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Saturday Night Massacre
== Cox firing ==
== Cox firing ==
On Saturday October 20, 1973, independent special Watergate prosecutor [[Archibald Cox]] issued a subpoena asking for tapes of the Oval Office conversations secretly recorded by President [[Richard Nixon]], and the President ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Cox. Richardson resigned instead, and the President ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox, but Ruckelshaus also resigned. Finally Nixon convinced Solicitor General Robert Bork, as acting head of the [[Justice Department]], to fire Cox, and Bork complied. This had an impact upon the Congress's bills of impeachment against Nixon.
On Saturday October 20, 1973, independent special Watergate prosecutor [[Archibald Cox]] issued a subpoena asking for tapes of the Oval Office conversations secretly recorded by President [[Richard Nixon]], and the President ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Cox. Richardson resigned instead, and the President ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox, but Ruckelshaus also resigned. Finally Nixon convinced Solicitor General Robert Bork, as acting head of the [[Justice Department]], to fire Cox, and Bork complied. This had an impact upon the Congress's bills of impeachment against Nixon.
In order to poison public opinion about what had taken place, the media took a negative tone and termed the event as the "''Saturday Night Massacre''".
== Supreme Court Nomination ==
== Supreme Court Nomination ==