Richard Nixon

Smells Like Watergate

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 10, 2017

Elizabeth Holtzman, former US Congresswoman, Brooklyn DA, NYC comptroller, assistant to Mayor Lindsay, currently a lawyer in New York City and author of John V. Lindsay 50th Anniversary Commemoration  (International Publishers, 2015), talks about the firing on FBI director Comey and how it compares to the Nixon-era "Saturday Night Massacre" when she was in the U.S. House and played a key role in the Watergate investigation.

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