Attorney General: Richard G. Kleindienst
Richard Gordon Kleindienst was born in Winslow, Arizona, on August 5, 1923. He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces from 1943–1946 and was stationed in Italy during World War II. Kleindienst received his bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Harvard in 1947 and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1950. He served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 1953 through 1954. From 1958 to 1969, Kleindienst was a partner in the law firm of Shimmel, Hill, Kleindienst & Bishop. He held the office of Deputy Attorney General of the United States from January 31, 1969, to June 11, 1972.
Kleindienst was appointed Attorney General of the United States by President Richard M. Nixon on June 12, 1972. He resigned that office on May 24, 1973, and returned to the private practice of law in Arizona. He died in Prescott, Arizona, on February 3, 2000.
Robert George Harris was born in 1911 in Kansas City, Missouri. He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, the Grand Central School of Art, and the Art Students League of New York. For more than two decades, Harris was a story illustrator for several national magazines, including Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Saturday Evening Post, and McCall's. His works are in both public and private collections throughout the United States. His portrait of Attorney General Kleindienst was painted in 1974. Harris died in 2007.