How many here watched the Nixon watergate hearings?

[shraby]

Once a hearing is started about Russia, it not only can widen, but it will as more players are dragged into the pile.

You'll hear more claiming the 5th amendment then you can believe. You'll also hear more lies than you thought possible, then one by one they are shot down. It will be like Condi Rice admitting to the August PDB every day, once it gets started.

Don't miss it. It will be worth the watch.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Watch most of them.

And the smell does not go away yet today.

[Mr.Bill]

2. I agree,

but in a sense, it was a cleansing.

[shraby]

3. You're absolutely right.

It even still taints everything.

[Wellstone ruled]

12. Simiply the Democrats allowed

the incomplete process of Impeachment to go to fruition . Nixon walked away.

[shraby]

16. That was due to Ford being in office at the time and giving Nixon a pardon.

[Wellstone ruled]

17. And the Democratic Party was put on Notice,

you got one of ours,next we take one of yours.

[KittyWampus]

4. Ultimately the conversation will turn to what kompromat Russia got from the RNC and Republicans.

Once it's broadly known that Russia hacked and withheld info on Republicans... it only remains to know what they got.

I think all RNC emails should be released to the public.

[shraby]

8. There's been a bad smell wafting from Washington for a long time.

Maybe this will help get rid of it and the players who are stinking up the joint.

[csziggy]

5. I did - and kept thinking, "I KNEW he wasa crook!" nt

[lagomorph777]

36. I remember it too.

One could also look at the Benghazi/email probes, which caused tremendous damage based on far less actual wrongdoing than either Watergate or 9/11.

Once the media starts to make money on the hearings, they will take on a life of their own.

[Ligyron]

56. Me too!

I wonder who their John Dean will be?

We already know who's their Rosemary is.

[BigDemVoter]

6. Not all, but I watched a good bit.

The end result was my favorite--Nixon going back to California in shame. Although now that I think about it, I don't think he was ashamed at all.

I remember as related above, the claims of taking the 5th, etc. . . . I don't have ANY objective evidence to support my theory, but I do BELIEVE that Herr tRump will not make it through 4 years.

[GP6971]

7. I watched them all. n/t

[Tanuki]

9. I just wish there was more time for this to play out and that Trump would be

exposed as a fraud and a cheat, as he will be, before the electors meet.

[CincyDem]

10. Watched almost every day.

Got out of school at 2:00pm so I was home for much of the afternoon session. If it was particularly juicy, I usually talked my folks into cutting class. Worth every second.

I'm not sure how I felt about it at the time but looking back on it, my sense is that it was a bunch of guys working to keep the system from being corrupt. Pretty sure that today's partisanship driven my R's "party first, country next" view of the world would ever let something like this happen again. I really do believe it was a once in a lifetime experience.

Would love to be wrong. Would love to see the American government - as represented by both sides of the aisle - outraged that a foreign power, particularly THIS foreign power, was f'ing with our elections.

[MineralMan]

11. Much of the hearing about Russia will be closed.

Too much classified information for a public hearing. It may be the Intelligence Committee who hears it, in which case almost all of it will be closed and not broadcast.

[shraby]

13. I don't think that will play in Peoria so to speak.

There is going to be a hue and cry to make them open. Not only from the public, but the media as well.
They can deal with how to use the classified material in the best way, but most of the hearing should be open.

[MineralMan]

19. It doesn't have to "play in Peoria," frankly.

And whatever "hue and cry" that goes up will be countered with reference to classified materials that will presented at any such hearing. Pretty much the entire hearing will deal with classified information, and so can't be conducted in public.

That's not how I'd like it to be, but I suspect strongly that is how it will be. We will have to depend on our Democratic members of Congress or Senators to make sure it's all on the up and up. Congress has a long-standing habit of ignoring the "hue and cry" of the public, particularly when there is no election coming up soon.

Our control of Congress is limited to voting for those who represent us. We can communicate with Congress, but there is no law requiring that Congress listens to us.

[eleny]

14. Me, too shraby

As they were happening "back in the day".

If they're on the web - go find them and watch! Amazing things can happen in this government even in a time when people are busy or just glued to Twitter. Resist the short attention span for which you are being groomed.

Real things happen when Congress asks the tough questions because people are interested enough in their future to become engaged.

[benld74]

15. Yes

[TXCritter]

18. They interrupted my cartoons.

I hated them for that.

