Good morning, Whitewater.
We’ll end our work week on a mostly sunny Friday with a high of eighty.
On this day in 1974, Nixon resigns, to be effective noon the next day.
Text of the full speech is available at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center website.
Six years earlier, on August 8, 1968, Wisconsin picked Nixon:
1968 – Wisconsin Delegates Nominate Nixon
On this date thirty Wisconsin delegates at the Republican National Convention in Miami cast their votes to nominate Richard Nixon as the Republican party presidential candidate. These thirty votes gave Nixon the majority over Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan and won for him the party nomination. Nixon selected Spiro Agnew to be his running mate. [Source: Back in Time]
Google-a-Day asks about an abolitionist:
What abolitionist rented a house from the husband of the woman for whom Grace Park in Akron, Ohio, is named?