Frost/Nixon interviews
1977 · Event
In paid television interviews with David Frost, Nixon concedes he 'let the American people down' and declares 'when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal'.
On these timelines: Watergate, USA, Master
More from Watergate
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Resignation of Richard Nixon (1974)
- Break-in at the Watergate (1972)
- The 'smoking gun' tape is released (1974)
- The Saturday Night Massacre (1973)
- Supreme Court orders Nixon to surrender the tapes (1974)
- The Senate Watergate hearings open (1973)
- Butterfield reveals the White House tapes (1973)
Around 1977
- Six-Day War (1967)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)