Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Should that happen, Nixon will be back to square one, exactly where he was before he fired Cox-righting his special prosecutor in the courts...
...implied that Archibald Cox should have long since wrapped up the Watergate investigations, since "the case was 90% ready" when Cox inherited it; the reason Cox could not wrap up his investigations was that Nixon would not provide him with the evidence on the tapes or in White House files. He said that the McGovern campaign, as well as his own, had received illegal corporate contributions; this could be so. But six major corporations have been found guilty of illegal contributions to the 1972 Nixon effort, while not a single charge of wrongdoing has so far been brought against...
...Special Prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, who has been handling the courtroom duels with the White House lawyers over Watergate. During his three weeks on the job, Jaworski has been content to give plenty of leeway to the staff of 80 people, including 38 lawyers, that he inherited from Archibald Cox. In fact, the staff has become an important force on its own in the struggle to get to the bottom of Watergate. Several key members are determined to quit if Jaworski does not continue to press ahead with the investigation...
Along with their new power, the Watergate staffers have been emerging from their largely anonymous role under Cox to become public figures in Washington. For days, Ben-Veniste and three other lawyers, including Jill Wine Volner, 30, impressed spectators and attorneys with the expert way in which they questioned White House witnesses about the presidential tapes. Indeed, Ben-Veniste gave the impression that he had memorized almost every known fact about the complex Watergate case...
...chief of staff under Cox and now Jaworski is sandy-haired, soft-spoken Deputy Special Prosecutor Henry S. ("Hank") Ruth Jr., 42. A product of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he has had more than a dozen years of experience in law enforcement. Among his previous jobs, he served as an investigator of organized crime for Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, headed the Nixon Administration's National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, and directed New York Mayor John Lindsay's Criminal Justice Coordinating Council...