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Nixon starts firing.

President Nixon orders Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson to fire Cox. Richardson refuses and resigns as also does Deputy Attorney General W. D. Ruckelshaus. Solictitor General Robert H. Bork is named by Nixon as acting attorney general. Bork fires Cox who is later succeeded by Leon Jaworski.