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Robert Bork is widely believed to have fired Archibald Cox as a show of loyalty to Nixon during the Saturday Night Massacre. However, his predecessor, AG Elliot Richardson, apparently advised Bork to fire Cox to avoid destabilizing the government. What were Ruckelshaus's and Richardson's concerns?

by /u/NetworkLlama in /r/AskHistorians

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