Elliot Lee Richardson (1920–99) was 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.
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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
—Elliot Richardson
Topics: Politicians, Politics
Conscience is the voice of values long and deeply infused into one’s sinew and blood.
—Elliot Richardson
People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.
—Elliot Richardson
Topics: Apathy
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