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Elliot Richardson

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Elliot Richardson is best known for resigning as U.S. Attorney General rather than heeding President Richard Nixon’s order to fire special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. He is the only person to have headed four Cabinet departments. Richardson died in January 2000.

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