Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scenario reads like an excerpt from the "Profiles of Courage" that John F. Kennedy '40 once collected, complete with the David-and-Goliath theme that sentimentalist historians adore. But Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, the special prosecutor who defied the most powerful man in the Western world, and hero to millions of Watergate-watchers, was an unlikely candidate for gallantry...
When then-Attorney General-designate Elliot L. Richardson '41 persuaded Cox to accept the special prosecutor position in May 1973. Cox was hardly a household name in America, and even at Harvard the soft-spoken labor lawyer was often overshadowed by his more outspoken colleagues...
Born in New Jersey when Woodrow Wilson was still governor, the 62-year-old Kennedy Democrat had attended St. Paul's, the College, and the Law School during the height of the Depression. A labor negotiator with a hard-nosed reputation, Cox served in the Solicitor General's Office under Roosevelt in the '40s and on the Wage Stabilization Board under Truman...
...Cox resigned his post on the Wage Board in 1952--gaining his first public notice and boosting his reputation for independence--after Truman reversed his decision on a wage demand by the United Mine Workers...
...Cox was appointed special prosecutor for the Watergate case by President Nixon in May 1973. He was fired the following October...