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Hey, Slow Burn listeners.

We're busy working on season two of the show, but for now we have a special episode for

you, and it's a live one, literally.

It took place on Thursday, April 19th at Baruch College in New York City. It was a lovely night,

with appearances by Bob Woodward, Gail Sheehe, Virginia Heffernan, and best of all for fans

of Slow Burn, episode four, Mary DiOrio and Mark Lackerts of the Senate Watergate Committee staff.

Enjoy.

So I want to spend tonight's show thinking out loud about how news becomes history.

This is something that Richard Nixon thought a lot about.

Throughout his post-Watergate life, Nixon tried

really hard to exert his influence over how history would remember him. In 1977, he famously gave

an interview to the British journalist David Frost. This was when he said the line about how,

if the president does it, it means it's not illegal. It's also the

interview where he blamed Watergate on Martha Mitchell. That interview, the Frost interview,

was probably Nixon's most concentrated act of personal rehabilitation up to that point. But the comeback

tour had really started as soon as he left office. That same month, the same month he left

office in late August of 74, Nixon began his attempts to take control of his image.

Richard Nixon's offering to write a book for a $2 million advance, if any publisher will pay it.

This was before he was even pardoned,

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