TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 10 P5

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 10 P5 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 28 THORNBURGH RICHARD LEWIS This collective AMNESIA THAT SEEMS TO AFFECT the White House STAFF WOULD CONCERN ME IF I WERE THE PRESIDENT. Richard Thornburgh Yale University with an engineering degree in 1954 and earned a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1957. After his admission to the Pennsylvania bar in 1958 he joined the Pittsburgh law firm of Kirkpatrick Lockhart Johnson and Hutchinson. In 1969 President richard m. nixon appointed Thornburgh . attorney for western Pennsylvania. He served as . attorney until 1975 when President gerald ford designated him assistant attorney general of the justice department. As head of the department s criminal division Thornburgh was instrumental in setting up the public integrity section that investigated alleged improprieties by department personnel. After leaving office in 1977 Thornburgh returned to the Kirkpatrick law firm in Pittsburgh but he was intent on beginning a political career. in 1978 he was elected governor of Pennsylvania an office he held until 1987. in his early days as governor Thornburgh was thrust into the national limelight. The nuclear accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in the spring of 1979 set off a wave of panic in Pennsylvania. Thornburgh was credited with bringing calm to the state. Thornburgh also consolidated Pennsylvania s state-owned postsecondary schools into the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and left office with a budget surplus of 350 million. In July 1988 President ronald reagan appointed Thornburgh . attorney general succeeding Edwin Meese. Meese had become a controversial figure in the Reagan administration. He had stressed social issues such as abortion and pornography and had pushed for an end to affirmative action. Meese also had come under scrutiny for possible criminal conflict-of-interest charges. He resigned only after an independent counsel declined to file criminal charges. Taking office under these circumstances Thornburgh

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