Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a reasonable motive for withholding his knowledge of the coverup, then he could be guilty of an obstruction of justice." And he would be guilty partly because he was the head of the legal system, not in spite of that fact. As former Attorney General Elliot Richardson puts it, "The President, like anyone else in law enforcement, is subject to the requirements...
When then-Attorney General-designate Elliot L. Richardson '41 persuaded Cox to accept the special prosecutor position in May 1973. Cox was hardly a household name in America, and even at Harvard the soft-spoken labor lawyer was often overshadowed by his more outspoken colleagues...
...effect the whole affair had on 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...
...Harvard ever had a just pride in the role its alumni play in American politics, that pride can not be restored so quickly after the moral disgrace of Vietnam. Elliot Richardson can not approve of the Christmas bombings of Hanoi as a government official one day and then turn around and serve as an ideal of moral politics the next because he stuck with Archibald Cox. Things do not work that easily. Despite Watergate and Archibald Cox, Harvard needs to do a lot more soul searching about its relationship to the seats of power...
...could remind the administration--and it could remind Harvard, whose graduates have too often served inhumane administrations--that even when the cancer of Watergate is gone, the public will not tolerate the greater miseries men such as Nixon and Richardson have perpetrated...