Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What was Haig's role in the Saturday Night Massacre? When Nixon wanted to fire Archibald Cox, the first Watergate special prosecutor, Haig joined in a scheme designed to force Cox either to agree to stop seeking more Nixon tapes or to resign. The plan involved having Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, 72, a respected but hard-of-hearing Senator, listen to certain key tapes and verify the accuracy of transcripts to be made by the White House and turned over to the Senate Watergate Committee instead of the tapes. Haig got Stennis and Watergate Committee Members Sam Ervin...
...Haig stall Jaworski? Cox's successor, Leon Jaworski, portrays Haig as a tough but ethical adversary in the ex-prosecutor's post-Watergate book, The Right and the Power, and now contends that Haig merely "had to do what Nixon told him to do and this is what he did." But former associates of Jaworski recall that his attitude was far different during the investigation. Insists one: "Jaworski used to rant and rave aplenty about Al Haig." When Jaworski threatened to protest publicly the White's House stalling over delivery of tapes, Haig pleaded for more time...
...daughter. She worked on concerts for John Cage, became associated with other artists such as La Monte Young and Charlotte Moorman, the topless cellist whose staging of and participation in art "events" came a little later to be called happenings. Ono married again, a conceptual artist named Tony Cox, and they had a daughter, Kyoko. Ono once brought the baby onstage during a concert as "an uncontrollable instrument." Eventually, Cox and Kyoko went to Japan, and Ono to England. Her artworks, or happenings, began to show a sense of humor that was both self-mocking and affirmative, and when John...
Archibald E. Cox '34, Loeb Professor of Government, had no comment on Haig's nomination. Haig was a close adviser to former President Richard M. Nixon when Cox was dismissed from his position as Watergate special prosecutor...
...hopelessly outnumbered in this belief, Fernandez could only sit and watch as Archibald Cox '34, Loeb University Professor and the University prosecutor for the committee, would show pictures and the professors would "decide whether or not the person was touching a dean...