Word: nixon
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Clinton launched her career one year out of law school when she helped Congress investigate Watergate charges against then-President Richard M. Nixon. She later gained partner status at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., as husband Bill pursued a career in state politics that eventually made Hillary the governor's wife...
...Nixon had sent in people to seal off the attorney general's office, and my father couldn't get his papers out," Henry Richardson says. "His secretary had to work out a code name so he could get his documents...
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...