Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dershowitz, however, was not surprised at the appointment of Jaworski, a Houston trial lawyer. "He's just the kind of man I expected Nixon to nominate--he deals in compromises and exchanges of power. He doesn't deal in the high-principled law of a man like Archibald Cox," he said...
Jaworski said he would begin work Monday with the staff left by his predecessor Archibald Cox '34. If he encounters an impasse with Nixon on any phase of the investigation, Jaworski said, the dispute will be presented to the senior majority and minority members of both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees for determination...
National news, especially the resignation of Elliot Richardson '41 and the firing of Archibald Cox '34, has overshadowed city politics over the last few months. But the lack of a single dramatic and divisive issue on the local level is perhaps the greatest factor in the current political malaise...
...Cox, who was appointed special prosecutor last May, was fired for refusing to accept a compromise on the release of the Watergate tapes. He had assumed the job under a special eight point charter granting him an unprecedented degree of independence in investigating alleged irregularities in the 1972 presidential elections...
...Harvard, Cox earned a reputation as "University trouble-shooter," primarily for his role in investigating the Columbia University upheaval in 1968, and for his efforts in ending a Harvard building takeover...