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FROST/NIXON Watergate Video Excerpts
Monday, July 27th, 2009

On May 4, 1977 the world watched as British journalist Sir David Frost conducted an historic interview with former President Richard Nixon on the Watergate scandal. WLIW21 brings back the most compelling political interview ever Monday, August 3 at 8 p.m. for the 35th anniversary of Nixon’s resignation. Every day this week we’ll be posting video excerpts from FROST/NIXON: The Original Watergate Interviews leading up to WLIW21’s August 3 broadcast.

In today’s excerpt Nixon addresses the 18-minute gap:

In a story today about WLIW21’s rebroadcast of FROST/NIXON: The Original Watergate Interviews, Associated Press Television Writer David Bauder notes, “The broadcast hasn’t lost power with the passage of time. If anything, it’s even more fascinating as a historical document, the experience richer after the movie filled in the back story.” Read his full story, which also features an interview with Sir David Frost, here.

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