Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's position that the courts had no right to his confidential conversations or papers. Now Black declared: "I don't see how you can defend the President who first fights in the court, then cuts himself off from the courts and also breaks his agreement with Cox...
...guidelines written by Richardson last May and approved by Nixon, Cox had been given "the greatest degree of independence," and full power "whether or not to contest the assertion of Executive privilege" as well as to review "all documentary evidence available from any source, as to which he shall have full access." It had also been agreed that he could be fired only for "extraordinary improprieties...
Despite the dismissal of Cox, Law Professors Harry Kalven Jr. of the University of Chicago and Gerald Gunther of Stanford both contend, the court of appeals can still cite Nixon for contempt. "The appellate court has already issued its order," said Kalven, "and it may take judicial notice of the President's defiance even without Cox." Other scholars, however, believe that the courts have no independent prosecutorial power; without a prosecutor, there is no adversary relationship. Cox could be appointed a counsel to the court or an agent for the grand jury that is still assigned to consider Watergate...
Even before the court of appeals handed down its ruling, it had urged Cox and Nixon's attorneys to try to reach some kind of agreement that would enable the critical evidence to go to the grand jury without forcing a legal showdown over separation of powers. Cox and the President's counsel, Fred Buzhardt, had met for many hours before advising the court that they could not find a mutually acceptable means to do this. Last week Richardson, at the behest of Nixon through his aide Alexander Haig, reopened talks with Cox...
...Monday, members of the Cox staff got a hint at what was up when he asked key men: "What would you think of John Stennis as referee in the tapes dispute?" Whatever position each staff man took, Cox assumed an opposite stance, provoking discussion. By Tuesday, Cox and his staff had reached a consensus: the issue was not really whether Stennis was the right man; the whole procedure was wrong. No court would accept summaries of tapes as evidence. Any judge would insist on the tapes...