Elliot Lee Richardson served as U.S. attorney general for less than six months in 1973 under President Nixon. Richardson resigned in October 1973 after Nixon demanded that he fire the special prosecutor who was uncovering evidence of the president's...

ELLIOT Richardson, who died on New Year's Eve at age 79, will be remembered as the attorney general who put country before party or personal ambition when he resigned rather than follow President Richard Nixon's instructions to fire a special prosecutor. While that single...

Produced by a family of physicians, Elliot L. Richardson operated on the body politic. As an elected official in Massachusetts, an appointed official of unmatched breadth in Washington, and a tireless outside agitator in his later years, Richardson compiled a resume in public life...

Richard Darman, a former White House budget director who helped convince former President George H.W. Bush to renege on his no new taxes pledge, died Friday. He was 64.Darman died in Washington after battling leukemia for several months, according to a statement issued by former...

Edward E. Lawler, III is Distinguished Professor of Business at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business and Founder and Director of the USC's Center for Effective Organizations. In this interview he discusses the findings of his and James O'Toole's new book, The...