Eldergays:: tell me what you remember of Watergate

Rosemary Woods as the ULTIMATE frau.

Republicans thinking James McCord set them up.

I remember how pissed my Mom was that DOOL was constantly preempted.

Ask Archie Bunker

I was 10-11, when the hearings occurred. I can remember coming home from school and seeing my mother watching them on TV. My parents kept up with the news, read the papers al the time, and they were very political. My Dad was more of a Nixon supporter. My Mom was very much against him. They would have heated discussions at the dinner table about politics. I remember the so-called Saturday Night Massacre. It was a big deal. And I remember adults being very shocked when Nixon resigned.

No one really knew much about Ford. I remember it being a big deal when Betty Ford was hospitalized for breast cancer. Another big deal was when she came out in an interview in support of abortion rights. She was asked, as I recall, whether she would support her daughter's decision to have one.

There are certain markers that people remember in their lives, like where they were when they heard about Pearl Harbor, FDR's death, and the Kennedy assassination.

I'm 56. For me, it's:

Vietnam (I can remember the news broadcast would end with the number of killed, wounded, and M. I. A. that day) and the fall of Saigon, Nixon's resignation, the attempt on Reagan's life (I remember the attempts on Ford's life, but the attempt on Reagan was more serious), the Challenger disaster, Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Oklahoma City bombing, and 9/11.

People took the impeachment hearings of Nixon much more seriously. The decisive politics of today has destroyed that seriousness.

I can't believe Nixon agonized over Archie Bunker's degeneration.

R6 I think the 14 seconds of beep are Nixon admitting to having a homosexual encounter.

There's a tendency for all boys to be gay? Yeah...

My dad taking a picture of the TV during Nixon’s resignation speech.

I now think the erased part of the tapes revealed Nixon's meddling in the Paris Peace Talks which was treason.

That it is honorable to Deep Throat.

Though I was 8 years old, I swear I remember this, but can find no proof online. It is the weird detail that like Kleenex and Jello, Xerox had become a genericization, meaning the trademark product name becomes so synonymous with it that people just call it that. During the trial Xerox had lawyers there and every time someone said “such and such documents were Xeroxed,” they had it clarified as being photocopied so their product wouldn’t be maligned with the trial. Does anyone else recall this?

Bump!

Everytime Nixon's name was mentioned my little sister would say I am not a crook. One night she fell asleep in front of the TV while the news was on. My dad nudged her when they said Nixon's name and she mumbled I am not a crook in her sleep.

Sometimes she would meld her brilliant Nixon impersonation with her Ed Sullivan impersonation. She was a funny little kid. When Nixon resigned she said "Well goodbye crook". Everyone made fun of Nixon.

The hearings were on live TV day after day after day, preempting just about all daytime TV. It pretty much consumed 1973.

Was this a secret coded message to your future sister from a time traveling Nixon R13