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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn this day in 1974 impeachment hearings for Nixon began
They should have sent that ReTHUG scumbag to prison.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)malaise
(269,245 posts)from New York - it was a gazillion times better than Perry Mason
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Forgot to say that I was working as an intern in Ed Medvinski's office. He was on the committee.
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)and I spent it in my mother in law's recliner with the heater and vibrator on my back watching the hearings. She was very sweet to me considering she was a Nixon voter! lol
malaise
(269,245 posts)Heheheheheh
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)I had just finished my freshman year in college.
That was the first time, I think, that people were glued to the TV watching a legal drama.
The first politician I ever heard my mother gripe about was a guy who had four names:
"That Bastard Richard Nixon".
Her editorial comments, "He smeared Helen Gahagan Douglas when he ran against her in Congress. She was Melvyn Douglas' wife and very talented" (I have her autobiography, A Good Life. Amazing lady.)
"He was one of that bastard Joe McCarthy's buddies."
Dad's comment about Nixon: "Would you buy a used Cadillac from this man?"
Yes, Barbara Jordan explained the Constitution to us. She should have been a Supreme Court Justice.
malaise
(269,245 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Poly Sci class, so it must have started before school got out.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Impeachment came a year later.
I watched both when I could.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Couldn't wait to see the Trickster go down.