Frost/Nixon

 Briefly in class today, Mr. Stewart said that Nixon agreed to a set of Interviews by David Frost in 1977, and I had heard about these interviews because I have seen the movie about them, so I decided to dig deeper into the subject.

After his resignation in 1974, Richard Nixon left the public scene for more than two years, and it was assumed that this would be the end of Nixon's public career.  But in 1977, Richard Nixon put himself back in the public scene with a series of interviews conducted by British journalist David Frost.  When Frost first asked to interview Nixon, Nixon refused.  That is, until Frost offered Nixon $600,000 to perform the interview, and a 20% share of the profits made.  After being absent for years in the public picture, Richard Nixon would finally reappear and discuss his presidency and the problems that made him resign.
 
The interviews took place in March of 1977, and included 12 interviews spanning 4 weeks total.  The interviews dove deep into the darkest topics of Nixon's presidency, and strove to reveal the truth behind the Watergate scandal.  While the interviews did not lead Nixon to admit that he obstructed justice or illegally covered up any part of Watergate, it let the public view the incident from his side.  The interviews were a great success, and still hold the record for the largest television audience for a political interview in the history of television.  A play was made about the famous interviews called Frost/Nixon, and a very famous movie also called Frost/Nixon was made about the interviews in 2008.