Time Magazine -- Herbert Bayard Swope -- January 11, 2024

Time, January 28, 1924

Herbert Bayard Swope was a famous newspaper reporter and editor. In 1917, he received the first Pulitzer Prize for Reporting for a series of articles called "Inside the German Empire." In 1921 he edited a New York World campaign against the Ku Klux Klan.

Saturday Night Massacre 50 Years -- October 20, 2023

Boston Globe, 22-October-1973

50 years ago today, on 20-October-1973, President Richard Nixon instigated the Saturday Night Massacre. Facing an investigation and possible impeachment because of the Watergate scandal, Nixon ordered his Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson refused to comply and resigned on the spot. Nixon ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to remove Cox. Ruckelshaus also refused and resigned. Nixon then ordered Solicitor General Robert Bork. the senior surviving official in the Department of Justice, to fire Cox. Bork did it and claimed he wanted to resign, too, but Richardson and Ruckelshaus asked him to stay on to protect the DOJ.

Nixon's actions were poorly received by the public. 

In the cartoon, we see Richardson, Cox and Ruckelshaus leaving the sinking White House in a rowboat named Integrity. Editorial cartoonist Paul Szep drew for the Boston Globe for more than 30 years and won two Pulitzer Prizes.