Reply #12: The hearings were during the summer of 1973.

[kitchen girl]

But it had been in the news for quite a while before that - maybe a year or so. It was the summer after my freshman year of high school, and I remember my best friend and I would make a big pot of spaghetti and meatballs about once a week and sit and watch the hearings and eat spaghetti. I'm thinking it was probably late 72 when people started feeling like Nixon was behind it - at least in my family and circle of friends.

It was another year, though, before Nixon resigned. Summer of 1974. August, I think. I was at the county fair with my boyfriend watching the Hurricane Hell Drivers, and they stopped the show and broadcast his resignation speech. It was totally silent...just the crackly PA system and the cows mooing in the livestock barn...