A break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in Washington was carried out under the direction of White House employees. Disclosure of the White House involvement in the break-in and subsequent cover-up forced President Nixon to resign in 1974 to avoid impeachment.
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Agents told staff members in Cox's office they would be allowed to take out only personal papers. Richardson resigned when Mr. Nixon instructed him to fire Cox and Richardson refused. When the President then asked Ruckelshaus to dismiss Cox, he refused, White House spokesman Ronald L. Ziegler said, and he was fired. Ruckelshaus said he resigned.
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The Saturday Night Massacre was the term used by political commentators to refer to U.S. President Richard Nixon's dismissal of independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and as a result the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus on October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal.
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“The Saturday Night Massacre was really about firing the attorney general when Nixon was the target of an investigation and was actively obstructing justice,” Bernstein told CNN’s Don Lemon. “What’s really happened here is the president and his presidency is in chaos.”.
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Nixon's presidency succumbed to mounting pressure resulting from the Watergate scandal and its cover-up. In the face of certain removal from office through the impeachment process against him, Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974. The Ethics in Government Act of 1978 was a direct result of the Saturday Night Massacre.
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Soviet premier. - Seized power from Nikita Khrushchev and became leader of the Soviet Communist party in 1964; ordered forces in to Afghanistan and Czechoslovakia; , replaced Khrushchev after the Cuban Missile Crisis; signed SALT agreement with Nixon in Moscow.
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Less than a week after the Saturday Night Massacre, an Oliver Quayle poll for NBC News showed that for the first time, a plurality of U.S. citizens now supported impeachment of Nixon, with 44% in favor, 43% opposed, and 13% undecided, with a sampling error of 2 to 3 percent.
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Donald Trump's removal of acting Attorney General Sally Yates reminded many people of a similar situation that happened decades before. In 1973, the Saturday Night Massacre was part of President Nixon's Watergate crisis — and now the term is being used to describe Trump's immigration order chaos as well. Back in the '70s, the attorney general was a man named Eliot Richardson.
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“Saturday Night Massacre” re-emerged in the popular lexicon again on Monday, when President Trump fired acting attorney general Sally Yates for instructing Justice Department lawyers not to defend his order shutting U.S. borders to refugees worldwide and travelers from seven mostly Muslim countries.
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One of the most controversial episodes of the Watergate scandal, the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre” came on October 20, 1973, when embattled President Richard Nixon fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and accepted the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus.
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who was fired during the saturday night massacre?
The attorney general was fired during the Saturday night massacre.