In 1973, President Nixon fired special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. As a result the attorney general and the deputy attorney general resigned. Some are pointing to this moment - what’s been called the Saturday Night Massacre - as a point of comparison to Donald Trump’s firing of interim attorney general Sally Yates after she refused to defend his travel ban.
Richard Nixon's echoes in Donald Trump
Credits
Guest:
- Timothy Naftali - presidential historian and history professor at New York University - @TimNaftali