Where were you 40 years ago this evening when President Richard M. Nixon resigned?

[LibertyLover]

59. I was in Capetown, South Africa

with my mom. We were on vacation and heading to Kenya and Tanzania but first the tour went to South Africa and (at the time) Rhodesia. The tour split for a couple of days - some people went to Kruger National Park and the rest of us headed to Capetown. Mom figured since we were going to the parks in Kenya and Tanzania on safari, seeing Capetown was a better idea. It was lovely and we got to visit some of the vineyards and sample Cape wine. Very good even back then. Anyway, we'd been following the drama via the BBC on tv and found it very interesting that the news readers were so very dispassionate about the news, that is until after Tricky Dicky resigned. Then the gloves came off and from the way the news readers savaged him, you would have thought that he had been responsible for all the ills of the world instead of only about 50%. We had a couple and her sister on the tour from Pennsylvania. They were rock-ribbed Republicans and let everyone know that Nixon was innocent and a near deity and was going to rise above this witch hunt, etc. That is until he resigned. We watched them drink their dinner that night in the hotel's bar. Meanwhile mom and I had wine with our dinner and toasted Nixon's departure.