Where were you when Nixon resigned?

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

Ironically, we were at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas. I was 2 1/2 weeks away from my 12th birthday.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. On the couch watching it on television with my dad!

:hi: We lived in Grafton, WI at the time.

[terrya]

2. Watching it on television with my family.

We all hated Nixon. :-)

[ronnykmarshall]

32. My family liked him ...

but we all agreed he should resign.

I remember my mom being a little upset and got choked up when they showed that one picture of Nixon hugging Julie when he told them he was stepping down.

[Richardo]

3. Watching it on TV

The culmination of my High School summer Civics class (Senior Year).

We spent the whole semester watching the Watergate hearings.

[nickinSTL]

4. couldn't say...probably at home with my parents...

seeing as I turned 2 four months later :evilgrin:

[Love Bug]

5. In Navy boot camp in Orlando, FL

Didn't know what happened until we were informed we had a new Commander in Chief.

[demnan]

6. Only Democrat in my family

aged 15 and full of "I told you so's" to my family.

[Wapsie B]

7. I was at home

in Fairbank, Iowa watching on TV as the Dickster gave his last wave before boarding Marine 1.

"But he was the only one caught," this according to dear old dad.

[HereSince1628]

8. In a secure facility doing my shift at the Farm in Virginia.

[Debi]

9. I was six, so probably in the first grade

my family wasn't involved in politics AT ALL, I don't think I even knew who the President was at the time.

[Left Is Write]

10. In my living room watching it on TV.

[Tyler Durden]

11. In a van in Ann Arbor Michigan, smoking a joint....

...with a guy I just sold a car stereo to. I was working in audio sales at the time.

[Susang]

23. You were the embodiment of the seventies

I salute you! :thumbsup:

[MuseRider]

12. Sigma Phi Epsilon house with

my boyfriend and all the other guys there watching. Stunned and happy to see old Tricky Dick go away.

[MN ChimpH8R]

13. Watching it on the livign room TV with my dad,

who always said that Nixon was a shifty SOB. How right he was.

[Cathyclysmic]

14. in mom,in the fetal position

not much has changed since then, except the mom part

[MnFats]

15. with a crowd in a college dormitory lounge....

...we had been drinking in celebration most of the day. I despised that man from the time I became aware of politics at about age 12. Just desserts! But he should have gone to prison.
We had summer jobs in a canning factory. We skipped work to celebrate.
We hooted at Nixon's speech.
I had a little attic apartment.
none of us had TVs so we drifted toward the dorm, and hundreds of others were in the same boat.
there were parties that night, believe me...
AND NOTHING BAD HAS HAPPENED IN AMERICAN POLITICS SINCE THEN!

[jane_pippin]

16. Pre-concieved

eep! I think I just made up a new right wing talking point!

:spank:

[Kerrytravelers]

17. As I was born over two years AFTER nixon resigened...

I wasn't even a twinkle in my Daddy's eye yet. I guess I was still part egg in mom and part... uh-hem... in dad!

[Lowell]

18. Stationed in Germany

I was working on the missile site the night the news came in. It didn't surprise me. I thought the reactions of the Germans was interesting. They thought it was a shame for him to quit. That type of shenanigans had been going on in German politics for years and nobody just up and quit over being exposed.

I was glad to see him go. But at the same time I didn't think Dick was all that bad. He ended the war in Vietnam, opened China and his environmental record was good. He just happened to be a crook. By today's standards he would be considered a liberal republican.

[Beware the Beast Man]

19. I cried a lot that week, and shit myself.

I was 8 months old. :)

[Saphire]

20. getting ready for the" Hey, Nixon resigned" party..

[Chovexani]

21. Not even a zygote

Probably preparing for reincarnation. :)

[Adams Wulff]

22. On vacation, in the middle of a Canadian lake...

fishing with my dad.

I remember looking at him and saying "Christ, we're gone for 2 weeks, and the whole country falls apart."

I was 15.

[HughBeaumont]

24. 4, going on 5 in 12 days . . .

and far more interested in Warner Bros cartoons, popsicles and teen magazines instead of some jowly, corrupt & disgraced Repuke.

