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Saturday Night Massacre Resignation

United States of America · Politics / Watergate. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1973

Elliot Richardson20 October 1973

Washington · Politics / Watergate

Resigns as attorney general rather than carry out Nixon's order to dismiss Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox.

Names involved

Elliot Richardson

Provenance

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