nixon leaves office-9 aug 1974

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5. i drove to my mother's to watch him go down;

i was going to enjoy the schadenfreude...but she ruined it for me by weeping and claiming he was the best president we'd ever had.

i used to think today's republican party would disgust her, but i don't know anymore. she may have fallen prey to the propaganda as so many formerly reasonable people have done. we'll never know as she has been dead since the year Reagan was elected.