I still remember Nixon turning around while boarding the helicopter giving one last wave to the White House staff on live TV.
I don't know if I watched that on live TV or not, but I sure saw that clip played a thousand times over the next several years.
I was just a kid, so of course I couldn't stand Nixon, but man, was that the end of an era. It led to Jimmy Carter's term, which saw the birth of the modern nutbag liberal movement. We're still paying for that mistake.