Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Richard Kleindienst


Related Topics

In the News (Tue 7 Oct 08)

  
 Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 - April 22, 1994) was the thirty-sixth (1953-1961) Vice President, and the thirty-seventh (1969-1974) President of the United States.
Nixon died on April 22, 1994 in New York City, New York at the age of 81, from complications related to a severe stroke, and was buried beside his wife Pat Nixon on the grounds of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California.
President Clinton spoke at the April 25 funeral, and former Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush and their respective First Ladies were also in attendance: this was the last gathering of these presidents before Reagan's death in 2004.
pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/r/ri/richard_nixon.html   (2274 words)

  
 Richard Kleindinst, Nixon's attorney general, dead at 76: 2/4/00
Kleindienst had assisted with Richard Nixon's presidential campaign in 1968, then stayed on as deputy attorney general, eventually replacing Attorney General John Mitchell, who left in 1972 to head the Committee to Re-elect the President -- the organization at the heart of Watergate.
Kleindienst was sworn in as attorney general in June 1972.
Kleindienst remained an avid supporter of Nixon, but told The Arizona Republic in a 1997 interview that the president's feelings of bitterness might have contributed to the scandal.
www.s-t.com /daily/02-00/02-04-00/b06wn077.htm   (515 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Richard Kleindienst
One of Rehnquist's close associates there was Richard Kleindienst, who became President Nixon's assistant attorney general and was later convicted for contempt of Congress in the Watergate scandal.
Kleindienst recruited Rehnquist into the administration's office of legal counsel, where he gained a fearsome reputation as the department's most ardent advocate of wire-tapping, government surveillance and preventive detention.
Richard Kleindienst, who had served as U.S. attorney general during the Nixon administration and resigned during the Watergate scandal, died in Prescott, Ariz. at age 76.
news.surfwax.com /gov/files/Richard_G._Kleindienst_usgov.html   (466 words)

  
 Richard M
Richard Daley, Chicago's heavy-handed mayor, called in 7,500 U.S. Army troops and 6,000 National Guardsmen to back up his 12,000 police officers in neutralizing Vietnam war protesters.
September 16, 1969 - President Richard Nixon announces the second round of U.S. troop withdrawals from Vietnam; first round of withdrawals was completed in August and totaled 25,000 troops (including two brigades of the 9th Infantry Division); total of 15 withdrawals in total were announced, leaving only 27,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam by November 1972.
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913- --Caricatures and cartoons; American wit and humor, Pictorial; United States--Politics and government--1969-1974--Caricatures and cartoons.
www.kipnotes.com /Richard%20M.%20Nixon.htm   (3792 words)

  
 Richard Kleindienst
Richard Kleindienst is standing in the back row behind and to the immediate right of President Nixon at the center of this picture taken of the President and his Cabinet less than a year before Kleindienst resigned his office.
Kleindienst was sworn in as Attorney General just 5 days before the break-in to the Democrat's Watergate headquarters which eventually forced Nixon's resignation.
Kleindienst was born on a farm near Winslow.
doney.net /aroundaz/celebrity/kleindienst_richard.htm   (499 words)

  
 Richard G. Kleindienst --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Richard Gordon Kleindienst was born on Aug. 5, 1923, in Winslow, Ariz. He attended the University of Arizona and Harvard, earning a law degree in 1950.
Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1973; he resigned his post during the Watergate scandal and later pleaded guilty to an unrelated misdemeanour charge for having not testified accurately during his Senate confirmation hearing.
Kleindienst, Richard G. public official and attorney Richard G. Kleindienst served as attorney general under President Richard M. Nixon from 1972 to 1973.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9328435   (654 words)

  
 The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) : WATERGATE FIGURE IS DEAD KLEINDIENST QUIT AS SCANDAL GREW.(NEWS) @ HighBeam ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Richard Kleindienst, who was sworn in as U.S. attorney general five days before the Watergate break-in that eventually led to his resignation and that of President Nixon, has died of lung cancer at 76.
Kleindienst assisted with Richard Nixon's presidential campaign in 1968, then stayed on as deputy attorney general, eventually replacing Attorney General John Mitchell, who left in 1972 to head the Committee to Re-elect the President - the organization at the heart of Watergate.
Kleindienst was sworn in in June 1972, just before the incident at Democratic headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington.
static.highbeam.com /t/thecincinnatipostcincinnatioh/february042000/watergatefigureisdeadkleindienstquitasscandalgrewn/index.html   (255 words)

