Word: richardson
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Since he graduated from Harvard College, Elliot Richardson, this year's Harvard Law School (HLS) Class Day speaker, has used his trademark willpower as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Secretary of Defense; Attorney General of Massachusetts and later the United States; ambassador to various countries; and, on and off, as an associate or a partner in Boston and Washington law firms...
...even with such a long list of accomplishments, Richardson retains an air of humility...
...have sometimes referred to myself as occupying four of the world's most vilified professions--I was or am a politician, a bureaucrat, a lawyer and a diplomat," Richardson says, chuckling...
...colleagues and family say Richardson is hardly a villain...
...When Richardson speaks at the Law School's Class Day exercises today, it will be roughly 25 years since he resigned from his post as attorney general rather than carry out former President Richard M. Nixon's orders to fire Archibald Cox '34, the Watergate special prosecutor...