Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned rather than carry out President Nixon's order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Bork, then solicitor general, ultimately handled the dismissal...
Richardson told senators Tuesday that he resigned because he promised the Senate and Cox that he would not fire the prosecutor. Bork, he said, had made no such commitment and did the right thing. He then saved the prosecution team by keeping it together, Richardson testified...
Bork testified two weeks ago that after Cox was gone, he immediately tried to find a strong new prosecutor to replace him and make sure the investigation would proceed...
...Henry Ruth and George Frampton, members of Cox's prosecution team, challenged those accounts in their testimony Tuesday...
They questioned whether Bork had the inclination or power to replace Cox with a strong successor who would pursue the truth. They said Leon Jaworski, Cox's successor, was named because the Nixon administration bowed to "a firestorm" of public opinion and congressional pressure...