Did you see the Watergate hearings at the time?

[cally]

I did as a young child. What I remember is that it dominated the news and was discussed constantly. My parents supported Nixon at the time. We were on a camping vacation during the last one with the tapes. I have a vivid recollection of going into a small store and all the adults were very concerned and talking about the tapes.

What is your memory?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. I was in college in New Jersey

On days when it was a short day, I had the TV on.

[KarenS]

2. I was a young stay-at-home Mom with 2 kiddos,,,,

I watched all the hearings. Crocheted, mended clothes & ironed while watching,,,, I was riveted.
I was born & raised in a Republican/Libertarian household,,,, I had voted for Nixon,,,,,

[badhair77]

3. A friend and I watched every day.

Then we actually attended the day Patrick Gray was questioned. Exciting stuff. We waited all morning to be admitted to the afternoon session.

[brooklynite]

4. That only one network covered it at a time...

The others went with soap operas and game shows.

[Takket]

5. i wasn't born yet........

so this is my first real experience with "live primetime" hearing

[Wounded Bear]

6. Missed them...

Just did a rough timeline and near as I can remember I was overseas at the time, aboard the carrier USS Forrestal wandering around the Mediterranean Sea from late 1972 through Mid 1973. Not a lot of TV there, and def no live coverage. Don't remember a lot of news coverage either. Pre internet, of course.

[GoodRaisin]

21. I was in the Mediterranean when he resigned.

USS Mississinewa. I remember us refueling the Forrestal.

[Wounded Bear]

31. Literally ships passing in the night...

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. I had just started working full time, so missed them.

I've always regretted that.

[Raven]

8. John Dean with his wife sitting behind him. n/t

[Hekate]

9. I was in my 20s, still living in Honolulu, and a fervent Democrat

I kept some of the newspapers, all these years.

[Walleye]

10. I can't remember whether I was a student, or had a job that got off early

But I remember very clearly. Every time I hear John Dean on TV is voice takes me right back to that hearing room. I think I was living in Los Angeles at the time. I remember the Alex Butterfield moment and the 18 minute gap. Good times

[LastDemocratInSC]

11. Yes, in my early 20s.

My memories of it? At times it was difficult to see the TV because of all the smoke.

[moonscape]

12. I did. Just graduating from

Univ and starting my 1st job in Manhattan. Was riveted, not just by the content, but admit to being mesmerized by Maureen Dean’s perfect hair (okay, riveted but distractible…) and our long-time family friend Sam Ervin.

[yardwork]

13. Very similar.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

14. Yes, in my 20's. After all was said and done, the pictures of Nixon...

boarding Marine one to leave forever was/is my fondest memory of that era.

[MoonlightHillFarm]

15. Watching Watergate

I was out of college, working part time. I watched every day from beginning to end. I came from a liberal politically aware family, so had followed Nixon from the time he vilified Helen Gahagan Douglas as a pink lady (communist). I hated him. I followed Watergate from the break in, and couldn’t believe people voted hm in for a second term.

Decades later I went to the Government Book Store in Portland, OR to buy the complete Watergate transcripts but couldn’t afford them

[Skittles]

16. all I remember

is yelling at my brothers who were playing cards, THE FUCKING PRESIDENT RESIGNED! NIXON QUIT HIS JOB!

[csziggy]

17. I was in college and my first vote for President was in 1972

I couldn't believe people were so stupid as to vote for Nixon - again. My friends and I got together to watch the daily rehash of the hearing, and some of watched them during the day in between classes. The day he announced his resignation we threw a massive party. I don't remember him getting on the helicopter to fly out of DC, but I enjoyed the version of it in this movie:

[BuddhaGirl]

20. Fun movie!

Need to give it another watch soon!

[Bucky]

24. Love this movie

When I was teaching US and world history, I'd show this to my kids right after finals. I always make sure that I had educated them enough about the cast of characters and about 70s fashions so they'd get the jokes.

[Tree Lady]

18. Watched every day as a teen with my dad

While he yelled at tv. He died right before Gore lost. So glad he missed Bush and Trump would have had heart attacks with both.

[MN2theMax]

19. I was maybe in sixth grade

My father, who was a professor at local university watched the hearings all the way through and did his own court-style sketches of the cast of characters. Damn I wish I still had those drawings.
I am also glad that he did not have to live through our present drama. It would have driven him over the edge. Trump and the current fascist party would have deeply wounded his liberal soul.

[UTUSN]

22. Forget my memory, am resenting you were "a young child"!1

But since the topic is memories:

Mesmerized, incredulous that lifelong bogeyman Tricky was finally and actually going down, ecstacy.

And the false belief the worst forever. Then came RAYGUN, BFEE, DRUMPF.

