A Day In The Anti-Life - Impeachment Diary 1974!

In 1974 I was a teenager, a young man eager to graduate high school and get out on my own, to where I did not know, to do what I did not know. But back in those pre-historic days of media the dominant show was the Congressional Impeachment hearings of Richard Nixon. Nixon was generally speaking a loathed figure by folks in my demographic after his "secret plan" to end the Vietnam War had proven to be a hoax. I was one of those young men who dreaded the day I too would be called upon to serve my country in that far off land, and give my life in the hazy war against world Communism. Nixon was a Communist fighter of the highest order, but one who had made overtures to Red China, and I love telling Republicans he was the President who signed the Environmental Protection Agency into law. But what it turns out is that he was also a malicious foul-mouthed paranoid who not only bent the rules to win, but actively broke the law to do so. And when all but a critical eighteen minutes of tape came to the fore to prove it, the die was cast. So despite his unshakable popularity with the "Silent Majority" he was about to be asked to step down from office before he saved the nation the shock and kindly resigned.

But now that Nixon is safely tucked away in the history books folks think that it was universally agreed that he ought to be rousted out of office. Far from it and I well remember common taters of all types defending his various peculiarities and crimes and saying that he was just misunderstood. As more and more of the tapes have been released over the decades the actual nature of the man has come to light and it's all but impossible for anyone to deny it. But denying the obvious is a talent that seems common to politicians as our modern day demonstrates with each and every "breaking news story".

Another diary entry tomorrow.

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