... private reviewal. After that Nixon offers a compromise to the Committee in which he proposes that John Stennis, Democratic Senator from Mississippi be permitted to listen to the tapes and prepare summaries for Cox. Cox rejects the Stennis Compromise. On October 20, after Cox's rejection Nixon orders Elliot Richardson his Attorney-General to fire Archibald Cox. Richardson refuses and resigns in protest ... ...

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