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James Comey and the Saturday Night Massacre
Nixon expert Ken Hughes discusses the firing of FBI director James Comey, comparing it to Nixon's firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973.
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Conspiracies?
"Nixon was worried about something else. The Pentagon Papers study had revealed, indirectly, that the procedures Nixon and Kissinger had set up to protect their own secrets might not be enough."