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After being denied tenure, Associate Professor of Government Louise M. Richardson has decided to leave Harvard at the end of spring semester...
...Richardson said she learned last March that she did not receive the recommendation of Harvard's Department of Government in her bid for a permanent Faculty position. She said she thinks her candidacy, having failed to win the backing of her department, never reached President Neil L. Rudenstine's desk...
...secret that there has been a significant and unfortunate gap between the courses in American politics that our concentrators would like to take and the courses available from our regular faculty," the department's head tutor, Associate Professor Louise M. Richardson, wrote in an e-mail message...
...Richardson rose above his modest beginnings as a member of the Harvard Lampoon to become a public servant on a grand scale. A decorated World War II veteran, Richardson eventually held four cabinet posts, more than any other person in history. He was the primary architect of the Law of the Sea, a major international maritime treaty. Richardson later entered the realm of diplomacy as Ambassador to Great Britain...
...Richardson's other accomplishments and service are exemplary, but it is for his defiant action in the face of Richard Nixon that he will always be remembered. He later remarked to a close associate that the decision to resign had been an easy one. If only it were so easy for the rest of us to make the tough decisions, decisions in the public interest instead of our own. By crystallizing the issue so clearly, by virtually creating the Saturday Night Massacre, Richardson not only exposed the misdeeds of the Nixon administration but set an example of bravery...