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...year-old Law School professor served as solicitor general in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations until 1965. His first service in national government came as head of the Wage Stabilization Board under President Truman...
...Nixon then appointed Solicitor General Robert Bork acting Attorney General and directed him to fire Cox and abolish Cox's entire operation, including his staff of more than 60 attorneys, who have been investigating the pervasive scandal for five months. Bork obeyed, and within hours the nation witnessed the spectacle of FBI agents sealing off the offices and papers of the two top Justice Department men as well as those of Cox and his aides...
...Richardson: "That I could not do." The Attorney General turned to his deputy, Bill Ruckelshaus. "You'll have to do it, Bill." Solemnly Ruckelshaus answered: "I wouldn't do it, either." All eyes in the office turned to the third man in the department's hierarchy, Solicitor General Bork. Said Bork slowly: "I probably would." It turned out to be a prophetic admission...
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...
...expert in labor law, he has pursued a career, both in and out of academe, that has been distinguished by an inflexible dedication to principle. Once, as U.S. Solicitor General, he refused to argue before the Supreme Court a case involving the right of Government officials to search automobiles brought to police headquarters because he believed there was no justification for the Government's position (the Government lost the case). Accepting the post of special Watergate prosecutor just after ending a speech at Berkeley on the importance of faith in Government, he pledged to do all he could...