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This Day in Legal History: The Saturday Night Massacre
On the night of October 20, 1973, President Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor investigating Watergate. Cox had refused to accept a compromise that would have given him summaries of the White House tapes instead of the tapes themselves. Richardson had promised the Senate during his confirmation that Cox would be independent, and he resigned rather than fire him. Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to do it. Ruckelshaus also refused and resigned…
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