On Aug 10, 2014, at 5:55 AM, "Barker, Michael" <[email protected]
> wrote:
It was raining like hell in Winedale the night Richard Nixon
resigned. We all sat on the floor of the general store across the
street next to the pool table listening to his speech. I was so
elated by his resignation that I ran out into the pouring rain,
raced up onto the top of the barn and, surrounded by thunder and
lightning, slid down the roof of the barn and broke my leg. I was
rushed to the hospital in Brenham, played Falstaff with a cane, and
Doc did not talk to me for 3 days. That's what I remember.
michael b
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Godwin [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2014 08:45 PM
To: James Ayres <[email protected]>
Cc: Shakespeare Winedale <[email protected]
>; Shakespeare at Winedale 1970-2000 alums <[email protected]
>
Subject: Re: [Winedale-l] Nixon
My guess is that awareness among the sumer '74 class of how things
were accelerating in late July and August of 1974 was perhaps pretty
dim. That year the class was six weeks long, if I remember the S-at-W
timeline correctly. In any case, the big events that led to
resignation were in the last week or so of July -- they included the
Supreme Court's decision that Nixon must release the tapes, followed
by the House's decision to proceed to impeachment . Woodward and
Bernstein, among many others, documented that Nixon quickly assessed
that the Senate would likely convict him on one or more of the
charges. (He even queried his allies whether it would be tenable to
stay on if he carried only 10 votes for acquittal in the Senate; his
allies indicated that this would not be a good idea.)
In any case, they took place when the Summer '74 class was thinking
hardest about performances.
Here's the timeline:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/08/how-the-watergate-crisis-eroded-public-support-for-richard-nixon/
I can easily imagine that someone who was at Winedale in summer 1974
may remember it differently, just because "there is no clock in the
forest." I know that I have a dim memory that the summer 2005
reunion
class somehow coincided with Hurricane Katrina, although checking the
calendar suggests to me that this was not true. So I too can testify
that Winedale for me has always been a place out of time.
As it happens, your reporter participated in a Congressional staff
briefing yesterday in the Rayburn House Office Building, perhaps in
the same committee room where the vote to impeach President Nixon
took
place. See attached photo.
--Mike
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 10:08 PM, James Ayres <[email protected]>
wrote:
Not your imagination, Jerald. This was a scheduled event that
day. I
checked it out with Marilyn to make sure she was tuning in. We
took time
out from work in the barn to watch and celebrate. The locals were
as
excited as we were. Cheering, yelling, applause. Lots of noise.
Then we went back to work in the barn. Delighted, relieved.
Doc
On Aug 9, 2014, at 4:38 PM, Jerald Head wrote:
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Nixon's resignation. There
was a
mention of this event in in a reminiscence in the Shakespeare
birthplace
stories while at Winedale. In that story the fellow student
mentioned he
knew nothing of the event until he talked to his family. I find
my memory
sometimes is what I choose to remember, but I recall going over
to the store
to watch the resignation speech, being forewarned to show respect
by Doc. I
remember going over to the store and watching the speech on
Rollie and
Marilyn's television in the store. Or do I? Did we do this or is
it just my
imagination?
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