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mellicious Forty-five years ago this week (it was Flag Day, that's the only reason I remember the exact date still) I had heart surgery to fix a heart murmur I was born with. I was 12. I saw that it was Flag Day this week and I did the math and came up with that rather staggering number - 45 - and so I also noticed it tonight on MSNBC when they said that the Watergate break-in was 45 years ago this week. I didn't remember that, but then it wasn't big news at the time, either. It only became big news later on. But that means that happened while I was in the hospital recovering - I was really bored sitting in the hospital for a whole week, at least after a couple of days when I started feeling better. I remember that well. I don't specifically remember watching the news, but everybody watched the evening news back then (usually referred to as "watching Walter Cronkite" the way I remember it) and it's possible I did. I do think I knew about that break-in pretty early on.
But that might just be in my head. I do know I remember being mad about the Watergate hearings being all that was on on the TV - this was during the summer, I'm assuming that was in 1974. And I remember Nixon resigning and I know I knew the basics about it at the time, at least, but it's hard to be sure how much of all the stuff that happened in that two-year time period I really remember from the time it was happening and how much I learned later, from All the President's Men (both the movie and the book) and so forth. I do think now that all of that may be a lot of the reason I'm so interested in politics today, though.
But that might just be in my head. I do know I remember being mad about the Watergate hearings being all that was on on the TV - this was during the summer, I'm assuming that was in 1974. And I remember Nixon resigning and I know I knew the basics about it at the time, at least, but it's hard to be sure how much of all the stuff that happened in that two-year time period I really remember from the time it was happening and how much I learned later, from All the President's Men (both the movie and the book) and so forth. I do think now that all of that may be a lot of the reason I'm so interested in politics today, though.
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Date: 2017-06-20 09:09 am (UTC)Both the Saturday and Sunday games were on national TV, since we were playing the Red Sox. I was complaining about that because I like our local announcers better than the national ones. (The Saturday one was on Fox, which is the one I really objected to. ESPN's are better, partly because they only show one game and have one announcer team where Fox Saturday Baseball usually has three, I think.)
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Date: 2017-06-20 11:15 am (UTC)I agree about the local announcers. Especially for Fox. I have no idea how Joe Buck keeps that job. He is so inane. Never played the game, yet babbles on as if he really knows what he's talking about. "If they want to win this one, they'd better get more runs." Profound stuff like that. Made it really hard to watch the Series, last year. Talk about riding your dad's coattails. As for ESPN, I have a problem with token women in the booth. At least Jessica didn't say much. Better to be quiet and be thought a fool... Yeah, I know, that's not PC. Equality for women, and all of that. The Marlins have a Jessica, too, who does post-game interviews and roams the stands doing human interest stories, etc. But not play-by-play or color commentary in the booth. I guess that makes me an anti-feminist, huh? **hangs head**