Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate chaired by North Carolina's Sam Ervin, which resumed last week, seem to be moving rapidly toward pivotal sessions in which the former officials closest to the President will take their places in that highly revealing forum. The only potential hitch is the repeated effort by Archibald Cox, the special Watergate prosecutor, to prevent full televised airings of the testimony of key witnesses. So far rebuffed by unanimous opposition from the Ervin committee to any delay in its hearings, Cox has now retreated to a court plea that the testimony of John Dean and Jeb Stuart Magruder...
Last week Archibald Cox, the special Watergate prosecutor, outlined a muted version of just that nightmare as he asked Senator Sam Ervin's select Watergate committee to postpone its sessions for perhaps three months. "The continuation of hearings," said Cox, "would create grave danger that the full facts ... will never come to light, and that many of those who are guilty of serious wrongdoing will never be brought to justice." Backed unanimously by his committee, Sam Ervin rejected "the suggestion that the Senate investigation will impede the search for truth." As he had previously observed: "It is much more...
...Although Cox reluctantly accepted the Ervin committee's decision, he was still trying at week's end to persuade Federal Judge John Sirica to ban the public from the hearings, or at least to ban TV and radio coverage of potential defendants like former White House Counsel John Dean. Since reporters would presumably still be admitted, the absence of TV cameras or radio microphones would hardly insulate the public from the proceedings...
Untidy Mix. As head of a Senate committee, Ervin has a constitutional right to press ahead, but his statement of the conflict between "the truth" and "sending one or two people to jail" seemed to concede Cox's point that the hearings might impair future legal proceedings. A concurring opinion came from Massachusetts Judge Paul Reardon, who drafted the A.B.A.'s free press-fair trial guidelines: "The Sixth Amendment, which guarantees the accused the right to a speedy public trial by an impartial jury, is going down the drain in this affair...
...partly because the implicated men and their lawyers are struggling through a case of unprecedented nature, partly because prosecutors now may want to avoid any appearance of a coverup. Moreover, the First Amendment has made the U.S. press as uncontrollable as it is robust. "The hearings may not make Cox's job any easier," says Georgetown University Law Center Dean Adrian Fisher, "but it is a situation he can live with...