Answering this comment and I know this will meet with resistance, but a leader in a democracy who acts in the nation's best interest (surely their first and most important task), even though it may be illegal, should be scrutinised but not prosecuted. Nixon was different as he was acting in his own self interest
In fairness, they're talking about the legality of it. I'm not taking Nixon's side, actually the opposite, but quite frankly that's not even a poor quote to the situation, its irrelevant
I know of Nixon with all his character flaws was a tragic figure but we should not forget his work with the EPA was ground-breaking in fact it made him a lot of enemies on the far right and with the conservatives
Sadly, as do with many political agencies, the EPA is nothing, but another political string for the deep state to push their agenda. I liked Nixon, but he was much more of a international affairs guy, and I wish he was elected in 1960, as by the time he came in, the communists had already effectively made their mark.
Nixon in general was a lot more of a progressive and a socialist than he is given credit for, to the point that I reckon he'd be remembered as a leading progressive if only he had ran as a Democrat.
@@vladivanov5500must’ve missed the part where obstruction of justice was considered being progressive, so in that sense he was only progressive for himself.
Give him credit he resigned before he was impeached. When we see impeachment means nothing anyway. He at least spared the country his mistakes & left with grace imo. He was his own worst enemy. A brilliant man but so insecure & self destructive. R.i.p mr president.
I think a lot of RUclips viewers who don't remember Nixon must find this rather confusing. All the talk in the interview about impeachment, and how horrible it is, probably doesn't "grab" people who watched Clinton waltz through the entire process without resigning. It's like trying to explain the Soviet era to people born since the Soviet Union broke up.
@@zylowolf7919 idk I'm not an American but still know all about this...the Watergate scandal, everything that happened in that era...I mean younger Americans should know about all this...
He was one troubled man. Self loathing, self pity and inferiority complex. Add to that his high intellect, extraordinary will and commitment to HIS beliefs makes a troubled existence. RIP Mr. President
He was a complex character with many contradictions in his personality. He comes across as very moral upstanding and square some might say. He was not known for his humour or ability to make small talk. But on the other hand, he could be very charming. He certainly had personal charisma and was a natural when it came to leadership and giving speeches. Yet he could also be very indecisive or doubting his decisions. Also he was well known in his work life (as captured on many oval office recordings and transcripts) for his frequent use of profanity and ill-tempered manner with people. Whilst he was a lawyer by profession and held the law in high regard and had a tough stance on drugs and immoral behaviour, he himself felt he was above the law I think or could out-smart it by finding ways to get around the law, as this interview shows and the Watergate incident. He was extremely intelligent and sharp but also could be quite naive also.
Paul Langton-Rogers one particular disagreement with your take. He was highly intelligent and flawed to the core. His flaws went far beyond temperament and profanity. After many interviews with frost, the bull bled out.
"There can never be an impeachment in the future in this country, without the President voluntarily impeaching himself." 42 years later...well, this is awkward.
Ralph Sandwich yes he did In the House of Representatives the senate which denied witnesses & documents enabledTrump to so far stay in office. Nixon with all his faults was still more interested in the USA than Trump has been or ever will be. The Republicans in Congress & Trump only care about themselves.
impeachment in US has become a partisan tool now for removing Presidents you don't like. It was never meant to used so casually, but the basis for impeachment is pretty ambiguous and vague.
I never understood the need for the movie. Why create a movie about an interview? The interview is what it is and stands by itself. It doesn't need a film with an actor playing Nixon re-creating the interview. It would be more interesting to have a film re-creating the events leading up to Watergate and the aftermath for Nixon. I know some films have been made 'All The Presidents Men' the earliest, but a film from the Nixon prospective and post-Watergate would be interesting.
Produced by antiAmerikan liberals, what would one expect from this silly produced movie regarding Frost/Nixon. The money wasted on this ridiculous hollywood production could have been used for a much more useful purpose. Unreal!!
Not sure. It was only in the last two decades that it has become widely known that Nixon sabotaged peace talks to prolong the Vietnam war so he could win election. That coupled with watergate are bookends to what I assume is likely a series of immoral acts, we don't know about.
Well Presidents always Pardon the predecessors on impeachment/jail. Hillary Clinton should be in prison right now but Trump has basically pardoned her.
Nixon was and will remain one of the greatest presidents of the UnitedStates. I say this with conviction and after reading about and listening to him for hundreds of hours. Nixon and gift to this country. I am a Democrat, but I do think Nixon did more for this country and for the world than JFK did.
