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Watergate | 7. Saturday Night

Slow Burn

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The Rise and Fall of Richardson

The Yom Kippur War was sparked when a coalition led by Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel during the first week of October. The conflict almost immediately drew in the US and the Soviet Union. For a while, it looked like there might be a military confrontation between the two superpowers in the Middle East. Nixon tried to use the crisis to pressure Richardson to fire cocks instead of resigning.

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