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When the Senate committee promptly demanded the tapes, Nixon refused, claiming Executive privilege. The new Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, had appointed Harvard law professor Archibald Cox as a special prosecutor on the whole case, and Cox sent a subpoena for tapes he wanted to hear. Nixon refused him too. Judge Sirica upheld Cox's demand, so Nixon resisted him in the U.S. Court of Appeals, which backed Sirica...
...October 20, 1973, Richard Nixon ordered the dismissal of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox '34, who had been conducting the Watergate investigation. Taking control of the Justice Department after Attorney General Elliot Richardson '41 resigned in protest, he ordered all offices of the investigation sealed...
Well, with the way things are going with the Atlanta Braves, manager Bobby Cox will have his third by then...
Nixon's contempt for the principles that our government is founded upon were never more clear than on an October night in 1973 when he ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, in what became known as the "Saturday Night Massacre...
...think they did surprise me," says Cox, whowrote a book on Columbia's 1968 protests. "I don'tthink I foresaw anything like the occupation ofUniversity Hall that started all this...