Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach was an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney General during the Lyndon B Johnson administration.
22 Facts About Nicholas Katzenbach
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Nicholas Katzenbach previously served as United States Deputy Attorney General under President John F Kennedy.
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Nicholas Katzenbach's parents were Edward L Katzenbach, who served as Attorney General of New Jersey, and Marie Hilson Katzenbach, who was the first female president of the New Jersey State Board of Education.
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Nicholas Katzenbach attended Phillips Exeter Academy and was accepted into Princeton University.
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Nicholas Katzenbach was a junior at Princeton in 1941, enlisting right after Pearl Harbor, and served in the United States Army Air Corps in World War II.
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Nicholas Katzenbach spent over two years as a prisoner of war in Italian and German POW camps, including Stalag Luft III, the site of the "Great Escape", which Katzenbach assisted in.
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Nicholas Katzenbach read extensively as a prisoner, and ran an informal class based on Principles of Common Law.
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On June 8,1946, Nicholas Katzenbach married Lydia King Phelps Stokes, in a ceremony officiated by her uncle, Anson Phelps Stokes, former canon of the Washington National Cathedral.
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Nicholas Katzenbach's father was Harold Phelps Stokes, a newspaper correspondent and secretary to Herbert Hoover.
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Nicholas Katzenbach was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1950 and the Connecticut bar in 1955.
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Nicholas Katzenbach was an associate in the law firm of Katzenbach, Gildea and Rudner in 1950.
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Nicholas Katzenbach was on the faculty of Rutgers Law School from 1950 to 1951; was an associate professor of law at Yale from 1952 to 1956; and was a professor of law at the University of Chicago from 1956 to 1960.
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Nicholas Katzenbach then served as Under Secretary of State from 1966 to 1969.
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On June 11,1963, Nicholas Katzenbach was a primary participant in one of the most famous incidents of the Civil Rights struggle.
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Nicholas Katzenbach wrote, in part: "The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large".
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Nicholas Katzenbach left government service to work for IBM in 1969, where he served as general counsel during the lengthy antitrust case filed by the Department of Justice seeking the break-up of IBM.
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Later Nicholas Katzenbach led the opposition against the case filed by the European Economic Community.
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Nicholas Katzenbach was named chairman of the failing Bank of Credit and Commerce International in 1991.
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In 1980, Katzenbach testified in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for the defense of W Mark Felt, later revealed to be the "Deep Throat" of the Watergate scandal and later Deputy Director of the FBI; accused and later found guilty of ordering illegal wiretaps on American citizens.
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Nicholas Katzenbach testified on behalf of President Clinton on December 8,1998, before the House Judiciary Committee hearing, considering whether to impeach President Clinton.
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Nicholas Katzenbach has been an MCI Board member since July 2002.
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Nicholas Katzenbach was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.