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Very good, very good. 247, appendices, index, name of previous owner, minor wear/soiling to DJ. The author was U.S. Attorney General during the Watergate political scandal, 1972-1973.
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Very good, very good. 247, appendices, index, minor wear/soiling to DJ. Inscribed (long inscription) by the author. The author was U.S. Attorney General during the Watergate political scandal, 1972-1973.
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Very good in Very good jacket. [16], 247, [7] pages. Occasional Footnotes. Index. Part 1 includes Introduction; Verla Oare; Goldwater; and Mitchell; Part II includes Christopher; Woody; McLaren and Griswold; Eastland; Peterson, Cox and Richardson; and Clifford and Harlow. Appendix A contains Wiretapping and Bugging for National Security; Appendix B. contains The Kleindienst Case. Also contains Index. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads: Dear Howell, If you find this book--for whatever else it is worth--as the testament of one ordinary American to our Constitution and to the institutions of freedom of our beloved Country, a great reword will be mine. Sincerely, Dick K., General Howell Estes, Washington, D.C., Richard Kleindienst, Tucson Arizona, October 22, 1985. When Richard Kleindienst took over the reins of the Justice Department as Richard Nixon's second attorney general, he never dreamed that the months ahead would spin out a dark drama that would throw the department of Justice into turmoil--and shake the nation to its foundations. In this moving autobiography, Richard Kleindienst traces his life as an attorney and young Republican stalwart in Arizona through the 1960 Nixon campaign, the ill-fated Goldwater campaign of 1964, in which he played a key role, and on to his life as a career lawyer and Arizona GOP state chairman whose relentless delegate operation helped put Richard Nixon in office in 1968. He found himself deputy attorney general soon thereafter. But it was the Watergate period that forever changed his life. Kleindienst suspended his private practice in 1969 to accept the post of Deputy Attorney General of the United States offered him by President Richard Nixon. This gave him responsibilities relating to the government's suit against ITT. Nixon and his aide John Ehrlichman told him to drop the case, which created an impression that they were violating their ethical obligations in favor of ITT, and that, as an attorney himself, Kleindienst was now obligated to report these ethical lapses to the state bars in the jurisdictions involved. But in his official role as Deputy Attorney General, he also repeatedly told Congress no one had interfered with his department's handling of the case, not mentioning Nixon and Ehrlichman. On February 15, 1972, US Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell (R) resigned effective March 1 to work in the Nixon reelection campaign and President Richard Nixon nominated Kleindienst to succeed Mitchell. After having served as Acting Attorney General for a little under three and a half months, his appointment was approved by the Senate on June 12 after an attempt to block the nomination by Ted Kennedy on the grounds of his involvement with ITT, failed. Unknown to Kleindienst, leaders of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CRP) had tasked Gordon Liddy with arranging various covert operations, one of which was to be a burglary of the Democratic Party National Headquarters in Washington, DC. Before dawn on a Saturday, five days after Kleindienst was sworn in[8], James McCord and four other burglars operating on Liddy's instructions were arrested at Watergate complex. Later in the morning Kleindienst was officially notified of the arrests. Liddy, after a phone consultation about the arrests with CREEP Deputy Director Jeb Magruder (who had managed CREEP up until March of that year, and had the most direct organizational authority over Liddy's activities), personally approached Kleindienst the same day at a private golf club in Bethesda, Maryland. Liddy told him that the break-in had originated within CRP, and that Kleindienst should arrange the release of the burglars, to reduce the risk of exposure of CRP's involvement. But Kleindienst refused and ordered that the Watergate burglary investigation proceed like any other case.
