Nicholas (de Belleville) Katzenbach - Early life, Government service, Later years

Attorney general, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. A prisoner of war in Germany (1943–5) and a Rhodes Scholar (1947–9), he was admitted to the New Jersey bar (1950), and became a member of the law firm, Katzenbach, Gildea & Rudner, in Trenton, NJ. He was general counsel to the Secretary of the Air Force while serving part-time as associate professor of law at Yale University (1952–6). He then taught at the University of Chicago (1956–60) and went to Switzerland (1960) to pursue an international law project as a Ford Foundation Fellow. He joined the Justice Department (1961) as assistant attorney general in charge of the office of legal counsel (1961), and as deputy attorney (1962–4) he fought to set an active agenda for the Department, focusing on civil rights, anti-trust litigation, and the war on crime. He was a major force in the integration of the universities of Mississippi and Alabama and he helped draft the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He succeeded Robert Kennedy as attorney general (1965–6) and George Ball as under-secretary of state (1966–9). Leaving government service, he became senior vice-president and general counsel to IBM Corp (1969–79), and later was a member of its board and worked on external relations (1984–6). Returning to private practice (1986), in 1991 he was named chairman of Bank Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) with orders to cut American ties from the tainted international banking system.

Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach (born January 17, 1922) was an American lawyer and United States Attorney General during the Lyndon B.

Early life

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Katzenbach attended Phillips Exeter Academy, received his B.A.

Katzenbach was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1950 and the Connecticut bar in 1955.

Government service

From 1950 to 1952 he was attorney-advisor in the Office of General Counsel to the Secretary of the Air Force. Katzenbach was an associate professor of law at Yale from 1952 to 1956, and a professor of law at the University of Chicago from 1956 to 1960.

He served in the U.S. Department of Justice as Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel in 1961-1962 and as Deputy Attorney General from 1962 to 1965. President Johnson appointed Katzenbach 65th Attorney General of the United States on February 11, 1965, and he held the office until October 2, 1966. Nicholas Katzenbach, then Assistant Attorney General, had written a memo to Presidential Assistant Bill Moyers at the White House. Katzenbach's memocomes the closest of any known official document (Katzenbach's memo) to discussing a government coverup:

"The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin;

The Committee's final report implies Katzenbach, FBI Director J. According to the report, Hoover told staff members on November 24, 1963 that he and Katzenbach were anxious to have "something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin," though the idea of a commission was initially opposed by President Johnson.

Later years

Katzenbach left government service to work for IBM in 1969, where he stayed until 1986.

In 1980, Nicholas Katzenbach testified in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for the defense of W.

Mr. Katzenbach also testified in behalf of President Clinton on December 8, 1998, before the House Judiciary Committee hearing, considering whether to impeach President Clinton transcript.

On March 16, 2004, MCI Communications in a press release announced "its Board of Directors has elected former U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach as non-executive Chairman of the Board, effective upon MCI's emergence from Chapter 11 protection.