If you're geeking out over the many pieces about the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation, let me add one more to your list: Watergate Sue, a comic by Megan Kelso than ran in the New York Times from April 1 to August 9, 2007. It chronicles the pregnancy of a woman who was herself born on the day Nixon resigned, but it primarily covers her mother's own pregnancy and obsessive TV-watching of the coverage of Nixon's final months in office. It's got a lot of good stuff: family dynamics, verbatim dialogue from the hearings, reproductive issues, and even a bit of Seattle (where the family lived in 1974).
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