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

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

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

November 17, 1973--Richard Nixon is not a crook

As the Watergate and associated criminal acts were slowly being revealed, Richard Nixon held a press conference....click below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh163n1lJ4M

The Day Nixon Resigned

Nowadays, high school history books tell students that the Watergate episode and Nixon’s resignation prove that the US way of government works. Personally, I think that the real indicator of how (and for whom) the system works is Gerald Ford’s pardon of the man the following month.

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

here is the speech itself:

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