The OP asks, “Were you alive on the day…?”
And the first thing I think is, “No, I was briefly dead that year, and then sprang back to life the next year!” Sorry, I guess I just have a literal mind.
I was 14. My dad asked me to tape it for him, as he was at work. I didn’t really understand the specifics of the whole thing, but I do remember sitting on the back porch, with the tape player recording, listening and listening.
I don’t think my dad ever listened to the tape, though.
On the latter: he may have been impeached (indicted), but that in no way forces him to leave office.
Probably all the senators that voted not to remove Clinton from office have presidential aspirations. They don’t want to be called hypocritical if and when they get to the Oval Office and some sex scandal comes up about them.
Let’s see… I would have been almost 7. I just recall him getting on the planes. I vaugely recall the rest of the mess, but I had a new bike that summer, and it was a heck of a lot more fun.
I was born exactly 3 weeks later.
I was in a private boarding school for girls and we sat around a TV on an uncomfortable sofa. Some of us toasted it with our soft drinks, some of us were bored and some of us were numb. As for Nixon, he was a putz.
I was 19. and it was my second week in Army basic training.
I think it was the only time we saw TV. Sat there polishing my boots with the rest of the gals as we watched our Commander-in-Chief resign. Good riddance.
I have a question for everyone who remembers the event in a school setting:
What in the world were you doing in class in the first week of August?
If you are recalling the hearings that began in the Spring, that’s one thing. However, if you are recalling having watched the resignation while at school, I’m really curious as to how many people were attending class on August 8.
Personally, I was spending a year dead for tax purposes.
I was two years two months old almost to the day. The thing is though in my baby book under the part marked current events is end of vietnam and Watergate.
Yeah, I was 15. I remember watching him on TV with my mother. I guess we were the only ones home at the time, for whatever reason. She sat very still and stony-faced. No emotion at all, probably just soaking in the historical impact of it.
I was sorta upset, realizing that the President was resigning. I thought the whole country was going to just crumble and fall apart. That didn’t happen, of course, although our politics will never be the same because of Nixon. Just goes to show that this nation, of the people, by the people and for the people, is stronger than one individual or even a smaller group of individuals.
I’m not sure anyone posted about watching it in class. SmoothOperator mentioned being in boarding school, DRY (who had been on vacation) asked a teacher about it and I assume he meant when school started a few weeks later, and I said I saw it at home but then mentioned the Congressional hearings had been available to anyone who wanted to watch them at my old high school. (I actually think that was a pretty cool move by my high school, considering how uninnovative it normally was. Most seniors and some juniors had a free hour and many of us would spend that time and lunch in the “Watergate” room.)
Of course, there is always summer school. 
This is indeed what I meant. Brachyrhynchos accurately assessed what I meant. Thank you!
I apologize for any confusion. Actually, it sure didn’t seem like a month later, but it must have been. I know we never started school until early September!
For new students we had early orientation. Besides my school started earlier than public schools. I think that it’s changed since then, but I’m not sure. It’s been 26 years after all.
Amazing how many posters have written something to the effect of “I was one day short of my X birthday,” “exactly X years and X months old” etc. Well Nixon resigned on my first birthday. I think August 8 was also the date Napoleon was exiled to Elba. A good day for depositions.
I was almost 2 years and 1 month old, so my memories of the event are sketchy at best
So, where were you when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor?