When he refused to curtail his Watergate investigation after the White House ordered him to do so, Archibald Cox opened the way for President Nixon's impeachment. His principled stand against "exaggerated claims of executive privilege" cost him his job. At his firing, known as the "Saturday Night Massacre," Cox said: "Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people." Cox died the same day as Sam Dash, the former chief counsel of the Senate Select Committee on Watergate, who investigated Nixon's secret taping system. Who stands today against abuses of "executive privilege"?
-- Beverly Hanly
Passage: Archibald Cox, 92
Passage: Archibald Cox, 92
