Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ervin and the Cox investigating committees should be ashamed if they are unable to arrive at the truth of the matter with all the time they have given themselves and with their ability to subpoena any and all employees...
...House was to deliver its legal brief to Judge John J. Sirica (see box), arguing that the President has the absolute power to decide when the national welfare is best served by the release of presidential documents. Therefore, went the argument, the President can ignore Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox's subpoena of tape recordings of seven presidential meetings and one telephone conversation about Watergate...
...Then Cox will have five days to file a reply. He was expected to argue that there is no general concept of Executive privilege implied in the Constitution. Moreover, even if such a privilege exists, he was prepared to argue, Nixon waived it by 1) allowing past and present aides to testify before the Ervin committee about their private conversations with him, and 2) by permitting H.R. Haldeman, a private citizen since his departure as White House chief of staff, to listen to tapes of presidential meetings. After receiving the Cox reply and giving the White House an opportunity...
Some time this week, the Senate Watergate committee also intends to deliver to the same court its suit demanding that Nixon turn over tapes and other documents relevant to Watergate. Unlike Cox, the committee faces the possibility that the courts may duck its dispute with the President. Indeed, one leading professor of constitutional law, Yale's Alexander M. Bickel, considered the proposition so dicey that he recommended that the committee seek legislation giving the courts jurisdiction in the case. Ervin rejected this course, however, because it would be time-consuming and, as one committee staffer put it, "tantamount...
...lesser jail term. Watergate has been unraveling in full view ever since. Fittingly, it has fallen to Judge Sirica to referee this week the first full round in the battle for the White House tapes, now under subpoena by both the Senate Watergate committee and Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. It may be among Sirica's last major decisions as a district-court judge; on his 70th birthday next March, he must decide between retirement and stepping down to senior-judge status...