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Subject: THE DAY RICHARD NIXON RESIGNED
Does anyone here know the month and day Richard Nixon resigned? I know the year but I don't remember the date.
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August 9, 1974
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speaking of that,My Mother still has that newspaper from when Richard Nixon called it quits from August 1974.And think of it,almost 30 years ago,it still has that "yellowy"smell.
Howard
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Now, if others would only follow his lead...
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Now, if others would only follow his lead...
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Yeah, I know! I wish that Saddam and Castro would just give it up so the world can be a better place.
Subject: Re: THE DAY RICHARD NIXON RESIGNED
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August 9, 1974
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I remember it well
I was on holidays with my parents in New Zealand.
FB :)
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I remember it well
I was on holidays with my parents in New Zealand.
FB :)
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I was 6 months old when he resigned. ;D
Howard
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I was 3 years old when Nixon resigned.
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August 1974-have no idea what I was doing. It was summer so I was probably out playing. I had no idea what was going on in the world at the time.
Cat
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I was 7 inches from the television screen when Nixon gave his resignation speech. I remember thinking it was the weirdest. You look make at it now and wonder what all the fuss was about. When it was happening you knew he had to go, and if he hadn't resigned he would have been impeached and removed by an overwhelming majority.
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I was 8 years old, I remeber it was a big deal. I also remeber every time we went to Grandma and Grandpa's house Grandpa would have the watergate hearings on the TV. Not very entertaining at 8.
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I was 7 inches from the television screen when Nixon gave his resignation speech. I remember thinking it was the weirdest. You look make at it now and wonder what all the fuss was about. When it was happening you knew he had to go, and if he hadn't resigned he would have been impeached and removed by an overwhelming majority.
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Subject: Re: THE DAY RICHARD NIXON RESIGNED
1974 was way before cable, so there was no CNN, no MSNBC. Just the Big Three and a local station or two. Broadcasting the Senate Watergate hearings was an extremely unusual event.
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August 1974-have no idea what I was doing. It was summer so I was probably out playing. I had no idea what was going on in the world at the time.
Cat
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Don't feel bad, Cat, I graduated high school in '74 and I "had no idea what was going on in the world at the time" either. ::) I think that anyone who was a teenager at that time has a much more cynacil look at our "leaders" and the government in general, today, though. And I don't mean to nitpick Steve, but cable was around in '74. It was pre CNN, but we did have cable in prehistoric times. :D
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And I don't mean to nitpick Steve, but cable was around in '74. It was pre CNN, but we did have cable in prehistoric times. :D
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N'uh-uh. Did we? In the Twin Cities we had the three networks, public television and an independent station... but I don't remember cable at all before 1980 or so.
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No cable in my neighborhood until '84 or so, sumb!tches! I remember my dad had it in the later 70's but that's my 1st recollection.
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N'uh-uh. Did we? In the Twin Cities we had the three networks, public television and an independent station... but I don't remember cable at all before 1980 or so.
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I am pretty sure we had cable by about 1970 or 1971...
As for Nixon's resignation, I remember it well because there was a movie I had been waiting all week to watch and da*n Nixon pre-empted it! >:(
Subject: Re: THE DAY RICHARD NIXON RESIGNED
Darn, you guys have a better memory than I do. Here's a link with a short history of cable television:
http://www.telecom.ksu.edu/cable/history.html
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N'uh-uh. Did we? In the Twin Cities we had the three networks, public television and an independent station... but I don't remember cable at all before 1980 or so.
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Uh huh. We did. Maybe it's that I'm on, or near the east coast but I remember distinctly. A good friend of mine went to work for the fledgling cable company in our area and introduced me to the world of illeagle HBO. I had to subscribe to cable and he gave me a little condenser that I hooked up between my cable and the TV that descrambled HBO. I'm burnt and theres a lot that I don't remember about the '70s but I do remember my cable TV. ;)
Subject: Re: THE DAY RICHARD NIXON RESIGNED
Cable was developed somewhere in Pennsylvania a couple years after WWII. I don't remember getting it for myself until '86, '87, something like that.
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Our family had cable for 17 years and cable today,has changed our way of how we watch TV these days.
Howard