Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is Agnew looming large and the Watergate hearings resuming this week. There is the sense that maybe Nixon has not reached the end of his slide after all, that he is being swept along once again by events that cannot be foreseen or managed. There is Archie Cox and the vast court apparatus poised to spring. Who can calculate what Hunt or Liddy or Mitchell or Martha or Dean or Ehrlichman or Haldeman...
...most immediate source of difficulty for Nixon is the courts. Two weeks ago, the appeals court recommended that the White House and Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox seek a settlement in their fight over nine tape recordings of presidential conversations about Watergate. Despite three meetings totaling eight hours last week, the lawyers could not reach an agreement. TIME has learned that Nixon was willing to give Cox fairly detailed transcripts of the tapes, apparently because the President expects that a court decision might go against him, but continued to refuse to let the special prosecutor listen to the tapes themselves...
...first Presidential Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt offered Cox only written summaries of the tapes. They would contain brief snatches of direct quotes, but for the most part be limited to compilations by White House staffers of the substance of the conversations. Cox refused and, in turn, offered to excise profanity and other irrelevant material from any tape he listened to and decided should be sent to the grand jury...
...other hand," he adds, "it's just this old play with a few technical problems but basically straightforward enough and with some good chuckles along the way.") At the New Theater the play is getting an admirable production, with a cast that may well be uniformly good: Richard Cox (as Bob, the early freak who serves as the play's hero), Carol Williard (Kathy, his girlfriend, who moves out at the end of the second act and comes back for a final conversation after everyone else moves out), and Kenneth McMillan (the fat landlord, who informs the students that their...
...Cox at once said that he would be delighted to talk the court's proposal over with the President and his men to see if it could be made to work. At week's end, the President and his lawyers were still considering the proposition...