I was 15 in 1973.

[Kath2]

The Nixon administration I hated so much. Used to wear an upside down american flag on my jeans, I was so pissed. Now, at 59, I am even more pissed off.

[PatrickforO]

1. I was fifteen in 1973 as well.

I've often told students and colleagues that 1958 was the last really good year to be born!

[PJMcK]

22. I, too, was born in 1958

Want to feel old? When we were born, there were only 48 stars on the U.S. flag!

[cannabis_flower]

28. I was born in 1958 also

You know what made me feel old. I was watching Saturday Night Live and happened to realize that they are on season 43

[gratuitous]

35. A vintage year

We got Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson, and yours truly. Three of us within a month of each other.

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, I sure know that feeling. We thought Nixon was bad, he's a saint compared to this disaster. n/t

[CanonRay]

9. Nixon was no saint, he was a bigoted asshole

But he was not insane. Trump is.

[MontanaMama]

3. I was 9 years old in 1973.

I have vivid memories of my parents watching the Watergate hearings. I recall feeling scared because my folks were so upset. Now I’m really pissed...pissed off beyond belief. This Bolton thing is terrifying however.

[Kath2]

4. I am more pissed off then ever.

And this scares the hell out of me.

[Laffy Kat]

5. We're a year off each other.

I remember it well, too. I was sort of a baby flower child back then. I honestly think this has the potential to be much worse, Kath2.

[Kath2]

6. So do I.

I was 15 in 1973. Very anti-war. Very pro-choice. I thought it could never get worse.

This is my nightmare. I fucking hate it.

[Laffy Kat]

13. Me too. Tonight has been rough.

I actually drank a little wine by myself tonight and I'm so not used to it, but I have to say it helped for a few minutes, LOL. Glad I keep some on hand.

[Kath2]

14. OMG, this is so awful.

I do smoke. But I had to have a few drinks. This sucks so much.

[Lifelong Protester]

7. I just graduated high school.

Very anti-Nixon, very anti-war, very pro-choice.



I cannot believe I STILL have to protest this sh**.

[Kath2]

10. I know.

Very sad.

I really thought things had changed.

[ProfessorGAC]

32. I Graduated A Year Early In 1973

I have a late birthday, so i was 16. Basically had the same positions as you. Probably less aware of the choice issue until sometime in college, but was never anti toward it in any way. It wasn't an evolution in my thinking just an awakening.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. I turned 25 that year.

I was astounded at what was happening, and I was rather apolitical and not terribly knowledgeable about things.

I was rather pleased that his resignation occurred on my mother's birthday.

[Kath2]

11. That was nice.

What is going on now is so horrible.

[Elwood P Dowd]

12. I was 26 in 1973

and not that far removed from when I worked in Washington - 1971-72. Always wanted to go on one of those White House tours, but I could never bring myself to go over there as long as Nixon occupied the place. The closest I came was a few pictures I made from outside the fence.

[Kath2]

15. Only times I was there was to protest.

[cilla4progress]

16. I was 18, graduating HS and

Entering college where I majored in political science. I remember watching the hearings in the HS auditorium.

I don’t believe I truly understood. My parents were progressives but never took the time to explain things to me. They were great role models though.

[LeftInTX]

18. Watergate was hard to follow!!

I just wanted a synopsis!!

My younger sister loved it. She loved all the nitty gritty procedures. She majored in pol sci and then became an attorney.

[Freddie]

23. I was 16 in 1973

True about Watergate. It just seemed to go on and on and on for years, I couldn't follow it and was too busy being a teenager. I remember my parents following it closely. They had voted for Nixon but by the time the whole thing was done they hated him and became firm Dems from that point on.

[LeftInTX]

17. I turned 17 in 1973

I wasn't all the engaged. I was just relieved that the Vietnam War was over.

[Kath2]

19. I was so relieved to see it over.

I was in love with a draft resistor who was 21.

[denbot]

20. 15 in 73 as well.

I think I’m more pissed off now though.

[TheSmarterDog]

21. Trump is Nixon, but without the charm & intelligence.

[handmade34]

27. ...

[LeftInTX]

33. Trump isn't Nixon

Nixon didn't start Vietnam.

The Pentagon Papers were also about Kennedy and Johnson.

Nixon had his dirty tricks, but his paranoia did him in.

I think Reagan and W were worse than Nixon. Much worse.
We just couldn't get rid of them!

[MFM008]

24. I am in the

Birth class of 1958.
Big 60 for us this year.....

[John1956PA]

25. I was in the pack, too. The Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities was huge.

The testimony elicited during the Senate hearing of 1973 caused me to think that the Democratic Congress would eventually move towards impeachment. The broad range of political and journalism stories collectively known as "Watergate" colored by perspective of my final high school year.

[Trumpocalypse]

26. I was 11 in 1973

I think I was more upset that the last Planet of the Apes film sucked.

[TreasonousBastard]

29. I was 26, and still putting my life back together after having been drafted for Johnson's war...

Of course I couldn't stand Nixon, but we forget who was probably the worst character from those days-- J. Edgar Hoover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover

Read it, and realize there is little parallel to what is happening now. Hoover had files on everyone in DC and half the rest of the country. He denied there was any Mafia or other organized crime, but his anti-Communism had us damn near turning in our neighbors, a la Stalin's purges.

Presidents come and go, but J. Edgar spent almost 50 years building a domestic spy network that we are still dealing with.

Trump is a moron, not a villain. His only talent throughout his life was managing to mismanage every business he pretended to run and arising from the ashes of his failures without losing everything. Now he has the whole nation to destroy, just like he destroyed everything from Alexanders to Trump Air.

[CelticWinter]

30. i was 15 also in 1973 nt

[Scurrilous]

31. I was 15 in '72 and cheered when it was announced that J. Edgar Hoover had died.

Now I'm cheering the FBI.

[Dulcinea]

34. I was 8 in 1973.

My parents were big 6:00 news watchers. I asked what Watergate was all about, & my mom tried to explain, but I didn't understand at the time. I'm rereading "All the President's Men," & there are a lot of similarities. Where are our Woodward & Bernstein?

[DFW]

36. I despised Nixon with a passion, and I knew he despised us

"Us" being college students, and young people. He used to get his kicks out of flashing the V for victory sign, knowing full well, he was co-opting our peace sign. He was even overheard gloating, "the kids hate it when I do that."

The first presidential election I could vote in was 1972. I knew it would be a lost cause, but I also had a bet with anyone who would listen that Nixon would have either been jailed or resigned before his second term was up. THAT one I won.

But despite my birth in the supposedly lucky Year of the Dragon, I have only have seen five presidential elections go my way, whereas one was predictably disappointing and five more were outright disasters, and three of those disasters were blatant theft by Republicans from the voters of our country. Instead of the world's envy, as we would have been under Al Gore and Hillary, we were/are the world's object of pure contempt, a syndrome that has been magnified many times since January 20, 2017.