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Riding with histoRy 113 including his phone calls. Ten days later, the embattled president refused to turn over the tapes to the committee or Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, who had been appointed by newly named Attorney General Elliot Richardson. In 1952, when Gorton interned at Ropes & Gray, Boston’s oldest and most prestigious law firm, Richardson was his boss. 13 “I had a lot of time that summer to think about my feelings about Watergate and Richard M. Nixon,” Gorton recalls.
13 | Gorton Agonistes BecKy goRton wAs 12 yeARs oLd when it hit home that her father was an increasingly influential, controversial politician. A seventh grader rarely takes notice of the morning newspaper, but when she saw the headline splashed across the front page of the Seattle Post- Intelligencer on March 21, 1974, it was “burned in my brain.” 1 In Shadow of Impeachment Gorton to Nixon: ‘Quit’ America was awash in Watergate. Nixon had fired Archibald Cox and abolished the office of special prosecutor, which prompted Attorney General Richardson and his deputy, William D. Ruckelshaus, to resign in protest. Headline writers dubbed it “The Saturday Night Massacre.” A month later, in a televised Q&A session at the AP Managing Editors’ Convention, Nixon famously declared, “People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook!” 2 And on December 7, 1973, a date which will live in Watergate infamy, the White House said it couldn’t explain an 181⁄2-minute gap in one of the Oval Office tapes subpoenaed by the Senate committee. Alexander Haig, Nixon’s Chief of Staff, said one theory was that “some sinister force” erased the segment. 3 Gorton found it all profoundly troubling: Without legal authorization or any admonition to protect constitutional rights, Nixon had authorized formation of the “Plumbers” political espionage unit. Despite having “all of the power of the federal government at his command,” the president had ignored the mounting drumbeat of revelations about the 1972 breakin attempt at Democratic National Headquarters, never bothering to learn the truth. Further, Nixon withheld evidence from the Department of Justice and Congress, urged the IRS to harass his enemies, solicited illegal campaign contributions and countenanced, as Gorton put it, “the two-time selection as vice president of a man who turned out to be a common extortionist.” 4 114
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