On 5 May 1977, the first of the Nixon Interviews was broadcast. "Perhaps there is a little bit of history in the making", noted The Times television section for that day in understated fashion, "when the smooth David Frost starts his series of the Nixon Interviews (BBC1 9:25) with the former president".
Like a chastened schoolboy, former US president Richard Nixon, once the most powerful man on the planet, sat before British broadcaster David Frost. "There are three things I'd like to hear you say", scolded Frost, fishing for an apology. "People need to hear it and unless you say it, you're going to be haunted for the rest of your life."
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