Jim, As always, I enjoy reading your articles. I remember the Nixon resignation like it was yesterday. In fact, I hosted a resignation party the week before, but I was premature. He didn't resign until a week later. I also remember June 17, 1972, when the Watergate Hotel break in occurred and little was made of it. It seemed to most to be just another one of the Nixon CREP group's dirty tricks, but in fact burglary is a felony. Little did we know that all the burglars were being paid hush money so there was little story coming out, until later with the Senate Hearings, John Dean, etc. finally talking. Be well. Pete P.S. I'm finishing a book on U.S. History, written in 1940. I like seeing how things were presented decades, even centuries ago to students, readers. I'll send it to you if you'd like when I'm done. PW
Thanks for the note. There was such a vigil at the end; I'm not surprised you thought the resignation would happen sooner. For a while I taught a civics class where we looked at old textbooks. Check out Francis FItzgerald's "America Revised" which is a history of history textbooks.
Jim, As always, I enjoy reading your articles. I remember the Nixon resignation like it was yesterday. In fact, I hosted a resignation party the week before, but I was premature. He didn't resign until a week later. I also remember June 17, 1972, when the Watergate Hotel break in occurred and little was made of it. It seemed to most to be just another one of the Nixon CREP group's dirty tricks, but in fact burglary is a felony. Little did we know that all the burglars were being paid hush money so there was little story coming out, until later with the Senate Hearings, John Dean, etc. finally talking. Be well. Pete P.S. I'm finishing a book on U.S. History, written in 1940. I like seeing how things were presented decades, even centuries ago to students, readers. I'll send it to you if you'd like when I'm done. PW
Thanks for the note. There was such a vigil at the end; I'm not surprised you thought the resignation would happen sooner. For a while I taught a civics class where we looked at old textbooks. Check out Francis FItzgerald's "America Revised" which is a history of history textbooks.