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To: Chgogal
Nixon fired special prosecutor Archibald Cox, which led to the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus on October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal.

On November 14, 1973, federal district judge Gerhard Gesell ruled firing Cox was illegal absent a finding of extraordinary impropriety as specified in the regulation establishing the special prosecutor's office. Congress was infuriated by what it saw as a gross abuse of presidential power as did many Americans, who sent an unusually large number of telegrams to the White House and Congress in protest.

Less than a week after the Saturday Night Massacre, an Oliver Quayle poll for NBC News showed that, for the first time, a plurality of U.S. citizens supported impeaching Nixon, with 44% in favor, 43% opposed, and 13% undecided, with a sampling error of 2 to 3 per cent. In the days that followed, numerous resolutions of impeachment against the president were introduced in Congress.

347 posted on 07/20/2017 8:59:37 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

Mueller was appointed under false pretenses orchestrated by Comey as per Comey’s testimony.


352 posted on 07/20/2017 9:12:07 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: kabar

So if we hold Sessions accountable, it is the Saturday Night Massacre of Watergate? Are you sure you are not a Liberal Democrat Hillary plant?


385 posted on 07/21/2017 1:14:40 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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