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...massive denunciation was directed at the President's abrupt dismissal of Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox and the resultant departures on principle of two of the scandal-ridden Administration's untainted remaining officials, Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. It was aimed too at Nixon's original refusal to turn over tapes and documents of his Watergate-related communications as ordered by a U.S. court of appeals...
Dershowitz, however, was not surprised at the appointment of Jaworski, a Houston trial lawyer. "He's just the kind of man I expected Nixon to nominate--he deals in compromises and exchanges of power. He doesn't deal in the high-principled law of a man like Archibald Cox," he said...
...this second version is the one Nixon is going to stick with, the White House is going to have a hard time explaining how Nixon could offer to give Archibald Cox '34 and Sam Ervin summaries of the tapes without telling them that two of the tapes didn't exist...
...Watergate special prosecutor Leon Jaworski will be asking the same questions and trying to come up with some answers. Jaworski, a conservative Texas Democrat who served under president Johnson and counseled the commission which investigaaed the assassination of John F. Kennedy '40, was appointed to the position from which Archibald Cox was fired...
National news, especially the resignation of Elliot Richardson '41 and the firing of Archibald Cox '34, has overshadowed city politics over the last few months. But the lack of a single dramatic and divisive issue on the local level is perhaps the greatest factor in the current political malaise...