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The Watergate scandal led to the "Saturday Night Massacre". It was the term given by political commentators to U.S. President Richard Nixon's executive dismissal of independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus on October 20, 1973 during the Watergate scandal.

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The Saturday Night Massacre refers to President Nixon's dismissal of independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and the resignations/dismissals of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus on October 20, 1973, when they refused to dismiss Cox during the Watergate scandal.

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