Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon gave a long answer about why he had fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox: because Cox had refused to obey his orders. But he said not one word about why he had then totally reversed himself and had given up the tapes just as Cox had urged. No questioner then got the floor to say, "Wait a minute, Mr. President, what logic explains producing a governmental convulsion of this magnitude and then announcing amid the carnage that you agree after...
...President casually said in that same explanation that Elliot Richardson had approved of his "compromise" on the tapes that triggered all the trouble. At best that is a half-truth. A compromise is not a compromise without two parties agreeing, as Cox did not. Neither, in the end, did Richardson...
...five months that he served as special Watergate prosecutor, Archibald Cox more than made good on his promise to follow any trail, "wherever that trail may lead," in his investigation. Cox and his 80-man legal staff brought criminal charges in 14 cases, and at the time of his ouster they were investigating literally dozens of criminal allegations extending far beyond the Watergate breakin. Indeed, it was the unfettered scope of Cox's inquiries that led Nixon to the angry decision that...
TIME has learned that the White House seemed especially upset about Cox's determination to pursue these areas of investigation...
...financing laws became effective, and no accounting of it has ever been made public. The story of how the money was raised and what became of it is presumably still contained in a satchel of reports that Gleason delivered to former White House Counsel Charles Colson in December 1970. Cox's investigators believed that the Town House operation is potentially one of the most explosive scandals in Washington, but White House lawyers refused to provide information about it on the ground that Cox had no claim to evidence bearing on any campaign except that of 1972. (To invalidate that...