[mopinko]

24. i was gonna say they interrupted my soaps. no dark shadows. grrr.

i didnt hate 'em, tho. i was cheering.

[nini]

28. No Dark Shadows?!?!?!?!

That is completely unacceptable.. I used to run home from school not to miss Barnabas

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

71. Must have been repeats

The show was cancelled in 1971.

[NewJeffCT]

40. I remember that as well

That's probably why I grew up not liking Republicans and Nixon! I would come home from school and Watergate would be on the TV and not my afternoon cartoons.

[TXCritter]

64. We are the lost generation :)

[shraby]

20. Another thing that happened which could happen in this when it gets

started.
During questioning, it inadvertently came out that there was a machine that recorded conversations in Nixon's office that wasn't common knowledge.

That led to the "gap in the tape" because of Rosemary Woods.

[hatrack]

25. Alexander Porter Butterfield!

That's when shit got real - "Tapes? Oh really?"

My first real political memories growing up were Watergate and the fall of Vietnam.

And people wonder why I'm sort of pessimistic by nature . . .

[cwydro]

21. I remember those well.

I hope this Russia thing gets a hearing.

[TheDebbieDee]

22. I remember. I was 12 or 13 @ the time...

and I was pissed that my soap operas were pre-empted to show the Watergate Hearings...

[Greybnk48]

23. Yep. i was in my 20's and remember

especially John Dean and the phrase, "at that moment in time."

[vlyons]

26. I watch - way back when

I was fascinated by the hearings. It seems that the Republicans have been in pay-back mode ever since. The lesson that the GOP learned was DON'T GET CAUGHT. So now they rig state elections to gerrymander and suppress the vote.

[Coyotl]

55. Yes, they are still in payback mode and their hatred for Hillary starts with her work on the Comm.

Hillary was one of the incredibly brilliant attorneys who brought Nixon down, and they will never forgive that. They are still passing around false information about her on it, using this photo for them.

[NRaleighLiberal]

27. Me. Unforgettable.

[Scruffy1]

29. There is a big difference here.

During Watergate the Democratic Party controlled both houses.

[NewJeffCT]

43. yes, and by big margins

58-42 in the Senate and I think Democrats had around 250 House seats. There were also liberal Republicans at the time: Lowell Weicker of Connecticut made a name for himself with his tough questioning of Republicans. Joe Lieberman beat him years later by running to Weicker's right.

[Atman]

30. Me. Every day, all the time.

You couldn't get away from them back then. Of course, we only had three or four real channels, and the major three networks aired the hearings live. Didn't matter where you went, from a local diner to the barber shop, it was the only thing on tv. It was pretty huge stuff.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

31. I did and nothing that has ever happened is more distressing and fearful than right now.

I felt then that we would come out okay in the end.

Even when the Idiot Son stole the election, while it bothered me deeply it didn't lead me to a sense of palpably deep concern that is beginning to border on a fear for the survival of our freedom as the unhinged behavior of this egomaniac is doing today.

[barbtries]

46. that's it.

we are in real danger here! our democracy, our rights, our lives.

[Retrograde]

32. Didn't have a TV, but

listened to the hearings on the radio. I was working with one of the leaders of the local SDS, doing grunt lab tech work, and the lab manager had no problems with us listening.

[spanone]

33. watched it like a hawk...

we danced!.....

[flor-de-jasmim]

34. Yes, as often as possible.

[Fichefinder]

35. Where is a Senator Sam Ervin when you need one?

Democrat from North Carolina, He was a constitutional scholar and the hero of the Watergate hearings. He was, to my recollection, the first one that asked "What did you know, and when did you know it". We watched it every day in history class in High School.

[blue neen]

51. I think Sen. Howard Baker is the one who asked the question

"What did the President know and when did he know it?".

[duffyduff]

66. It was him. n/t

[procon]

37. My dad was a stickler about getting us kids interested in current events,

or at least indoctrinating us. We watched, he explained, opined and commented... oh, and there will be a pop quiz during dinner. In between our studied indifference, the eyerolls, heaving sighs and fidgeting, we all managed to learn something in spite of ourselves. Now I dutifully plop my old keester down in front of the TV and eagerly adsorb all the unbelievable current events of the bizarre era that I live in now. It's better than reading a suspense novel, and I carry on the family tradition of catcalls, raspberries, boos and even the odd cheering applause.

Thanks, Pops!

