In the early-'80s the Watergate scandal was less than a decade past and memories of Richard Nixon's fall from grace had been refreshed by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's sad chronicle, The Final Days.

While Nixon is far from the only powerful historic personage to have been publicly and humiliatingly brought down while the world watched, his downfall set the template of this familiar ritual for my generation. Hence my impulse for the 1983 satire that follows (originally published in the Village Voice and reprinted in my book Dancin' Nekkid With The Angels) and hence its references to pop culture figures of that period such as Johnny Carson and Phil Donahue.
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