Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed Watergate tapes, dies at 99

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8. I hear ya. You must be a few years younger than me...

You prompted a lot of memories....

Almost everyone in my family were Democrats. Vague memory of asking my extended family at a get together if they were voting for Kennedy. I was 7! Then I don't remember anything political till the Cuban Missle Crisis.

I volunteered for 2 local Republicans in '69, and '70 pre-voting age because the 2 Dems were too socially conservative. But never voted for any.

My first Presidential vote was for McGovern in 1972. What a crushing defeat! It was my second Presidential campaign volunteering (Humphrey was first).
I'm assuming you voted in '76 for Carter? Imagine having your first 2 Presidential campaigns as losses!
So Carter was my first Presidential win.

My first vote at 18 was in 1971.
I recently looked it up, and confirmed what I remember; there was hardly anything to vote on in '71 in NYS/C! How disappointing for a first vote! 😑
Still, of course, it was also exciting!

The bad stuff of "The 60's" was earthshaking! But Nixon looks "mild" compared to the horrors of drumphf & co!.

Obviously, I remember the tapes being revealed. And John Dean. Don't really remember Butterfield. 🤔
Definitely remember Halderman, and Eirlichman.

The crazy time of AG Mitchell, and The Saturday Night Massacre! I think at one point I was coming home in a car; and I had a transister radio following the breaking news!