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Lost Buildup. If those final moments of the first of four David Frost interviews with Nixon were moving, it is a measure of the widespread cynicism Nixon has so long evoked that they seem destined to do little to restore his lost respect. As TIME correspondents probed public reaction to the show, they found an overwhelming majority of viewers still as turned off by Nixon as ever. Many even wondered whether Nixon's limited apologia was heartfelt or merely Checkers-style hokum...
Unfortunately, part of the drama of the closest thing to a confession that Nixon is ever likely to make was lost in the editing of the show. The 90-minute broadcast was distilled from almost five hours of grilling by Frost on Watergate. Nearly an hour of the taping that landed on the cutting-room floor covered unsuccessful efforts by the gentlemanly British interviewer to elicit some admission of responsibility and guilt. The final Nixon monologue that was shown was in fact the culmination of a long period of mounting tension on the homey seaside set in California, but this...
...Frost interview did not answer some of the lingering questions about Watergate. What precisely was the Watergate wiretapping meant to find out? Did Nixon know in advance that his re-election committee was planning the breakin? Why did he not destroy all of his tapes before their existence became known-or even after? Who erased the 18½ minutes of missing Oval Office conversation from the June 20 tape...
...long-term engagement, Diahann turned around and married (briefly) a Las Vegas clothier. And then there was Karen Graham. A Texas-born model and Vogue cover girl, she received the unqualified blessing of David's Mum ("She's just like one of the family") and was about to get Frosted by Billy Graham in Manhattan. Two days before the Big Day, she got hitched instead to a Chicago businessman. Frost's current love is comely Caroline Cushing, ex-wife of Howard Gushing, the millionaire socialite...
...about David. That goes for some of his old Angries pals. Says Bernard Levin, one of the toughest and brightest of British journalists and a star of the old TW3: "David not only has genuine ability but also human qualities of kindness, generosity, good nature and sympathy." Frost's self-judgment is more modest: "The aim of everything I do is to leave the audience a little more alert, a little more aware, a little more alive." Richard Nixon must feel that way this week...