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...Nixon is going to remain very much in the public eye for a while. On Thursday he will perform at his best, describing for Frost his role in the big power politics of dealing with China, Russia, SALT and the Middle East. Following that, in successive weeks, will be the interviews on the war in Southeast Asia, as well as the dissent at home, and his final days in office. It is also possible that Frost will cobble together an extra program from the unused portions of the 29 hours of tape. Nixon has approved the sale of a fifth...
...more moving moments in the David Frost interview with Richard Nixon came when the ex-President revealed how, while serving as Dwight Eisenhower's Vice President in 1958, he had been required to tell the embattled Sherman Adams, Ike's closest aide, that Ike wanted Adams out. As Nixon poignantly recalled it, after long deliberation Eisenhower agreed that Adams must leave but could not bring himself personally to tell him. Said Nixon to Frost, with great pain showing in his face: "You know...
...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 David Frost used three unpublished transcripts to surprise the ex-President.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...