Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School Professor who spent the summer assisting Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox '31, charges that the Justice Department's investigation of the break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters was "inadequately staffed" and that "there weren't enough first class people working...
...made his claim earlier this month during an interview in his Law School Office in response to charges by Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen that Cox's appointment was not needed...
Vorenberg was sworn in on May 30, two weeks after his colleague Cox, Williston Professor of Law, was selected by Elliot L. Richardson '41, now Attorney General. Vorenberg described himself as the "number two man" in Cox's investigation. He said he worked closely with Cox in planning the investigation, and that he was responsible for hiring virtually all of the Special Prosecutor's staff...
While both sides appealed Sirica's decision on Cox's suit-and Sirica selected two lawyers to defend his own ruling before the appeals court-the judge also had to deal with Sam Dash's plea for the tapes. In this case, he appeared to be more favorably disposed toward the White House. He granted the large staff of White House lawyers (ten are now working full time on the Watergate defense) until Sept. 24 to respond to the Ervin committee's demand for the tapes. He set no date for oral arguments after that...
...Nixon then repeated, in response to another question, that "there is nothing whatever in the tapes that is inconsistent" with his repeated denials of personal complicity in the Watergate crimes. Yet his answer was puzzling because he said that he had listened to only two of the controversial tapes (Cox is seeking nine tapes), which would seem to be an inadequate base for his generalization that none of the tapes contradict his position...