Original sentence: Bakke before the Court, defending the Universtiy of California at Davis medical school's affirmative action system of admissions against constitutional challenge.When Sirica ordered Nixon to comply with the committee's and Cox's demands, the President offered Cox a compromise -- instead of producing the tapes, he would allow the elderly Senator John Stennis (Democrat -- Mississippi) to listen to the tapes, with the help of a transcript prepared for him by the White House, and Stennis would then prepare summaries of the tapes' contents
Edited sentence: Bakke before the Court, defending the University of California at Davis medical school's affirmative action system of admissions against constitutional challenge.When Sirica ordered Nixon to comply with the committee's and Cox's demands, the President offered Cox a compromise—instead of producing the tapes, he would allow the elderly Senator John Stennis (Democrat -- Mississippi) to listen to the tapes, with the help of a transcript prepared for him by the White House, and Stennis would then prepare summaries of the tapes' contents