Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They could also help restore public confidence and formulate, "implicitly if not explicitly, some minimum acceptable standards of official behavior," Cox said...
Among the qualities a scholar could bring back to the classroom from public life, Cox included political sophistication and 'much simpler observations upon public life," which he claimed are needed to distill the "hard substance" of politics...
...speech, Cox made several references to "the drama of Watergate." He said that scholars could help with the long-range questions of the "instruments" for impeachment and "for dealing with wrong-doing by a president's close associates...
...Cox said that "the link between learning and policy, between academe and the realm of government, seems indissoluble," but he warned academics working in, government against neglecting their professorial duties. He cited "the intellectual effort ommitted in pursuit of political action...
...important to find a way to reconcile the conflicts between an academic's participation in the public sector and his commitment to the "open-minded pursuit of truth," Cox said...