Letters From The Wasteland

Letters From The Wasteland

Nixon Is No Longer Alone

Donald Trump’s firing of an FBI Director actively investigating him and his aides makes the Saturday Night Massacre look tame

Thad Zajac
May 10, 2017
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Donald Trump’s firing of an FBI Director actively investigating him and his aides makes the Saturday Night Massacre look tame

In October 1973, Richard Nixon ordered the firing of the special prosecutor in the Watergate case, Archibald Cox. His Attorney General, Eliot Richardson, resigned, as did his deputy, William Ruckelshaus, instead of carrying out th…

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