Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson, who under heavy Senate pressure had appointed Cox and given him a free hand to investigate all Watergate-related crimes, to fire Cox. Richardson refused and resigned on principle...
...Nixon ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to dismiss Cox. Ruckelshaus also in conscience declined. So Nixon fired...
...Nixon then appointed Solicitor General Robert Bork acting Attorney General and directed him to fire Cox and abolish Cox's entire operation, including his staff of more than 60 attorneys, who have been investigating the pervasive scandal for five months. Bork obeyed, and within hours the nation witnessed the spectacle of FBI agents sealing off the offices and papers of the two top Justice Department men as well as those of Cox and his aides...
...gives us no reason to believe that justice will be done." The Nixon argument that the real issues were the preservation of the constitutional separation of powers and Executive privilege could have some remotely redeeming merit; but it was hardly enhanced by his dismissal of Cox...
Democrats, too, talked ominously of impeachment. Senator Edmund Muskie urged the House to begin the painful proceedings. Senator Edward Kennedy decried the firing of Cox as "a reckless act of desperation by a President who is afraid of the Supreme Court, who has no respect for law and no regard for men of conscience. The burden is now on Congress to nullify this historic insult to the rule of law and to the nation's system of justice." Argued West Virginia Congressman Ken Hechler: "Impeachment proceedings must be initiated at the earliest possible moment." California Congressman Don Edwards urged...