Does Plainfield have a connection to the current process for selecting a new Attorney General for the Bush administration?
You betcha.
Liz Holtzman, who sat on the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment crisis, has a nice precedent for the current Congress as it contemplates confirming George Bush's third Attorney General (see more here).
She thinks that process has a lesson for the current Congress as it contemplates confirming Michael Mukasey.
In 1973, Nixon nominated the highly regarded Elliot Richardson after Nixon appointee Richard Kleindienst crashed and burned, resigning under a cloud.
In the course of the hearings, Congressional committees made it clear to Richardson he would not be confirmed unless he appointed a special prosecutor, to which Richardson agreed.
That turned out to be Harvard law prof Archibald Cox.
Who grew up in Plainfield, in the house Bobby G. and his family now enjoy.
Liz Holtzman: "Richardson's Confirmation, a Guide for Mukasey's"
Wikipedia: "Archibald Cox"
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