Somehow Nixon fired the person that he ordered to fire
the Watergate special prosecutor.
Are we sure the Watergate special prosecutor was fired?
Fateful moments from the Watergate scandal that destroyed Richard Nixon's presidency are brought to light in a new collection of papers and tape recordings from that time.
Materials released by the Nixon Presidential Library on Tuesday show aides trying to head off a U.S. constitutional crisis and save a presidency after Nixon fired the Watergate special prosecutor and forced out the two top Justice Department officials in October 1973.