at a bar in southern NH with a full complement of Nixon haters, drinking one of my first legal beers. I had been marching against the war in cities of the NE for some time before that and was happy to watch it. Interestingly, everyone was watching and flipping him off and calling him names with "Get out of our House!" and "Good F&*^ing Riddance" ringing out in true New Englander fashion from time to time. As soon as the words "...I resign" came out, the whole bar erupted in loud cheering, it was standing room only and people standing outside. Must have been over a hundred of us in that little bar watching history with a beer. We all saw it as a good day for the country and a righteous event in honor of all our brothers who were drafted and didn't make it back or the ones who did but not in one piece... I knew several from our area. New Englanders took their politics very seriously then, I don't suppose that's changed much since.
In hind-sight though, as my Native American companions say, he did a lot for them and their ability to be real citizens, and he did sign the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act... Makes me wonder just why he did those things when he was hell bent on enriching the polluters and war racketeers.
I thought Ford was a low-class shill and always will for his pardoning the toad... we were robbed of justice, just like now with the Wall St. crapola we have been paying for for all these years.
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