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DIED. ARCHIBALD COX, 92, special prosecutor whose insistence that Richard Nixon hand over tapes of Oval Office conversations for the Watergate investigation got him fired in the Saturday Night Massacre of 1973; in Brooksville, Maine. A Harvard professor who served as solicitor general under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Cox lasted five months as chief of the investigation, which eventually led to Nixon's resignation...
...tell them no? When I talked to the President, he was loaded." HENRY KISSINGER, former Secretary of State, in an Oct. 11, 1973, conversation with an aide asking if an inebriated President Nixon would take a call from the British Prime Minister, according to just-released phone transcripts...
...film Triumph of the Will, it's hard to think of a right-wing documentary. Nor was Moore alone in his obsession with the Republican elite. Among the festival screenings were the documentary Bush's Brain (about adviser Karl Rove) and a fact-based drama, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. But Fahrenheit 9/11 had all the hot press. And it more than lived up to its advance...
...prison or the death penalty. The most famous court-martial in recent memory was the 1971 trial of Lieut. William Calley, who was charged with murder for his involvement in the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Although a jury convicted Calley and sentenced him to life in prison, President Nixon reduced his sentence, and he served just 3 1/2 years under house arrest at Fort Benning...
...citizen has certain misgivings. "Politics aside," he wonders, "is Richard Nixon worth [a salary of] $100,000? I admit his chances look pretty good, but what about ours?" Waging a sort of personal third campaign, he has a captious eye on Hyannisport as well: "The choice is between the lesser of two evils, anyway," he says. "Some people claim Nixon is trying to sell the country, and Kennedy is trying to buy it." ... With one eye on world news and the other on Variety, [Sahl] is a volatile mixture of show business and politics, of exhibitionistic self-dedication...