Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, ten bills and resolutions to do just that had been introduced in the Senate and an even larger number in the House. The Senate Judiciary Committee also was holding hearings on the legislation with Cox as the first witness. Chief among the proposals the committee is considering...
...them is Acting Attorney General Robert Bork, who says: "We would have the situation of a judge appointing a man who argues the case before him. I think this proposal might jeopardize some of the cases." Cox, however, found nothing incongruous about letting a judge appoint a special prosecutor. He said: "It's certainly far more incongruous to expect people [meaning the Administration] to investigate themselves." To erase the problem, some sponsors say they would be willing to have the prosecutor named by all 15 active judges of the district court. Such a scheme was backed by Chesterfield Smith...
...Grinnell Corp. and all of Canteen Corp. Some outside business and legal experts felt that a Supreme Court decision might have been rougher on ITT. But White House and Justice Department officials have called it a good settlement for the Government, a judgment with which fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox concurs...
When the story of Nixon's phone call first broke in the New York Times, the newspaper did not reveal its sources. But Cox had been told about the conversations by Kleindienst as his staff probed the whole ITT affair. Cox conceded that he might have been an indirect source of the Times story because he had "carelessly" mentioned the Nixon intervention to two Democratic Senators, Edward Kennedy and Philip Hart, and some of their assistants. He said he felt terrible about this. The White House eagerly pounced on Cox and his staff, calling the action "an inexcusable breach...
Indeed, Cronkite figures prominently in the Administration's current offensive. While Nixon has declined to name names, the White House Communications Director, Ken Clawson, seemed to be speaking for the boss when he attacked Cronkite's interview with deposed Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox on the Evening News. "It was the biggest softball interview I've ever heard," Clawson complained. "He lobbed the ball slowly down the middle of the plate, stood there with a half-smile on his mustachioed face while Cox knocked every one over the fence. It was a case of the interviewee being...