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Months after the Saturday Night Massacre, President Nixon blamed the media, establishment, partisans and the special prosecutor's staff for trying to take him down, and still had many supporters
how is a special prosecutor appointed?
Two attorneys general resigned on a single night, in protest after President Nixon asked them to fire an independent special prosecutor looking into the Watergate scandal. It became known as the Saturday Night Massacre
What is a special prosecutor?
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what did the special prosecutor decide about the watergate case?
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The Stennis Compromise, in which Richard Nixon offered to let a Senator who was notoriously hard-of-hearing listen to the Watergate Oval Office tapes, and then let him summarize what he heard to the Special Prosecutor.
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Ulysses S. Grant appointed John B. Henderson as the first ever special prosecutor to shut down the illegal Whiskey Ring for tax evasion. Henderson also became the first special prosecutor to ever be fired after he accused Grant's longtime friend, Orville Babcock, of obstructing justice.
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The last Attorney General to break with POTUS was Elliot Richardson, who resigned after Nixon ordered him to fire the Special Prosecutor of the Watergate scandal
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The Special Prosecutor in the Russia Investigation is nicknamed Bobby Three Sticks
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The Supreme Court ruled in July, 1974 that Nixon had to turn over more than 64 recordings, immediately, to Leon Jaworski, the special prosecutor.
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The first ever US Special Prosecutor got fired by the President who appointed him
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The "Saturday Night Massacre," where President Nixon dismissed independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and as a result the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson & Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus during the Watergate scandal.
