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...argues that "there is at least a responsibility to start the machinery of prosecution." EXperts generally agree that dispatching a couple of White House aides was not an adequate reaction. "He should have immediately informed the Department of Justice and professionalized the investigation," says former Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. A top lawyer in the Justice Department elaborates: "Let us suppose the Attorney General learned the same facts. We would all expect him to turn that information over to the criminal division immediately." By those standards, the Justice official says, "if the President did not have a reasonable motive...
...this place. During that dramatic confrontation between the forces of good and evil, the decisive difference between the two camps appeared to some to be a Harvard education. The three heroes of the hour, Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, Elliot L. Richardson '41 and William Ruckelshaus, a 1960 graduate of the Law School, were held to be typical of what Harvard-trained politicians were all about. Dean Rosovsky summed up the feelings of folks in Cambridge that night when he said, "We're very proud of them all, proud of the role of Harvard men in government...
...White House lost last fall. That fight led to Nixon's firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his assistant William Ruckelshaus...
...advise that what the boss wants done may be wrong. One law school dean is less charitable in faulting such a broad trend. He blames Nixon for hiring "legal midgets?underclass lawyers. That's why he was so surprised by the really classy guys like Cox, Richardson and Ruckelshaus...
...clamor of public protest that followed the Cox dismissal and the virtually simultaneous resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus shocked the White House. At first Counselor Wright, on the following Tuesday, Oct. 23, was prepared to argue before Sirica that the Stennis compromise met the thrust of the Court of Appeals' suggestion that an out-of-court solution to the tapes impasse be found. But clearly it did not meet Sirica's order to produce the tapes. Although Sirica will not say what he intended to do about it, he does admit that...