Nixon interviews were a series of conversations between former American president Richard Nixon and British journalist David Frost, produced by John Birt.
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10 Facts About Nixon interviews
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Richard Nixon interviews spent more than two years away from public life after resigning from office due to the Watergate scandal.
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However, Nixon granted David Frost an exclusive series of interviews in 1977.
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Nixon interviews was publishing his memoirs at the time, but his publicist Irving Paul Lazar believed that he could reach a mass audience by using television.
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The Nixon interviews were broadcast on radio by the Mutual Broadcasting System.
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Nixon interviews's staff saw the interview as an opportunity for him to restore his reputation with the public and assumed that Frost would be easily outwitted.
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Nixon interviews had interviewed Nixon in 1968 in a manner that Time magazine described as "softly".
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The Nixon interviews were managed by executive producer Marvin Minoff who was the president of Frost's David Paradine Productions, and by British current affairs producer John Birt.
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Nixon interviews replied: "Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal", by definition.
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Gallup poll conducted after the interviews aired showed that 69 percent of the public thought that Nixon was still trying to cover up, 72 percent still thought he was guilty of obstruction of justice, and 75 percent thought he deserved no further role in public life.
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