Does anyone remember...

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...Nixon's resignation, the anniversary of which was yesterday?

I was at my summer job, playing in the pit orchestra of Fiddler on the Roof, unpacking and getting ready to take my spot with the other musicians when one of the stage managers came up to us. "Come with me. Don't tell anyone," he said sotto voce. We stared at one another and at him

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Does anyone remember...
...Nixon's resignation, the anniversary of which was yesterday?

{waves hand}

The Watergate hearings were the most fascinating thing I'd ever seen. (Hey, I was 12.) I watched them all summer. Our babysitter was torqued that her soaps had been pre-empted.

That day, I heard on the radio that Nixon was going to resign that night, and I thought, how did I miss that? The one day I didn't read the morning paper, which had it in a two-deck headline across the top of the page.

I watched the speech, and the aftermath, and I don't remember ever once being frightened or concerned, just in awe that I was watching history being made and I knew it, and glad that Nixon was gone because he didn't deserve to be president.

I think I still have the NIXON RESIGNS and NIXON PARDONED newspapers downstairs somewhere. The NIXON PARDONED cheesed me off greatly, but in retrospect, and after living through the endless Clinton impeachment stuff, Ford may have done the right thing.

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I used to know all the names of all the players. Gone now...

One was Donald ::cough:: Segretti. It was an accident.