Nixon was told by the R’s he needed to go as he was going to be impeached. I remember those days well. It was a big deal on TV and after the tapes were made known he was in bad shape.
He might have said what WJC said, “Well, we’ll just have win, then!” (when he was told by an adviser that the American people could get past adultery but not perjury).
i was 15 at the time....i remember my mother was crying a little as we watched the speech. She thought actually removing him from office was wrong...censured maybe, but removing him upset her. It seemed like the whole Watergate thing went on and on...when actually, from start to finish just under 2 years...maybe like a year and half. The media today, every story is gonna be their “WATERGATE”....especially trash like Meagan Kelly....they all bow to Woodward and Commie Bernstein. While they did keep stories about Nixons aides in the paper, they didnt “crack this huge story” like its portrayed...never mind that they committed felonies in the progress with Mark Felt. The day James McCord was sentenced, he wrote his tell all letter to the judge which ripped it open...then 2 days later, John Dean flipped and that was all she wrote...they went down like dominoes, and damn fast considering.