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Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Saturday Night Massacre: Key figures in Nixon's 1973 Justice Department purge

Source: www.latimes.com - Monday, January 30, 2017
In 1973, President Nixon ordered the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox because he wouldn't obey Nixon's order to stop looking into Watergate. Two of the Justice Department's top leaders resigned in protest rather than following Nixon's directive to fire Cox. It became known as the "Saturday...

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