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All-TigerNet [11664]
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How many of you were around to remember this?
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Aug 14, 2023, 5:00 PM
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Tough day in US history!!
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Re: How many of you were around to remember this?
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Aug 14, 2023, 5:11 PM
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Of course. I graduated college in 74 and was learning about the real life of work.
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Re: How many of you were around to remember this?
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Aug 14, 2023, 5:47 PM
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Liberals high water mark. They loved it. They still watch “All The President’s Men” twice a month. I think it was nominated for 47 Oscars.
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Re: How many of you were around to remember this?
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Aug 14, 2023, 5:52 PM
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Yes but I was in high school and was more interested in sports and girls to care.
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Re: How many of you were around to remember this?
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Aug 14, 2023, 6:00 PM
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Yes sir, I was 12 at the time. On a side note, President Ford stopped in GSP one Saturday morning before a home game during his tenure. We stopped by on the way to the game and got to shake his hand.
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Re: How many of you were around to remember this?
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Aug 14, 2023, 6:01 PM
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Wasn’t around, but the 70s in general seemed like such a depressing decade.
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CU Guru [1776]
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Depended on your age. I was k-10th in the 70s.
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Aug 14, 2023, 6:51 PM
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Great for being a kid in a small town. A lot of mystery about the world. Cool toys. Little expectation to be anything more than a kid.
But I know, if I'd been an adult, I'd have been much more concerned.
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I still remember him flashing the V for Victory sign as he
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Aug 14, 2023, 6:07 PM
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got on the helicopter and left the building. SNL got some serious mileage out of Nixon.
As in:
"I accept full responsibility for the Watergate bugging. But, not the blame. Let me explain the difference. People who are responsible, keep their jobs. People who are to blame.....DO NOT!"
Also, I was never a huge Rich Little fan, but I did think he did a KILLER Richard Nixon. He exaggerated all the mannerisms, to hilarious levels.
https://youtu.be/gRyvMjIoj-U
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I was 8 at the time… we need the current prez to resign now***
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Aug 14, 2023, 6:14 PM
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sure, President Kamala would be so much better.
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Aug 14, 2023, 6:23 PM
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It’s a pity politics has gotten so bad, the unbiased press will absolutely destroy the lives of any decent person that tries to run for office, so all that’s left are worthless choices. Pick your poison.
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Re: sure, President Kamala would be so much better.
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Aug 14, 2023, 6:29 PM
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You mean . . . there are some decent people running for public office 🤔! Gosh, the definition of the word, decent, must have changed over the years! And, I’d say that applies to both sides of the political spectrum!
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Re: How many of you were around to remember this?
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Aug 14, 2023, 6:22 PM
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Started Clemson fall of 74’. Great times!
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Re: How many of you were around to remember this?
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Aug 14, 2023, 6:34 PM
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I was in summer school at Clemson at that time, living in University Apts.! A rather sad and embarrassing day for our country!
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Re: How many of you were around to remember this?
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Aug 14, 2023, 9:40 PM
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I was in summer school at Clemson at that time, living in University Apts.! A rather sad and embarrassing day for our country!
Wow! If that baby bleep was embarrassing, I don’t think a word exists for the past few years. Trump. Then Biden. Frickin’ Biden! Again, Wow!
Vote harder! After 234 years of this crap, it’ll work this time!
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Re: How many of you were around to remember this?
Aug 14, 2023, 9:40 PM
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I was in summer school at Clemson at that time, living in University Apts.! A rather sad and embarrassing day for our country!
Wow! If that baby bleep was embarrassing, I don’t think a word exists for the past few years. Trump. Then Biden. Frickin’ Biden! Again, Wow!
Vote harder! After 234 years of this crap, it’ll work this time!
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Re: How many of you were around to remember this?
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Aug 14, 2023, 6:43 PM
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Heard a story the other day about Nixon and Jackie Gleason. They were good friends , and Nixon while in office learned of Gleasons fascination with UFO’s and what’s out there . Nixon told Gleason to fly down to Florida and an address to meet a couple guys who would pick him up. They took him to a building somewhere in the middle of Florida and as the story goes. Gleason left that building having seen something and that had been retrieved at some point that changed the way he viewed us and how little the actual public knows about what the U.S. Government knows about life outside our planet. He thought so much of Nixon that he held his promise till after Nixon was dead and almost to the end of Gleasons own life before ever telling that story. I believe it may be in his book but not sure about that.
