August 8, 1974. That's when Nixon announced his resignation.

[UrbScotty]

He resigned the next day at noon.

Where were you when you heard the news?

I wasn't born until years later.

[Bush was AWOL]

Wouldn't it be great if 30 years later on that

day the president of the United States did the right thing, like Nixon, and resigned?

[JohnKleeb]

3. and had Cheney as president

:scared:

[UrbScotty]

22. That's the thing.

I am worried about Cheney becoming President.

That's why I am hesitant to support these 'Impeach Bush' movements.

[JohnKleeb]

23. right

[Terran]

30. He's already effectively president

So if Bush resigned, it would merely put Cheney in the hot seat and force him operate in the daylight (to the extent this admin does that at all).

[JohnKleeb]

1. you're tellng me I ate a whole pizza and thing of cheesy bread to

celebrate August 7.
What happened on august 7!, I got that tummy ache in vain. Oh where was I? not even born yet too,

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. I think I was working then.

I was in High School but since it was summer I had a job to make extra money.

[SharonAnn]

4. I was on a business trip to Dallas, TX and having dinner when

we saw the news on the TV at the bar.

We were all taken aback since it was such a significant event. I don't remember that we even talked much about it - really didn't know what to say, and it hadn't sunk in yet.

[DBoon]

5. I was working at Jack-In-TheBox

A fast food place, one guy went on break, then came up to us workers and said, "guess what, that asshole Nixon just resigned."

I was in high school at the time.

[finecraft]

6. My Dad and I were changing a flat tire

on our motorhome. Our family was going on one last trip before school started. We were outside changing the tire so we could leave and brought the radio outside with us to heard the words we were longing to hear "I WILL RESIGN". My whole family HATED Nixon.

[Dookus]

7. I was huddled around the TV with the rest of my family

the rumor had broken the day before that this was likely to happen. I was only 13 at the time, but it seemed everybody then followed Watergate to a degree. I remember the hearings being shown live on ALL broadcast networks, and they went on for a few weeks, IIRC.

It was a different time, I guess. We actually CARED about what happened with our government.

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. I was in Atlanta, Georgia

driving around trying to figure out where I was since they changed everything from the last time I was in Atlanta, Georgia. Some things never change. Maybe I was going to Fulton County Stadium for a Brave's game or to HiFi Buys to look at the new Pioneer receivers. Anyway, I was doing something up there that day.

[newyawker99]

9. I remember watching his speech on TV.

What a mean, miserable man he was.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. Me, too. I still have the TV I watched it on.

I kept it as a souvenir of that great moment. Nixon truly was a mean, miserable man. But I thought on that day that we would never, ever have a worse president. Boy, was I wrong.

[mike1963]

10. I was sitting the coffee shop at the Okura hotel in Tokyo! Lots of shock

there. ;-)

[qwertyMike]

11. At a Nixon Resgnation party

in Toronto, Canada

WHAT A PARTY !!

[Sporadicus]

12. I Was On Patrol in the Atlantic Ocean on a Ballistic Missile Submarine

We didn't find out until coming back to Holy Loch, Scotland, over a month later. Family members were allowed to send ten messages during a patrol (to which we had no way to reply), and the CO censored any reference to Nixon's resignation. Man, was everyone surprised! For my part, however, I had been expecting Nixon's madness to spill over into some conflagration to take the focus off Watergate.

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. At a CSN&Y concert

in NJ. They played "Ohio" while Nixon was giving his speech from the Oval Office. It was a great night.

[Jack Rabbit]

14. It was a day to be proud to be an American

The system worked and forced a tyrant from power.

Hopefully, November 2 will be another day for Americans to take pride.

[Kanary]

15. With a group of friends, watching the TV announcement

and cheering!

We were so glad to get rid of that mess. Who could have known how much worse it could get..... At least Nixon had a good side to him.

Kanary

[NoPasaran]

16. Listening on the radio in El Paso

That was the summer I graduated from high school and the take of the evil Richard Nixon finally being driven from power appealed strongly to my idealistic youthful sensibilities. "Thank God the System worked" we all congratulated ourselves.

I still have the El Paso Herald=Post for that day with its banner headline NIXON TO RESIGN

[Athame]

18. In the university dorm lounge

where I was a summer RA. There were only two televisions in the whole dorm then, no such thing as cable or any way to record the moment. We had been following the hearings. I remember a stunned silence when Nixon announced his resignation. What I remember most was watching him and his family boarding the plane and waving goodbye. The system worked, but it still felt very scary, like, not knowing what could come next.

Thanks for the memory trip.

[struggle4progress]

19. That day, a cow jumped over an eight foot corral fence and ran away ...

... across the open fields; we had to chase it down and bring it back.

The instant we were done with that chore, we learned Nixon was resigning.

At the time, I considered the cow thing a cosmic metaphor.

[burrowowl]

20. I was in Paris, France

and was joyous.

[Roon]

21. I was 7 years old...

and have absolutely no memory of Nixon resigning. I didn't realize that I was that old at the time until today. I can't believe I don't remember it!!!

[59millionmorons]

24. That's my birthday

No really it is. No kidding.

[drthais]

25. I was 17 and newly married

and my husband and I
watched the speech on tv at his aunt's house
(I don't think we had a tv of our own)

we felt a wonderful rush of adrenalin
Nixon's fate should be Bush's fate

[Cleita]

26. I was at my second job bartending.

It was happy hour and they had it on the TV. Everyone cheered. Of course everyone then was pretty liberal in my town.

[dflprincess]

27. I actually had to go shopping for bridesmaids dresses that night

I was not happy.

