Word: coxes
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Grounds for Silence. The indictments were greeted with some dismay by Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in Washington. There are so many separate investigations of Watergate and related affairs that they are bound to conflict. Cox had reportedly asked the grand jury to put off the indictments for a week so that Ehrlichman could be brought to Washington to testify further on Watergate, the ITT scandal, and probably on the Ellsberg break-in and other plumbers' activities. Now that he has been indicted, Ehrlichman has grounds for keeping silent, at least in regard to the Ellsberg burglary case. His attorneys...
Sirica's decision was widely applauded as a sensible compromise between the arguments of Wright and Cox. The Wall Street Journal, for example, called it a "reasonable and tenable position." The Atlanta Constitution said: "It was Judge Sirica as much as any single man who pressed for the truth." In the White House, of course, the reaction was somewhat different. The first official statement said flatly: "The President will not comply with the order." It added that Nixon's lawyers were "considering the possibility of obtaining appellate review or how otherwise to sustain the President's position...
...search for truth," has also been demanding the presidential tapes. His committee has filed a separate complaint in Sirica's court, and last week the White House lawyers fought back with a barrage of arguments far more pugnacious than the ones they had filed in opposition to Cox...
...court is expected to set a date soon for written briefs to be submitted by White House Lawyer Charles Alan Wright and Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox and for oral arguments to be heard. It will probably hand down a decision before the end of September, just in time for a final appeal by the losing party to the Supreme Court when it reconvenes after its summer recess...
Each of the hundreds of reels of tape is labeled by date. The ones that Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and the Ervin committee are so vigorously seeking are not kept apart from the rest. Most of the tapes have never been replayed, so far as anyone knows, although former White House Aide Alexander Butterfield told the Ervin committee that he occasionally borrowed some of the tapes and sampled them to make sure the system was operating properly. In addition, both the President and former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman have said that they have listened to some...