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'sde 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."
"From the Hardcover edition."
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