Angry President Nixon responds to wife’s interview on CBS-TV 40 years ago this hour (1972)


Video: 'NIXON TAPES: Mad at Press over Pat Nixon Interview'

(Wednesday, August 16, 1972, 3:58 p.m. EDT) — An annoyed President Richard Nixon telephoned his Chief of Staff H. R. (Bob) Haldeman today from his Camp David mountain retreat about an interview that his wife, First Lady Pat Nixon, recently did on CBS-TV.

The Nixons considered the questions insulting and unfair. In retaliation, Nixon orders an interview that Henry Kissinger was planning on doing on CBS to be canceled.