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In memoriam: William B. Saxbe

By Douglas A. Berman

For the last five years, I have had the great honor of having a great man's name in my title, as I have served as the William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Earlier this week, Attorney General (and Senator and Speaker and Ambassador) Saxbe passed away, and this obituary in the Columbus Dispatch highlights just some of the many reason I remain proud to have this accomplished man's name in my professional title: William B. Saxbe, a plain-spoken, tobacco-chewing U.S. senator from Ohio who brought a hint of stability to the Nixon administration during the darkest months of the Watergate scandal, died yesterday. He was 94. Saxbe, a one-term senator whom President Richard M. Nixon appointed U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 26, 2010 (boomark / email).