Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would let Acting Attorney General Robert Bork appoint a new special Watergate prosecutor was not reassuring. In declaring flatly that the new man, yet to be named, would never be given any "presidential documents," but only "information" from such documents, Nixon seemed to give him even less authority than Cox had been promised. Cox had been assured ?falsely, as it turned out?that he could have access to any evidence he requested "from any source...
Moreover, there was no assurance that the new prosecutor could not be fired by Nixon if he pushed too hard for evidence that the President did not want to reveal. Even more than the objectionable Stennis proposal on the tapes, it had been Nixon's direct order to Cox to stop seeking more tapes and presidential documents in court that led to the Justice Department resignations...
...minutes before court time when Wright reviewed this turnabout announcement with Nixon in the Oval Office. No word of the switch had leaked out when Wright sat down quietly in Sirica's crowded courtroom at 2 p.m. At a table opposite him were eleven lawyers from the ousted Cox staff, apparently prepared to argue against the Stennis plan. Sirica entered, read tediously for 15 minutes from his original order demanding the tapes, and from the sustaining appeals court decision. Then he put down his papers and asked Wright: "Are counsel prepared at this time to file the response...
...chairman. Baker discussed the plan with Nixon's aides for an hour before Ervin agreed to it under presidential pressure, and Baker clearly had a better understanding of its larger impact on Cox and the criminal cases. Rums Edmisten, deputy counsel to the Ervin committee, felt that the White House had taken advantage of Ervin's "good faith." Said Edmisten: "He's always operated that way; he assumes everyone else does...
Despite the settlement with Sirica, the number of telegrams had soared past 220,000; White House officials reported receiving "mountains" of messages. The Senate Watergate committee had counted 8,000, only ten favoring the firing of Cox. The special prosecutor's former office got 10,000. Senator Tunney's tabulation had passed 8,000, while Senator Goldwater said that even after the tapes reversal the ratio of protests was running 80 to 1 against Nixon...