From the archives: Richard Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre

On October 20, 1973, President Richard Nixon requested Attorney General Elliot Richardson to dismiss Archibald Cox, the particular prosecutor tasked with investigating the June 1972 Watergate break-in. Richardson refused and a sequence of resignations and firings adopted. Dan Rather anchored a particular report on the matter.

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