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See Dick Squirm

New documentary chronicles legendary 1977 Frost/Nixon interviews

By Kevin Canfield

In 1977, British journalist David Frost sat down with former President Richard Nixon to conduct a series of television interviews. Over the course of 28 hours spread across several days, Frost elicited from Nixon one of the nation’s most historic presidential apologies: “I let down my friends, I let down the country, I let down our system of government [and the]… return to article

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