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Written by William Archibald...
...passing the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, Congress sought to avoid a replay of 1973's Saturday Night Massacre, in which President Nixon had Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox fired. The act calls for the prosecutor to be appointed by a panel of three federal judges and not to be subject to presidential approval. But some legal observers argue that the provision has usurped powers that properly reside in the Executive Branch. "The special counsel is a distortion of the Constitution," says Washington Lawyer Ray Randolph. Philip Lacovara, counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor, agrees, partly because the position...
Loeb University Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox '34 also finds himself with new speaking and lecturing engagements, some as a result of the Bicentennial Celebration. Coupled with his teaching responsibilities at the Law School of Boston University, additions to an already hectic schedule leave the former Watergate special prosecutor pressed for time to serve his other posts...
...diligence, mysteries still abound. Did a courthouse in Charleston, S.C., inspire George Washington and lead to the White House design? Seale thinks so, but there is no exact record. One mystery was solved: the reason for a lonely stone fountain on White House ground commemorating Artist Francis Millet and Archibald Willingham Butt. Since the only other such commemoration on the grounds is the statue of Andrew Jackson, the fountain bore investigating. Archie Butt, it turns out, was a popular bachelor who served as White House military aide for both Theodore Roosevelt and Taft. Returning from a vacation in Europe with...
Tuesday night some of those playwrites, critics and groupies of the theater company, eulogized this fixture of Cambridge's cultural past. Besides Alfred's works, the company has staged plays by the likes of Poet Laureate Robert Penn Warren and Archibald MacLeish...