Who rejected President Nixon's Stennis Compromise?
Archibald Cox
Gerald Ford
Robert Kennedy
James Eastland
Answer
Archibald Cox rejected President Nixon's Stennis Compromise because he believed that it would not allow him to do his job effectively as the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal. The compromise would have allowed the president to appoint a new special prosecutor who would have been subject to the president's control.
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