Word: nixonize
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...when it had become clear that Nixon would not obey the court order to relinquish the tapes, Cox threatened to ask a federal court to hold Nixon in contempt...
Later that day, in a string of events that would become known as the “Saturday Night Massacre,” Nixon instructed Richardson to dismiss...
...They were wrong about that,” Heymann said, “and Nixon was wrong about that...
...Nixon eventually released the tapes to Cox’s successor, Leon Jaworski. The content of the tapes and the full results of Cox’s investigation were so damaging that Nixon stepped down as president on Aug. 8, 1974, becoming the only American president to resign from office. Cox was immediately embraced as a hero by Nixon’s foes...
...tell them no? When I talked to the President, he was loaded." HENRY KISSINGER, former Secretary of State, in an Oct. 11, 1973, conversation with an aide asking whether President Nixon would take a call from the British Prime Minister, according to just released phone transcripts...