  
 Richard Nixon
Among Wolfowitz's collaborators during this period were Richard Perle, Steven Bryen, and [PNAC Signatory] Elliott Abrams, who served on the Senate staffs of Henry "Scoop" Jackson (D-Wash.), Clifford Case (R-N.J.), and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), respectively.
Richard V. Allen served on President Richard Nixon's foreign security staff.
Richard Allen, who would first become Reagan's chieft foreign adviser and the head of the Office of National Security, worked closely with Reagan from the Committee's beginnings.
www.buddhistpeacegroup.org /pnac/richardnixoncabinet.html   (1967 words)

  
 RICHARD M   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
RICHARD M. 37th president of the United States (1969-1974), and the only president to have resigned from office.
He was elected president of the United States in 1968 in one of the closest presidential elections in the nation’s history and in 1972 was reelected in a landslide victory.
Richard Nixon attended public schools in Whittier, California, and went to Whittier College, a Quaker institution, where he majored in history.
www.quintc.com /cjuniverse/study/srichard_m.htm   (3858 words)

  
 Nixon's Appointments (from Richard M. Nixon) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Nixon, Richard M. 37th president of the United States (1969–74), who, faced with almost certain impeachment for his role in the Watergate Scandal, became the first American president to resign from office.
Johnson, Richard M. The only United States vice-president ever elected by the Senate was Richard M. Johnson, who served in the Democratic administration of Martin Van Buren from 1837 to 1841.
U.S. public official and businessman Richard Edmund Lyng served in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under two presidential administrations and was secretary of the department in the late 1980s.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-205624   (852 words)

  
 WashingtonPost.com: 3 Top Nixon Aides, Kleindienst Out; President Accepts Full Responsibility; Richardson Will Conduct ...
He said Kleindienst's decision to leave because of close ties to individuals implicated in the Watergate inquiry was "in accordance with the highest standards of public service and legal ethics." The individuals to whom Kleindienst alluded presumably included former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, who was in charge of Mr.
In the Justice Department the departure of Kleindienst came fresh upon the heels of the political melodrama of the decline and fall of acting FBI Director Gray, an episode that had already seriously demoralized the Bureau and the Department of which it is a part.
And Richard Milhous Nixon, who has expressed so many times the personal problems of dealing with crises, is confronted with one of a magnitude that faced his presidential predecessors Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding and, more recently and in a different context, Lyndon B. Johnson.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/050173-1.htm   (3034 words)

  
 Nixon White House Tapes
President Richard M. Nixon White House Tapes: 1971 conversations in the Oval Office with Ronald Reagan, on the vote to seat China at the UN, and with Attorney General John Mitchell, on the appointment of Lewis Powell to the Supreme Court.
President Richard M. Nixon and Attorney General John Mitchell (10/19), Attorney General John Mitchell (10/20), Chief of Staff H.R. "Bob" Haldemann, and presidential aide Alexander Butterfield (10/8).
President Richard M. Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, White House Secretary Rose Mary Woods, U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers, White House Chief of Staff H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, OMB Director George Schultz, Treasury Secretary John Connally, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and White House aides Charles Colson and Patrick Buchanan.
www.c-span.org /executive/presidential/nixon.asp   (1039 words)

  
 The History Place - Impeachment: Richard Nixon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Wherefore Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
In all this, Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Richard Nixon had served a total of 2,026 days as the 37th President of the United States.
www.historyplace.com /unitedstates/impeachments/nixon.htm   (2289 words)

  
 Impeachment: Now More Than Ever
This would be, under the circumstances, the highest act of loyalty and patriotism on his part, and we therefore feel that Richard Nixon, facing the reality, would see resignation as his duty; and if he did not, it would become the duty of his closest friends and associates to persuade him so to see it.
Mitchell's resignation was a clear sign of big trouble, as were the subsequent departures of his successor, Richard Kleindienst, top Nixon aides Haldeman and John Erlichman, and White House counsel John Dean.
Herbert Kalmback and Richard Kleindienst were lawyers for the Nixon re-election committee.
www.superseventies.com /impeachm.html   (2081 words)

  
 Richard Kleindienst Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Looking For richard kleindienst - Find richard kleindienst and more at Lycos Search.
Find richard kleindienst - Your relevant result is a click away!
Look for richard kleindienst - Find richard kleindienst at one of the best sites the Internet has to offer!
www.karr.net /search/encyclopedia/Richard_Kleindienst   (288 words)

