FOR NEXT TUESDAY:
Review
Theories about the Break-in (Hoff ch. 10) -- including a lurid theory about John Dean.
Antisemitism and Mark Felt (Hoff, p. 321)
The role of the Kennedy family
- Fear of Teddy
- Archibald Cox and the special prosecutor "charter" (Matthews p. 327)
October 12, 1973: Nixon announces his intention to nominate Gerald Ford as vice president.
October 19, 1973 President Nixon offers Stennis a compromise on the tapes; that is, Senator John Stennis (D‑Miss.) would review tapes and present the Special Prosecutor with summaries.
October 20, 1973 Archibald Cox refuses to accept the Stennis compromise. President Nixon orders Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Cox, but Richardson refuses and resigns in protest. Acting Attorney GeneralRobert Bork fires Cox. These events come to be known as the "SaturdayNight Massacre." And once again, everything circles back to the Cold War:
Mr. Richardson recalls that the first thing Mr. Nixon said when he entered the Oval Office to resign was a reference to Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet leader.
“Brezhnev would never understand it if I let Cox defy my instructions,” the President declared.
“I'm sorry that you insist on putting your personal commitments ahead of the public interest,” he quoted Mr. Nixon as saying.
October 26, 1973 press conference
November 1, 1973 Leon Jaworski named Special Prosecutor.
November 17, 1973 Nixon speaks to AP managing editors
November 21, 1973 Senate Committee announces discovery of 18 1/2 minute gap on tape of Nixon‑Haldeman conversation of June 20,1972.
December 6, 1973 White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig Jr. testifies that he and White House lawyers had discussed fears that "some sinister force" erased one of President Nixon's subpoenaed Watergate tapes.
December 6, 1973: Ford takes the oath as vice president.
December 6, 1973: Ford takes the oath as vice president.
Final Days (more on Tuesday)
- Kissinger & Schlesinger
- Smoking gun aftermath
- Resignation
- Farewell
- Coda: Ford Pardon
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