50 years ago, today, Nixon resigned

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[rsdsharp]

1. Yeah, but his mother was a saint!

He was so loaded they had to pour him into the chopper.

[fierywoman]

2. I was in graduate school and working at a republican country club on Long Island, a club that

Bebe Rebozo belonged to. (I drove a yellow VW Beetle with and IMPEACH NIXON bumper sticker on the back.) The night he resigned, the staff and the members were gathered around a small tv set. The members were crying and the staff was cheering.

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3. Ah - Bebe.

Nixon's boyfriend, allegedly.

I'm bi myself (and by myself!) - and I know what it feels like to worry that your "other side" will be noticeable to others.

I can only imagine that same feeling for a prominent, 60 year-old GOP politician - and in the early 1970s.

As Tim Walz might say, people should learn to mind their own damn business - something Nixon could've stood to learn (to say nothing of his pal Hoover!).

Thanks for the anecdote, fierywoman. Nothing like first-person knowledge.

[anamnua]

9. Wow! Was he gay? NT

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11. Bi - allegedly

George H.W. Bush as well - so it was said (Kitty Kelly, for instance, wrote about an alleged relationship he had with one of the Secret Service agents).

A lot of "straight" men are - myself included (though I never act on it).

As I like to say: I'm bi, myself - and by myself.

[electric_blue68]

4. Omg, I love this! Baaaaahahahaaaaaaa! TY.

[LeftInTX]

5. Sad.Mainly because it was 50 years ago

I don't know why it makes me sad. Wasn't really sad at that time. I had lost interest by that time. .

But remembering that humid night was now 50 years ago makes me sad. Maybe because there have been so many political scandals since. Maybe because we were more innocent back then. Etc etc.

So much has changed... We had Tricky Dick, then eventually Donald Dump. We now have the most corrupt Supreme Court ever. Good overcame evil that day. Now idiocity and evil prevail.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Yes I remember that

[struggle4progress]

7. I was working on a ranch that day. It was my job to get a few guys together

and slaughter a cow. We got the cow in the slaughterhouse chute okay --- and then it jumped over an eight foot wall (really!) and ran away across the range. So we went after it in an old pickup. The irrigator killed it with a 22 head shot. Now we were a mile or more from the slaughterhouse with a dead cow on the ground. Somehow, after gigantic efforts, we finally got the carcass up onto the truckbed and drove back to butcher it. Afterwards, very tired, I walked back to the dorm to change clothes and shower. That's when I learned Tricky Dick had resigned.The events of that afternoon always seemed oddly metaphorical

[LeftInTX]

8. That is a weird one.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. And Roger Stone wept . . . . .

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12. To say nothing of poor Gordon Liddy

He was so mad, he could eat a rat.