How many people remember the lead-up to Nixon's resignation?

[brooklynite]

This is feeling like the same thing

(if you're too young, read THE FINAL DAYS by Woodward and Bernstein).

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I remember it very well.

But this is way weirder.

[drray23]

2. yes. Goldwater and a delegation went to tell Nixon it was over.

Interestingly there are reports that Graham went to tell Trump that there are enough votes to convict him in the senate..

[brooklynite]

5. But there were weeks of chaos before that...

[Irish_Dem]

3. Like it was yesterday.

But what Nixon did was child's play compared to this.

And the times are much worse now.

[ansible]

7. The 70s were way more violent though

Can you imagine something like Kent State happening today?

[Irish_Dem]

14. We see Kent State every week in terms of AA police deaths. And half a million Covid

deaths.

It is way more deadly now.

But I hear you on the political assassinations and violence.

It still feels far worse to me now.

[Dave in VA]

4. Present

[AmericanCanuck]

6. Trump is not Nixon

Nixon had at least some shame left. Trump will take the gamble with bravado and roll the dice on a senate vote. The republicans of 1974 were not as cultish as the republicans of today.

[kcr]

16. True. However, consider

they hadn't just been forced under their seats almost shitting their pants while calling their loved ones to say goodbye with an angry, dangerous mob right outside the door, either. That might have an effect.

[LeftInTX]

19. Yep..Nixon was former Navy, lawyer (?) Senator, VP

Trump: Reality star who is addicted to power, fame and fortune

At least Nixon had some self discipline...Trump is like that stray dog that tears up your house

[northlake9]

8. Very Well

Just talking to my brother about it this morning.

[JohnnyLib2]

9. Bring back Barry Goldwater!

And Barbara Jordan above all!

[jalan48]

10. Along with a pardon which is what Trump wants.

[Kittycow]

11. I had just moved out of my parents house

and we didn't have a tv, in true hippie fashion.

But I happened to go to my parents and Nixon was on tv giving his resignation speech. I said Aw, look the lion is crying and my dad told me to shut up.

That's all I remember but in my own defense, growing up in the turbulence of the '60's had made me pretty immune to national crisis.

[LeftInTX]

12. I had given up watching the news at the time

I was 17 and a new HS graduate....

Watergate had been dragged out for over a year.

I was surprised..Afterward, I went to a bar with my friends (illegally, they were all 18 but me). My boyfriend showed after he got off work.

[lisa58]

13. The final days is also a movie

[AngryOldDem]

15. Yes.

Events moved quickly when it became obvious that Nixon wasn’t going to avoid impeachment.

I can see Trump up and quitting — he can go out in sound and fury yet still save face.

I don’t care how he goes...just so he GOES. Enough.

[Progressive dog]

17. The Nixon impeachment hearings went on and on

I worked nights, so I watched many hours of the hearings on TV. There is a big difference, Nixon resigned and Ford waited a few weeks before pardoning him.
Here we have a true psychopath who will do anything to stay in power. Even Nixon had limits to his corruption, Trump doesn't. Nixon had fewer enablers who stuck by him after his crimes became obvious.
Trump will probably not be convicted in the senate trial, Nixon didn't have to be.

[MyOwnPeace]

18. Here's an amazing fact.....

Pennsylvania had a MODERATE REPUBLICAN Senator (Hugh Scott) and he was one of the members of the gang that went to Nixon to tell him there was no way he would survive an impeachment trial.
Scott would probably be drummed out of his party now.....

[yonder]

20. Yes, I remember it well and agree that it it much the same feeling.

Things were changing that you couldn't really put a finger on and increasingly came to a head then all of the sudden, boom, he resigned. Of course, the circumstances, people, political culture and situations were different but these current events are evoking the same sort of feeling.

The best I can describe it would be a "quickening".

[2naSalit]

22. +1

A quickening, that's how I remember it.

[callous taoboy]

21. I was 9 and my third grade class had signed a letter

of congratulations on his re-election win. I remember seeing all of the hearings on the boob tube but not understanding what was up. I remember sitting in our living room watching him board the helicopter. My dad was depressed. I just watched "All the President's Men" the other day.

[usajumpedtheshark]

23. I remember some Republicans, like George HW Bush, defending Nixon for as long as they could