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Under which president did Archibald Cox serve as U.S. Solicitor General?

  • Richard Nixon

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • John F. Kennedy

  • Lyndon B. Johnson

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Archibald Cox served as the U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy from 1961 to 1965. He is best known for his role in the Watergate scandal, in which he was appointed special prosecutor by President Richard Nixon to investigate the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.
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