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Frost And Nixon, Clashing For The Cameras [audio 4 min 1 sec]

There was something centrally disreputable about the Frost-Nixon interviews back in 1977.

The former president had resigned in disgrace after the Watergate scandal, but because he received a pardon from his successor in the Oval Office, he never stood trial or admitted wrongdoing — until three years later, when he broke his public silence on Watergate in interviews with British talk-show host David Frost.

Read entire article at National Public Radio: All Things Considered