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...massive denunciation was directed at the President's abrupt dismissal of Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox and the resultant departures on principle of two of the scandal-ridden Administration's untainted remaining officials, Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. It was aimed too at Nixon's original refusal to turn over tapes and documents of his Watergate-related communications as ordered by a U.S. court of appeals...
Bork says that he agreed to fire Cox, after Elliot Richardson and his former deputy William Ruckelshaus refused, because "I believe a President has the right to discharge any member of the Executive branch." At first he thought that he should tender his own resignation after carrying out the order, as proof that he was not merely clearing his own way to a better job. Richardson urged Bork to stay on "to keep the department running," but Bork has made it plain that he has no desire to make his arrangement permanent. The post no longer looks inviting "after...
...President casually said in that same explanation that Elliot Richardson had approved of his "compromise" on the tapes that triggered all the trouble. At best that is a half-truth. A compromise is not a compromise without two parties agreeing, as Cox did not. Neither, in the end, did Richardson...
...same day, Nixon announced that he would nominate Sen. William B. Saxbe (R-Ohio) to replace Elliot Richardson '41 as the Justice Department's head...
National news, especially the resignation of Elliot Richardson '41 and the firing of Archibald Cox '34, has overshadowed city politics over the last few months. But the lack of a single dramatic and divisive issue on the local level is perhaps the greatest factor in the current political malaise...