HoustonChronicle.com - Fired Watergate prosecutor Cox dies at 92

"Archibald Cox's refusal to curtail his Watergate investigation after being ordered to do so by the White House cost him his job, and opened the way for President Nixon's impeachment.
Cox, whose principled stand against what he termed 'exaggerated claims of executive privilege' guaranteed him a place in the history of Watergate, died peacefully Saturday, said his daughter, Phyllis Cox. He was 92.
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Nixon ordered Cox fired in October 1973 for his continued efforts to obtain tape recordings made at the White House, important evidence in the investigation of the Watergate break-in and coverup.
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At his firing, Cox issued a one-sentence statement: "Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.""

I can't help thinking that the late Mr. Cox, upon seeing the shenanigans of the current administration, must have felt that our nation hadn't learned a single thing from the Watergate era. Exaggerated executive privilege is just the tip of the iceberg in the Bubba Bush administration.