Word: frosted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidency was on rare display around Washington last Thursday. First there was the 37th President, deposed Richard Nixon, quoted as saying in a David Frost interview that a President was above the law. Before noon No. 38, Gerald Ford, now a genial Palm Springs jock, was traveling nostalgically through the corridors of power on his second visit as a private citizen to the place he wished he had never left...
...third Frost interview, he talked both of a country arrayed against him and of one held together by his courage and daring. He was comparing himself to Lincoln again, and his troubles to the Civil War, talking about heaven and hell and lamenting that the Kennedys had never had him to lunch .Here again was the evidence - and warning - of how personal the presidency can become, how easy it is in the comfortable recesses of power to drift beyond reality...
...upset at the adverse domestic reaction, especially after the Kent State shootings. Kissinger, said Nixon, told him that Cambodia "could have been a mistake. And I said, 'Henry, we've done it.' I said, 'Remember Lot's wife. Never look back.' " Frost asked Nixon whether Kissinger ever spoke of resigning. Nixon remembered "perhaps half a dozen times...
...hours of interviews with Nixon that he taped for his series on the ex-President, David Frost plans to get enough material for three more shows. Round 3, to be broadcast on Thursday, will highlight the early years of Nixon's Viet Nam policy and include his views on the invasion of Cambodia and on domestic dissent. At one point, according to sources who have seen the tapings, Frost pauses, searching for a word to sum up the Nixon attitude. Nixon interrupts and suggests "paranoia?" Frost replies, "Yes." The two men talk about the former President's feelings...
...which was intended to pound the North Vietnamese into acceptance of a cease-fire and peace negotiations. Kissinger was reported by some liberal columnists to have been against the B-52 raids. Nixon says Kissinger never opposed the raids. He says he even called Kissinger the night before the Frost taping session to recheck his memory. According to Nixon, "Henry felt that he ought to try to win over those he said 'hate your guts.' They were his friends; he ran in their set. But they got the wrong impression. He supported the bombing." In fact, adds Nixon...