Archibald Cox, the Watergate Special Prosecutor sacked by President Richard Nixon in the famous "Saturday Night Massacre" of 1973, has been awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Bill Clinton.
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Elliot Richardson, the Attorney-General who refused to comply with Richard Nixon's order to sack the Watergate Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox, triggering a constitutional crisis known as the "Saturday Night Massacre", has died in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 79.