But then Ronnie Reagan went and reanimated Tricky Dick in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and the rest is...tragedy.
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Mike Godwin <mnemonic@gmail.com> wrote: My guess is that awareness among the sumer '74 class of how things were accelerating in late July and August of 1974 was perhaps pretty dim. That year the class was six weeks long, if I remember the S-at-W timeline correctly. In any case, the big events that led to resignation were in the last week or so of July -- they included the Supreme Court's decision that Nixon must release the tapes, followed by the House's decision to proceed to impeachment . Woodward and Bernstein, among many others, documented that Nixon quickly assessed that the Senate would likely convict him on one or more of the charges. (He even queried his allies whether it would be tenable to stay on if he carried only 10 votes for acquittal in the Senate; his allies indicated that this would not be a good idea.)
In any case, they took place when the Summer '74 class was thinking hardest about performances.
Here's the timeline: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/08/how-the-watergate-crisis-eroded-public-support-for-richard-nixon/
I can easily imagine that someone who was at Winedale in summer 1974 may remember it differently, just because "there is no clock in the forest." I know that I have a dim memory that the summer 2005 reunion class somehow coincided with Hurricane Katrina, although checking the calendar suggests to me that this was not true. So I too can testify that Winedale for me has always been a place out of time.
As it happens, your reporter participated in a Congressional staff briefing yesterday in the Rayburn House Office Building, perhaps in the same committee room where the vote to impeach President Nixon took place. See attached photo.
--Mike
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 10:08 PM, James Ayres <jayres@cvctx.com> wrote: > Not your imagination, Jerald. This was a scheduled event that day. I > checked it out with Marilyn to make sure she was tuning in. We took time > out from work in the barn to watch and celebrate. The locals were as > excited as we were. Cheering, yelling, applause. Lots of noise. > > Then we went back to work in the barn. Delighted, relieved. > > Doc > > > > On Aug 9, 2014, at 4:38 PM, Jerald Head wrote: > >> Today marks the 40th anniversary of Nixon's resignation. There was a >> mention of this event in in a reminiscence in the Shakespeare birthplace >> stories while at Winedale. In that story the fellow student mentioned he >> knew nothing of the event until he talked to his family. I find my memory >> sometimes is what I choose to remember, but I recall going over to the store >> to watch the resignation speech, being forewarned to show respect by Doc. I >> remember going over to the store and watching the speech on Rollie and >> Marilyn's television in the store. Or do I? Did we do this or is it just my >> imagination? >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Shakespeare at Winedale Email List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to shakespeare-at-winedale-email-list+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Shakespeare at Winedale Email List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to shakespeare-at-winedale-email-list+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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