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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho remembers the 1973 Saturday Night Massacre by Nixon ?
I sure do! It was during Watergate, and he had to resign eventually in 1974.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre
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Who remembers the 1973 Saturday Night Massacre by Nixon ? (Original Post)
steve2470
Jan 2017
OP
I was in college. Watergate was an exercise by comparison. A drill. This is
WheelWalker
Jan 2017
#10
The Wikipedia article about the Saturday Night massacre has a paragraph about today!
csziggy
Jan 2017
#11
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,819 posts)1. We've been talking about this all evening.
Richard Ben Veniste was on MSNBC a little while ago, and he seemed to think this was worse.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)2. wow that's good and bad....hope Trump meets the same fate and SOON! nt
nancy1942
(635 posts)3. I remember it well.
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)4. Good times.
Back when we thought it couldn't get worse than Nixon.
Now there are no sane Republicans who will see the handwriting on the wall and tell Trump and Bannon to get out.
DinahMoeHum
(21,806 posts)5. I remember seeing the buttons and stickers saying. . .
burrowowl
(17,644 posts)6. I do
but most of the Repugs in congress have no sense of defense of the Constitution or sense of honor.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)7. First thing that entered my mind.
After that, things went downhill fast for Tricky Dicky.
Jersey Devil
(9,874 posts)8. deja vu in full bloom (nt)
nt
Daphne08
(3,058 posts)9. I do
WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)10. I was in college. Watergate was an exercise by comparison. A drill. This is
happening in real time. Like TV's 24. This is not a drill. Repeat, this is not a drill.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)11. The Wikipedia article about the Saturday Night massacre has a paragraph about today!
Impact and legacy
<SNIP>
President Donald Trump's dismissal of acting Attorney General Sally Yates in 2017, and the immediately subsequent further dismissals and resignations of Justice Department and other law enforcement officials, was similarly referred to as the Monday Night Massacre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre
<SNIP>
President Donald Trump's dismissal of acting Attorney General Sally Yates in 2017, and the immediately subsequent further dismissals and resignations of Justice Department and other law enforcement officials, was similarly referred to as the Monday Night Massacre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre
Tess49
(1,580 posts)12. I sure do. Plus, the Watergate hearings were on the radio everywhere you went n/t
Staph
(6,253 posts)13. It took Richard Nixon four years and nine months to get to this point.
It took Donald Trump ten days!
Fastest President evah!