Word: interview
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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...
...interview with TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angela shortly before his departure last week on his latest diplomatic mission, Vice President Walter Mondale reflected on the duties, rewards and hazards of his often disparaged office. Excerpts...
...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...
...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...