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I have submitted my resignation to the President to become effective at the end of january that I intend to leave the office at that time. Mm hmm. After 8.5 years as the United States Attorney. My plans are that I have accepted the invitation of the regions

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of the university of California to serve as a regions professor at the bolt hall law school for the spring term. Would you make mr Poole on the circumstances which prompted your resignation? The man nominated by President Nixon to replace pool as James L. Browning Jr. He's

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deputy District Attorney for san mateo County. He was sponsored for his new position by Republican Senator George Murphy. I'd like to say that I am deeply honored, gratified, just immensely pleased that the president has announced his intention to appoint me as the the United States Attorney

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for the Northern District of California. And I want to assure both the president and the people of this district that if the confirmation is forthcoming from the Senate, then I'll certainly do everything humanly possible to bring to that office and aggressive, knowledgeable and outstandingly competent advocacy

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on behalf of the federal government. Now, two of the problems facing your office will be the prosecution of cases involving the black panther party. And some of those reasons centered around draft resisters and war protesters. Do you see any changes that you would like to make

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in handling of either of these areas? Well, I think the problem with the both the right and the left militants. The extremists is one which will certainly want to take a very close look at. I'm not a believer in civil disobedience as a means of changing

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the laws. I think there are plenty of manners and avenues open to do it without being civilly disobedient. The power of petition, the power of peaceable assembly picketing these things are fine, but I don't condone or or deemed that I'm easy on to any extent civil

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disobedience as a means of trying to change the law. SLF Pool was first appointed to the job of U. S. Attorney for northern California on june 28th of 1961. He was not scheduled to leave that office until June of 1970. But the job of US attorney

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is considered a political plum and cecil pool belongs to the out of Power Party today. He announced his expected resignation. It must be clear to everyone that the appointment of a United States Attorney is part of the political process And each new administration coming into office

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feels that it wants and I believe it needs its own its own man. That's how I came in originally in 1961.