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That was the high point of the first hour. During the last part of the interview Frost let Nixon slip away, like a large fish he just could not land, and Nixon broke the line and went skipping off into the blue Pacific. The last half hour was pure Nixon, corny maybe, but the Nixon who sold like Pringles to all those people in 1968, and to many more in '72--never mind those additives that give you cancer. Nixon on finally firing Haldeman and John Ehrlichman...
...FROST GETS high marks for his interviewing. Nixon got $600,000 plus a lot more, when all the rights are in. More important he got a chance to try to exonerate himself, or at least present himself as a tragic figure, a modern-day Caligula. "I brought myself down. I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and twisted it with relish." So even if he is guilty--and Nixon never admitted that for an instant--at least, he claims, he's a hero. But Nixon's analogy is faulty: Caligula was trapped by life and a personal...
...next sessions with Frost he'll talk about his foreign policy triumphs, and try to establish his legacy, his attempt, as he put it, "to build a generation of peace." But Nixon was a hack, not a statesman. He was the ultimate mediocrity, the ad account executive, the ward heeler raised to high office. The only emotion that the interview generates is not pity--Nixon is too warped and amoral for that--but hatred. Let him go east, like Cain, into the land of Nod. In the end, perhaps the best thing that can be said of the interviews...
...than 2½ years the familiar face has been scarcely glimpsed on TV screens, as the ex-President made only the rarest forays from San Clemente. This week he is back on the screens of America, in the first of four long-awaited interviews with British TV Personality David Frost. In our cover story we give not only a behind-the-scenes account of how the shows were put together, but also a preview of the programs, especially the one dealing with Watergate...
...minute show Frost, who on other topics was rather soft and undemanding, dramatically confronts Nixon with his mistakes. Under Frost's no-holds-barred questioning, Nixon is humbled, his defenses are shattered...