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Richard Nixon's final bout with British Interviewer David Frost last week concluded, as had the first of the four telecasts, with a discussion of what the ex-President described as the "shattering experience" of his resignation. In coming full circle, the series-which had been sold separately to 162 U.S. television stations-lost half of its viewers, according to rating surveys in New York City and Los Angeles. Only about 21% of the TV audience watched the fourth interview, v. 42% for the first; 23% for the second; 17% the third. Among the topics in Nixon-Frost...
...away with it." Nixon paraphrased a Civil War statement by Abraham Lincoln: "Actions which otherwise would be unconstitutional could become lawful if undertaken for the purpose of preserving the Constitution and the nation." Said Nixon: "Now that's the kind of action I'm referring to." Again, Frost refused to equate preserving the Union in the 1860s with deterring dissent in the 1970s...
...Frost probed Nixon's motives in striking out at his critics, the former President anticipated the questions. "Am I paranoiac about hating people and trying to do them in?" he asked. "The answer is: At times, yes. I get angry at people ... but an individual must never let hatred rule him." His bitterness showed when he described Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the secret Pentagon papers, as "the punk." It also showed toward the Kennedys as he related how Jack and Jackie had never once invited him and Pat to the White House for a meal, even though...
This week's fourth installment in the Nixon-Frost series will cover the ex-President's tax problems, his assets, the role of the CIA in covert operations (including Chile), Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignation, Nixon's final days in office and his pardon...
...major problem in dealing with the Soviets is their xenophobia. Though they have grown considerably more sophisticated about the outside world in recent years, they still show a distrust of foreigners that borders on paranoia and a defensiveness that can make them downright offensive. In one of his David Frost interviews, for example, Richard Nixon recalled a conversation President Eisenhower once had with Nikita Khrushchev. Eisenhower lamented that he could never seem to get away from the intrusions of the telephone. Khrushchev responded-irrelevantly and incorrectly-with a tirade about how the Soviets have far more telephones than the Americans...