Sen. Edmund Muskie, D-Maine, left, and Sen. Charles Mathias, R-Md., discuss the ramifications of President Nixon???s firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox during their joint appearance on ABC???s ??sIssues and Answers??? program from Washington, Sunday, Oct. 22, 1973. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett)

Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox gestures as he tells a Washington news conference on Saturday, Oct. 20, 1973 about his objections to a proposed Watergate tapes compromise and said he plans to ask the federal courts to act on President Richard Nixon's

Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox has been fired by President Richard Nixon after he objected to a proposed Watergate tapes compromise. Cox in a Washington news conference on Saturday, Oct. 20, 1973, announced his stand Saturday and was fired later by Nixon. (AP Photo)

Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox reads his statement on President Nixon's decision in the Watergate tapes case, in his Washington office, Oct. 19, 1973. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett)

Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox is surrounded by newsmen outside D.C. District Court in Washington on Friday, Oct. 19, 1973, after ousted White House counsel John W. Dean III pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct the Watergate investigation. Cox said he further charges would be brought with the exception of perjury if Dean's testimony proves false. (AP Photo)

Acting Attorney General Robert Bork reads a statement saying he will pursue the Watergate investigation vigorously during a news briefing Monday October 2, 1973 at the Justice Department in Washington. Bork also said assistant Attorney. General Henry Peterson would be in charge of the investigation. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges)

Pat Buchanan, speechwriter to President Richard Nixon, testifies before the Senate Watergate Committee in the Senate Caucus Room, in Washington, September 26, 1973. Buchanan denied any part in the Watergate scandal. (AP Photo)

Convicted Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt clears his throat and takes a drink of water during his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee Tuesday on Capital Hill, September 25, 1973. Hunt told the committee that he suspects one of his own Watergate bugging crew was a double agent who betrayed the white papers to police. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin)

Convicted Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt clears his throat and takes a drink of water during his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee Tuesday on Capitol Hill, Sept. 25, 1973. Hunt told the Committee that he suspects one of his own Watergate bugging crew was a double agent who betrayed the wiretappers to police. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin)

John Hunt, left puts his hand out to lead his father, E. Howard Hunt, from the Senate Watergate Committee hearing room after Howard testified,September 24, 1973. Between them is Hunt's daughter, Lisa. Hunt, a convicted Watergate conspirator and former CIA agent, is the first witness to appear before the committee which resumed hearings Monday in Washington. (AP Photo)

E. Howard Hunt speaks to a question from the counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee as the hearings resume Monday in Washington, D.C., Sept. 24, 1973. Hunt, a former agent with the Central Intelligence Agency, is a convicted Watergate conspirator. (AP Photo)

Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox walks past the White House after meeting with presidential lawyers in an effort to reach a compromise in the court battle over access to presidential tapes, Sept. 20, 1973. The Washington Monument is in the background. (AP Photo/John Duricka)

Charles Wright, Pres. Nixon's lawyer, leaves the U.S. District Court in Washington accompanied by his wife Custis, Sept. 12, 1973. Wright argued for the president saying that it would cause grave damage to the presidency to yield confidential tape recordings to the Watergate grand jury. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett)

Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox and one of his assistants, Jill Volner, arrive at U.S. District Court in Washington, Thursday September 11, 1973 to argue before a nine-judge appeals court that the President should turn over the White House tape recordings on Watergate. (AP Photo)

Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox leaves U.S. district court in Washington, Tuesday, September 11, 1973 accompanied by his wife, Phyllis. Cox argued before a nine judge appeals court for the release of White House tapes related to the Watergate affair. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett)

Former Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel, fired by President Richard Nixon two years ago after urging a more open administration, addresses a meeting of the National Press Club on Thursday, Sept. 6, 1973 in Washington. Hickel said that Nixon created the government climate which allowed the Watergate scandal to occur. (AP Photo/ Bob Daugherty)

Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox sits in his Washington office as he reads U.S. District Judge John Sirica's order that President Nixon produce tapes of the White House conversations on Watergate for private judicial inspection, Aug. 29, 1973. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)

Democratic National Champion Robert S. Strauss addresses a news conference in New York City on August 29, 1973. Strauss said he was delighted at Judge Sirica's decision ordering President Richard Nixon to release tapes to the judge. He called Watergate

George H.W. Bush , National Chairman of the Republican Party, takes to his speed boat for a ride at Kennebunkport, Maine on August 24, 1973 to outrun the pressures of Watergate and his party's political troubles. (AP Photo)

This photograph shows the first and last pages of the complaint filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., by the Senate Watergate Committee, Thursday, Aug. 9, 1973. The complaint names as defendant Richard M. Nixon, individually and as President of the United States. The signatures appear on the last page of the complaint. (AP Photo)