It was a pretty cool story and as with most stories passed down over time , I imagine as each person tells it , it gets more interesting
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Nixon was a great president
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Aug 14, 2023, 6:45 PM
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for China. He did start Earth Day and the EPA though, and he signed a bunch of new environmental regulations into law. I guess that must be why all you tree-huggers have such fond memories of him.
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Got us out of the Vietnam war that LBJ got us into
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Aug 14, 2023, 7:34 PM
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Funny that Gerald Ford was never elected to VP or President. He went from Senate minority leader to VP then to president in less than a year. He was a good football player at Michigan in his earlier years.
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Re: Nixon was a great president
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Aug 14, 2023, 8:49 PM
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Nixon may be one of the most misunderstood Presidents. He was the anti establishment candidate and ran on getting us out of Vietnam but Henry Kissinger who influenced Nixon more than any other adviser wanted to force Vietnam and China to heel so he could bring them into the family of nations, (if they saw the futility of Communism).That's why Nixon visited China.
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Re: How many of you were around to remember this?
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Aug 14, 2023, 7:13 PM
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I was 11 years old.
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Re: How many of you were around to remember this?
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Aug 14, 2023, 8:33 PM
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Yeah, if you liked Nixon ya MUST just luvvvvvvv tRump. And the converse is if you detested Nixon......well you get it. Wrong board though. I was around for the missile crisis and it was scary as hail (unless you lived in a vacuum). More than either of them.
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I don't see how you compare Trump to Nixon. Biden on the
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Aug 14, 2023, 8:43 PM
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other hand.....
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Re: I don't see how you compare Trump to Nixon. Biden on the
Aug 14, 2023, 9:30 PM
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Same party.
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Re: I don't see how you compare Trump to Nixon. Biden on the
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Aug 14, 2023, 9:37 PM
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Well, actually tRump thought he was a dem once upon a time and even donated to dem causes and Bill and Hillary. Then he figured out he could fool a lot of the people a lot of the time....and declared a gop.
Who really know who (or what) he is? Besides a grifter.
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Re: How many of you were around to remember this?
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Aug 14, 2023, 8:27 PM
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Yes. Seems like another world. Doesn't seem so major compared to what we have witnessed in WH since then. Still unbelief that we left weapons in Afghanistan along with people who helped us. Obama Bush Clinton all have stories.
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I was around when Ike was elected***
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Aug 14, 2023, 8:33 PM
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Tina's husband was President?***
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Aug 14, 2023, 8:43 PM
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Re: How many of you were around to remember this?
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Aug 14, 2023, 8:39 PM
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I was 13.
I remember being very interested in the Watergate hearings and watching quite a bit of it. Most everyone else including adults were biatchin because it was the only thing on TV.
That's how you lose a country.
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Aug 14, 2023, 9:45 PM
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Re: How many of you were around to remember this?
Aug 14, 2023, 9:34 PM
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I remember being angry during the hearings because they took off all my shows to show on the three available stations. Now that I understand the childishness of government, even though it’s a 400’ child, my shows were more important.
How quaint. He only had goons break into an office to get secrets. That’s baby bleep compared to the crimes every president since has committed against the people. But we’ll get ‘em next time!
Vote harder! After 234 years of expanding government and contracting freedom, that constitution will work this time!
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Re: How many of you were around to remember this?
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Aug 14, 2023, 10:32 PM
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I was 10 years old in 1974. I remember we were at Myrtle Beach when he resigned. I saw it on TV in the hotel room.
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110%er [6153]
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“Just follow the money.”, they said. But …
Aug 14, 2023, 11:22 PM
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… the difference today is there are no Woodward’s or Bernstein’s on the hunt.
Watergate was simply a stupid cover-up of a senseless bungled burglary attempt.
What’s happening today is order of magnitude more serious.
And the press/media does not care.
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