The same day we went on strike at WJIM, the White House gave a metal suitcase containing subpoenaed Watergate tapes to District Judge John J. Sirica. One: the so-called “smoking gun” tape from six days after the Watergate break-in. Richard Nixon announced his resignation on August 8th.

It was the summer after my high school graduation, and I was working at a camp for retarded children in the Catskill mountains of New York. I remember it well.