A farm boy from the mountains of North Carolina, Rufus Edmisten could not have been prepared for the halls of power in Washington, D.C., during the Vietnam War era, as young men burned their draft cards and pro-cannabis factions held "smoke-ins" in the capital.
A University of North Carolina Chapel Hill graduate, he earned a law degree at George Washington University and landed a job as counsel to U.S. senator Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. This led to Edmisten's appointment as Deputy Chief Counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee--he personally served Richard Nixon the first ever subpoena of a sitting president by Congress.
Returning to North Carolina, he served as Attorney General and Secretary of State before retiring from public life to practice law and participate in charitable activities. Written with humor and candor, his memoir recalls the cultural contrasts of American life in the 1970s and 1980s, and affirms that the business of government is to enable us to live together peacefully.
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Interest Age: From 18 years
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
108 photos (6 in color), index
Maße
Höhe: 178 mm
Breite: 255 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-4766-7797-2 (9781476677972)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Former North Carolina Attorney General and Secretary of State, Rufus L. Edmisten drew international attention when he served as deputy chief counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee. His work, together with that of others, uncovered the truth about the Watergate scandal in 1973. He has the distinction of being the first person on a congressional committee to serve a subpoena to a sitting president of the United States. A practicing lawyer and lobbyist, he lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
?1.?Issuing the Watergate Subpoena
?2.?My Mountain Home
?3.?The Foundations of My Political Leanings
?4.?High School Days
?5.?Going to Carolina
?6.?Law School and Washington, D.C.: Sam Ervin,-Teacher-in-Chief
?7.?Watergate
?8.?The Attorney General Years
?9.?The 1984 North Carolina Governor's Race
10.?My First Private Law Practice
11.?The Secretary of State Years
12.?Hubris
13.?Friends of Rufus (FOR) to the Rescue
14.?Exoneration and Rebuilding My Life
15.?My Garden and Our -Four-Footed Friends
Between pages 178 and 179 are 2 plates with 6 color photographs
16.?The Grim Intruder: -Guillain-Barre Syndrome
17.?Remembering Watergate
18.?A Few of My Favorite Things
Between pages 200 and 201 are 8 plates with 13 b&w photographs
19.?Thoughts on a Life Fully Lived
Index