Watergate rediscovered

Andrew Cox was hired to be an independent third party investigator of the Watergate Scandal. When he asked Nixon to give over all of his tapes, Nixon instructed his attorney general, Elliot Richardson, to fire Cox, and Richardson refused, choosing instead to resign. Richardson's successor, William Ruckelshaus, was given the same instructions, to fire Cox. He also refused and resigned. "Within 24 hours, the cascade of dramatic exits at the Department of Justice became known as the Saturday Night Massacre." The next in line, Robert Bork, fired Cox. On November 14, 1973, federal district judge Gerhard Gesell ruled firing Cox was illegal and the public really saw for the first time, Nixon's abuse of power.