Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead, the President and his lawyer worked out the "compromise" under which summaries would be provided (they would not hold up as evidence in court), and Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox was to be forbidden any further recourse to the courts in seeking presidential papers. Cox sensibly refused, and was promptly fired in flagrant violation of the President's pledge to the Senate, through then-Attorney General-designate Richardson, that Cox would be independent and could be dismissed only for gross improprieties. That brought on the resignation of Richardson and the dismissal of his principal assistant, honorable men who both refused...
...universal was the dismay in Republican ranks that it produced a rare concert of behind-the-scenes congressional arm twisting of the White House: on terms virtually dictated to him by the Senate Republican leadership, Nixon approved the appointment of a new special prosecutor, replacing the dismissed Archibald Cox, and chose a new Attorney General to succeed the resigned Elliot Richardson (see stories beginning on page...
...tapes in question were of potentially great importance. One was a brief telephone conversation between Former Attorney General John Mitchell and Nixon on June 20, 1972, apparently the first communication between the two intimate associates after the arrests at Democratic national headquarters three days earlier. Prosecutor Cox had especially wanted to hear this tape because Mitchell had apparently just been briefed about the participation in the Watergate espionage of G. Gordon Liddy, counsel to Nixon's re-election finance committee. Mitchell claimed that he did not tell Nixon about Liddy-who at that point had not yet been arrested...
...Greentree, Pa., predicts that Nixon may "stagger along for a year and then resign." Others give him less time. W. Harry Sayen, G.O.P. chairman in Mercer County, N.J., thinks that Nixon loyalists have tried to "hang on and hang on to his believability. But something snapped after the Cox debacle...
After the firing of Archibald Cox, 3,700 of Yale's 5,000 undergraduates signed petitions demanding impeachment. A poll of Harvard Business School students showed that 61% favored resignation; 75% felt the President was acting in a "dictatorial manner." To a cheering overflow crowd at Amherst College, Historian Henry Steele Commager declared: "The history of the present Administration is the history of repeated injurious usurpations having as direct object the subversion of the Constitution and the laws of the land...