The Resume

(August 5, 1923-February 3, 2000)
Born in Winslow, Arizona
Middle name was Gordon Kleindienst
U.S. Attorney General (June 12, 1972–April 30, 1973) under President Nixon
Previously served as U.S. Deputy Attorney General (January 20, 1969–June 12, 1972)
Served in the Arizona House of Representatives (1953-54)
Autobiography is 'Justice: The Memoirs of Attorney General Richard Kleindiens' (1985)

Why he might be annoying:

He enabled spying and wiretapping in the Nixon administration.
Barry Goldwater asked him to serve as Director of Operations for his ill-fated 1964 presidential campaign.
Goldwater had insisted he would only respond to the efforts to draft him to run if Kleindienst would run his campaign, despite his having no prior experience in national politics (he refused to hire other more experienced operatives).
He ran for governor of Arizona and lost to incumbent Sam Goddard (1964).
He resigned in the heat of the Watergate scandal on the same day as H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman (April 30, 1973).
He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge after he was discovered to have withheld information from the Watergate special prosecutor regarding a cronyism scandal (May 17, 1974).
He was charged with perjury for withholding information related to an insurance company fraud case he was involved in (1981). He was later acquitted.
He was disbarred by the Supreme Court and blocked him from practicing before the highest court (October 1982).

Why he might not be annoying:

He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
He had the bad luck to be roped into the Watergate scandal only five days into his job as Attorney General.
He had inherited the role after John Mitchell resigned to head President Nixon’s reelection campaign.
He defended Oro Valley, in 1987, in a lawsuit filed by the county over the annexation of Rancho Vistoso.
He was active with his church and community after retiring from his legal practice.

Credit: BoyWithTheGreenHair

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• I am an Episcopalian
• I Attended Harvard
• I Died in 2000 (Ranked: 76)
• I Have Lung Cancer
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Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 13 Votes: 38.46% Annoying