  
 Richard Kleindienst - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Richard Kleindienst - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This page was last modified 23:51, 9 Apr 2005.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Richard Kleindienst contains research on
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Richard_Kleindienst   (231 words)

  
 THE POLITICAL CAREER OF RICHARD NIXON. Essay Sample. Free term papers for college students
A few weeks after the United States entered World War II a young man named Richard Nixon went to Washington, D.C. In January 1942 he took a job with the Office of Price Administration.
When the 68 million votes were counted John F. Kennedy had become the nation's first Roman Catholic president, and Richard Nixon had lost the presidential race by the narrow margin of about 100,000 votes.
The dedication of the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda 1991 was attended by all five living presidents.
www.essaysample.com /essay/003027.html   (3468 words)

  
 Internet Public Library: POTUS
Richard M. Nixon -- from The Presidents of the United States of America
From the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, in addition to information on the Presidents themselves, they have first lady and cabinet member biographies, listings of presidential staff and advisers, and timelines detailing significant events in the lives of each administration.
From a PBS broadcast of the same name, this essay excerpt by Tom Wicker discusses some of the issues and events that molded Nixon.
www.ipl.org /div/potus/rmnixon.html   (342 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com — Watergate, Deep Throat, Woodward, Bernstein
Richard Nixon's White House tapes can give you a compelling seat in the Oval Office or put you on the phone with the president of the United States.
They can also be an exercise in frustration, full of static and mumbled sentences that are almost impossible to decipher.
The summaries were composed by the staff of the Richard Nixon Presidential Materials Project at the National Archives.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/nation/specials/watergate/watergatefront.htm   (298 words)

  
 Articles of Impeachment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
RESOLVED, That Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanours, and that the following articles of impeachment to be exhibited to the Senate:
Adopted 28-10 by the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives.
Adopted 21-17 by the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives.
watergate.info /impeachment/impeachment-articles.shtml   (646 words)

  
 Nixon Quote Page
"Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard.
We had something, we had a lead and it shows you how important it is that when you and I get leaks like this in the future, we don't disregard them.
I let down our system of government and the dreams of all those young people that ought to get into government, but think that it's all too corrupt.
home.att.net /~howingtons/gop/nixpg.html   (877 words)

  
 Nixon, United States v.
In fact, Richard Nixon had ordered a coverup of the burglary just days after the arrest of the burglars.
Nixon agreed to make the tapes available to Jaworski on August 5, and tapes of a meeting on June 23, 1972 indicated that the President was aware of the coverup of Watergate from its beginning.
On Sunday morning, September 8, 1974, President Gerald Ford announced on camera that he was pardoning former President Richard Nixon, thus ending the political crisis of Watergate.
www.michaelariens.com /ConLaw/cases/nixon.htm   (2745 words)

  
 'Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover' - Books - MSNBC.com
Yet when the associate director of the FBI answered the telephone and heard the news, his reaction was not one of hysteria or grief but rather stoic silence, which Crawford attributed to shock.
No one knew that more than Richard Nixon, who had been bickering for months with the FBI director over his failure to bend the law for some presidential “fl bag” jobs — extracurricular and highly illegal break-ins that for years had been standard practice for FBI agents and were now forbidden by the agency’s head.
Awash with enthusiasm to gain the greatest television exposure possible as part of his reelection campaign strategy, the president informed Kleindienst that he wanted Hoover to be afforded a “proper and dignified state funeral,” complete with live coverage on all three commercial networks plus public television.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4685514   (6673 words)

  
 Nixon and Sports Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Richard M. Nixon becomes President of the United States of America.
Attorney General Richard Kleindienst ends a series of meetings he had been holding with NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle about ending the league's policy of fling out home games.
Kleindienst publicly states the administration will seek legislation that will force the league to end this practice.
faculty.tamu-commerce.edu /sarantakes/nixon-time.html   (4385 words)

  
 Miller Center — Richard Nixon Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Nixon, Richard M. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon.
Nixon, Richard M. In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal.
Ambrose's trilogy is currently the closest we have to a definitive "life" of Nixon.
www.millercenter.virginia.edu /scripps/reference/bibliographies/nixon.html   (2141 words)

  
 Richard M. Nixon
Public Paper of the Presidents of the U.S.: Richard Nixon, 1969.
Kutler, Stanely L. The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon.
Richard Nixon in the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal
www.theamericanpresidency.us /37th.htm   (447 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.