
Richard Ben-Veniste and William Cohen on the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in
Washington Post Live
 00:00 
What's Going on in the House Judiciary Committee?
The saturday night massacre set in motion a series of events that would change the course of history. Nixon was angry and frustrated at this point about the demands for the tapes, and decided to get rid of archibald cox. He asked eliot richardson it. Richardson declined and resigned. The deputy attorney general Bill ruckles house also tried to resign, but was fired. And half an hour after the special watergate prosecutor had been fired, agent of the fbi sealed off the offices of the special prosecutor,. Attorney General EliotRichardson has quit, saying he cannot carry out mister nix instructions. Ruckles house refused, in a moment of constitutional drama, to
 Transcript 
 Play full episode 


