THE 1970S 1969 1979
GERALD FORD
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Question
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A name given to the resignation of the US attorney general and the firing of his deputy, after they refused to carry out President’s Nixon order to fire the special investigator of the Watergate affair
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Saturday firing
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Saturday Night Massacre
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Watergate
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -U.S. President Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox; Richardson refused and resigned effective immediately.
Detailed explanation-2: -President Richard Nixon made an address to the American public from the Oval Office on August 8, 1974, to announce his resignation from the presidency due to the Watergate scandal.
Detailed explanation-3: -During nearly 20 years of retirement, Nixon wrote his memoirs and nine other books. He undertook many foreign trips, rehabilitating his image into that of an elder statesman and leading expert on foreign affairs. He suffered a debilitating stroke on April 18, 1994, and died four days later at the age of 81.
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