segretti need not be investigated, since no crimes seemed involved. When Segretti was called before a grand jury, Petersen ordered the prosecutors not to ask who at the White House had hired him. Dean testified that he had asked Petersen to avoid such embarrassing questions. It is also true that when Nixon told Petersen to refrain from any investigation of the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, Petersen complied...
...whether Petersen has been the source of some news leaks regarding the Agnew investigation, as Agnew claims, there is no doubt that he has. But Petersen has not been, by any means, the sole source of news leaks in the case...
Attorney General Elliot Richardson rushed to Petersen's defense, calling him "a distinguished Government lawyer with more than two decades of prosecutorial experience." Moreover, he noted pointedly: "Experienced though he may be, he does not have sole responsibility ... for criminal matters of grave importance. In such matters the decisional process is shared, and the final responsibility is the Attorney General's." Despite that defense of his deputy, TIME has learned that Richardson initially did have doubts about Petersen's Watergate performance. But prompt high public praise of Petersen by White House officials, including the President, had made...
...Petersen, father of seven, he apparently was spending much of the weekend on Chesapeake Bay in his 26-foot cruiser, and at least initially was unreachable for his reaction to Agnew's assault - if, indeed, he was aware...
...Whatever Petersen's shortcomings, they do not prove Agnew's more serious charge: that Petersen is part of an effort to restore the Justice Department's tarnished reputation by netting Agnew as a redeeming "trophy." Watergate may indeed have been bungled by the Justice Department, and this puts pressure on the department to avoid any impression that it could be politically influenced to be part of a cover-up in Agnew's case. While Agnew targets Petersen he is, of course, implicitly involving Petersen's superiors, both Richard son and the President, in this conspiracy...