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Richard Gordon Kleindienst (August 5, 1923 – February 3, 2000) was an American lawyer, politician, and U.S. Attorney General during the early stages of Watergate political scandal.
Feb 4, 2000 · Richard G. Kleindienst, who was President Richard M. Nixon's attorney general for less than a year in the Watergate era and who pleaded guilty to a crime in a peripheral scandal, died...
Richard Kleindienst was a lawyer, politician and Republican leader from Arizona. He served as the deputy and then the U.S. attorney general under President Nixon from 1969 to 1973.
Feb 4, 2000 · Richard G. Kleindienst, who served as attorney general for 10 months in the Nixon administration during much of the Watergate investigation, died of lung cancer Thursday at his home in Arizona....
Oct 25, 2022 · Kleindienst was appointed Attorney General of the United States by President Richard Nixon on June 12, 1972. He resigned on April 20, 1973, and returned to the private practice of law. He died February 3, 2000.
Feb 29, 2024 · Richard G. Kleindienst was the 10th Deputy Attorney General of the United States. He served as the Department’s second-ranking official from January 1969 to June 1972.
Richard Kleindienst was a Republican lawyer and Nixon ally who served as U.S. attorney general from 1972 to 1973. He resigned amid the Watergate scandal and pleaded guilty to a perjury charge in 1974.
