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Meanwhile, the Administration has continued its attempts to keep a rein, however light, over the course of the criminal investigation into the Watergate matter. Archibald Cox '34 apparently is satisfied with his control over the investigation. But Elliot Richardson '41, the Attorney General-designate and Cox's nominal superior, is behaving like the president's man. If there is one thing totally unnecessary to the evolving crisis, it is further interference by the president...
Betrayed. In the Senate, which will open its televised Watergate hearings this week, the Judiciary Committee subjected Attorney General-designate Elliot Richardson to sharp questioning about his appointment of a special prosecutor for Watergate. The issue: Would Richardson or the prosecutor be ultimately responsible? The Senators may very well hold up Richardson's appointment until they are satisfied that the special prosecutor will be truly independent. In an attempt to reassure the Senate, Richardson declared: "I am among those Republican officeholders who feel betrayed by the shoddy display of morals by people whose activities have recently come to light...
...Richard Nixon pledged that his nominee as Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, and the special prosecutor Richardson has promised to appoint, will make sure that the guilty are punished. "They will get to the bottom of this thing," Nixon vowed. Yet in another sense, prosecutors and the courts got to the bottom of Watergate last January when seven insignificant men were convicted. A more momentous and agonizing question remains: Will anyone...
...Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, to continue this morning at 10:30 a.m., will feature testimony from Archibald Cox '34, the special Watergate prosecutor, in conjunction with the nomination of Elliot L. Richardson '41 to the attorney-generalship...
Attorney General-designate Elliot L. Richardson '41 announced Cox's appointment at 3:14 p.m. today in Washington...