History Extra for October 20, 2024

October 20, 1973 was the “Saturday Night Massacre.” 

Sixteen months before, on June 17, 1972, police arrested five men ransacking the DNC’s files in Washington, D.C.’s Watergate complex. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, two young Washington Post reporters, followed the sloppy money trail back to the White House. 

In April 1973, three of Nixon’s top adviso…

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