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Stennis Compromise Rejected

United States of America · Politics / Watergate. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1973

Archibald Cox18 October 1973

Washington · Politics / Watergate

Rejects the administration's third-party tape proposal because it would leave Nixon controlling which evidence reached the special prosecutor.

Names involved

Archibald Cox

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