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When Richardson speaks at the Law School's Class Day exercises today, it will be roughly 25 years since he resigned from his post as attorney general rather than carry out former President Richard M. Nixon's orders to fire Archibald Cox '34, the Watergate special prosecutor...
Richardson's resignation spurred his deputy, who also refused to fire Cox, to resign as well. Nixon was able to convince Solicitor General Robert Bork to fire the special prosecutor, but the series of event, which have since been labeled the "Saturday Night Massacre," increased the pressure on Nixon to resign...
...When the chief of staff under Nixon called me right after Cox's press conference, all I said was `Al, when can I see the president?' He knew what I meant...
...those who knew Richardson at the time, his stance was not surprising. "I don't think I ever thought that he would [not resign]," Cox says. "The president had a right to have an attorney general who would conform to his instructions; the straight, honest, responsible thing to do was to resign...
...role in the Saturday Night Massacre was enormously important; people give me a lot of credit, but he deserves an awful lot of credit too," Cox adds...