[Howlin]

It's hard to believe it's been 30 years.

[lonestar]

It's hard to believe it's been 30 years.

Even harder to believe he was POTUS during Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia in 1968.

[Semper Paratus]

AH Watergate and Vietnam. Those were the salad days for the liberals before morning came to America.

[steplock]

NIXON showed some honor and integrity with his resignation.

Whether or not he ordered or knew of the plot is immaterial since, as president, he WAS responsible.

the last group of slime in the White House, on the other hand, had no knowledge of HONOR, INTEGRITY, PATRIOTISM, or any virtue at all. In fact they even had NO knowledge of the English language - even debating what the definition of the word "IS" is.

[concerned about politics]

Nixon's resignation August 9, 1974, put an end to the affair that started with a burglary of the Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) offices in the Watergate office and apartment complex in Washington June 17, 1972. The burglars had intended to place listening devices in the office.

They knew the Democrats were taking large sums of money from Communist Cuba. They were trying to prove it. (Sort of a Clinton/Gore preview)
I admire the Republicans motive, but their method was the problem.

[Diogenesis]

Compared to Berger's burglaries and the Brown/Foster/Wise/etc./etc.
murders and the 950 stolen FBI files,
Watergate was nothing.

[Spok]

Notice how the media is still more interested in talking about Watergate than ANYTHING negative about Kerry, Clinton, Kennedy, et al. A week after a Clinton scandal broke, Dan Rather and his ilk excused further discussion on the grounds that it was 'old news'. When will Nixon become 'old news'?

[The Scourge of Yazid]

I'm glad someone took the initiative of posting this.

Because if I was the one responsible for the Nixon anniversary thread, you all know that it would have been a complete debacle.

Leaving aside Monica Crowley's personal recollections of her time spent as Nixon's assistant-which I'm sure you all have read by now-I think that the best, impartial, honest and fair biography of Richard Nixon's political career was written by Jonathan Aitken.

NIXON: A Life

-Jonathan Aitken.

[kabar]

Look for more stories about Watergate and Nixon from the Dem-controlled domestic MSM and the liberal overseas press. The BBC also has a story about the 30 year anniversary of Watergate. They are planting the seeds to link Nixon and Kerry before the GOP convention. The Nixon tapes mention Kerry by name as a formidable opponent in the antiwar movement. They will portray Kerry as the white knight versus Tricky Dick Nixon, Watergate, and the ignominious end to the Vietnam war. They may even hint that there are some similarities to Iraq. Mark my words.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Thirty years ago, Richard Nixon became the first US president to resign in the wake of the Watergate scandal,...

If past is prelude this should be the story in 25 years:

"Thirty years ago, Bill Clinton became the second US president to be impeached by the US House of Representatives and the first US president to cop a plea with the Justice Department to avoid prosecution."

[dr_who_2]

Time for another newspaper story: 33.2532416 years ago, a fat, jaded Edward Kennedy still evokes memories of Chappequidick.

[upcountryhorseman]

Just a reminder: Nixon was never convicted of anything! I think the worse thing he did was to take us off the gold standard.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Mainstream media employees could hardly contain themselves. It was a frenzy, a mob swarming mindlessly attacking a man hated. A man who had been "caught" doing something that was routine in politics. Sometimes the TV network employees devoted the entire 30-minute evening "news" to Watergate stories, old and new; fact and rumor. The war? Other news? What war? What other news?

Not surprising is that one of the "plumbers," E. Howard Hunt, had been ordered by a Democrat president to bug Barry Goldwater's campaign in 1964. The same president ordered his good friend and former neighbor, J. Edgar Hoover, to bug Goldwater's campaign plane. SOP for both Parties.

Yet, not a word except in a few obscure places like

http://criterion.uchicago.edu/issues/iii2/hore.html

We all knew it at the time. We also watched the mainstream media employees fawn over Dick Tuck, the Democrat's dirty trickster, while condemning president Nixon, et al. in the vilest of terms.

[Nick Danger]

Thirty years later, Nixon resignation still evokes memories of Watergate

So humans can remember things from that far back, eh? Who knew?

Richard Nixon became the first US president to resign in the wake of the Watergate scandal

For extra credit, who was the second US President to resign in the wake of the Watergate scandal?

[GVnana]

It's hard to believe it's been 30 years

Arggh! I'm getting old!

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

"Thirty years later, Nixon resignation still evokes memories of Watergate"

DUH!!! He didn't resign because he wanted to move to Florida. Who do they hire to write those headlines?

[SamAdams76]

It is hard to believe 30 years have passed. I remember that day clear as a bell. I was a 12-year-old kid then and I remember going swimming that day at a nearby lake. Already the adults were buzzing about the "speech" later that night. My parents let me stay up to watch the speech that night, after all, it was still summer vacation. I remember feeling very sorry for Nixon that night and all that he had to go through. Never was too impressed with Ford. Wish Nixon had at least picked a better VP when Agnew resigned. Imagine if Nixon had picked Ronald Reagan instead!

Tonight on satellite radio, the 70s station was playing the top 30 hits from that week in 1974. Lot of good songs that brought back lots of memories from that summer.

I'm feeling sort of old tonight!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Thirty years ago two things happened on this date.
1 Nixon resigned.
2 STAR tabloid front page said "JEAN DIXON SAYS NIXON WILL NOT RESIGN"!

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]