president nixon was forced to acquiesce in the appointment of yet another special prosecutor, leon jaworski, who successfully litigated all the way to the supreme court to enforce the subpoena for the white house tapes which led to the release of the june 23rd tape, the so-called smoking gun tape that led intellectably to nixon's departure from office. so it's not clear that the saturday night massacre demonstrated the failings of the system. indeed, as professor broughton and others have suggested, perhaps the lesson of the saturday night massacre is that the political process in really serious circumstances is at least up to the task of dealing with these problems. now, admittedly, there is some question about, as mr. armstrong indicated this morning, there's some question as to exactly how much of the story we got, but it's not clear that we would have gotten any more of the story if we had had an independent counsel to do the work. now, let's look on the other side of the situation. people like justice scalia, and i don't mean to single him out for special emphasis here, you because he