My cousin was getting married that fall and insisted we all still go shopping. The shopping party consisted of the bride, her mother (my aunt), her friend, another cousin and her mom (my other aunt) and me.

The aunt who was not the mother of the bride was not any happier than me about this. Fortunately we were shopping in the bridal department at a deparment store. As the time for Nixon's speech approached Aunt Not-the-Mother-of-the-Bride announced "This is the happiest day of my life and I'm not going to miss it.." She grabbed me by the arm and we escaped to the electrionics department to watch the TV's there. The rest of the group was not happy with us.

[eleny]

28. They repeated a 1992 C-Span interview with him last night

He had some liberal views compared to the Bushwad. He didn't think it was right to deny countries foreign aid for their family planning programs if the country had legalized abortion.

I forget the rest of his lib views. As I listened to him speaking, it drove it home again and again how nice it is to hear an ex president articulate complex views off the top of their head. Even if Nixon was a nut job.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

29. c-span replayed his speech - repeated at midnight

with ford's swearing in.

[LowerManhattanite]

31. I'll never forget it! It was a Tuesday and I'd just turned 11...

...I was in school (my private school didn't take a three month summer vacation--we took three summer weeks weeks off and had every wednesday off throughout the year, so it averaged out to the same vacation time) and that afternoon there was a lot of sudden scurrying around the halls by teachers. Then a teacher came to my classroom door and whispered something to my teacher. My teacher blurted out a more-than-a-little-audible "Hot-Damn!" and then turned on the closed-circuit TV we had in the classroom to watch Apollo flights on.

With a flip of a button in back, the TV switched to regular TV where we saw CBS News' Douglass Edwards talking about the resignation of the president and then a replay of the speech. "Wows!" and "Whats?" swept around the classroom, but the capper was when they cut to Tricky Dick going up the steps of his copter, stiffly waving and booking the f*ck up. At that moment, you could hear an muffled cheer from people in my school and surrounding buildings on that Harlem block who were watching simultaneously.

My parents threw a private "Tricky Dick is Gone" party at my dad's restaurant that night with their fellow Watergate hearing-addicted friends.

Good times...good times!

[ArnoldLayne]

32. I was 17 years old going into my senior year in high school

and I was working during the summer at Big Bear Grocery Store in Bridgeport Ohio and they played Nixon's resignation speech over the stores PA system.

[kodi]

33. working in the defense dept and at a friend's house that night

his mom and grandmom were there too. the grandmother said "look he's sweating, he has to be lying." it was funny as hell, being so true.

i am watching it right now on c-span.

he's still lying.

[fortyfeetunder]

34. I was in the UK

At a music festival. It was interesting, I still have the local newspaper clippings from that day. I was going into my senior year of HS. We were told *not* to stay up and watch Nixon's resignation speech. I think the chaperones figured we'd be upset....NOT!!! We did get up about 2AM and watched anyway. We were laughing our asses off, watching Nixon squirm; we'd figured Nixon would be canned by the time we returned to the states. Then we went back to bed, knowing we had to kick some serious ass on the concert stage the next day...and we did...

For a local perspective, one of the locals asked me if I was tired of hearing about Nixon, because they were sure tired of hearing about him!!

Edited for clarification....

[dorktv]

35. What about 8/8/1764? One of the most important dates in history!

[lostnfound]

36. Family vacation, aged 12, Georgia hotel room, headed to mountains.

Great way to start the week. I'd been following it closely.

[GmoneyOwnsAll]

37. But....

If Bush were to resign today, that would actually be a good thing. Cheney would have to go up against Kerry. Cheney's approval ratings are even worse than Bush's I hear. That's why some say he might be replaced because he's a drag on the ticket. Kerry would definatly win in a landslide then. But that wont happen.

BTW, I wasnt born till 1985. So I missed the Nixon years. Couldnt have possibly been worse than this crap though. But maybe Im wrong. I dunno.

[KharmaTrain]

38. Mill Street, Carbondale, Illinois...

I'd spent most of that summer engineering the local NPR radio coverage of the House Judiciary Impeachment Hearings (starring Peter Rodino, Elizabeth Holtzman, Charlie Rangel, Paul Sarbanes and a young Hemlmethead Lott) which voted the out articles. Many of us knew Nixon was in deep shit. Then when the Supreme Court voted Unanimously that he had to turn over the "Smoking Gun" tape, the party began. When we heard what was on those tapes, there was no doubt, Nixon was a goner...either through impeachment or resignation.

We got word at the radio station via the NPR newswire that Nixon was going to have a Press Conference at 8pm that night...all of us knew what that meant. Since I lived closest to the station, my apartment became party central as a dozen of us crowded around my Zenith 19" Black & White and watched (and inhaled and inbibed) as Nixon uttered those wonderful words.

The entire city went up for grabs that night. Not that anyone needed a reason to start a party at SIU, but this was a REAL reason, and the streets and bars were crowded and the cheering and partying went way into the night.

I remember a surreal feeling. While I despised Nixon as much as anyone (somehwere here is a picture of me with my "Impeach Nixon" T-Shirt that I wore proudly that summer) it was as if this was yet another Nixon trick...that he really wasn't gone. Also, what would come next? Would there be payback for all the opposition and resentment many of us had for Tricky Dick.

BTW...I also had a Nixon calendar in my room...it had Nixon's picture along with all the days of Nixon's term...all 4 years. Each day you blacked out a date so that eventually Nixon would vanish. I remember circling August 8th and wrote "Liberation". It was a great day indeed.