As Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation winds down, his specially selected team of attorneys will return to other lives with a high-profile resume item. Miami attorney Jon Sale, who served as an assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, discusses whether working for a special prosecutor is a career boost.

“I certainly didn’t go into it thinking it would enhance my career,” Sale said of the Watergate investigation. “After the Saturday Night Massacre, a lot of us wondered if it was the end of our careers.”

The team was reinstated after Nixon caved to public outcry. Sale quipped that after that, he never knew how to answer the common question on job applications about whether he’d ever been fired.

“At the end of it, there were all sorts of professional opportunities,” he said. “But when I gave up a great job to join the Watergate team, I wasn’t sure what the future would be.”

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