Watergate Revisited with Garrett Graff
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The Yam Capor War
There was no clear method of succession for ruling or managing the justice department if there was not an attorney general, a deputy or a solicitor general. The feeling among the three of them was that somebody had to mind the store and perhaps things would be worse off if there were no one in any of those positions. And so you have these two huge apocal stories ying out in the background, the saturday night massacre, resignations of the justice department leadershipthe, the resignation of spiroagnu an empty vice presidency amid all this. Then we get to where your question began, which is the yam capor war. A unfolds through october 19 73 as well.
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