Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firing of the first Watergate Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox, for persisting in seeking evidence from the President...
Lacovara's use of the term "definitively" was a subtle reminder that the President had once pledged to obey a "definitive" decision of the Supreme Court in the original tapes fight waged by Jaworski's predecessor Archibald Cox. After Nixon had Cox fired for seeking this evidence, the political furor that followed forced the President to drop his planned appeal to the Supreme Court. Instead he yielded to an appeals court ruling that he surrender the first group of recordings. At that time Nixon's constitutional consultant, Charles Alan Wright, assured Judge Sirica, "This President does not defy...
...away in one of its back galleries that includes works by Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent. The Fogg doesn't really do all that much special with American art, especially non-contemporary works, all the more reason not to miss this treat. The museum's PR person, Janet Cox, says her art friends all think that the Fogg's Homers and Sargents are as good as the ones hanging in the MFA, and Janet wouldn't try to fool you. The exhibit has to come down soon because the watercolors don't do so well during the summer...
...freshman legislator ever elected majority leader of the Hoosier house. In 1970 he was named the first administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, two years later replaced L. Patrick Gray as acting FBI director. Since his departure as Deputy Attorney General last October after refusing to sack Archibald Cox, he has visited 40 states and scores of campuses as a much-sought-after lecturer...
Richard Ben-Veniste, 31. Known as a quick-thinking, aggressive prosecutor of corrupt officials, labor racketeers and organized crime figures while he was with the U.S. Attorney's office in New York City, Ben-Veniste was recruited by Archibald Cox for the Watergate task force. He became head of it when Leon Jaworski was named special prosecutor and, with the task force's six other lawyers, helped obtain subpoenaed tapes in a major victory over the White House legal staff. "He bores in on you like a God-damned termite," said one lawyer who has watched Ben-Veniste...