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Watergate timeline at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif. Photo: Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
"Nixon fired the man investigating him. Will Trump? ... Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein look back on the [1973] Saturday Night Massacre," adapted from their 1976 book, "The Final Days" — Lead of WashPost Outlook section:
"We’re here again. A powerful and determined president is squaring off against an independent investigator operating inside the Justice Department."
Key quotes:
- "We covered that eerily similar confrontation for The Washington Post 45 years ago."
- "Nixon didn’t know it at the time, but the Saturday Night Massacre would become a pivot point in his presidency — crucial to the charge that he’d obstructed justice."
- "For him, the consequences were terminal."
- Worthy of your time.