Nixon Resigns August 9, 1974

[Jack Rabbit]

Image: Editorial cartoon by Herblock in The Washington Post
from the website of the Library of Congress

[liberal N proud]

1. :

[Stoic]

2. And 3 days later I was eligible to vote. n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. I remember that day well

[Hekate]

4. I cheered. I was only sorry the SOB didn't wait for full impeachment. Across from the White House...

... it was reported that a group of protestors started singing "Ding-dong, the Witch is dead," which the reporter thought "surreal." I didn't think it was surreal at all.

We had no idea then of the length and breadth of Nixon's evil shadow over the land: his White House spawned the likes of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, those believers in the Imperial Presidency who swore "Never again," as in never again would they allow a president to be taken down for trying to rule as Nixon had.

Hekate

[Martin Eden]

5. Dick Nixon before he dicks you.

I was between my junior & senior years of high school, and Tricky's resignation instilled at least some confidence that our system worked.

Not so much with CheneyBush not impeached and not in prison.

[beac]

6. We were on a family vacation at the beach and my dad went out and

rented a TV so that we could watch it.

[supernova]

7. I remember it well

I had just turned 12 the previous month.

I sat and made a "tricky dicky" cartoon out of crayons while the press conference was on. Having watched the hearings with an intnsity very unusual for a 12 year old, I felt a giddy sense of relief that he would be gone.