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Kath2

(3,089 posts) Fri Mar 23, 2018, 12:01 AM Mar 2018

I was 15 in 1973. [View all]

The Nixon administration I hated so much. Used to wear an upside down american flag on my jeans, I was so pissed. Now, at 59, I am even more pissed off.

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I was 15 in 1973. [View all] Kath2 Mar 2018 OP

I was fifteen in 1973 as well. PatrickforO Mar 2018 #1

I, too, was born in 1958 PJMcK Mar 2018 #22

I was born in 1958 also cannabis_flower Mar 2018 #28

A vintage year gratuitous Mar 2018 #35

Yep, I sure know that feeling. We thought Nixon was bad, he's a saint compared to this disaster. n/t RKP5637 Mar 2018 #2

Nixon was no saint, he was a bigoted asshole CanonRay Mar 2018 #9

I was 9 years old in 1973. MontanaMama Mar 2018 #3

I am more pissed off then ever. Kath2 Mar 2018 #4

We're a year off each other. Laffy Kat Mar 2018 #5

So do I. Kath2 Mar 2018 #6

Me too. Tonight has been rough. Laffy Kat Mar 2018 #13

OMG, this is so awful. Kath2 Mar 2018 #14

I just graduated high school. Lifelong Protester Mar 2018 #7

I know. Kath2 Mar 2018 #10

I Graduated A Year Early In 1973 ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #32

I turned 25 that year. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2018 #8

That was nice. Kath2 Mar 2018 #11

I was 26 in 1973 Elwood P Dowd Mar 2018 #12

Only times I was there was to protest. Kath2 Mar 2018 #15

I was 18, graduating HS and cilla4progress Mar 2018 #16

Watergate was hard to follow!! LeftInTX Mar 2018 #18

I was 16 in 1973 Freddie Mar 2018 #23

I turned 17 in 1973 LeftInTX Mar 2018 #17

I was so relieved to see it over. Kath2 Mar 2018 #19

15 in 73 as well. denbot Mar 2018 #20

Trump is Nixon, but without the charm & intelligence. TheSmarterDog Mar 2018 #21

... handmade34 Mar 2018 #27

Trump isn't Nixon LeftInTX Mar 2018 #33

I am in the MFM008 Mar 2018 #24

I was in the pack, too. The Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities was huge. John1956PA Mar 2018 #25

I was 11 in 1973 Trumpocalypse Mar 2018 #26

I was 26, and still putting my life back together after having been drafted for Johnson's war... TreasonousBastard Mar 2018 #29

i was 15 also in 1973 nt CelticWinter Mar 2018 #30

I was 15 in '72 and cheered when it was announced that J. Edgar Hoover had died. Scurrilous Mar 2018 #31

I was 8 in 1973. Dulcinea Mar 2018 #34

I despised Nixon with a passion, and I knew he despised us DFW Mar 2018 #36