Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, introduced Richardson to the near-capacity audience at Sanders Theater as a man "with a great sense of justice, integrity, and honor...
...audience applauded at length for the two men, who were together for the first time since before October 20, 1973, when Richardson resigned from office after President Nixon directed him to fire then Watergate special prosecutor Cox. Then acting Attorney General Robert Bork fired Cox the same...
...Cox said after the Forum meeting that he agreed with Richardson when he said that he thought that Watergate showed that things were going right in America. "The American public's outcry over Watergate is not understood by most foreigners; American indignation that these things are wrong shows that the nation is basically sound," he said...
Elliot L. Richardson '41. Richardson won praise from liberals throughout the United States for his resigning after Nixon fired special prosecutor Archibald Cox '34. In the excitement, they forgot his performance as secretary of defense--his approval of the Christmas terror-bombing which they rightly denounced at the time as unconstitutional, illegal and murderous. Some liberals have short memories; Vietnamese with friends and relatives who died that Christmas probably remember better...
...hardly gilt-edged circumstances, was apparently singled out for his prominence as a newsman and his importance to the Constitution's corporate owner. Thus when a demand of $700,000 for his ransom was made, it was clearly directed not to his family but to his employer, Cox Enterprises of Dayton. That sort of distinction vastly expands the number of Americans with cause to look over their shoulder should the kidnaping phenomenon burgeon...