Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several Congressional leaders reacted last night ot President Nixon's abolition of the special prosecutor's office and the firing of Archibald Cox '34 with calls for Nixon's impeachment...
Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) called Nixon's firing of Cox "a reckless act of desperation by a president who is afraid of the Supreme Court, who has no respect for the law and no respect for men of conscience...
Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox '34 saw the latest and most critical mission of his turbulent legal and academic career aborted yesterday after a scant five months in operation...
...Cox, who has held major posts in three Democratic administrations and earned a reputation as "University troubleshooter" during campus disorders several years ago, last night became a casualty of the latest round of firings and resignations in the Nixon administration when he refused to heed a presidential order to cease his efforts to obtain the Watergate tapes...
...only authority he has retained is to give me hell if I don't do the job, and I think he ought to keep that authority," Cox said at the time...