On the evening of August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon made a nationally televised address from the Oval Office.

[Ocelot II]

1. I remember that address as clearly as if it were yesterday.

My husband of 6 weeks and I were sitting on our ratty couch in our new apartment, watching it on a little portable black-and-white TV and applauding and yelling. I even kept that old TV for years afterwards as a souvenir. Of course, Ford rained on that parade a couple of months later by pardoning the SOB, but still, it was a great moment. Little did we know that 50 years later we'd be dealing with someone even worse and a system that didn't know what to do with him.