University of Virginia Library

Kleindienst Discloses Facts
On Law And Order Policy

Richard G. Kleindienst, Deputy Attorney
General of the United States, will
speak at the University Thursday, December
11, at 8:30 p.m. in the New
Chemistry Building.

Mr. Kleindienst has been an active figure in
national politics. In 1964 he was the director of
field operations for the Presidential campaign
of Barry Goldwater. In the same year, Mr.
Kleindienst was the Republican candidate for
governor of Arizona.

The Student Legal Forum of the
University Law School is sponsoring the
speech by the number two man in the
Department of Justice.

More recently, Mr. Kleindienst was President
Nixon's field director in the pre-convention in
1968, and a campaign manager in charge of 10
states following the President's nomination.

He has also served as chief counsel to the
Republican National Committee.

The Deputy Attorney General is a Phi Beta
Kappa graduate of Harvard College and received
his legal education at Harvard Law School. Mr.
Kleindienst is a former partner in a Phoenix law
firm.

In January of this year, he was appointed to
the second most powerful position in the
Department of Justice. The 46 year old
Kleindienst has been a strong supporter of
President Nixon's policies on law and order.

He believes in vigorous criminal law
enforcement and takes a hard line on protesting
student activists. Mr. Kleindienst recently
suggested the possibility of prosecuting, under
federal anti-riot legislation, the organizers of
mass demonstrations such as the mobilization
last month in Washington, D.C.

The Deputy Attorney General has chosen
"Strategy Against Crime" as the topic of his
speech.