1973 Press Photo Elliot Richardson and wife with Ruckelshaus in Washington

Elliot L. Richardson, left, who resigned as attorney general over the dispute between the White House and special prosecutor Archibald Cox over access to presidential tape recordings, tells a news conference Tuesday the ultimate judgment on the Watergate crisis must be made by the American people. His wife and his former deputy, William Ruckelshaus, dismissed in the dispute, listen at right.

Photo is dated 1973.

Photo measures 10.5 x 8.25 inches.