Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stakes negotiations over the tapes. Pointedly, Cox noted that because Richardson had been empowered to select and hire him, he figured that only Richardson could dismiss him. He indicated clearly that he had no intention of resigning. Cox returned to his office, sipped a beer, and replied to a lawyer's question about what the staff should do next: "We ought to rest." He relaxed by walking alone in woods near his McLean, Va., home...
ARCHIBALD COX. A registered Democrat, Cox, 61, has worked for five Administrations-as a lawyer in the Departments of Justice and Labor (1943), head of the Wage Stabilization Board (1952), Solicitor General (1961-65) and special Watergate prosecutor. His reputation as a brilliant, almost arrogantly self-confident legal scholar was acquired during his 22 years on the faculty of Harvard Law School, where he took his law degree in 1937. In 1968 he headed a panel that investigated the causes of student riots at Columbia University. A year later he advised school officials during similar disturbances at Harvard...
When he is not cruising around with President Richard Nixon in his boat, Bachelor Bebe Rebozo, 60, has been dallying with Jane Lucke, secretary of his Miami lawyer. A divorcee, Mrs. Lucke lives with her mother and two sons, who sometimes come along on her dates. Interviewed by Vera Glaser and Malvina Stephenson of the syndicated "Offbeat Washington" column, Lucke described her beau as "not a recluse" but sensitive to press jabs. Apparently Rebozo was displeased when another Nixon friend, Businessman Robert Abplanalp, when asked what he planned to do with his property next to the President...
...dedicated liberal, Ball was the original lawyer for Anthony Russo, Ellsberg's co-defendant in the Pentagon papers case. He has strongly supported such opponents of Ehrlichman's old boss as George McGovern and Eugene McCarthy. He also regards President Nixon's least favorite Chief Justice, Earl Warren, as "the greatest American of our age-perhaps of any age." So why Ball? "There's no mystery," says another Nixon foe, former California Governor Pat Brown. "Ehrlichman needed the best...
...Ball's law partner since 1966, Brown may be prejudiced. But other California attorneys and jurists agree. Says Superior Court Judge Emil Gumpert, who founded the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1950: "Ball is one of the few lawyers who can try any kind of litigation-criminal, civil, antitrust, patent, anything. He's the best trial lawyer I've ever seen...