Effective at Noon Today...it will have been 30 years

[underpants]

[swag]

1. an hour and fifteen minutes from now

Tonight I'll get out my tape of Nixon speeches.

"I remember my old man . . ."

[Dookus]

2. I shall have a cocktail at the ready

to toast the moment.

[Ironpost]

5. Mine will be a Pig's Eye beer

[Ironpost]

3. That Richard Milhouse Nixon resigned the presidency.

I remember the day well as I graduated from trade school.

[underpants]

6. I was 6 so I don't remember it-didn't watch it

but I do remember going over to a friends house a year or so before that and his father sitting in a dark den watching TV-a bunch of men in suits were talking about something and I asked what "Watergate" and I had no idea what that meant.

[Gman]

4. Hopefully this will soon be the second happiest day in US history

Second to Bush losing in November.

[KC21304]

7. I don't know if you are looking for comments from

some of us old foggies who were witnesses to this, so to speak, but here goes.

Of course I had no way of taping off the tv in those days so I decided to audio tape from the radio. As our local station was waiting for the press conference to start they played music and the one I have on the tape was the theme from " Sting." I loved that song anyway but now when I hear it I always think of the day we got rid of the crook. I still have the cassette tape.

[underpants]

10. Yes I am

I guess I should have framed the subject line differently. Very interesting that you still have the tape.

[Skidmore]

8. And this country is still suffering his legacy...

how many old Nixon people are involved in decision making in this administration. Richard Milhouse Nixon--the gift that keeps on giving.

[underpants]

15. True but in today's political world Nixon would be *gasp* a liberal

or so the case can be made

EPA founded in his Presidency
Space Shuttle program began (massive spending/science)
Roe v. Wade-abortion became legal
Got us out of Vietnam (okay sort of)
Normalization of diplomatic relations with China and the Soviet Union-internationalism
SALT talks...ABM
Voting opened up to 18 year olds
FROZE PRICES-definitely not "hands off" Laissez faire type stuff
Lowered the speed limit to save gas
Clean Air/Clean Water Act?

http://www.wikisearch.net/en/wikipedia/r/ri/richard_nixon.html#Major%20legislation%20signed


http://userpages.umbc.edu/~cgehrm1/pres_site/presidents/rn.html

[Dover]

9. Apparently those who weren't 'healed' became 'born....again'

The shrub should follow by example.

[demnan]

11. I remember it

I still couldn't quite believe it was true! I was so happy. I always hated Nixon.

By the way, this O'Neill fellow who wrote the ant-Kerry book, isn't he one of Chuck Colson's goons?

[MrBenchley]

14. Yup...

There's still a bunch of the old Nixon dirty tricks crew banging around the GOP...Lucianne Goldberg was one of them...

[displacedtexan]

12. I lit a candle for Senator Sam Ervin...

When will there come such another?

[MrBenchley]

13. Hope he's munching a turd in hell...

Nixon was a disgrace in every way...