JFKs leadership during the Cuban Missile crisis pushes him ahead in my opinion. Although Nixons is probably underrated considering a lot of people consider him one of the worst. Much better than Wilson, Johnson, Buchanan, Pierce.
exactly what did he do? the stuff he usually gets credit for like the EPA and clean water act were things he opposed, and was forced into supporting as a result of activist pressure and the fact that the democratic party had a majority in both the house and senate for the literal entire time he was president (with a supermajority in the senate in fact). he was a disaster on the issues he could control like foreign policy and regulation, and was nakedly corrupt
Before there were Never Trump Republicans, there were Nixon Democrats. McGovern was unpopular with a significant portion of the Democratic base, and Nixon made enough progressive moves for those Democrats to feel comfortable with keeping him. Noam Chomsky at one point called Nixon "in many respects the last liberal President" and Barack Obama said that there were aspects in which Nixon was more liberal than him. _Overall_ I would definitely argue that Clinton and Obama were both much more liberal/progressive than Nixon (not nearly as liberal/progressive as Fox News says mind you, but much more than the Bernie Sanders crowd will give them credit for), but there were indeed _certain aspects_ where they aren't wrong. Without the overload of the 24 hour news cycle I would imagine Nixon's corruption was nowhere near as visible or well-known as Trump's criminal cabal, or even Bill Clinton's extramarital affair for that matter. Having been born in the '80s myself, I don't have as much hindsight as someone older than me would. The first thing I learned about Nixon was literally just that he was the only President to resign, and the second thing I learned was what caused him to resign, but knowing what I know now, I understand.
Nixon's opponent, George McGovern, selected Thomas Eagleton as his running mate, who as it turned out, had seen a psychiatrist and received electroshock treatment. Eagleton withdrew, but the damage was done. That was absolutely huge at the time, and it called into question McGovern's decision-making abilities. The break-in of Watergate occurred in June/72, the election was in Nov/72, but the full impact of what happened did not come to light until about a year or so later, with the Watergate hearings.
Not many people know, but when he was President, one of Howard Hughes men turned up at the Whitehouse with a briefcase with a million dollars in cash in it, and said Mr Hughes said this is for you and you can have the same every month, if you halt the nuclear bomb testing in the desert (near his Las Vegas hotels). Nixon declined and said he had no power or authority to halt the nuclear testing and it was the US Department for Atomic Energy. That's a true story and shows he had some morals. He could have just taken the $1 million and said I'll see what I can do.
@Jason Oberman Don't know why you wrote that. My comment was about the editing of this clip and the omission of what he said about letting us all down. Nothing else. If you want to argue politics, you'll have to choose another forum for it. That's irrelevant here.
"You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right."
~ Abraham Lincoln
I bet he was speaking about the slave trade.
Answering this comment and I know this will meet with resistance, but a leader in a democracy who acts in the nation's best interest (surely their first and most important task), even though it may be illegal, should be scrutinised but not prosecuted. Nixon was different as he was acting in his own self interest
In fairness, they're talking about the legality of it.
I'm not taking Nixon's side, actually the opposite, but quite frankly that's not even a poor quote to the situation, its irrelevant
...and some things that are morally right may not be legally right...?
I know of Nixon with all his character flaws was a tragic figure but we should not forget his work with the EPA was ground-breaking in fact it made him a lot of enemies on the far right and with the conservatives
Sadly, as do with many political agencies, the EPA is nothing, but another political string for the deep state to push their agenda. I liked Nixon, but he was much more of a international affairs guy, and I wish he was elected in 1960, as by the time he came in, the communists had already effectively made their mark.
Whereas today the GOP is trying to dismantle it
Nixon in general was a lot more of a progressive and a socialist than he is given credit for, to the point that I reckon he'd be remembered as a leading progressive if only he had ran as a Democrat.
@@vladivanov5500must’ve missed the part where obstruction of justice was considered being progressive, so in that sense he was only progressive for himself.
A master of rhetoric, but thanks to him, I drink clean water & won’t get maimed at work.
Just you, though. Maybe send a bit of your paycheck over to someone from Flint, Michigan.
The devil always smiles when he wins your soul.
Nixon vetoed the Clean Water Act. It only passed because Democrats in the Senate and House of Representatives overrode Nixon’s veto.
Not so fast...
False bogus fake news
ANNND WIGS
Norm MacDonald needs to come back to life now!
"He must always have a heart." I love that. Really hits home currently.
