Where we're you when Nixon resigned?

[LincolnMan]

To continue with my remembrance of that moment when I walked in my mother's house to find the TV on with Nixon making his announcement- I remember I sat down on the couch to watch it. The TV was one of those big floor consoles. I thought at the time that I was watching something that United States history had not seen as yet. It was almost one of those moments like remembering where you were when JFK was shot- almost. I sensed an era had ended- and I think that turned out to be true. My generation had hoped to make a positive change in society- and to some extent we did- but for us Nixon represented the "establishment" - and that was not considered a good thing. We had the naive viewpoints of youth- but by 1974- the "dream was over"- and Nixon's resignation somehow coinsided with that ending.