On this day in 1974 impeachment hearings for Nixon began

[malaise]

They should have sent that ReTHUG scumbag to prison.

[jwirr]

1. I watched every minute I could and I agree.

[malaise]

2. I didn't watch every minute but I sure watched a lot

from New York - it was a gazillion times better than Perry Mason

[jwirr]

12. At the time I was going to college and raising my daughters - had a lot of time on my hands.

Forgot to say that I was working as an intern in Ed Medvinski's office. He was on the committee.

[EFerrari]

4. It was the last trimester of my first pregnancy

and I spent it in my mother in law's recliner with the heater and vibrator on my back watching the hearings. She was very sweet to me considering she was a Nixon voter! lol

[malaise]

5. Choking with laughter

Heheheheheh

[hobbit709]

3. Senator Sam and Barbara Jordan were my heroes.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. Watergate hearings were in the summer of '73.

I had just finished my freshman year in college.
That was the first time, I think, that people were glued to the TV watching a legal drama.
The first politician I ever heard my mother gripe about was a guy who had four names:
"That Bastard Richard Nixon".

Her editorial comments, "He smeared Helen Gahagan Douglas when he ran against her in Congress. She was Melvyn Douglas' wife and very talented" (I have her autobiography, A Good Life. Amazing lady.)

"He was one of that bastard Joe McCarthy's buddies."

Dad's comment about Nixon: "Would you buy a used Cadillac from this man?"

Yes, Barbara Jordan explained the Constitution to us. She should have been a Supreme Court Justice.

[malaise]

7. The impeachment hearings were May to July 1974 n/t

[sufrommich]

8. I remember watching the Watergate hearings in High School

Poly Sci class, so it must have started before school got out.

[hifiguy]

10. That was the summer of '73 - the Select Committee hearings.

Impeachment came a year later.

[malaise]

11. Correct

I watched both when I could.

[hifiguy]

9. Watched a lot of it even though I was only 17.

Couldn't wait to see the Trickster go down.