President Nixon Historic Farewell Television Address August 8, 1974

[ohdxer]

When I was a kid on the evening of Thursday August 8, 1974, I remember my father watching President Nixon addressing his resignation that evening in his prime time address to the nation.

President Nixon's farewell address was carried on the ABC, CBS, and NBC television networks.

All of the regularly scheduled programming on the three television networks were pre-empted that evening with the network news coverage of President Nixon's resignation that lasted until the early morning hours on Friday August 9, 1974.

Here are the television programming that was scheduled for Thursday August 8, 1974 on the three television networks in Eastern Time.

ABC
8:00 Temperature's Rising
8:30 Just For Laughs
9:00 Kung Fu
10:00 Streets of San Francisco

CBS
8:00 The Waltons
9:00 CBS Movie - The Looking Glass War (1970)

NBC
8:00 The Mac Davis Show
9:00 Ironside
10:00 Dean Martin's Comedy World

Sources:

Nixon Resigns In Historic Prime time Farewell

Prime Time TV Listings From Thursday August 8, 1974

 

[tvnut]

His actual farewell address was the next morning from the East Room of the White House, the one in which he invoked Teddy Roosevelt, followed by the walk to the helicopter with his wife across the White House lawn and the flight to Andrews AFB. It is a remarkable talk, as easy to find on YouTube as it had to be difficult to give.

 

[bjon830]

Jay Leno mentioned,in an interview several years ago, that he would have made his TV debut that night, if 'The Dean Martin Comedy World' had not been pre-empted.
(That show, a hodgepodge of standup comedy performances, did not actually feature Martin; it served as the final summer replacement for his variety show, which had just ended aftet nine years).