Elliot Richardson

I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit. ”

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”

The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today. ”