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Attorney General Ramsey Clark waited for the last full business day of the Johnson Administration to file the suit. The timing allowed Clark to avoid one small embarrassment: this week former Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach, who was Clark's predecessor as Attorney General, will take over as IBM's general counsel and begin masterminding the defense for Watson. The timing also pushed the case onto the Nixon Administration, which must decide how vigorously it will press action that the outgoing administration chose to file—but not to fight.