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...appointed by Elliot L. Richardson ’41, a former student of Cox’s and Nixon??s attorney general, to lead the Justice Department’s investigation into charges that the Republican party had orchestrated a break-in at Democratic campaign headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington...
Five men, one of whom had ties to Nixon??s Committee to Re-elect the President and the Republican National Committee, were arrested on June 17, 1972 during a burglary attempt at the hotel...
According to Heymann, Richardson’s appointment of Cox “led the Democrats who hated Nixon and feared Nixon to be very much afraid that [the man] Richardson had appointed was too unprepared for the rough and tumble of Nixon??s Washington” and that he would not be capable of “satisfactorily investigating all of the issues that came...
Citing his promise to the Judiciary Committee that Cox would keep his job unless he was guilty of “extraordinary improprieties,” Richardson resigned. William D. Ruckelshaus, the deputy attorney general, also resigned rather than follow Nixon??s command...
Among Richard Nixon??s many regrets, surely his anemic 1960 debate performance against John F. Kennedy ’40, a Crimson editor, must appear on the list. Jimmy Carter would tell a similar story—some of the credit for his 1976 victory—and 1980 defeat—must go to the debates in those campaigns. Presidents and candidates have good reason to take the debates seriously. They are unique opportunities for a huge number of voters to see the candidates face to face, having a real discussion about the issues at stake...