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Beauchamp, Richard de

(Encyclopedia) Beauchamp, Richard de: see Warwick, Richard de Beauchamp, earl of. ...

Milnes, Richard Monckton

(Encyclopedia) Milnes, Richard Monckton: see Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron. ...

Monckton Milnes, Richard

(Encyclopedia) Monckton Milnes, Richard: see Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron. ...

Clare, Richard de

(Encyclopedia) Clare, Richard de: see Pembroke, Richard de Clare, 2d earl of. ...

Webster, Richard Everard

(Encyclopedia) Webster, Richard Everard: see Alverstone, Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount. ...

Rogers, William Pierce

(Encyclopedia) Rogers, William Pierce, 1913–2001, U.S. government official, b. Norfolk, N.Y. Admitted to the bar in 1937, he served (1947–50) as chief counsel to two Senate investigating committees before becomi...

executive privilege

(Encyclopedia) executive privilege, exemption of the executive branch of government, or its officers, from having to give evidence, specifically, in U.S. law, the exemption of the president from disclosing informati...

Brome, Richard

(Encyclopedia) Brome, Richard bro͞om, brōm [key], c.1590–1652, English dramatist. He was the friend, servant, and disciple of Ben Jonson. Primarily a writer of realistic satiric comedy, picturing the life and ma...

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 1902–85, American public official and diplomat, U.S. senator from Massachusetts (1937–44, 1947–53), b. Nahant, Mass.; grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge. He was a journalist ...
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