May 9, 1974: House Judiciary Committee Begins Impeachment Hearings against Tricky Dick

On May 9, 1974, under the chairmanship of Peter Rodino, the Committee began public hearings to review the results of the Impeachment Inquiry staff’s investigation.

https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/04/29/prologue-to-impeachment-1974/

http://watergate.info/impeachment/judiciary-committee-hearings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKrLM5cqM6Q

March 6, 1970 Weather Underground Townhouse Explosion

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/almanac-the-weather-underground-blast/

History is Not Kind

A look at the meaning of Gerald Ford's presidency
http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2018/10/history-is-not-kind.html

MayDay 1971

These are photos taken by activists/reporters for the DC area paper Washington Area Spark.  The Mayday protests were part of several days of protests sponsored by various antiwar organizations.  These groups included the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice, Socialist Workers Party, and the Mayday Tribe, whose slogan was "If the government won't stop the war, the people will stop the government."

https://www.flickr.com/photos/washington_area_spark/sets/72157648989188025/

White House Crooks Sentenced to Prison February 22, 1975

Three of Nixon's right hand men (including the Attorney General John Mitchell) sentenced to federal prison for some of their crimes in the Watergate scandal.....it was a good day....

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1q-rct0Tsprwp8VgoBANr7KdbZmdjOaNI

New Left Group Rising Up Angry writes up Watergate in 1973

By February 1973, Watergate had begun to affect the Nixon White House. Groups on the Left (not the Democrats) were stepping up their critique of this growing dispute in the circles of the ruling class.  Rising Up Angry, a leftwing Chicago-based group of mostly white working class youth organizing in workplaces and the streets of Chicago and some surrounding areas, put their analysis of the situation in writing in their newspaper.  Click on the link below to read it:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AZut-F1J92ql2Xt3L28vptlKaLrMGLce

At the beginning....

An excerpt from the beginning of my book Daydream Sunset...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/26/stones-hendrix-and-altamont/

Nixon says he is not a crook

November 17, 1973

President Nixon told an

Associated Press

managing editors

meeting at Disney World

in Orlando, Florida,

that

"people have got to know

whether or not

their president is a crook.

Well, I'm not a crook."

The Day Nixon Left

August 8th 1974.  Richard Nixon tells the world he's quitting.  Here are a couple reflections I wrote in the past....

http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/ron-jacobs-remembering-resignation-of.html

https://www.counterpunch.org/2004/08/09/in-memory-of-deep-throat/

and a clip of the speech...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEOGJJ7UKFM

Nixon's Enemies List

http://web.archive.org/web/20030621235432/www.artsci.wustl.edu/~polisci/calvert/PolSci3103/watergate/enemy.htm

June 13, 1971 Pentagon Papers

The Nixon regime shut the Times down, but was overturned by the courts.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/2011_PENTAGON_PAPERS.html?_r=0

August 23, 1972: Last Official US Combat Troops Leave Vietnam

Although the combat troops had left, there were still several tens of thousands of troops in country, not to mention CIA mercenaries, Special Forces, and others.  In addition, the bombing would go on for years, including the Christmas bombings at the end of 1972--some of the heaviest bombing raids in the history of bombing raids.  I thought I would link to this pamphlet written by Overseas Weekly writer Richard Boyle describing GI resistance to the war....Overseas Weekly was an unofficial newspaper written for GIs and sold in the PX alongside the official Stars & Stripes.....The resistance Boyle writes about is part of the reason the war was Vietnamized and US troops were slowly removed from in country....while the killing dragged on....

https://libcom.org/history/gi-revolts-breakdown-us-army-vietnam

High Drama--The House of Representatives Votes to Impeach Richard Nixon....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxOhBa5IO9Y

Hunter S. Thompson 1972

As I noted in the post prior to this, Hunter S. Thompson and Norman Mailer are my go-to writers when it comes to topnotch US presidential campaign coverage.  I linked to an excerpt from Mailer's book on 1972, St. George and the Godfather yesterday.  Today, I am providing a link to a collection of random excerpts from Hunter S. Thompson's classic Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972...
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/timewarp-campaign-72-19730705

enjoy it and weep

June 17, 1972 Watergate Burglars Arraigned

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a061772burglarsarraigned#a061772burglarsarraigned

McGovern and the 1972 Democratic Campaign

Draw your own conclusions....

From Britannica.com :
"In the primaries that followed, McGovern continued to build up a lead in convention delegates. He was even more successful in the nonprimary states, where his devoted followers made certain that delegate-selection caucuses voted his way. But that success overrode the much more basic process that was taking place: the Democratic Party was tearing itself apart. One reason lay in the work of the commission that carried McGovern’s name. Founded in the wake of the disastrous and violent Democratic National Convention in 1968, the McGovern Commission put forth guidelines for the selection of delegates. They were designed to open the party’s deliberations to more young people, toAfrican Americans, and to women. The guidelines worked, but they also functioned to diminish the participation of many longtime Democratic Party workers. Prominent national Democrats found themselves in some cases unable to find a spot on their own states’ delegations.

McGovern’s rise made many Democrats nervous. Some were worried about his antiwar views, while others thought that he went against traditional Democratic principles. For many, unfairly or not, McGovern came to symbolize a candidacy of radical children, rioters, marijuana smokers, draft dodgers, and hippies. With the California primary approaching, Humphrey tried to bring all the objections to McGovern together in a last attempt to save the nomination for himself. He excoriated his old Senatefriend for his expensive ideas on welfare and his desire to cut the defense budget. It almost worked. Humphrey closed fast in May and early June, but the McGovern organization held on. McGovern won all of California’s giant delegation, and he beat Humphrey 44.3 to 39.1 percent in the popular vote. The margin was not as large as McGovern had hoped for, and the bitterness of the fight, together with the effectiveness of the Humphrey charges, had not been lost on the silent watchers at the Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP).

here's the link to the page

http://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1972

May 17, 1973: Televised Watergate Hearings Begin

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/may-17-1973-televised-watergate-hearings-begin-19171632

The Jackson State Murders May 14, 1970

http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/05/14/the-jackson-state-murders-may-14-1970/

Scanlan's Monthly

Scanlan's Monthly was a short-lived magazine in 1970-1971.  Edited by San Francisco's Warren Hinckle, it featured excellent writing, in depth and cutthroat journalism and the attention of the FBI. The January 1971 issue was titled Guerrilla War in the USA.

a link to that issue is below...
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/W%20Disk/War%20Guerrilla/Item%2001A.pdf

The Spring Offensive Against the War in 1971--Noam Chomsky Checks In

From the New York Review of Books (when it was a leftish journal)

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1971/06/17/a-special-supplement-mayday-the-case-for-civil-dis/