Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporters gathered around him, Carter talked about David Frost's Watergate interview with Richard Nixon. "I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses," said Carter. "But I think that he believes he didn't. He's rationalized in his own mind that he did all those things for the benefit of staff members and so forth, and that he didn't have any criminal intent." Asked if he had discussed the Nixon affair during his trip to London, the President said he had. Several of the summit participants had raised...
...David Frost's first televised confrontation with Richard Nixon, the subject was Watergate, and the ex-President was combative, emotional and frequently uncomfortable. But last week, in the second of the five-part series, Frost led Nixon through his favorite terrain, foreign affairs, and he fairly bubbled over with talk-show trivia about world leaders he had known...
...congressional election year, and party pros were convinced that the Adams affair was damaging their chances. Vice President Nixon, assigned to weigh party sentiment, found that virtually all Republican candidates wanted Adams out. That jibed with Nixon's own view then, though in the Frost interview he never suggested that he privately sought Adams' resignation. Republican National Committee Chairman Meade Alcorn also told Ike, "Sherm must...
Could it be that Nixon's memory lapsed? That is unlikely. Just a couple of months before the Frost taping, he was explicitly reminded of the firing details by someone who was in the White House at the time...
Suddenly it was like the old days. Turn on the tube or open a newspaper, and there was yet another "new" Nixon tape. David Frost used three unpublished transcripts to surprise the ex-President. The New York Times and Washington Post played their newly uncovered transcripts under big headlines. Was some new Deep Throat reeling off tapes in the night whenever a Watergate researcher or reporter thought he needed...