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Smoking Gun: The Tapes, the Massacre, and the End Nixon Couldn't Escape
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The Watergate tapes, the Saturday Night Massacre, and the Smoking Gun recording that made Nixon's resignation inevitable — this is where the cover-up finally collapsed. Episode 7 traces the chain of events from Alexander Butterfield's bombshell testimony to the night Richard Nixon lost control of his own presidency.
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On the evening of October twentieth, nineteen seventy-three, the Attorney General of the United States resigned rather than follow a direct order from the president. So did his deputy.
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