George Thomas Frampton Jr. (born August 24, 1944) is an American attorney, environmentalist, and government official who served as Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. He is currently a co-founder of an environmental advocacy non-profit, Partnership for Responsible Growth. He cowrote a book on Watergate and has authored newspaper columns on subjects including environmental issues and ballot access for independent candidates. Frampton was an assistant special prosecutor during the Watergate investigation and later accused Robert Bork of making misleading and untenable statements about his role during the Nixon administration and Watergate Scandal in 1987 when Bork was a nominee for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. He was Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks from December 10, 1993 to October 10, 1996, and served as president of the Wilderness Society from 1989 to 1993. Early life and education The son of a legal scholar, Frampton was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in White Plains, New York, Belmont, Massachusetts, and Urbana, Illinois. He graduated from University High School in 1961, and graduated from Yale College with a BA in physics and philosophy in 1965. He then earned an M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics, specializing in advanced economic theory. In 1969, he graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was the treasurer of the Harvard Law Review. Career After Harvard, Frampton served as a lawyer for VISTA in New York and then as a consultant on a Middle East peace project under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee, the Ford Foundation, and Professor Roger Fisher of Harvard Law School. In 1971 he became a law clerk to Supreme Court of the United States Justice Harry A. Blackmun, where he was involved in Blackmun’s opinions in Roe v. Wade among others. Frampton served, from 1973 to 1975, as an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force at the U.S. Department of Justice. In that position, he worked on the grand jury investigation and trial of President Richard M. Nixon’s top aides in the Watergate cover-up. He and a colleague, Richard Ben-Veniste, co-authored Stonewall: The real story of the Watergate prosecution (1977). Frampton subsequently served as special counsel to the State of Alaska in an investigation of Governor Bill Sheffield and his chief of staff; as an assistant independent counsel to Independent Counsel Jacob A. Stein in the investigation of