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...better-known liberal on the list is Elliot Richardson of Massachusetts, who resigned as Attorney General last year rather than carry out Nixon's order to fire Archibald Cox as Watergate prosecutor. In the past, Ford has spoken favorably of Richardson's abilities; he would give the Administration solid ties with liberal and moderate Republicans and add to Ford's image of moral integrity. But many Republican leaders, particularly in the South and Midwest, regard him as too liberal...
...Attorney General-Designate Elliot Richardson names Archibald Cox to the promised new position. In the days following, McCord tells his story to the nationally televised Senate Watergate committee hearings, which open May 17. Faced with a flood of revelations, Nixon issues a statement admitting that there was a cover-up with in the White House, though he denies participating in it. Nixon says that after the break-in he had restricted certain aspects of the investigation on the grounds of "national security...
Piece by piece, Nixon's position of power began to crumble. Last October after Nixon fired his special prosecutor, Archibald Cox '34, cries from Congress and from the streets demanded Nixon's impeachment. Impeachment seemed distant, almost improbable, in October, but under the weight of public outrage the House Judiciary Committee took up the future of Richard Nixon...
...firing of the first Watergate Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox, for persisting in seeking evidence from the President...
Lacovara's use of the term "definitively" was a subtle reminder that the President had once pledged to obey a "definitive" decision of the Supreme Court in the original tapes fight waged by Jaworski's predecessor Archibald Cox. After Nixon had Cox fired for seeking this evidence, the political furor that followed forced the President to drop his planned appeal to the Supreme Court. Instead he yielded to an appeals court ruling that he surrender the first group of recordings. At that time Nixon's constitutional consultant, Charles Alan Wright, assured Judge Sirica, "This President does not defy...