Word: nixon
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Richardson resigned his post as U.S. Attorney General in 1973 after President Richard M. Nixon ordered him to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox '34. After Richardson's deputy also refused Nixon's order and resigned, Nixon convinced Solicitor General Robert Bork to fire Cox, in a series of events later labelled the Saturday Night Massacre...
...School professor Archibald Cox'34 (below) is appointed special Watergateprosecutor by the Justice Department, and severaldays later, President Nixon admits to ignoringwarnings about a Watergate cover-up in the WhiteHouse...
Along with college pal Lee E. Sheehy '73, Rowe joined Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr.'s (D-N.C.) committee to investigate President Richard M. Nixon's "dirty tricks" and secret slush funds...
During the presidential race that year, students across the country mobilized in support of George McGovern, who was challenging incumbent President Richard M. Nixon...
Kristol, however, managed to assemble a group of 10 students to distribute leaflets for Jackson, whom he endorsed over Nixon because Nixon seemed too soft on the war and not sufficiently anticommunist. Despite Kristol's efforts, however, Jackson came in seventh in the Massachusetts primary...