Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...focus of discontent with Nixon now shifted directly to the Cox firing. More than 20 resolutions were introduced in both chambers either directing Nixon to reinstate the special prosecutor's post...
...Nixon finally did appear, the tense 40-minute press conference showed neither press nor President at their best. He was tossed questions on the Middle East, even on the oil crisis, which he handled confidently at time-consuming length. On a pointed question about the tapes, Nixon insisted that Cox had to be fired because he alone opposed the Stennis compromise, while Nixon, the Attorney General, Senators Ervin and Baker had approved it?wholly ignoring the fact that both Richardson and Ervin had expressed sharp reservations about the plan in the form that was so suddenly announced by Nixon...
What most disturbed his critics was Nixon's lack of guarantees that the new special prosecutor, to be appointed by Acting Attorney General Bork, would be any freer than Cox in gaining access to presidential papers or other needed tapes. Nixon said that no litigation will be needed by the prosecutor to get most nonpresidential White House evidence because these matters "can be worked out." But there is no real room for compromise, especially on evidence that might possibly implicate the President. Nixon vowed to grant the prosecutor "cooperation" and "independence," but that fell well short of what Cox...
...School for more than a decade, and Washington, he told friends, was "going to be pure pleasure." It would offer "a lot of intellectual fascination." Last week was indeed a fascinating one for Bork. Having been catapulted into the position of Acting Attorney General as a result of the Cox affair, the professor who came to Washington to gain firsthand knowledge of the Supreme Court found himself at the center of a political storm. It was Bork who fired Cox on Nixon's orders, and it was Bork who was given the all but impossible job of finding...
Bork says that he agreed to fire Cox, after Elliot Richardson and his former deputy William Ruckelshaus refused, because "I believe a President has the right to discharge any member of the Executive branch." At first he thought that he should tender his own resignation after carrying out the order, as proof that he was not merely clearing his own way to a better job. Richardson urged Bork to stay on "to keep the department running," but Bork has made it plain that he has no desire to make his arrangement permanent. The post no longer looks inviting "after...