Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been told in his courtroom. It was Sirica who broke open the case last spring by threatening maximum sentences but offering to review the penalties if the defendants talked-as James McCord eventually did. Now, after studying the lengthy briefs and arguments presented by Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and White House Attorney Charles Alan Wright, Sirica knew that the eye of history...
...decision spoke for itself (see excerpts page 17). He ruled, in principle, in favor of most of Cox's arguments -the most important being that no man, not even a President, is immune from a grand jury's demand for evidence. But it was not a clear-cut victory for Cox-not yet-because Sirica confessed that he could not rule on the President's claim of Executive confidentiality unless he heard the tapes himself. He therefore asked that the tapes be turned over to him so that he could hear them in his chambers. Sirica promised...
There ensued, before a packed courtroom, 2½ hours of calm and gentlemanly debate over one of the most fundamental constitutional controversies in U.S. history. Cox, though nominally an employee of Nixon's Administration, had subpoenaed nine of the President's secret tape recordings, all containing presidential conversations concerning the Watergate break-in and coverup. Wright was there to defend the President's refusal to surrender them. Both sides had thoroughly covered the legal ground in written briefs -totaling 50 pages by Wright, 68 by Cox-delivered to the court during the two weeks before the hearing...
...Cox concedes that a President can keep confidential military and diplomatic secrets and policy deliberations, but he insists that a President has "no absolute and arbitrary power" to conceal "evidence of criminality." Moreover, because "there is strong reason to believe the integrity of the Executive office has been corrupted," the President cannot be an impartial judge of whether the public interest requires him to keep the tapes secret. That determination, the prosecutor argues, can be made only by the courts. He adds: "The evidence on the tapes also may be material to public accusations against the respondent [Nixon] himself...
...Watergate grand jury is scheduled to expire, and by then it will have decided whether to indict former Nixon Associates John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, John Mitchell, Dean and others. Just who will be indicted may depend on whether the grand jury and Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox get the tapes, which may resolve conflicting testimony from witnesses. If no one important is indicted on Watergate, it would, of course, greatly help Nixon...