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...Agnew affair recedes, the court actions surrounding Watergate will bring that scandal back to center stage. Last week the grand jury directed by Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox returned its first indictment; there undoubtedly will be many more, with trials or guilty pleas to follow. The tapes decision of the appeals court-certainly a definitive one-will speedily move Nixon's case to the Supreme Court, carrying with it weighty judicial arguments against the President's position...
Trying to head off a constitutional clash, the court of appeals had asked the President's attorneys and Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox to try to work out a compromise. No agreement could be reached; so the court ruled. Its decision was a sharp, skillfully crafted rebuke to the President's claims of absolute immunity from the judicial process and absolute Executive privilege.* To uphold these positions, said the court, would dangerously strengthen the presidency at the expense of the other branches of Government...
Several Congressional leaders reacted last night ot President Nixon's abolition of the special prosecutor's office and the firing of Archibald Cox '34 with calls for Nixon's impeachment...
Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox '34 saw the latest and most critical mission of his turbulent legal and academic career aborted yesterday after a scant five months in operation...
...most dramatic case heading for the court is, of course, the controversy over President Nixon's tapes. But Bork will not be directly involved because the Justice Department's special Watergate prosecutor, Archibald Cox, is arguing against Presidential Lawyer Charles Alan Wright. Thus there is no single Government position for Bork to maintain. Even so, he will, in effect, be heard. He has entered a suit filed by a Ralph Nader group seeking a variety of White House working papers relating to the raising of milk price supports shortly after large campaign contributions were made by dairymen. Bork...