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This is Watergate manque. Starr is not Archibald Cox. Henry Hyde has Sam Ervin's white hair but not his folksy touch. There are no bipartisan Wise Men like Howard Baker, nowhere the drama of a fresh question revealing a secret White House taping system. Back then a hearing was a hearing, not a televised re-enactment of previous document dumps. And back then Sam Dash was Sam Dash. This time around he's been Starr's ethics enabler, overlooking obvious conflicts until his client went so far as to testify, against his advice, as an "aggressive advocate" for impeachment...
...Spiro Agnew resigned. Over the next 10 days, Middle East and Persian Gulf nations organized a total oil embargo against the U.S. because of its support for Israel. And on Oct. 20, one day before the embargo took full effect, came the Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon ordered special prosecutor Archibald Cox fired, Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned in protest, and an honest-to-God constitutional crisis was born...
Richardson resigned his post as U.S. Attorney General in 1973 after President Richard M. Nixon ordered him to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox '34. After Richardson's deputy also refused Nixon's order and resigned, Nixon convinced Solicitor General Robert Bork to fire Cox, in a series of events later labelled the Saturday Night Massacre...
When Richardson speaks at the Law School's Class Day exercises today, it will be roughly 25 years since he resigned from his post as attorney general rather than carry out former President Richard M. Nixon's orders to fire Archibald Cox '34, the Watergate special prosecutor...
...School professor Archibald Cox'34 (below) is appointed special Watergateprosecutor by the Justice Department, and severaldays later, President Nixon admits to ignoringwarnings about a Watergate cover-up in the WhiteHouse...