Frost Nixon Interview Clip 1 of 6 on White House Chief of Staff, HR Haldeman Frost/Nixon

http://www.frostnixon.com - The Official Frost Nixon Interviews -€“ Clip 1 -€“ Nixon on White House Chief of Staff, HR Haldeman & his note-taking regarding the 18.5 minute gap in the Watergate tapes.

When discussing the legacy of a failed presidency, nothing could be more relevant, engaging or important than the series of interviews that David Frost conducted with Richard Nixon in 1977. Following a three-year political silence, the series drew the largest ever TV news audience and granted the American people a tacit admission of guilt from the former president.
With the Ron Howard film (adapted from the Tony Award® winning play) opening in theaters on December 5th, there will be unprecedented interest in the real thing. Frost/Nixon

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[hellozainab]

The Doctor Says Hello, Mr. Frost.

[SirhcEnit]

@hellozainab There will be a lot of Whovians googling this fella now ;)

[Ireallywantacookie]

@SirhcEnit

true. :D Allons-y!

[JohnHay57]

@Bateman49 I am a witness. I saw the original tapes. I saw these edited ones. I see how Frost and Howard mischievously changed the content, tone, words, facial expressions, voices, timing, volume, and thereby the meaning. A man says, “What’s that ahead on the road?” and an actor reads it as, “What’s that? A head, on the road?” Frost’s weakness was made to look like strength. Nixon’s strength was made to look like weakness. Brave words were made to appear weak, and vice versa. An elaborate hoax.

[Bateman49]

@JohnHay57 And your basing that on the full unedited tapes you have seen?. Clearly that is your personal opinion and your making it out to be fact. Please do not make comments alone these lines again unless your basing it in fact and not your nut job opinion.

[EmpireLS56KW]

"I'm not a crook"!

[HAPL0GR0UP]

what is an EOB?

[JohnHay57]

@Keithed200 Nixon cleaned the floor with Frost, who changed the interview after Nixon died, by editing the whole thing selectively, and by blabbing over it. Ron Howard’s movie changes the expression, tone of Nixon’s and Frost’s words, to make it look like Frost won. You changed his words too, which were, “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.” That statement is correct, when looked at in context. Nixon was fighting the fifth column, so his actions were perfectly apt.

[Keithed200]

@JohnHay57 Ok and I just presented you with the facts. The fact is the Frost Nixon interviews did nothing to "revitalize" Nixon's image at the time with the general public, which undoubtedly included people who were not baby boomers. He infamously declared "if the President does it, then it is not illegal" and essentially hung whatever chance he had to revitalize himself. I don't give a shit about your fixation on the Baby Boomers or hippies, the simple fact is Nixon lost the Frost interviews.

[JohnHay57]

@Keithed200 I don't use the communal brain of millions of baby boomers to figure out whether Frost and Howard tried to change history here - I look at the facts. Hippies revile Nixon just as terrorists revile Bush. Nixon did not "lose" to quote you. He won the presidency and he won a pardon. Hippies were the losers. First they lost the war in Vietnam for their country, and then they lost their children through drugs, lack of discipline and divorce.

[Keithed200]

@JohnHay57 Bullshit. A 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. Nixon is still reviled today. He lost.

[JohnHay57]

Ron Howard’s movie changed the interviews and the history substantially. Frost did the same with the actual interviews themselves, by redoing them in this program. He chooses snippets, and gives his own views about each, leaving out important pieces that show a very different story. Between them, Howard and Frost have tried to change history. The truth is that Nixon defeated Frost easily and convincingly in the original interview, which Frost made impossible to find.