Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon could hardly have anticipated that his bid to resolve the Watergate tapes controversy short of the Supreme Court would take such a dangerous turn. After being petitioned by Prosecutor Cox, Judge Sirica had ordered that the tapes of White House conversations and Watergate-related papers be given to him so that he could decide what portions should be relayed to the grand jury directed by Cox. Sirica's ruling had been sustained on Oct. 12 in a sharply worded 5-to-2 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...
Even Stennis, who had agreed to undertake what he described as merely "a mechanical job" of verifying Nixon's version of what is on the tapes, indicated some reservations. He insisted that he had never been told that Cox was so adamantly opposed to the scheme or that it would have any devastating effects on the criminal prosecution. Stennis had in fact agreed to audit the tapes only after Ervin and Baker had agreed to the plan. There were strong signs that Nixon had craftily attempted to use the three Senators in order to achieve his priority goal...
...subverted in handling Agnew's graft and contract kickbacks, Richardson had only the week before enhanced his already considerable reputation for rectitude and propriety. The Agnew stand undoubtedly was taken at Nixon's behest. Now, by resigning rather than bowing to Nixon's bludgeon tactics against Cox, Richardson may have dealt the President a mortal political blow...
...Cox's somewhat fey professorial manner conceals a backbone of steel. Summoning newsmen the morning after Nixon's statement on the tapes, he declared: "I'm certainly not out to get the President. I hate a fight." Contending that the legal argument must not degenerate into a clash of personalities, Cox insisted that Nixon's refusal to provide any of the tapes or documents was just another in a series of "repeated frustrations" in his attempts to get vital information from the White House...
...strongest Cox argument against Nixon's proposal was that no trial court would be satisfied with a summary of evidence when the complete tapes and documents existed. Failure by the prosecution to produce them would allow defense attorneys to seek dismissals on the ground that evidence was being withheld by the Government...