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Saturday Night Massacre
1973 Watergate scandal resignations
Saturday Night Massacre
The "Saturday Night Massacre" was the climactic series of events during the Watergate scandal that occurred on Saturday, October 20, 1973. It involved a series of resignations within the United States Department of Justice in protest of President Richard Nixon's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was investigating Nixon's involvement in Watergate. The events followed the refusal by Cox to drop a subpoena for the Nixon White House tapes at Nixon's request. During a single evening on Saturday, October 20, Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Archibald Cox; Richardson refused and resigned in protest effective immediately. Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox; Ruckelshaus also refused, and resigned in protest. Nixon then ordered the third-most-senior official at the Justice Department, Solicitor General Robert Bork, to fire Cox. Bork carried out the dismissal as Nixon asked. Bork stated that he had intended to resign...
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