In 1968 I campaigned for Richard Nixon as much as any teenager could. Back then I was even a Teen-age Republican, of the liberal sort. I even heard him speak; he was an impressive speaker. Four years later my mind had changed and I voted for George McGovern.
During the Summer of 1974 I studied in Trier, then West Germany, through Georgetown University. I was going to attend graduate school there, which I eventually did not do. But in June of that year I stayed with a Penn State friend who was in grad school but at George Washington. He later went on to be a White House correspondent for Reuters. He took me to a party in his building., where I met David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower. We did not discuss politics.
Soon afterward we watched the resignation in the middle of the night German time. Now this Summer, I shake my head at what is going on during our election season, and I miss Nixon. A high school and Penn State friend and I were chatting about that tonight on .
Listen to James Taylor's song about the resignation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC-IXqBY-8E
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