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PoindexterOglethorpe

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3. I was living in the DC area during Watergate,

Reply to BlueSpot (Original post)

Sun Oct 4, 2020, 11:29 PM

Oct 2020

working at DCA as a ticket agent.

The final few days before Nixon resigned were surreal. The night he gave his resignation speech the airport essentially shut down entirely. Planes did not pull away from the gates because the pilots, flight attendants, and passengers all wanted to see what he said. The main terminal, where I worked was as dead as if it were 3am.

I wonder what the mood in DC is like now.

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