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Saturday Night Massacre
AskHistory.com ^ | 06/17/2014 | staff

Posted on 06/17/2014 4:42:29 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

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The “massacre” stemmed from an inquiry into the notorious June 1972 break-in at the Watergate complex, in which five Nixon operatives were caught trying to bug the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Archibald Cox, a Harvard law professor and former U.S. solicitor general, was tapped to investigate the incident in May 1973. He soon clashed with the White House over Nixon’s refusal to release over 10 hours of secret Oval Office recordings, some of which implicated the president in the break-in

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1 posted on 06/17/2014 4:42:29 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

Nixon would roll over in his grave if he could see Obama doing all the crap he only dreamed of.


2 posted on 06/17/2014 4:46:33 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: CMailBag

the truth is the DEM LBJ, JFK, FDR, ect. all did far more the Nixon ever did..


3 posted on 06/17/2014 4:51:39 PM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more.)
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To: CMailBag

Maybe Nixon understood back then what he was up against with the Democrats.


4 posted on 06/17/2014 4:52:56 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen

The truth is that the dems did not want the republicans to know that they’d already bugged them.


5 posted on 06/17/2014 4:53:20 PM PDT by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: Kid Shelleen

The libs are STILL crying over the 18 1/2 minutes of erased tapes yet are quiet now that the IRS claims to have “lost” 2 years worth of emails from Lois Lerner.


6 posted on 06/17/2014 4:54:29 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: CMailBag

7 posted on 06/17/2014 4:54:55 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

According to the article, “more than 50,000 concerned citizens sent telegrams to Washington”, so that’s what we need to pressure Obama’s impeachment


8 posted on 06/17/2014 4:55:28 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Archibald Cox was a WASP snob.

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9 posted on 06/17/2014 4:55:42 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Hot Tabasco

self ping


10 posted on 06/17/2014 5:03:53 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (By now, everyone should know that you shoot a zombie in the head. Don't try to reason with them...)
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To: tophat9000

Don’t forget WJC (i.e. William Jefferson Clinton)


11 posted on 06/17/2014 5:14:37 PM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Kid Shelleen

Obama lies.
We know that Obama lies.
Obama knows that we know that Obama lies.

He doesn’t care.

Because we have convinced Obama that we are cowards.


12 posted on 06/17/2014 5:17:04 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Not only that, the EPA (and other agencies?) have been busted using private (think Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.) email accounts to collude on attacks on political opponents.

A freedom of information request won’t turn up the dirt if it’s off government servers.

So far there is no leak that needs to be plugged in this administration.


13 posted on 06/17/2014 5:24:09 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: Ray76

How many of them belonged to CPUSA and were still bitter clingers over Alger Hiss’ prosecution?


14 posted on 06/17/2014 5:25:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: Kid Shelleen
Archibald Cox, a Harvard law professor and former U.S. solicitor general, was tapped to investigate the incident

Cox was solicitor general during the Kennedy administration and was a longtime Kennedy supporter. With Cox as the special prosecutor, you had a Kennedy man investigating the administration headed by JFK's arch-enemy Richard Nixon.

This would never have happened if Nixon hadn't forced out Richard Kleindienst as Attorney General back in March. Kleindienst, a Goldwater man, would never have hired Cox. Unfortunately, Nixon replaced Kleindienst with über-liberalElliot Richardson--a move that mystifies me.

15 posted on 06/17/2014 5:32:12 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: a fool in paradise

The Obama administration is the mafia of the political world. There is NOTHING they won’t do to destroy the US.


16 posted on 06/17/2014 5:34:11 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

It’s the Chicago (68) way. BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.


17 posted on 06/17/2014 5:35:19 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: Kid Shelleen

Who was it said not long ago Obama is the president Nixon wanted to be.....


18 posted on 06/17/2014 6:30:17 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Moonman62

Brilliant!!


19 posted on 06/17/2014 6:31:54 PM PDT by Yaelle
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