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...thought a takeover would actually occur at Harvard, Epps says. But after hearing a presentation by Professor Archibald Cox '34--later famous as a special prosecutor who investigated Nixon--about similar actions at other schools, the University began to prepare anyway...
...food fight with "particularly unappetizing cheesecake" broke out during a speech by Loeb University Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox '34, who was discussing his involvement with the Watergate saga...
Past recipients of the HLSA award include Loeb University Professor, Emeritus Archibald Cox '34, a former Watergate special prosecutor, and Mary Robinson, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and a former President of Ireland...
Like most bad laws, this one began with good intentions. Twenty years and 20 independent counsels ago, Congress passed the statute to prevent a repeat of the Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon's firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox made people realize that investigators had to be walled off from the investigated. So the new statute gave a special three-judge panel the power to name independent counsels when the Attorney General said it was necessary and made the counsels virtually unfireable...
...alternative, if the statute is junked, is the existing law allowing the Attorney General to appoint special prosecutors in rare instances; they have marginally less independence but have worked well in the past. Leon Jaworski was the Watergate special prosecutor after Cox. "Archibald Cox got fired, yes, but there was a hue and cry, and Leon Jaworski was appointed almost immediately," says Jim Cole of the A.B.A. task force. "He had all the power he needed and was bulletproof." Besides, few can believe that politics is absent from the process now. Seven of the 11 judges who have served...