39 years ago today - Richard Nixon announces resignation - August 8, 1974

[Douglas Carpenter]

[MarianJack]

1. I was 19 then, and...

...the closest I've ever come in my life to becomeing a republican was when Ford said "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over". The contingent of the republican party that has mutated into the teabagger movement cured me of that very quickly...thank God!

PEACE!

[truebluegreen]

7. The beginning of the end of the rule of law in this country

was when Ford pardoned Nixon for crimes he hadn't been charged with or convicted of.

ETA: Looking forward and not back...

[MarianJack]

9. That pardon...

...showed me that republicans will always be republicans.

PEACE!

[truebluegreen]

12. Yep.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. While Nixon was president,

the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration were begun, and we started talking to China.

Everyone is a mixture of good and bad.

The Nixon Administration and Watergate - Nixon Resignation
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=nixon_and_watergate_tmln&nixon_and_watergate_tmln_nixon_resignation_and_pardon=nixon_and_watergate_tmln_nixon_resignation

Wednesday, August 7, 1974:



Friday, August 9, 1974:

[Scuba]

3. I'm sure the "liberal media" will memorialize this with lotsa coverage, right?

[Johnny Noshoes]

4. I was working at UPS that summer.

I was 20 and working the night shift at UPS - loading trailer trucks - I saw some of this through the window of a bar while I was waiting for the bus to get to work. I actually voted for him in 1972 but my moment came less than a year later while watching one of his TV addresses on Watergate. I finally SAW him all sweaty upper lip and shifty eyes for the lying sack of crazy that he was and thus began my transformation.

[Waiting For Everyman]

5. Now that was a great day, I remember it well.

I was 24 and just had my son a week before -- watched the ending kabuki on tv in the hospital. Nixon's exit got me recovered and pepped up, extra fast.

It was very similar to Shrub's exit, but all the sweeter because Nixon had not planned to go.

[livetohike]

6. It was a thing of beauty. I remember it well

I had just graduated from college in May 1974 and had participated in many anti war protests. I didn't think I could despise anyone more than I did Nixon. (Then Reagan and W came along).

[MarianJack]

10. Nixon, Raegan and George W Moron,...

...3 bastards, but of the 3, at least trickie Dickie was intelligent!

Reagan made me "miss" Nixon, George W moron made me "miss" Reagan and, while I'd NEVER "miss" Moron, Willard Romney convinced me that there was worse out there than George W Shithead! Yikes...Ted Cruz or Rand Paul (2 Southern Avengers?) may actually make Romney look not as bad as he actually is...double YIKES!

BTW< I put the miss in quotation marks because I'd never, Never, NEVER look back on any of those horse's patoots as the "good old days"! Yuck!

PEACE!

[livetohike]

15. Me neither.....it was all horrible for those of us who lived through it

I was teaching Elementary school when Reagan declared ketchup was a vegetable. All of my students were on free/reduced breakfast and lunch. It was sickening. That and everything else he did.

The only positive about living through those "Three Stooges" is we recognize the ones in waiting. We've seen it before.

to having survived this long

[Warren Stupidity]

8. And ushered in the last era of progressive reform, 1974 - 1980.

It has been downhill ever since.

[groundloop]

11. It's interesting to hear from others who remember this sad part of our history

I was only 16 then, so wasn't paying too much attention to politics yet. But since Watergate had been all over the news for so long I knew that Nixon was a scumbag and was glad to see him go. I was raised republican, this mess was the start of my transformation away from the dark side. (It took my dad longer to see the light, but before he died he'd witnessed all that W had done to this country and realized how screwed up and selfish the republicans were).

[DreamSmoker]

13. Bump

It does not seem as if it was that long ago.... I just missed being Drafted into the Military by one year back then..
It was a time much like today politically.. Not much has changed it appears..
Nixon then also drew a line in the sand.. You are with him or you are the Problem..
The Deaths of Students protesting at the hands of the National Guard at Kent State was an example......
The DEA also was given the authority to classify Drugs in America into groups.. Marijuana was the real focus as all those Hippies were using it... The DEA went after those Hippies Protesting the War with everything they had..

[zebonaut]

14. His "genius"' was in making the listener feel sorry for him

Some of the worst criminals; speak so very well; with great cadence; and feeling. Bastard got what he deserved. Oh and Thanks for the "High Fructose Corn Syrup"