Saturday Night Nixon: The Firing That Sealed Watergate

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

Politics, History, News

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Saturday Night Massacre was the name given to the triple firing of a special prosecutor investigating President Nixon, the AG and the deputy AG on the same night in 1973. After the firing of the FBI Director by President Trump, all eyes are looking back on this historical event. Are they right to do Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.1	If you were watching TV on October 20th, 1973,
0:39.0	and you got up from your couch
0:41.1	and turned the knob to change the stations,
0:43.6	here was your choice.
0:44.9	You could watch CBS,
0:47.1	all in the family, Archie Bunker, and Meathead,
0:50.8	and see the episode, Henry's Farewell.
0:53.2	This is the last episode featuring Henry Jefferson.
0:57.4	ABC, you'd have the Partridge family, double trouble. Dates with two girls for the same night give Keith a real problem.
1:08.3	And on NBC, emergency.
1:12.2	Heavyweight. Paramedics, Gage, and DeSoto are trapped between battling neighbors.
1:17.3	Later, there would be MASH, and the $6 million man on.
1:21.4	Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart, and Mary Tyler Moore would all feature on the TV sets on Saturday night.
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