ARCHIBALD COX - PHOTOGRAPH MOUNT SIGNED - HFSID 285246

ARCHIBALD COX

7x9 color photo by famed portrait photographer Fabian Bachrach, inscribed by Cox on the 10x13 mount, accompanied by a Cox TLS (1961), returning the photo to a collector. Enclosed in a Bachrach presentation folder.

Photograph Mount inscribed and signed: "To Barry Hoffman/with best wishes/Archibald Cox". Color, 7¼x9¼ image, 10x13¼ overall (2 surfaces). Fine condition.The photo was taken by famed portrait photographer Fabian Bachrach (1917-2010), and is enclosed in a Bachrach presentation folder (11x13¾). Lightly toned. Right edged frayed. Otherwise, fine condition. Accompanied by Typed Letter signed: "Archibald Cox", 1 page, 5½x8½. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981 May 19. On Harvard Law School letterhead to Consul General Barry D. Hoffman, Consulate of Pakistan, Boston, Massachusetts. In full: "I am happy to autograph and return to you the Bachrach portrait. Your interest is a distinct compliment. With best wishes. Sincerely".  Paperclip impression at upper edge. Notch at upper right. Otherwise, fine condition. Archibald Cox (1912-2004), a former US Solicitor General (1961-1965),was appointed and later fired as Watergate Special Prosecutor by President Nixon. Attorney General Elliott Richardson resigned, and his deputy, William Ruckelshaus, was fired. Neither would dismiss Cox, who was finally fired by Solicitor General Robert Bork. Cox had asked Nixon to surrender the Watergate tapes. Ironically, his great-grandfather, William E. Evarts, served as President Johnson's Chief Counsel in his impeachment trial proceedings in 1868. Cox, a longtime professor at Harvard Law School, was the author of several books. Three items.