Word: archibald
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Richardson, who can claim to have held more cabinet posts than any living American, is probably best known for the one thing he didn't do: fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox '34 in October, 1973. He claims to be most proud of the largely inconclusive Law of Sea Treaty--he headed the U.S. delegation--which Reagan scuttled upon taking office...
...ending." That sort of throwaway irony seems worthier of an Oscar Wilde epigram than a meditation on a profound theme. The Book of Job has haunted writings as disparate as Mark Twain's novel The Mysterious Stranger, Robert Frost's verse drama A Masque of Reason and Archibald MacLeish's play J.B. It requires more than bursts of wit and flashes of illumination...
Richardson's friends say he is not proud of his most famous role as Attorney General in the "Saturday Night Massacre," when, during the Watergate scandal, he chose to resign rather than follow then-President Nixon's orders to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox '34. But campaign advertisements currently running on local TV stations hail his resignation--which made him a hero among liberals--as one of his greatest accomplishments...
...genial political scientist, was mentioned as a likely candidate for dean of the Faculty. He didn't get the job, but instead was tapped to replace Oscar Handlin as Pfozheimer University Professor and University Librarian. Handlin moved over to the Loeb University chair, replacing retiring Law School eminence grise, Archibald Cox '34. Two other scholars also nabbed for university chairs, the highest honor Harvard can bestow on its professors: outgoing Dean of the Faculty Henry Resovsky and Business School teaching whiz Roland Christensen...
Some Law School students have complained about the retirement rule, and 39 students in Cox's IL signed a letter printed this week in the Harvard Law Record, stating "Mandatory retirement is a silly, demeaning policy at all times, but its evils are especially apparent in the case of Archibald...