Word: prosecutor
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When the Senate committee promptly demanded the tapes, Nixon refused, claiming Executive privilege. The new Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, had appointed Harvard law professor Archibald Cox as a special prosecutor on the whole case, and Cox sent a subpoena for tapes he wanted to hear. Nixon refused him too. Judge Sirica upheld Cox's demand, so Nixon resisted him in the U.S. Court of Appeals, which backed Sirica...
...Special prosecutor Cox had by now been replaced by a conservative Texas attorney, Leon Jaworski, who appeared no less determined to get the tapes. ! Still resisting inch by inch, Nixon released 1,254 pages of edited transcripts. They were a revelation of the inner workings of the Nixon White House, a sealed-off fortress where a character designated as P in the transcripts talked endlessly and obscenely about all his enemies. "I want the most comprehensive notes on all those who tried to do us in," P said to Haldeman at one point, for example. "We have not used...
...October 20, 1973, Richard Nixon ordered the dismissal of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox '34, who had been conducting the Watergate investigation. Taking control of the Justice Department after Attorney General Elliot Richardson '41 resigned in protest, he ordered all offices of the investigation sealed...
Nixon's contempt for the principles that our government is founded upon were never more clear than on an October night in 1973 when he ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, in what became known as the "Saturday Night Massacre...
According to The New York Times, a Washington weekly for homosexuals was repeatedly seized from public libraries by people who claimed that the newspaper was "antifamily." The weekly's staff even furnished the state prosecutor with photographic evidence of "a man loading the papers into a car," but the state refused to prosecute...