Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began eroding Nixon's popularity this summer, but lately the disillusionment has moved from the political left to include most of those in the middle and many on the traditional right. In one of its strongest outbursts, the conservative Chicago Tribune called the President's firing of Cox a "colossal blunder." While only a few weeks ago, most people were willing to give him at least the benefit of the doubt if not their full trust, his credibility today is virtually nonexistent. A Chicago newspaper sampling showed that 63% of the people in the area do not believe...
...patience with him. They may have been slow to arrive at this point, preferring to hope through the summer and early fall that there would be no more scandals in the Administration and that the question of the tapes would be settled neatly by the courts. The loss of Cox, Richardson and Ruckelshaus changed all that. Suddenly it seemed that the messages coming over the Rockies from Washington were...
Then came the uproar over the firing of Archibald Cox and the spreading realization that the President could resign or be impeached. Suddenly, leisurely hearings were a luxury that the Congress-and the nation-could not afford. Last week there was a sharp crackle of urgency in the air when the Senate Rules Committee began meeting on Ford's confirmation. Said Senator Claiborne Pell: "I believe we all realize that the nominee of today may not only be the Vice President of tomorrow, but the President of next year...
...Congress over the selection of a new Watergate special prosecutor, Saxbe should have little trouble in winning the approval of his fellow Senators on the Judiciary Committee. Few potential nominees could make that claim since committee members are seething with anger over Nixon's dismissal of Archibald Cox, whose job they created last May as part of an agreement reached during the confirmation of former Attorney General Elliot Richardson...
While Saxbe is scathingly critical of Nixon's handling of the Watergate investigation, his views are not especially at variance with those of the White House. He has criticized the Ervin committee hearings for putting on an unnecessarily flamboyant show and charged that Cox "was more interested in a lawsuit" than in pursuing the Watergate investigation. "There are certain affairs of the President that neither Congress nor the courts can invade," says Saxbe. "There is a power to impeach the President, but it was not contemplated in the Constitution that the President can be horsed around the courts...