Comey’s Firing Is—and Isn’t—Like Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre

Richard Nixon at the White House in 1973, the year he ordered the firing of the special prosecutor investigating Watergate.PHOTOGRAPH BY HENRY BURROUGHS / AP On October 19, 1973, a Friday, it became clear that the Justice Department’s special Watergate prosecutor, Archibald Cox, would not obey President Nixon’s order to be content with the summaries of recordings of Nixon and White House aides. Co

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“Every move they make keeps signalling ‘coverup.’ ””