Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Archibald Cox became special prosecutor, he was quoted as saying that he anticipated being in Washington for several years, until the whole thing was wrapped up. What are your expectations...
...finest moments is a good example of the effect the whole affair had on this place. During that dramatic confrontation between the forces of good and evil, the decisive difference between the two camps appeared to some to be a Harvard education. The three heroes of the hour, Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, Elliot L. Richardson '41 and William Ruckelshaus, a 1960 graduate of the Law School, were held to be typical of what Harvard-trained politicians were all about. Dean Rosovsky summed up the feelings of folks in Cambridge that night when he said, "We're very...
President Bok made a surprise appearance at Memorial Church early one morning soon after the Massacre to praise Cox and to make clear the relevance of the matter to Harvard. "In retrospect," he said, "it appears that he taught us more in government service that he could have hoped to achieve in those Harvard classrooms where we welcome him back with admiration...
...well to choose this occassion to make one of his infrequent stetement's one national issues because Cox's deeds in Washington deserve praise and admiration. But the accompanying sense that Cox was performing as a Harvard teacher may not be appropriate as some may like to think it. And Cox's remarkable display of courage during his last term in Washington may not be typical at all of the Harvard-trained politician...
...pride can not be restored so quickly after the moral disgrace of Vietnam. Elliot Richardson can not approve of the Christmas bombings of Hanoi as a government official one day and then turn around and serve as an ideal of moral politics the next because he stuck with Archibald Cox. Things do not work that easily. Despite Watergate and Archibald Cox, Harvard needs to do a lot more soul searching about its relationship to the seats of power...