I can't name the rest of the faces.

They are probably discussing the Watergate investigations and/or impeachment process...

with his big glasses.

Watergate.

But, yeah, Sam Erwin and the rest of the Senate Watergate committee

The tall guy in the back is a Sen from a western state. All I got.

or at least he was when that photo was taken. To add more substance to the resemblance, someone once insisted that I was Charles Grodin doing research on a film role (this was a year or so after he was in Midnight Run). The intervening years have ensured that no resemblance remains, although about ten years ago on a trip to Florida, a shopkeeper referred to me as Governor Bush.

Though he is a very good actor and comedian.

funny as hell.

Not Erwin.

And I often misspell things since having 5 months of chemotherapy and 3 surgeries in one year and this 30 year old memory came back in a flash. Did your comment make you feel good?

Sorry for your health issues.

All the best.

Sept. 27th (but not the same year!)

I think we also shared a dislike of R. Nixon, but that might be all we had in common--IIRC, he was kind of a crusty conservative old bird--pro-segregation....

Hee hee

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from NM is the mad looking guy right behind Senator Ervin. Montoya's questions were an embarrassment to New Mexicans but at least he was a Democrat.

But back then, it was most likely something you saw on tv a LOT, not necessarily in every town newspaper except for the bigger cities.

i remember we --my husband then, and I--watched Cronkite for the news, occasionally channel hopped to NBC,

I was obsessed in my hatred of Nixon, because he lied about Viet Nam, and I knew it, and there was still the draft, for all we knew it would be always, and I had 2 lil boy toddlers. Would have killed to protect them
( still would, and they are FAR from toddlers now.. )

I was 15 during the Watergate hearings. I was obsessed with getting rid of Nixon. Luckily, the local PBS station carried the hearings, and I was out of school for the summer. I was astounded by the Saturday Night Massacre.

I feel now, though, that the Trump/Russia thing won't work out like in 1974. Just a feeling, but I can't imagine that we could be lucky enough to have a second, very hated president, resign in my lifetime

It's gonna be a hell of a criminal case, for sure. So many people are involved at some many levels.

I recognized Sam Ervin immediately. I remember watching some of the Watergate hearings and to my young teen brain, he looked like the smartest guy in the world and he had a great sense of humor.

I was just an 8-year-old, but I knew that something momentous was happening, and that Howard Baker was one of my state Senators Senators. My parents were Eisenhower Republicans; that animal doesn't exist anymore. It became extinct in 1980...

when we thought Nixon was as bad as it could get. <sigh>

ErVin, Baker, and Cohen is the young guy in the back.

After Watergate, I gave up television for 17 years.

Facially, that is.

Wasn't he married to Everett Dirksen's daughter?

That was back when Republicans were the opposition and not a mob of lunatics.