In 1977, three years after his resignation, former President Richard Nixon agreed to a series of interviews with TV journalist David Frost. These interviews aired on primetime television and were watched by over 40 million people. Nixon, a highly skilled lawyer by training, was confident these interviews would salvage his reputation. Instead, they sealed his fate as a political exile.
Prior to the interviews, Frost gathered a team of researchers to help him prepare questions and discuss strategy, among them, celebrated historian James Reston Jr. Reston wrote a memoir of his experience at the time, but opted not to publish. Until now. The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews offers a defining, behind-the-scenes view of what really happened on the inside.
The group shots in the beginning show (left-to-right) Joe Motheral, James Reston Jr., and Russell Baker.
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