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Title: History Of The Day - The Saturday Night Massacre (1973)
Post by: TFD on Oct 20, 2012, 05:30 AM
While investigating the Watergate scandal, special prosecutor Archibald Cox subpoenaed audiotapes of conversations implicating US President Richard Nixon in a cover-up of a burglary of the Democratic headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC. Nixon refused to produce the tapes and ordered the US attorney general and his deputy to fire Cox. On the same Saturday, both men resigned in protest, and public outcry eventually forced Nixon to surrender the tapes. What happened to Cox? Discuss (http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst30133_Black-Monday--Dow-Jones-Industrial-Average-Falls-508-Points--1987-.aspx)



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