Elliot Richardson

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. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

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But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#defining #developing #doing #done #else

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

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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. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

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If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#being #big #cannot #effect #feels

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. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#especially #flaws #must #our #ourselves

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. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

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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. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

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My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

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People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

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