44 years ago, Woodward & Bernstein watching Tricky Dick resign on a very small t.v.

[UTUSN]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I watched the same speech on a somewhat smaller black and white TV

which I kept for many years afterwards as a souvenir of the occasion. (It's amazing how huge TVs are now compared to then.)

[UTUSN]

2. T.V.(s) larger, victories smaller

[UTUSN]

3. I'm slurping No Sugar Added Chocolate Swirl ("ice cream" or whatever it is) to celebrate, myself

[dflprincess]

4. Good times

We were shopping for bridesmaids' dresses for my cousin's wedding much to my horror and that of my aunt (not the aunt who was the mother of the bride). We were at Penney's and my aunt & I kept escaping from bridal to the electronics department where we could watch TV (fortunately not too far from bridal). I remember Aunt Mother of the Bride herding us back while my more simpatico aunt wailed "This is the happiest day of my life, let me enjoy it!"

We all thought it meant the system worked and it would never get worse than Nixon.

Silly us.

[kag]

17. I LOVE your aunt.

My parents were Republicans. To his dying day, my dad thought Tricky was the best president we've ever had. Seriously.

I have three brothers. We're all lefty liberals.

[jimlup]

5. That was a big expensive TV by my standards at the time

My parents didn't believe in TV so all we had was a small black and white. I was 16 years old and watched intently.

[MattP]

7. I remember getting our first 24 inch tv back in 76

It must have been 150 pounds

[Cracklin Charlie]

8. That one has all the knobs.

Obviously not my house.

[alphafemale]

18. That's what I was thinking.

Expensive by any standards.

And to be honest, the image clarity on the black and whites was clearer than the color for several years.

I was a grade school news nerd and had watched the hearings and I was gripped b the impact.

[Stuart G]

6. What an incredible picture...thanks for posting...k and r.

[Dopers_Greed]

9. Hopefully we'll get to see them recreate this photo

When Dump resigns

[calimary]

10. Wow - quite the historic photo!

I remember racing home so I’d be on time to watch it. Recorded it on my little tape machine.

[JDC]

11. In barely remember it, but I remember it on a B and W

[royable]

12. I remember watching the resignation with my mother's extended family

The TV had been moved into the big dining room where we could all fit. Many in the family were (old school) republicans and some were democrats, but we were all deeply saddened by how the presidency had been disgraced, and moved at knowing that we were witnessing history. Some of us were crying. I remember the drive back to our house a half mile away that night. We were all very quiet. The country had changed, and I felt like we had entered a new era.

[FakeNoose]

13. That was a very big day, and these guys made it happen

By the way, that TV is a pretty standard size, (looks like it might be a 19" screen) that most of us had in the 1970's. Color TV's were more expensive and harder to adjust, so it was still a luxury in those days.

Thank you Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein!

[Aristus]

14. I was five, so I don't remember the resignation itself.

I do remember my mother showing me the front page of the newspaper, which had a picture of Gerald Ford seated on a couch. My mother said to me: "He's going to be our new President". I didn't understand very much; I just thought Ford looked like an ape.

[NastyRiffraff]

15. I watched on a 19"

It looked very much like the one in that picture, actually. Complete with rabbit ears.

[progressoid]

16. Complete with bakelite ashtray.

[Sanity Claws]

19. Not very small

That was pretty standard size back then.

The OP must be young one.