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No one can know what it's like to resign the presidency.
And?
lt was agony to watch.
He turns off the gas, and he talks for two hours
Well, what is it that you want to achieve?
Are you on your way home?
And soon after arriving in California,
to think it through, sketch it out.
for Public Radio for the past 1 0 years.
Therefore, l shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
lrving Paul Lazar.
Dark blue, cherry wood, leather.
And above all, don't let him give these self-serving, 23-minute homilies.
So much for our ballsy opening.
And then finally, it had come to this.
lsn't that just a cover-up of another kind?
Jack. Watergate.
REPORTER 3: How are you feeling, Mr. President?
by my Washington political colleagues.
Hey, Mr. Frost. lt's nice to see you.
And l could go on. Now, it seems to me
The phone call to my hotel room.
That's good. That's good.
These are folks helping me with my book.
He is to be out.
David !
But l realize no one else shares that view.
Well, believe me, sir, l wish my pockets were that deep.
Mr. President, it's a half a million dollars for a news interview.
l'm saying that when the President does it, that means it's not illegal.
DAVlS: Settling.
N lXON : To leave office before my term is completed
in my view, is just depressing.
(REPORTERS CLAMORlNG)
He went twice around my whole estate.
No advance sales, no commercials.
Find out the numbers for this, will you? Worldwide.
And guess what else he is.
Well, actually, l'm living in Monte Carlo at the moment.
We're gonna make them choke on our continued success,
Bye-bye. Goodbye.
Mmm-hmm.
great, complex ideas, tranches of time.
Difficult questions.
And l like that.
l'm sorry, David, but we have a policy
Well, we got inside for the photographers,
Today we're lowering escape artist Derek Harrison into the water
Well, l'm not suggesting. . .
was set up by my predecessor, President Johnson,
Richard Nixon\s face,
REPORTER 4: Mr. President, please!
Half his audience is still asleep.
And l'm interested that you used the term obstruction of justice.
But that was before l really understood
Goodbye, Mr. President.
They never know when they're being taped.
Bad time?
was that you were a person who had achieved great fame
You have got to make it more uncomfortable for him.
And, yes, it might have been a crime, too.
David has a film premiere he needs to attend.
My name is David Frost.
l'd like to give Richard Nixon the trial he never had.
CAROLlN E: No, thank you.
Well, if it's a challenge you want, here's one you might enjoy.
So who is it?
The rest of the project and its failings would not only be forgotten,
Fourth.
Everyone's been kind and deferred fees.
It’s my birthday, Bob!
Jim here teaches at the University of North Carolina
All right.
you end up radicalizing a once moderate people,
(SN lFFLES)
Very well. Two million.
l remember that we had a Lincoln specially made.
perhaps for the last time as President of the United States.
Why the monkey suit?
l really don't know what you're talking about.
FROST: There you are.
When my doctor declared me unfit
Did the snobs there look down on you, too?
He's been in these pressure situations many times before.
Yes. Goodbye, Mr. President.
to help him with the research.
You don't like champagne?
Yeah, fuck off.
when you subsequently found out about it,
Marv, Lloyd, great day. Bye, David.
and that l have my eyebrows trimmed.
which l am not doing, and l will not do
lf this went well, if enough people saw it, revised their opinion,
From Richard Nixon?
Yes, so did l.
There was wrongdoing.
The moment that he made the decision to resign,
But television and the close-up,
Historic stuff.
to work on a subject matter that means more
you know, assuming he's a terrible guy,
The interviews?
You're making him look presidential, for Christ's sake!
Not journalist or interviewer?