Elliot Richardson
Elliot Richardson
Elliot Lee Richardsonwas an American lawyer and politician who was a member of the cabinet of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. As U.S. Attorney General, he was a prominent figure in the Watergate Scandal, and resigned rather than obey President Nixon's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth20 July 1920
CountryUnited States of America
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I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.
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The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.
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At stake, in the final analysis, is the very integrity of the governmental processes I came to the Department of Justice to help restore.
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I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.
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The key problems, at least as I see them today, involve, in the first instance, the further pursuit of a more stable world order.
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For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.
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Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin.