Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Watergate prosecutor designate Archibald Cox '34 testified yesterday he is satisfied he has been granted all the power anyone could ask for as independent special prosecutor in the Watergate case and related matters...
...Cox, Williston Professor of Law here who served as U.S. solicitor general from 1961 to 1965, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee...
Meanwhile, the Administration has continued its attempts to keep a rein, however light, over the course of the criminal investigation into the Watergate matter. Archibald Cox '34 apparently is satisfied with his control over the investigation. But Elliot Richardson '41, the Attorney General-designate and Cox's nominal superior, is behaving like the president's man. If there is one thing totally unnecessary to the evolving crisis, it is further interference by the president...
...selection of Archibald Cox as the prosecutor of the Watergate Case is understandable. His task will be to investigate and prosecute violations of the law. He is well equipped for this job by his previous experience. But it must be understood that the crimes in the Watergate affair are not limited to the technical violations of the Federal law; they include the intolerable abuse of public trust in the office of the presidency...
...Cox, a registered Democrat who voted for Senator George S. McGovern (D.-S.D.) in the 1972 presidential election, said that he is satisfied with guidelines Richardson releasted that define the prosecutor's function...