Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cox later served from 1961 to 1965 as solicitor general for both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, demonstrating a diligent loyalty and developing a number of professional and social contacts with career officials in the Justice Department...
...Harvard, Cox was probably best known for his role as "University troubleshooter" near the end of the Pusey Administration. In the spring of 1968, Cox chaired a blue-ribbon fact-finding commission that studied the Columbia University student disorders of that year. In the fall of 1969, just after the University Hall bust, the Corporation granted him a broad mandate to handle disorders at Harvard...
...early March 1971, Cox almost single-handedly brought a non-violent end to a nine-day occupation by militant women of a vacant building at 888 Memorial Drive. Two weeks later, Cox earned notoriety among Harvard radicals for his part in the controversy surrounding the pro-war "counter teach...
...Cox pleaded with students at the Sanders Theater meeting no to disrupt the speeches by representatives of the South Vietnamese and other governments. Cox later headed the inquest which led to CRR trials for a number of students who took part in the chanting and clapping that disrupted the teach...
Throughout his career, the trim, tall Cox, with his close-cropped gray hair and half-moon glasses, had steered an independent if unexceptional course. But, as The New York Times commented the week he was fired, "Before, few had thought of Archibald Cox as salty...