BUT...in my defense it was Aug of 74. One month before my freshman year at college and Richard Milhous and his travails were....not my main priority.

I did cry at the scene of him waving on the plane platform, though. So there's that...

I was a few years out of college by then, and transfixed by the whole thing - as I am now, watching something similar apparently unfolding.

I sure remember that time. As I recall, in 1974 I was about a year away from graduating college.

I remember being glued to the TV, thinking to myself - "I can't believe what I'm actually seeing with my own eyes. There he goes. Really." Blew my mind. Not unlike what's happening now. Seems like one great big fat orange-skinned deja vu.

and I remember a friend and I debating taking fall quarter off because if there was an impeachment trial we didn't want to miss a minute. Fortunately his resignation solved our dilemma.

The Watergate stuff couldn't hold my attention. It moved at a snail's pace and I didn't understand the legal stuff. My younger sister really got into it.

I was too busy with senior year stuff and had just finished college chemistry at summer school.

I have seen his PBS biography about 8 times, so I know the details.

All I really know is what I've read since then and the movie All the President's Men.

Being born in 1981, i only have history to tell me about the watergate affair. Growing up I would hear my dad talk about how much he was into watergate at the time and I always knew watergate as being this completely corrupt white house being brought down by scandal. Over the past week or so I have started to go back and watch stuff on youtube and i have found that to me, it doesnt come across as being as serous as I thought. Maybe its just cause i see whats possibly going on today and i'm like trying to cover up a break in at the DNC headquarters? Bad for sure, but I dont think anything would've happened to Nixon if it happened under this congress.

That said I find the parallels to whats happening now fascinating. The Nixon white house lashed out at the press, to begin 1974 Nixon in the SOTU speech said "1 year of watergate was enough" and called for the investigation to end, firing of people investigating the admin, testimony against the admin was deemed lying. I have no idea where this investigation goes now, but terump is def guilty of something, cause he's using many of the same tactics Nixon used.

The edition of the book (from my local library) had an Afterword - Marking the fortieth anniversary of Watergate.

"In the course of his five-and-a-half-year presidency, beginning in 1969, Nixon launched and managed five successive and overlapping wars -- against the anti-Vietnam War movement, the news media, the Democrats, the justice system, and, finally, against history itself. All reflected a mind-set and a pattern of behavior that were uniquely and pervasively Nixon's: a willingness to disregard the law for political advantage, and a quest for dirt and secrets about his opponents as an organizing principle of his presidency."

In the Nixon tapes (the recordings made in the Oval Office), one year before the Watergate break-in, Nixon, H.R. Haldeman and Henry Kissinger discussed a plan to break into the Brookings Institute, to steal a file on Lyndon Johnson's handling of the 1968 halt to bombing in Vietnam. Nixon wanted to blackmail the former president. At that point, LBJ was a discredited former president, who chose not to run for re-election in 1968 because of the Vietnam War. But Nixon lost his first run at the Presidency to JFK and LBJ, and Nixon never forgot that kind of lose.

Nixon directed the "Plumbers" - the guys who later broke into the Watergate - to break into the offices of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, who gave the Pentagon Papers (a history of the war in Vietnam) to the press in 1970. Nixon wanted to discredit Ellsberg and undermine his credibility in the anti-war movement. Ellsberg was already indicted and charge with espionage, but, Nixon hated Jews, the anti-war movement, the press, and liberals, and the Pentagon Papers represented all of those groups.

In 1969, Kissinger ordered J. Edgar Hoover's FBI to illegally wiretap 17 reporters and White House employees, to try to find who was leaking stories about the progress of the war in Vietnam (sound familiar?).

It gets worse and worse and worse. The actual break-in and cover-up are just the tip of the iceberg in the Nixon White House, just as the firing of Jim Comey is just the tip of the iceberg in the Trump White House.

I strongly recommend that you read All The President's Men. It reads like a great novel and the story just gallops along. You will love it!

The thing that did it for me was his ordering the break-in of Daniel Ellesberg's (pentagon paper's) psychiatrist office.

The purpose to have his medical records stolen and leaked to discredit Ellesberg. That was soooo low.