Reply #36: When it Hit The News [View All]

and then the hearings began.

On My antique table is a lacy, elegantly tatted tablecloth. It is quite beautiful. My Grandmama sat, day after day after day, watching the hearings, tatting... tatting that tablecloth. I sat, fascinated by her worn hands, working the thin yarn into these beautiful snowflakes. Haldeman spoke and another row was completed. Ehrlichman Martha Mitchell, Agnew resigning, the snowflakes added up.

The cloth is Mine as a treasured family memento. It is called The Watergate Tablecloth and its history is written in the family archives. In every knot lies the shock of a family which saw the government revealed in a way that NO American ought to have to witness... and yet MUST if Democracy is to be preserved.

I remember.

Lady Sonelle