Archibald Cox
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"Archibald Cox, Jr." was an American lawyer and law professor who served as United States Solicitor General/U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy and later as a special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal. During his career, he was a pioneering expert on labor law and also an authority on constitutional law. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Cox as one of the most cited legal scholars of the 20th century.

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A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.