I don't remember much else other than being sick of hearing the word "Watergate" and having no idea what it meant.

But many of us have been reminiscing about that time of late, and there are lots of ways to do it. I've watched All the President's Men a few times, seen a number of shows on the subject...ever seen the comedy "Dick" with Dan Hedaya as Nixon? I've also been enjoying hearing from Jill Wine-Banks so much lately too (which is equally great because otherwise many of us may have never known what a trailblazer she was back in the early '70's when so few women had important jobs like federal prosecutors).

young age. Dad was a real political animal, and taught me a lot. Watergate helped shape my life-long views.

And I was an adult.

My dad was che.....frugal.

was the first in the area to buy a color television so he could watch The Virginian in color.

It's entertaining and very informative by Dick Cavett who actually played a small part in the Watergate scandal.

I love Dick Cavett, so i will be watching this.

....and they have a special episode in which he is interviewed.

I have now left Dallas for northern Virginia, and will be having dinner Friday night in Washington with an old (as in 79) friend who was one of the lawyers on the team investigating Watergate. I'm hoping he will have some interesting parallels for me. He was an assistant chief counsel to Sam Ervin on the Senate Watergate Committee.

About 50 miles. His family still live in the area, and are active in the community. Really beautiful place, more mountainous than the foothills where we live, but not as mountainous as the Smokies.
Edited to add that I'm talking about Senator Ervin!

Awesome movie - it's both entertaining and informative.

I still have the books written on the subject, and I may reread some of them.

I was working at my first job out of college. I came home from work every night and turned on the TV to watch the reruns of the hearings on PBS. Those did not start until after the late news, so I stayed up very late. I went to work every day with only a few hours sleep. But I was energized. I knew we would win. There was just too much evidence there.

I was flabbergasted by John Dean, the revelation about the tapes, and above all, the Saturday Night Massacre.

This is so much worse. There is much more at stake. Let's get through this and emerge stronger.

But I will try.

Richard Nixon, a republican, was President. He displayed paranoid tendencies (he maintained an "enemies list&quot , and his campaign played a series of "dirty tricks" on the Democrats leading up to the '72 election. Among them was a break-in at DNC HQ in the Watergate building in Washington. As the press, and later congress, investigated, Nixon railed against both his investigators and the press. All of this is set against the backdrop of:America reeling from the RFK & King murders; Vietnam ending; Nixon opening China relations; and the Arab-Israeli war in the Middle East.

From VP Spiro Agnew. Was in high school then, remember it well.

Bribery and kickbacks for contracting projects in Maryland.

against Mike Pence?

(History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes! -- possibly Mark Twain)