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Archibald Cox

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Nixon vs Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox

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Archibald Cox, Jr. Introduces Marco Provera

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SYND 18-10-73 ARCHIBALD COX PRESS CONFERENCE

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SYND 24-7-73 COX PLANS TO SUPPOENA NIXON TAPES

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SYND 19 5 73 COX SPEAKS ON APPOINTMENT AS WATERGATE PROSECUTOR

Archibald "Archie" Cox Jr. was an American lawyer and law professor who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy and later as a special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal. During his career, he was a pioneering expert on labor law and also an authority on constitutional law. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Cox as one of the most cited legal scholars of the 20th century.
  • Personal 

  • Family and ancestors 

  • Education 

  • College 

  • Law school 

  • Solicitor in the Labor Department 

  • Harvard faculty and labor arbitrator 

  • Kennedy's labor expert 

  • Solicitor General of the United States 

  • Civil rights and sit-in cases 

  • Reapportionment cases 

  • After Kennedy 

  • Terms of engagement 

  • Reaction 

  • Staffing up 

  • Joining issue 

  • White House tapes 

  • Negotiations, grand jury progress, and the court's decision 

  • White House ultimatum 

  • Saturday Night Massacre 

  • Teaching again 

  • Judicial reform 

  • Supreme Court advocate 

  • Judicial politics 

  • Common Cause 

  • Retirement 

  • Death 

  • Honorary degrees 

  • Honorary societies 

  • Other honors