Never celebrate too soon.

[Bucky]

23. I do recall that. I was 10 that summer.

I remember what a character Sam Ervin was coming out of the Senate hearings. He was our fave. We were from Houston, so we were also really proud of Barbara Jordan. She was a force majeure. It's so sad that health concerns cut her brilliant career short.

We were also camping about that time, so my parents and uncles and aunts would gather around a small b&w TV in one of the cabins. As we drove home, we listened to Gerald Ford getting sworn in over the radio.

[crickets]

27. I adored Barbara Jordan.

The speech she made is a classic. It's so sad her health kept her from serving on SCOTUS. Clinton really wanted to appoint her, but she just couldn't do it.

[Mr.Bill]

25. I took LSD about a hundred times

that year and I turned 21 and started drinking, so it's a little fuzzy. I mainly remembered reading what Hunter S. Thompson wrote about it in Rolling Stone.

[crickets]

26. I was young (grade school age) and didn't pay as much attention as I should have.

I do remember reading about it more than watching the hearings because they seemed so boring at the time. My mother was really into it. She invited friends over, ran an extension cord outside to the patio, and rolled a black and white tv out on a rickety stand. She and her friends sat under big umbrellas and watched hour after hour, drinking gallons of sweet tea with mint from the garden.

I just remember it was everywhere, all over the papers, Time, and other news magazines. I think even MAD magazine was all over it. Because my parents, their friends, and frankly everybody was so engaged with the scandal, the swirl of names and never ending gossip of who did what hung over everything in my little world for months on end.

That summer I was at camp when the news came. A counselor walked through the mess hall with a newspaper held high: "NIXON RESIGNS." It was kinda wild.

eta: great topic, cally.

[Retrograde]

28. Didn't have a tv, but listened to the radio coverage

I was working as a lab tech in college, and one of my co-workers (head of the local SDS) always tuned the lab radio to the hearings. No one objected.

[SharonClark]

29. It was after my first year of college and I was

home for the summer. I watched the hearings religiously. Barbara Jordan was a standout,

[TomSlick]

30. I was in high school. I was fascinated by the reporting on the hearing.

I am yet to forgive Ford for pardoning Nixon. Now TFG makes Nixon look like a piker.

[walkingman]

32. It was my Senior year of college and we would all get together, get loaded and watch

the hearings - seemed like every evening. Those were some tumultuous times. Vietnam, OPEC oil crisis, Wounded Knee, Layoffs were everywhere, Great Rock&Roll, $10 lid....even with all of that I think it was the best years of my life - so much comradery...not like these days.

[Stuart G]

33. I watched all of it. I even showed one of the hearings to my students in high school in that year

....I worked for McGovern in 72, and I watched him lose by the largest margin in history

What I remember more than anything is Woodard and Bernstein's reporting and their analysis of the story. I even
attended a conference at the University of Chicago where the two were speaking. What I recall about Watergate
is that I hated Nixon more than anyone. He was a liar and a crook...(just like Trump is) What I recall, was this
feeling that he must be guilty, and that some how he needs to pay the price.

...Also, I recall that gradually all the dirt came out. Some quickly some slowly, and when all the dirt was presented,
I knew that Nixon would somehow lose. Why? because deep down I knew that Nixon was guilty....
Gradually, enough evidence was presented that proved that Nixon was guilty. I watched all of Watergate from
beginning to end. And after a while, I knew that Nixon was guilty.

..It wasn't just the tapes, it was the cumulation of evidence that was presented during the hearings. One thing
after another, after another and more. The Watergate Hearings proved that Nison was guilty. All the evidence was.............
........ ...A SOLID MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE !!!!.........................

The cumulation of evidence about what Trump has done will be exactly the same.

It isn't a little bit of evidence. Like Watergate, it was a whole lot of evidence. John Dean's presentation and
his facts as he talked were especially powerful. I believe that we will hear exactly the same from those that
followed Trump. The truth is easy to see. Trump is a liar and crook and Trump enjoys being so. It is who he
is. I believe that enough evidence will be presented that everyone will know what Trump was about..
..
...Trump was/is sicker than Nixon. Nixon lost it at the very end. Trump has never had it. Trump has been a
walking fool from before he was elected. But when all the evidence is finally presented by the 1/6 Hearings..it will
also be the ...........Total End of Donald Trump....and Donald Trump will lose it too, if he hasn't already lost it.
His sanity...(what is left of it, in my opinion, will be gone forever..,& forever..)
....There wasn't much left, but it will be totally gone in few weeks.....(I am no doctor, I do not know Trump....so the
above paragraphs are..............OPINIONS...JUST OPINIONS ......OF STUART G