37 years ago today

[underpants]

[madokie]

1. Good riddance

With his resignation started this path we're presently on. The path of the pukies buying and owning our press and their not working with any of our Democratic Presidents since.

It all started with this dicks departure

[rfranklin]

2. Yeah, that Nixon got a raw deal...let's impeach Clinton!

That was their revenge, twenty years later.

[Le Taz Hot]

28. Self-delete. Posted in wrong place.

[pinboy3niner]

3. It may be history, but for some of us it's also personal

For some of us, the war was not some abstract thing. It was all too real.

Seeing that disgraced President carried away was a great moment!

[Skidmore]

23. Yes, it was an historical moment.

The nation just stopped and watched it in silence. I remember our family watching it on the television in silence. I also remember my mother saying telling us all that, if any of us decided that we undeserving of punishment should we do something illegal, to remember that moment because no man is above punishment.

[Le Taz Hot]

29. And Obama has called in

Kissenger from time to time as an adviser. That old war criminal is STILL influencing geo-political affairs and it doesn't seem to matter who is in the WH.

[autechre30]

4. almost right, add a year

it was 38 years ago, he resigned six weeks before I was born. I was a Ford baby, lol

[Motown_Johnny]

5. I got to watch the helicopter fly away

On a family vacation, I was 9. Our hotel room didn't face toward the White House so I couldn't see it take off but I remember watching it fly away.

We were also driving back up to Michigan from Florida the day Elvis died. For a while there I thought we were cursed.

[MgtPA]

6. How well I remember this - my 21st birthday

What a gift!

[Motown_Johnny]

9. Happy 59th !

[MgtPA]

12. Thank you, Sir!

[underpants]

21. August 9th has some interesting facts about it

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_9

The Sistine Chapel
Whitman
Nixon
Manson


and some great athletes as well as Sam Elliott

[MgtPA]

24. Thanks for the list

I knew about Manson (that was my 16th), but when Jerry Garcia died, I started thinking that maybe the 9th was cursed.

Didn't know about Sam Elliott...

Thanks for the birthday wishes!

[RevStPatrick]

7. Let me tell you... I'm good!

I saw your headline, and thought "37 years ago... umm... mental math... 1975... what's today, August what? Ummm.... NIXON RESIGNED!"

On edit - we both messed up! It was 1974, 38 years ago today.
My excuse is that lacka coffee!

And then, of course, there's 67 years ago today.

[cleduc]

8. Chris Matthews referred to a Kennedy quote

last night to the effect that Kennedy said he felt sorry for Nixon because he was in a conundrum about being himself - implying he was a flip-flopper for his party. Does anyone have that quote?

I was around for Nixon. There's a lot of Nixon in Romney.

[cleduc]

20. I did find this:

From Chris Mathhews book:
http://www.sfgate.com/magazine/article/GREAT-DEBATE-3499888.php#page-2

According to (John Kenneth) Galbraith, Kennedy
"felt sorry for Nixon because he does not know who he is, and at each stop he had to decide which Nixon he is at the moment, which must be very exhausting."

Other attribute this quote to Kennedy but I've been unable to confirm it:
http://themoderatevoice.com/136039/too-many-mitts/

During the 1960 campaign, JFK said he felt sorry for Nixon: “It must be hard getting up every morning and having to decide who you’re going to be that day.”

[Freddie]

26. Awesome JFK quote!

Kinda reminds you of a certain 2012 candidate...

[mountain grammy]

10. That was a good day for me and America

but the republicons have had their revenge several times over. They regrouped, got all their rich billionaire buddies together and started a propaganda machine that only American ingenuity and wealth could could ever create. Nixon unleashed the likes of roger ailes and all the lies and venom that is fox news. What a legacy!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. In defense of Nixon....

I never thought I'd say this, but, in defense of Nixon, it was under Nixon that we got the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Title IX, and the restoration of relations with China. In retrospect, he looks downright progressive.

He was just like everyone else. There was a good side to him, and there was a bad side to him. Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, but he owned slaves. Lincoln didn't have much use for habeas corpus. You can find something not to like about everyone.

Nixon was loaded with personal vendettas galore. If he had been able not to act on those vendettas while doing the positive things he did, just imagine how much more highly regarded he would be.

OK, go ahead and jump on me now.

[KegCreekDem]

13. I've also read that he proposed a National Healthcare Plan

It is scary when Nixon looks rational compared to Robmey and company.

[MgtPA]

15. Roe v Wade happened on his watch too

I don't recall his giving a damn one way or the other.

[Wounded Bear]

17. Not so fast.....

You can trace a lot of our Health Care problem to him, too. It was under his administration IIRC, that the first HMOs were formed.

It was the first time/era when for-profit was introduced into the Medical care system in a big way. Until then, most medical care was NFP.

[Freddie]

27. In today's GOP he'd be a flaming liberal

[Doc Holliday]

14. Talk about a flashback....

I was in the U.S. Army stationed in Seoul, Korea and working at the 8th Army Communications Center when Nixon resigned. Very busy night-- flash messages going all over the world, some of them deliverable only by hand. We'd all been following Watergate (within the limits of what Armed Forces TV would show us), but this took most everybody by surprise...even some general officers opined at the time that they never thought he'd quit.

But it all worked out-- a few weeks later I got to meet President Ford when he came to visit.

[muntrv]

16. Actually it should be 38 years ago today. Nixon resigned on 8/8/74. 37 years would be 1975.

[MgtPA]

19. 8/9/74. He announced his intention on 8/8 to resign the following day (8/9)

[slackmaster]

18. Arithmetic FAIL. That was 38 years ago, not 37.

The 37th anniversary of Nixon's resignation was last year.

[underpants]

22. Sorry

you are right. Damn that accounting degree!!

[lunatica]

25. You can still go back and edit your OP

There's no time limit in DU3

[catbyte]

30. I took my mom out to the swankiest restaurant in town for her 50th birthday

(dad was working that night), and somebody brought a TV to the restaurant. My everlasting memory of Nixon's resignation speech is watching it while eating escargot and duck a la'orange, LOL.

I miss my mom!



Diane
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