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Mon Aug-08-05 10:38 PM
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8 August 1974 - 31 Years ago today |
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Nixon announced that he's stepping down from the presidency.
That one action granted him, at least, a modicum of honor.
Bush would never do that, of course.
He'll never be fit to stand in Nixon's shoes.
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Mon Aug-08-05 10:40 PM
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1. I sat with my dad that day and watched Nixon on television. |
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Mon Aug-08-05 10:43 PM
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3. I sat and watched it alone |
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Even at 12, I knew that it was what the country needed.
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Mon Aug-08-05 10:53 PM
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I didn't understand much except that my dad did not like Nixon.
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Mon Aug-08-05 11:19 PM
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10. I was 12. My brother (aged 10)& I were with our grandparents in Key Largo |
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And Grandma said, "Better stay away from Grandpa today, kids. He's in a bad mood." :D
All we knew in 1974 was that the Watergate hearings ruined daytime television, which was pretty much just Gilligan's Island and Scooby Doo anyway.
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Tue Aug-09-05 01:07 AM
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20. I was seven years old and my family was visiting another family. |
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I got bored with the whole "stepping down" thing and went outside to catch crickets. I do remember it, though. :)
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Mon Aug-08-05 10:41 PM
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Mon Aug-08-05 10:44 PM
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4. "He'll never be fit to stand in Nixon's shoes." |
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That is the most depressing statement I've ever read. The fact that it's true only illustrates just how fucked up the situation is today.
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Mon Aug-08-05 11:05 PM
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6. He wouldn't be fit to SHINE Nixon's shoes. |
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Nixon, no matter how bad an excuse he was for a human being, actually accomplished a few things as President.
bushyboy has managed to combine Nixon's lack of ANY redeeming qualities of humanity with an utterly astonishing lack of ability to do even ONE THING right as president.
It's a new paradigm of failure on all fronts.
Redstone
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Mon Aug-08-05 11:09 PM
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7. I'll go you one better, Red. |
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I'll say that Nixon, despite how bad a President and a man he may have been, was actually in touch with his humanity. A little. Maybe. In a really, really tenuous way.
Bush? Is no longer of our human race.
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Mon Aug-08-05 11:10 PM
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I was just wondering about you this afternoon.
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Tue Aug-09-05 01:39 AM
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23. Too true! "It's a new paradigm of failure on all fronts." |
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Mon Aug-08-05 11:15 PM
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9. That was about two months before I finished my four years |
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Edited on Mon Aug-08-05 11:15 PM by Ptah
in the USAF.
The proverb about interesting times seems more like a curse.
Pardon me, Jerry.
:toast:
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Mon Aug-08-05 11:24 PM
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11. saw resignation on TV in another country |
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We were told not to sit up and look at it, but by that time (~2AM) the chaperones were asleep anyway. So we went into the dorm lounge and were laughing our asses off.
We were so effing glad Nixon was out the door. Made the return trip home a more pleasant journey. No more Watergate bullshit.
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Mon Aug-08-05 11:28 PM
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12. That night was the first time I went out and got drunk..... |
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Red Neck Bar in a little town out side of Cleveland that served anyone who could shove a dollar across the bar....
Rolling Rock and Jack Daniels....
I was 16.....
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Mon Aug-08-05 11:36 PM
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Good story.
You got some solid taste in alcohol too.
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Tue Aug-09-05 01:06 AM
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19. Yea, well that was the start of my decent into Alcoholic Hell.... |
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Nut that, my friend, is a different story
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Tue Aug-09-05 01:37 AM
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22. Ah. Not so great. nt. |
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Tue Aug-09-05 02:46 AM
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that sucks. More power to you for getting out of it. I had a touch of an alcohol problem too. I managed to pretty much up and stop it. One day I said: "fuck this" and I haven't drank all that much since.
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Tue Aug-09-05 01:36 AM
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Good times, good times.
It kind of saddens me to think that in thirty years, if we still have a planet, I might have to tell my sister's kids, "well, Auntie Iris spent that hot autumn night alone in front of a t.v., then she went online..." I mean, I love you, DU, but I thought I'd have better memories of The Resignation/Indictment than the kind I think I might have. I kind of envy you Nixonites.
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Tue Aug-09-05 01:40 AM
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24. But I pulled out of it..... |
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See I have Nixon to blame for my downward spiral...
True story, the bar is still there only now suburbia has surrounded it...
Still a red neck place
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Mon Aug-08-05 11:31 PM
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13. The Ramones played their first gig at a hole in the wall- |
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Mon Aug-08-05 11:35 PM
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14. say what you will about Nixon |
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Bush isn't even in that man's class. Nixon was mean, did some shitty stuff, but he was his own man and came from humble beginnings all the while earning everything he got. He had the pride to step down and have a little bit of honor. I have no rosy vision of Nixon or anything, but, at least, he had some sense of dignity.
Bush never will.
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Mon Aug-08-05 11:54 PM
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16. I saw the announcement on TV in the grad school dorm lounge |
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(there were a bunch of Watergate junkies there every day), and knew that it was an unprecedented historic occasion.
Then I went out to the library to continue studying for the general comprehensive exam, which was my reason for being on campus all summer, and I found myself thinking that the world shouldn't look so normal after a historic event.
It's funny the things one remembers.
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Mon Aug-08-05 11:57 PM
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I remember watching it on TV as my brother taped in on his tape recorder. I was aware what was happening, but not as much as I should have.
What a night that was.
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Tue Aug-09-05 12:07 AM
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18. Nixon only stepped down to save his own ass |
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he would have been impeached, possibly jailed and forever dishonored even worse than the dishonor he did face.
I will admit, though, that despite Nixon's vicious paranoid tendencies and absolute contempt for anything moral or ethical, he did make some good decisions at times and was extremely intelligent. He just was far too paranoid and vindictive to be chief executive. That much power in the hands of such a thoroughly fucked up man was a disaster
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Tue Aug-09-05 03:28 AM
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26. how bad does it have to get,if you people actually MISS Nixon? |
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rot in hell tricky! :evilgrin: and Fuck You Ben Stein!
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Tue Aug-09-05 03:34 AM
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27. GWB, that's how bad it has gotten |
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Of course I was only 6 when Nixon resigned but I just can't imagine things were worse then than they are now.
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Tue Aug-09-05 03:42 AM
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28. Also, my Wedding Anniversary |
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