[flamingyouth]

25. Sitting watching TV. I was four.

I couldn't understand why the ugly man on TV caused my mom to drink Scotch in the afternoon and dance on the coffee table.:shrug:

[trackfan]

26. Strangely, I remember the impeachment hearings;

I remember the release of the "smoking gun" tape; I remember Goldwater and the others reportedly going to tell him the jig was up.
I do not, however, remember the actual resignation speech. (I was 14 at the time).

[sniffa]

27. dribbLing down my father's Leg?

:shrug:

[Initech]

28. I wasnt even born yet!

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

29. Watching his speech on TV with my Dad and Mom

My father was so delighted that Tricky Dick was going to resign, he used up the firecrackers left over from the 4th of July that year.

My father despised Richard Nixon...I honestly think it was one of the happiest nights of his life.

[billyskank]

30. I have no idea

I was born in 1976.

[ronnykmarshall]

31. At my grandmother's place.

My whole family was there as were my aunt & uncle & cousins.

I kept joking that he was going to come on the air talk about the economy.

[dr.zoidberg]

33. I was nonexistent.

[Xithras]

34. I was 9 days old.

I was born July 31, 1974 :)

[OldLeftieLawyer]

35. Ah, sweet memories............

It was the summer after my second year of law school. We were at our vacation house up in Maine, and that night, some old friends had come by, we had gone out for dinner, gotten stoned out of our heads, and gone back to the Norseman, an inn and bar and restaurant in Bethel, Maine, owned by other friends of ours.

The place was jammed. Everyone was waiting. We were higher than kites. Nixon came on and made his speech. The place erupted in cheers.

The four of us thought we had hallucinated it. We smoked more.

The next day, we watched his departure on a tiny black-and-white TV that got rotten reception, and simply could not believe it.

That was when I knew - all the way deep inside me and my heart and soul - that the Constitution would define my life's work. And it has.

[5thGenDemocrat]

36. In the Communications Center at Fort Monroe, VA

You'd have thought that the military would've gone on some sort of high alert, but I remember it as just another night on the ranch. No panic, no lockdowns, no nothing, really.
John
I think most of us were just glad to see the man go. I know I was.

[Rambis]

37. Watching it in the "Nixon Chair"

I still have it in my basement today and it is still my first big political memory. I was upset because Dick seemed upset.....
My father...
"Why are you crying? Don't cry for that crook! He deserves what he is getting that god damn, no good, cock sucker, son of a bitch!
I remember it like it was yesterday. My dad didn't like Nixon to much:blush:

[mnmoderatedem]

38. Funny story really

I was 9 at the time. We were in the living room of my brother's friend down the street. His mother was tape recording the broadcast of Nixon's resignation via audio cassette tape, and was adament that we kids shut up when recording. Turns out she had left a wig lying around, and we kids, being kids, decided to take turns wearing it while she was trying to record. Of course we all burst out laughing. Man, was she pissed! :)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

39. Viet Nam... probably in Hue

but, not really sure which day it was there

[Tikki]

40. On the evening of the 8th, they had given me something...

...that knocked me out... so I am sure I did not come to at the morning of the 9th....anyway, the surgery (gallbladder removal) preceded in the morning and I must have 'come to' some time in the afternoon...

I remember waking up in my hospital room and the news was on the television...

They were talking about the new President..

"Wow, we have a new President... how long have I been out?"...the nurse chuckled and filled me in on the resignation...


Tikki

[yellowdogintexas]

41. at home with my parents, and my mother cheered!!!

In Kentucky, I forgot to add, I was visiting them for the weekend

[Wetzelbill]

42. 3 months from being born....

[Spider Jerusalem]

43. A glint in my father's eye, as they say.

My parents had been married a year, and I was still three years off...my father was in the Navy, and stationed in Memphis. This would be about the time my parents went to Graceland to meet Elvis, just for the hell of it—just walked through the gate, no trouble, apparently—Elvis was in Vegas, but his uncle took them up to the house to meet his grandmother, who was apparently a very sweet old lady. :)

[entanglement]

44. wasn't even a fetus back then, the injustice of it all

;(

[AtomicKitten]

45. Blitzed

with my friends celebrating.

[unsavedtrash]

46. I was five so I was probably distracting mom as she watched the news or

outside climbing trees.

[nookiemonster]

47. 3 years old. Kinda oblivious to whoever this Nixon guy was.

Sesame Street was my idea of quality programming.

:silly: