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The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews
Three Rivers Press
June 2008
On Sale: May 27, 2008
308 pages
ISBN: 0307394905
EAN: 9780307394903
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Non-Fiction History
The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the office
of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel
on June 17, 1971, and ended when President Gerald Ford
granted Richard M. Nixon a pardon on September 8, 1974, one
month after Nixon resigned from office in disgrace.
Effectively removed from the reach of prosecutors, Nixon
returned to California, uncontrite and unconvicted,
convinced that time would exonerate him of any wrongdoing
and certain that history would remember his great
accomplishments—the opening of China and the winding down
of the Vietnam War—and forget his “mistake,” the “pipsqueak
thing” called Watergate. In 1977, three years after his resignation, Nixon agreed to
a series of interviews with television personality David
Frost. Conducted over twelve days, they resulted in twenty-
eight hours of taped material, which were aired on prime-
time television and watched by more than 50 million people
worldwide. Nixon, a skilled lawyer by training, was paid $1
million for the interviews, confident that this exposure
would launch him back into public life. Instead, they
sealed his fate as a political pariah. James Reston, Jr., was David Frost’s Watergate advisor for
the interiews, and The Conviction of Richard Nixon is his
intimate, behind-the-scenes account of his involvement.
Originally written in 1977 and published now for the first
time, this book helped inspire Peter Morgan’s hit play
Frost/Nixon. Reston doggedly researched the voluminous
Watergate record and worked closely with Frost to develop
the interrogation strategy. Even at the time, Reston
recognized the historical importance of the Frost/Nixon
interviews; they would result either in Nixon’s de facto
conviction and vindication for the American people, or in
his exoneration and public rehabilitation in the hands of a
lightweight. Focused, driven, and committed to exposing the
truth, Reston worked tirelessly to arm Frost with the
information he needed to force Nixon to admit his
culpability. In The Conviction of Richard Nixon, Reston provides a
fascinating, fly-on-the-wall account of his involvement in
the Nixon interviews as David Frost’s Watergate adviser.
Written in 1977 immediately following these celebrated
television interviews and published now for the first time,
The Conviction of Richard Nixon explains how a British
journalist of waning consequence drove the famously wily
and formidable Richard Nixon to say, in an apparent
personal epiphany, “I have impeached myself.”
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