Nixon tells Frost he ‘let the American people down’ 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 4 1977)


Video: 'David Frost extracts apology from Richard Nixon in famed interview'

(Wednesday, May 4, 1977, 7:30-9:00 p.m. EDT) — In the first of a four-part series of exclusive interviews by David Frost, former President Richard M. Nixon said tonight that he had “let the American people down” by lying, disregarding his constitutional oath and abetting the Watergate cover-up while in the White House (click here to watch an extended video from the interviews).

But the only man to resign the presidency insisted that he had committed no criminal or impeachable offenses.