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Episode 122: RICHARD NIXON and WATERGATE 1973 Enemies at the Gate (Part 22) OCTOBER 1973 (Part E) All at Once, The Saturday Night Massacre
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SHOWDOWN!!
There was no question that after a junior officer of the Federal Government faced down the President of the United States on National Television that that junior officer was not going to have his job long and Archibald Cox didn't. Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire him. Richardson refused, as did his next in line William Ruckelshaus before finally the true hero of the night stepped up and did the deed. Robert Bork, the Solicitor General, fired Cox and then held the Justice Department together for two and a half months all while being…
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