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    Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre Casts Shadow As Trump Considers Fate Of DOJ Leaders

    Forty-five years ago, Nixon precipitated the departure of the attorney general, deputy attorney and Watergate special prosecutor as the criminal investigation of his administration escalated.
    by Ron Elving Oct 20, 2018 4 minutes

    Imagine if President Trump, on the weekend after the upcoming midterm elections, suddenly forced out Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller.

    For the record, that would be the removal of the attorney general, the deputy attorney general and the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

    And imagine Trump also shut down the offices occupied by Mueller's team of prosecutors — lock, stock and barrel.

    Just like that.

    Impossible, you say? Unprecedented? In fact, it is neither.

    It is the scenario Washington, D.C., witnessed exactly 45 years ago this weekend, when President Richard Nixon lost patience with his own Justice Department's relentless probe of the Watergate burglary case — a case that would eventually bring

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