Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN WATERGATE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR Archibald Cox was fired 10 years ago last week, he didn't know that the last head to roll so unceremoniously at the whim of a U.S. President was Salvador Allende's only months before. While Cox's booting was a boon to his career. Allende, the Chilean leader murdered in a CIA-backed military coup, was not so lucky. That abuse of presidential power, like Cox's firing, was discovered only in its wake. Sometimes that's too late...
...memory fades, and attention shifts in a busy republic. On October 20, 1973, President Richard Nixon ordered that Loeb University Professor Cox be fired from his post as Special Prosecutor for his persistence in seeking the Watergate tapes. In what was dubbed the "Saturday Night Massacre." Nixon went through two Attorney Generals before finding one who would carry out that order...
...years after the Saturday Night Massacre, Cox is still the familiar, almost folksy figure who wouldn't compromise with the devil. He sits somewhere among the folds of an enveloping tweed jacket, with a bright red bow tie, and a crewcut that went out of fashion with a bright red bow tie, and a crewcut that went out of fashion with the two-term President, in a dusty, book-lined office in a corner of Langdell Library. If Harvard academics could design a hero of their-own, who met the real world and won, surely he would look like Archibald...
...crew did not hear the commands and failed to negotiate the turn recalls Clark Coach Carla Odiaga, adding that the inexperienced cox, working without a speaker system in the boat, was trying to pass another shell as she negotiated the turn...
Other distractions along the way include the crowds that line the river banks. Atypically for a cox, Dougherty says. "I work better when people are yelling," and says that the oarsmen "know when they're coming up to a bridge because they can hear the people above them. Most other oarsmen and coxes agree, however that they more or less tune out the cheering and concentrate on the task at hand...