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 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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People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.
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If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe.
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I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.
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I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit.
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The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.
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They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case.
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It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.