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a full, free and absolute pardon

unto Richard Nixon for all

offenses against the United States.

It meant that the man who had

committed the greatest felony

in American political history

would never stand trial.

It was like he slipped

out the back door.

A public opinion poll indicates

a two-to-one disapproval of

the pardoning of Richard Nixon.

One telegram from Virginia said,

"Roosevelt had his New Deal,

"Truman had his Fair Deal, now

Ford has his crooked deal. "

There was no deal, period.

I don't think the truth

will ever come out.

The American people

need to know the truth,

and I don't think it will

ever now be fully known.

So how do we want to

address the college protests?

Well, do we want to lift some quotes

from the "stand up and be

counted" speech in 1970?

Sir? You know, maybe

we're just better off

using the whole Lincoln Memorial memo.

Just include the whole thing.

Mr. President, Swifty Lazar is here.

Okay. No, no, stick around.

You're gonna get a kick out of this.

This is my literary

agent from Hollywood.

Hygiene obsessive.

Mr. President, good to see you.

Nice to see you.

These are folks helping me with my book.

Diane Sawyer, Frank

Gannon, Irving Lazar.

Nice to meet you. Miss Sawyer.

Pleasure. Mr. Gannon.

Okay, that's it. I'll

see you after lunch.

So how you feeling, sir?

I'm better, thank you. Though

not yet well enough to golf,

thank God. I despise that game.

Imagine, six weeks out of office

as President of the United States,

and they'd have me putting

in my hospital room.

Never retire, Mr. Lazar.

To me, the unhappiest people

of the world are retired.

No purpose.

What makes life mean

something is purpose.

A goal. A battle. A struggle.

Well, even if you don't win it.

When my doctor declared me unfit

to give testimony in

the Watergate trial,

everybody thought I'd be relieved.

Well, they were wrong.

That was the lowest I got.

Well, if it's a challenge you

want, here's one you might enjoy.

How to spend $2 million,

It's what I got for your memoirs.

Well, thank you.

Eh...

It might be a little

short of what I wanted,

but let me assure you, it's a

whole lot more than they wanted.

That book is important to me.

It's probably the only chance I'm

gonna get to put the record straight

and remind people the

Nixon years weren't all bad.

You know, if you're trying

to put the record straight,

I'd at least talk to him.

Who?

David Frost. English talk show guy.

Why would I want to talk to David Frost?

Well, a while back, he wrote

asking for an interview.

No.

Well, we didn't get back to him.

Frankly, we didn't find him appropriate.

Well, I thought that we

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