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including his phone calls. Ten days later, the embattled president refused
to turn over the tapes to the committee or Special Prosecutor Archibald
Cox, who had been appointed by newly named Attorney General Elliot
Richardson. In 1952, when Gorton interned at Ropes & Gray, Boston’s
oldest and most prestigious law firm, Richardson was his boss.^13
“I had a lot of time that summer to think about my feelings about Wa-
tergate and Richard M. Nixon,” Gorton recalls.