1975 Saigon falls and we abandon our the Vietnamese and all the brave soldiers who will not get older...

1974: I am not a crook! Oh my! The shit hits the fan! Watergate, poor Tricky Dick. Everyone is picking on him. Hmmm, Tricky thinks to himself: I will visit communist China and then Russia! That should take the heat off the break ins. Not. Tricky's world comes undone until he finally has to step down or be impeached. The bastard never did admit to any wrong doing. What a major ass hole he was, yet, some folks, particularly older folks, looked upon him as a great American?!!? Life is really dysfunctional, eh? Declaring that "I am not a crook," President Nixon vigorously defended his record in the Watergate case tonight and said he had never profited from his public service. "I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice," Mr. Nixon said. "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got." "I had no prior knowledge of the Watergate break-in; I neither took part in nor knew about any of the subsequent cover up activities; I neither authorized nor encouraged subordinates to engage in illegal or improper campaign tactics." "Far from trying to hide the facts, my effort throughout has been to discover the facts—and to lay those facts before the appropriate law enforcement authorities so that justice could be done and the guilty dealt with."

That's Nixon addressing the staff at the White House, just before being whisked away by helicopter. I watched him and was amazed at what I was seeing. Here was the president rsigning office at the 11th hour before impeachment hearings were to start, and yes, he would have been impeached. The evidence was overwhelming. He was in personal and public denial all the way to the exit door. My thought at the time was that the man had drifted over to a walking nervous breakdown. If you could have heard him speak at this moment in time you would have thought him on the edge of lunacy. I thought to myself, eek! The Russians are watching this too and can see our president is borderline mad. I was wondering what was going to happen next. If it all wasn't so sad, it would have been funny.