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Nixon library: Actually, Nixon never fired the FBI director

By Kyle Feldscher
Published May 9, 2017 11:57pm ET
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Nixon library: Actually, Nixon never fired the FBI director
Democrats referred to Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre in 1973, when he fired the special investigator who was probing the Watergate scandal. (AP photo) | ASSOCIATED PRESS

Amid the flood of reactions calling President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey “Nixonian,” the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum set the record straight Tuesday night: Nixon never fired the FBI director.

“FUN FACT: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI #FBIDirector #notNixonian,” the account tweeted.

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