"Jill Wine-Banks managed to get a rare Saturday off from her all-consuming job as a Watergate prosecutor to attend a family wedding in New York in late October 1973. When she returned to her hotel around midnight, a desk clerk handed her a handwritten message of a phone call from a colleague back home in Washington, D.C.: "The office has been seized by the FBI. Return immediately.""
"Wine-Banks, then 30 years old and the only woman on the Watergate team, learned that special prosecutor Archibald Cox, a venerated former Harvard Law professor, had been fired by President Richard Nixon and that Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus had chosen to resign in protest rather than carry out Nixon's corrupt order. Wine-Banks told me she"
Jill Wine-Banks returned from a wedding to learn that the Watergate special prosecutor's office had been seized by the FBI and ordered to return immediately. Archibald Cox was fired by President Richard Nixon, and Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resigned rather than carry out the order. Wine-Banks flew back to Washington, found police tape at the office, and ignored an FBI agent who warned her not to touch it. James Quarles recalled the team's resolve to continue work and to refuse to yield to presidential demands. The team occupied an unassigned space and kept showing up to carry on their investigation.
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