"Tricky Dick"...."Tricky Don". Those of us old enough remember Tricky Dick Nixon. He was an

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11. Watergate

is my very first memory of anything involving the government. I remember asking my dad, who watched the hearings compulsively, "Daddy, why is the same thing on TV all the time now?" His answer: "Because, honey, the president did a very bad thing." I turned five a month before Nixon resigned.

A few months later, I learned about Jimmy Carter from my "Howard the Duck" comic books and I fell head over heels in (platonic!) love with that decent, honest man. I followed the 1976 election and was ecstatic when Jimmy won! That was the genesis of my becoming a lifelong Democrat!