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the "tonight show" will not be seen tonight so we may bring you the following nbc news special report. >> good evening, the country tonight is in the midst of what may be the most serious constitutional crisis in its history. the president has fired the man you just saw, special watergate prosecutor archibald cox, and he has sent fbi agents to the office of the special prosecution staff and the attorney general and the deputy attorney general and the president has ordered the fbi to seal off those offices. >> as tipping points go, the saturday night massacre was a biggie setting in motion a receivers events that would ultimately take down the nixon presidency. the saturday night massacre occurred on october 20, 1973. but less than a month before that date something else