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Despite his close personal ties to many of the career officers in the Justice Department, formed during his four years as U.S. Solicitor General under Presidents John F. Kennedy '40 and Lyndon B. Johnson, Cox apparently feels that reliance on present government employees may prejudice his handling of the case...
With the Senate confirmation last week of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and the implicit approval of his chosen special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, the stage is set for an all-out pursuit of the guilty: Democrat Cox, an aggressive Solicitor General in the Kennedy Administration, declared in Richardson's presence that he did not intend to "shield anybody, and I don't intend to be intimidated by anybody...
...working against the grain of his time-the public desire for less secrecy, more accountability. Moreover the courts were unwilling to go along with many of the Nixon schemes, particularly John Mitchell's interpretation of wiretapping. The Administration had so weak a case on wiretapping that its own Solicitor General-at the time, former Harvard Law School Dean Erwin Griswold-refused to argue it. He went so far as to tell Mitchell that his staff would not carry the appeal. It was one of the few times in history that the Solicitor General refused to argue a case before...
...service with the World War II National Defense Mediation Board, Cox left Government to join the Harvard faculty in 1945. He is a specialist in labor legislation and was a member of John F. Kennedy's brain trust in the campaign against Richard Nixon. Kennedy appointed him Solicitor General in 1961; he resigned in 1965 to return to Harvard. Among his law-school pupils in the '40s: Elliot Richardson and Ervin Committee Counsel Samuel Dash...
...however, that "we tend to view the President with awe; when the Framers were setting things up, they viewed him with apprehension." Still, he says, "impeachment of the President should be a last resort." Indeed some early advice on the subject endures. "The power of impeachment," said the English Solicitor General in 1691, "ought to be, like Goliath's sword, kept in the temple, and not used but on great occasions...