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Richardson, Elliot Lee
US politician
under secretary of state 1969-1970
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1970-1973
Secretary of Defense 1973
Attorney General 1973
resigned rather than follow Richard Nixon's orders to dismiss Archibald Cox as Watergate special prosecutor, initiating Saturday Night Massacre
US ambassador to Britain 1975-1976
Secretary of Commerce 1975-1977
only person to have headed four US Cabinet departments
wrote "Reflections of a Radical Moderate" 1996
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