[get the red out]

41. My Grandfather

I would go to my Grandparents' house after school and he made sure I sat there and watched the hearings. He told me "You will study this in school", he always told me Nixon was a crook too. That man HATED Nixon.

[whathehell]

38. I watched some. n/t.

[gademocrat7]

39. Watched all of it.

Will never forget those hearings.

[TrishaJ]

42. Count me in. I remember them very

well. I still remember the day the Republicans in the House turned on Nixon. He resigned the next day.

[Stuart G]

44. I remember John Dean testifying, and thinking, "I wonder if there if proof to what he is saying..."

His testimony was so different than what the Nixon White House said......but there was an "honest feel" and details which were totally believable ..So, it came out that there was "proof" and John Dean was telling the truth and the entire Nixon crew lied, and many went to jail..

[barbtries]

45. i did.

not every second, just every second that i could. i was a senior in high school.

[kimbutgar]

47. I did but I doubt our current corporate media would broadcast these hearings

[Mike Nelson]

48. Repubicans control Congress...

...so I don't expect any similar hearings against Republicans. The do like Pence, though, so maybe articles of impeachment could be proposed. Not a big chance, but possible. And, with Pence, we're still doomed.

[Coyotl]

49. Every last word of it. It was so incredible to see Nixon get his due. Thanks Hillary.

[MFM008]

50. Saw they were on

My dad watched some of them but I remember thinking how boring.......

[CentralMass]

52. We analyzed them in my 6th grade citizenship class.

We had a great teacher. They dont even offer the class these days. We were paired in tbe class and my team mate and i guessed thst he would resign (luck and politically engaged parents helped).

However i recal there were 3 articles of impeachment.
I think the first was obstruction of justice and rhe second eas abuse of power and i forgot the third.

[George II]

53. I watched them when I could, and when they were on during the day spent my lunch hour....

....in the car listening to them.

I want to remind people that they were a great lesson in patriotism and bipartisanship. Republicans were just as interested in finding out the truth as Democrats, and it was Lowell Weiker (Republican at the time) who was most incisive with his questioning, and it was Barry Goldwater who visited Nixon and told him it was over.

I just hope that republicans this time around are as interested in justice as they were 40 years ago.

[Gore1FL]

54. I was but a schoolchild at the time, but I remember them being on TV. nt

[Lint Head]

57. Every moment. Compelling.

[3catwoman3]

58. I had just graduated from nursing school, and made the...

...mistake of taking a 2 semester summer class in organic chemistry, thinking I wanted to apply to med school (got scared off when I got a "C" and never did apply). So, not much time, but whenever I was home, my mom was "glued" to the TV screen.

She would watch it in real time, and the watch it again in the evening re-broadcast.

[murielm99]

59. Heck yes!

I was a Watergate junkie. I came home from work and watched the hearings on PBS until all hours of the night. Then I got up early and went to work all over again. I was exhausted. I still have all the books written about the topic.

This is so much worse.

[wryter2000]

61. I still have my copy of the Whitehouse transcripts n/t

N/t

[wryter2000]

60. Watched nearly every moment

I thought there would be hearings about Bush's many atrocities. I hope something finally happens now. We'll need more Republicans who care about the country before that happens.

[Vinca]

62. Let's hope there's a hearing that results in ManBaby boarding a helicoper ala Nixon.

[doc03]

63. It was small change compared to Russiagate! Had to get Russiagate

in there, I assume that will be what it is called.
or
Putingate
Trumpgate
Traitorgate
Shitlergate
Tweetgate
Twittergate
Hackgate

[duffyduff]

65. Watched every minute of the Ervin committee hearings.

I predicted before the election night in 1972 that Nixon would either be impeached or resign. Nobody believed me.

Guess who was right?

[UTUSN]

67. One of the highlights of my life

[lostnfound]

68. I was 10, and rushed home after school to watch them

Every day. It was fascinating, and I admired Sam Irvin and John Dean.

[Lifelong Protester]

69. Watched as much as I could!

The senators on that committee were my heroes (I have autographed pictures of all of them). I was in the audience when they were grilling L. Patrick Gray to replace Hoover. Nothing exciting until they asked him if he knew anything about the Watergate break-ins....then the cameras started rolling.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

70. Bits and pieces

What I remember most from that time was Nixon's press conference where he uttered the famous phrase "I am not a crook". Around February of 1974 or so.