I was playing in the SE Asia War games, that year, so I missed all this...
I returned from RVN in August of ‘72 & didn’t even buy a TV until years later. Stupid sitcoms and Watergate, Watergate, Watergate, were all there was at the time. Got news on the radio.
No halcyon days then. I was discharged in ‘74 with nothing but combat skills, long gas lines everywhere as we headed into recession. Congress went hard left similar to today.
Took the Reagan Renaissance to turn things around.