Give him credit he resigned before he was impeached. When we see impeachment means nothing anyway. He at least spared the country his mistakes & left with grace imo. He was his own worst enemy. A brilliant man but so insecure & self destructive. R.i.p mr president.
No comments on this 8 years later? How strange. This was a significant part of American history.
I think a lot of RUclips viewers who don't remember Nixon must find this rather confusing. All the talk in the interview about impeachment, and how horrible it is, probably doesn't "grab" people who watched Clinton waltz through the entire process without resigning. It's like trying to explain the Soviet era to people born since the Soviet Union broke up.
@@roadkillguacamole4953 that's bull since the Trump impeachment makes this more relevant.
@@zylowolf7919 idk I'm not an American but still know all about this...the Watergate scandal, everything that happened in that era...I mean younger Americans should know about all this...
@@roadkillguacamole4953
There are other videos with more views.
And Wigs...
He was one troubled man. Self loathing, self pity and inferiority complex. Add to that his high intellect, extraordinary will and commitment to HIS beliefs makes a troubled existence.
RIP Mr. President
He was a complex character with many contradictions in his personality. He comes across as very moral upstanding and square some might say. He was not known for his humour or ability to make small talk. But on the other hand, he could be very charming. He certainly had personal charisma and was a natural when it came to leadership and giving speeches. Yet he could also be very indecisive or doubting his decisions. Also he was well known in his work life (as captured on many oval office recordings and transcripts) for his frequent use of profanity and ill-tempered manner with people. Whilst he was a lawyer by profession and held the law in high regard and had a tough stance on drugs and immoral behaviour, he himself felt he was above the law I think or could out-smart it by finding ways to get around the law, as this interview shows and the Watergate incident. He was extremely intelligent and sharp but also could be quite naive also.
Paul Langton-Rogers one particular disagreement with your take.
He was highly intelligent and flawed to the core. His flaws went far beyond temperament and profanity. After many interviews with frost, the bull bled out.
Shakespeare would have loved him
This guy really was a piece of work.
will Brown more narcissism. Denial. Blame. Very familiar.
@@bethjensen6560 easy
Yeah, British ppl suck
@@bethjensen6560 this was edited. They cut out his long apology about letting the people down.
"There can never be an impeachment in the future in this country, without the President voluntarily impeaching himself."
42 years later...well, this is awkward.
Trump didn't get impeached though did he?
@@Ralph_Sandwich He did. It's just, sadly, that doesn't in practice mean much.
Ralph Sandwich yes he did
In the House of Representatives the senate which denied witnesses & documents enabledTrump to so far stay in office. Nixon with all his faults was still more interested in the USA than Trump has been or ever will be. The Republicans in Congress & Trump only care about themselves.
impeachment in US has become a partisan tool now for removing Presidents you don't like. It was never meant to used so casually, but the basis for impeachment is pretty ambiguous and vague.
Bubba clinton was impeached dont forget that.
Where can I find video of the entire frost Nixon interview
Here's a comment, the movie made Nixon look worse in every scene than the reality.
The movie just exaggerated the drama a little bit
I never understood the need for the movie. Why create a movie about an interview? The interview is what it is and stands by itself. It doesn't need a film with an actor playing Nixon re-creating the interview. It would be more interesting to have a film re-creating the events leading up to Watergate and the aftermath for Nixon. I know some films have been made 'All The Presidents Men' the earliest, but a film from the Nixon prospective and post-Watergate would be interesting.
"I never understood the need for the movie" because it was fun. I mean, the movie was made to look like a boxing match after all.
Produced by antiAmerikan liberals, what would one expect from this silly produced movie regarding Frost/Nixon. The money wasted on this ridiculous hollywood production could have been used for a much more useful purpose. Unreal!!
No matter how clever or intelligent you think you are, a lie will trip you up over & over again. Truth has only one road.
Weird. Crazy. Brilliant. Maybe good, maybe bad. A proper son of the Golden State.
I just finished the movie Frost/Nixon and then looked this up.
The parallels to the Trump fiasco are pretty clear.
Nixon bowed to public accountability Trump would not.
david gregan No you’re just in denial.
david gregan If you’re a Trumper, I’m not wasting my time.
Aaannddd now his actual defense team use the famous "if the president does it, it's not a crime" card
@Origami Mambo Project how did it play out in Congress again? Lol oh yeah that's right.
The only difference between Trump and Nixon is intelligence.
And about $6 billion dollars.
You’re funny. Nixon started with less than nothing. Trump is an incompetent trust fund baby. Nixon would have loathed, detested and despised Trump.
nixon killed millions more people in indochina alone, probably the worst president of the last century other than reagan and trump isn't coming close
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Arrrooooo!!!!!
