Word: coxes
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Nixon abandoned the principle of executive privilege but has profited by shedding himself of the "quasi-constitutional" mechanism of the special prosecutor. However balanced investigation by Archibald Cox '34 may have been, the idea of a Kennedy Democrat who filled his top four investigative posts with fellow Kennedy Democrats could not have been pleasing to the administration. Nixon decided over the weekend that a bi-partisan House inquiry and a friendlier judicial arrangement would be preferable to Archibald Cox and his staff of 80 crack lawyers examining all the president's activities and papers. If Congress tries to appoint...
...private tape recordings to Judges Sirica out of fear, according to newspaper and television reports. The story, by way of "candid White House officials," is that Nixon and his aides completely underestimated the virulence of the public reaction to Richardson's resignation and the dismissals of Ruckelshaus and Cox. Talk of impeachment led him to the conclusion that he had better "obey...
Nixon was out to get Cox--that is plain. By surrendering the tapes he has, in fact, made it all the more obvious. The tapes were a pretext to fire Cox. If there had been a real issue involved with them Nixon would have sensibly carried his arguments to the Supreme Court. But with the diligent special prosecutor out of the way, the tapes no longer serve any purpose. And by now releasing them to the judge, Nixon may be trying to create the impression that he has made a major concession...
Nixon wanted to get rid of Cox for reasons that are not too hard to imagine. And the only sacrifice he had to make for this little ploy was the loss of Elliot Richardson's decency at the Justice Department. Decency, however, is a commodity of little worth in the Nixon administration...
...majority of Harvard Law School professors yesterday signed a statement urging Congress to "establish at once" an independent prosecuting office to continue the work of former Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox...