Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Nixon, with all the swollen powers of the Executive Branch behind him, evidently saw no salt whatever in Archie Cox. When the president refused a Circuit Court order to hand over nine tapes to Judge John J. Sirica and ordered Cox "to make no further attempts by judicial process to obtain the tapes," he expected Cox would quietly resign as he had when Truman crossed...
...Cox must have known on October 19 when he received Nixon's order that his job was finished regardless of which course he chose. If he obeyed he would never obtain the evidence for a successful prosecution. If he defied the president's fiat, he would surely be fired...
...news conference the next morning when he announced his intention to continue in pursuit of the tapes, Cox spoke quietly but firmly. "For me to comply to those instructions would violate my solemn pledge to the Senate and the country to invoke judicial process to challenge exaggerated claims of executive privilege. I shall not violate my promise," he said...
...heat of a grave political crisis, a modest man became momentarily a heroic one. Now, eight months later, Cox has returned to his book-lined office in the International Legal Studies Building at the Law School, saying little about the scandal even in his now-frequent speeches and waiting modestly for the other shoe, the one his defiance set in motion, to drop on Richard Nixon...
...held the last weekend in June. Coach John Higginson will be using the same seating he has used all season. Ed Reynolds at stroke, Todd Howard (7), Leif Soderberg (6), Mac Heller (5), Bob Leahey (4), Peter Huntsman (3), John Kiger (2), and bowman Paul McKenna. Chris Ross will cox...