A great President. History will be kinder.
I mean... better than Trump so... yeah, Nixon/Ford '24!
Not sure. It was only in the last two decades that it has become widely known that Nixon sabotaged peace talks to prolong the Vietnam war so he could win election. That coupled with watergate are bookends to what I assume is likely a series of immoral acts, we don't know about.
@@KTEFilmsInc *WRONG!*
whot he did then is communplace now.
just a plain up common crook.
should never have been pardoned. he belonged in jail
different justice for the powerful and rich
disgusting
Well Presidents always Pardon the predecessors on impeachment/jail. Hillary Clinton should be in prison right now but Trump has basically pardoned her.
American Presidents (and Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State) don't go to jail. Simple as that.
Trump makes him look like a saint
Nixon was and will remain one of the greatest presidents of the UnitedStates. I say this with conviction and after reading about and listening to him for hundreds of hours. Nixon and gift to this country. I am a Democrat, but I do think Nixon did more for this country and for the world than JFK did.
Well JFK was assassinated after only two years in office lmao
JFKs leadership during the Cuban Missile crisis pushes him ahead in my opinion. Although Nixons is probably underrated considering a lot of people consider him one of the worst. Much better than Wilson, Johnson, Buchanan, Pierce.
Then you're not "a Democrat."
exactly what did he do? the stuff he usually gets credit for like the EPA and clean water act were things he opposed, and was forced into supporting as a result of activist pressure and the fact that the democratic party had a majority in both the house and senate for the literal entire time he was president (with a supermajority in the senate in fact). he was a disaster on the issues he could control like foreign policy and regulation, and was nakedly corrupt
I don't think this troll post caught up
How long until republicans dig this one up for the latest Trump clusterfuck?
Fox News is way ahead of you, unfortunately.
How did this crook get reelected.
His opponent was a socialist. And he had brilliant foreign policy moves with China and the USSR.
Before there were Never Trump Republicans, there were Nixon Democrats. McGovern was unpopular with a significant portion of the Democratic base, and Nixon made enough progressive moves for those Democrats to feel comfortable with keeping him.
Noam Chomsky at one point called Nixon "in many respects the last liberal President" and Barack Obama said that there were aspects in which Nixon was more liberal than him. _Overall_ I would definitely argue that Clinton and Obama were both much more liberal/progressive than Nixon (not nearly as liberal/progressive as Fox News says mind you, but much more than the Bernie Sanders crowd will give them credit for), but there were indeed _certain aspects_ where they aren't wrong.
Without the overload of the 24 hour news cycle I would imagine Nixon's corruption was nowhere near as visible or well-known as Trump's criminal cabal, or even Bill Clinton's extramarital affair for that matter. Having been born in the '80s myself, I don't have as much hindsight as someone older than me would. The first thing I learned about Nixon was literally just that he was the only President to resign, and the second thing I learned was what caused him to resign, but knowing what I know now, I understand.
Nixon's opponent, George McGovern, selected Thomas Eagleton as his running mate, who as it turned out, had seen a psychiatrist and received electroshock treatment. Eagleton withdrew, but the damage was done. That was absolutely huge at the time, and it called into question McGovern's decision-making abilities. The break-in of Watergate occurred in June/72, the election was in Nov/72, but the full impact of what happened did not come to light until about a year or so later, with the Watergate hearings.
At his reelection, watergate was not yet known.
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Not many people know, but when he was President, one of Howard Hughes men turned up at the Whitehouse with a briefcase with a million dollars in cash in it, and said Mr Hughes said this is for you and you can have the same every month, if you halt the nuclear bomb testing in the desert (near his Las Vegas hotels). Nixon declined and said he had no power or authority to halt the nuclear testing and it was the US Department for Atomic Energy. That's a true story and shows he had some morals. He could have just taken the $1 million and said I'll see what I can do.
Nixon was the man. Not as cool as Ronald or Donald, but still pretty badass.
A sleazy edit toward the end if I ever saw one. Not even worth watching because of that.
What are you referring to?
@@lukehowe4188 Nixon actually said that what he'd have to live with for the rest of his life was that he let the American people down. Big difference.
@Jason Oberman Don't know why you wrote that. My comment was about the editing of this clip and the omission of what he said about letting us all down. Nothing else. If you want to argue politics, you'll have to choose another forum for it. That's irrelevant here.
NOT EVEN NIXON COULD FORESEE TRUMP!!!