How many important Supreme Court cases did Archibald Cox argue?
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Two of Archibald Cox's most notable Supreme Court cases were United States v. Nixon and New York Times v. United States. In the former case, Cox successfully argued that the president could not withhold tapes of his conversations with aides regarding the Watergate scandal. In the latter case, Cox argued that the government could not censor the publication of the Pentagon Papers, which contained classified information about the Vietnam War.
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