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Watergate scandal: Both Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus resigned rather than obey Richard Nixon's order to have Archibald Cox fired.
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1970s political scandal in the U.S.
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Elliot Richardson
American lawyer and politician (1920–1999)
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William Ruckelshaus
American attorney, EPA Administrator, acting FBI Director
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Series of resignations during the Watergate scandal in 1973
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Richard Nixon
President of the United States from 1969 to 1974
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Archibald Cox
American prosecutor (1912–2004)
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