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...college campuses had time to register an entire spectrum of response to the Watergate scandal, ranging from moral indignation and self-righteousness to sympathy and support for the President. Some called for the rescinding of honorary degrees and speaking invitations to Nixon Administration officials. For example, Attorney General Elliot Richardson decided to cancel a commencement address at Georgetown University when threatened with a massive boycott...
...center of the Watergate controversy is Harvard's former trouble-shooter, Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law and the Justice Department's special Watergate prosecutor. Cox was appointed in mid-May by attorney general Elliot L. Richardson '41, who studied under Cox at the Law School right after World...
With the Senate confirmation last week of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and the implicit approval of his chosen special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, the stage is set for an all-out pursuit of the guilty: Democrat Cox, an aggressive Solicitor General in the Kennedy Administration, declared in Richardson's presence that he did not intend to "shield anybody, and I don't intend to be intimidated by anybody...
This does not square with the testimony of Attorney General Elliot Richardson at his confirmation hearings. He said that the President knew about the burglary in late March. Moreover, other Justice Department sources
...elsewhere, that there is no legal justification for the continued bombing in Cambodia in the first place. The Administration initially insisted that even if Congress refused to vote more funds for bombing, the Government would get money from past appropriated funds. But under mounting congressional pressure, Defense Secretary Elliot Richardson, who is also Acting Attorney General, conceded that if both houses voted to withhold funds, then the Administration would respect the curb...