I've always been interested in Watergate. No doubt because when I was ten days old, the break-in happened and politics changed forever. My friend Stacy once said I brought good in the world.

I was two when Nixon left office, thirty-five years ago next month. I once asked my mother how she felt when he left. She said incredibly sad, because of his good-bye speech.

I watched the speech in high school, then again recently after seeing Frost/Nixon. I only get now that Nixon was so near a nervous breakdown with his speech. I was reminded of it again with Sarah Palin's recent speech when she decided to step down.

Jennifer Gibbons, Red Room