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Archibald Cox ’34, Loeb University professor emeritus at Harvard Law School (HLS) and the special prosecutor whose vigorous 1973 investigation of the Watergate scandal led to the eventual resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, died on May 29 at his home in Brooksville, Maine...
...special prosecutor, Cox pressured President Nixon to turn over newly discovered audiotapes of secretly recorded presidential conversations in the Oval Office. When Nixon refused, Cox persisted, subpoenaing the tapes...
...1970s, Stein worked as a speechwriter and lawyer for the presidential administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. (He is described as “crying uncontrollably” on Nixon’s last day in office in Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s book The Final Days.) After leaving the White House, he shifted his focus to writing; Stein has published novels, penned screenplays and worked extensively in opinion journalism. As a conservative political pundit, Stein has written for many major publications, including as an editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal...
...fill-in. But the once wooden former Veep is reinventing himself as a finger-jabbing political firebrand. In a speech at New York University, he lashed out at the war in Iraq, demanded the resignation of six key Administration officials and called Bush "the most dishonest President since Richard Nixon." With growls for emphasis...
DIED. SAM DASH, 79, former chief Watergate counsel, whose probe into the Oval Office's secret taping system helped set the stage for President Nixon's resignation; in Washington. The lifelong Democrat later drafted the independent-counsel law and in the '90s advised counsel Kenneth Starr on the Whitewater investigation of President Clinton...