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Cox, Archibald (1912–2004)

US professor of law and solicitor general. He is best known as director of the office of the Watergate special prosecution force in 1973; he was fired when he demanded that President Richard Nixon turn over possibly incriminating tapes.

He was born in Plainfield, New Jersey. He served as solicitor general of the USA under Presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from 1961–65. A widely published expert on labour law, he was professor at Harvard 1946–61, and 1965–84.



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The next year, when, as solicitor general, he fired the independent prosecutor Archibald Cox in order to protect Richard Nixon from the Watergate scandal, we students watched the reports on live television from the student lounge in despair - but not, for those of us who had sat in that con law seminar, in shock.
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Archibald Cox, who gained fame when terminated as a prosecutor in Watergate, argued in 1975 that independence had to be guaranteed in a new law (eventually enacted in 1978).
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