Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main problems in the early Cox investigation, Vorenberg said, was making a smooth transition from the Justice Department's investigation under Petersen. Vorenberg said that though the Justice Department prosecutors showed no hostility to the Cox staff, "there was obvious disappointment" on their part when the investigation was taken out of their hands...
During the Senate Watergate hearings Petersen claimed that the appointment a special prosecutor was unnecessary and that the investigation was already 90 per cent complete when Cox was named...
Three assistant U.S. attornies worked on the Watergate case prior to Cox's appointment. Under these circumstances, Vorenberg said, the Watergate investigation could not be properly carried out. He said that the "scope and problems of the investigation weren't understood" by the Justice Department prosecutors. He denied that the investigation was 90 per cent complete when Cox was appointed...
Vorenberg said that he continued to respect Petersen and that Petersen and the regular staff fully cooperated with Cox during the transition between the two investigations...
Although Vorenberg never formally resigned from Cox's staff, he said that from the investigation's beginning he planned to return to Harvard at the summer's end. He was hired, along with Phillip B. Heymann, professor of Law, to help Cox only during the initial stages...