Tricky Dick falls on his sword

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Split seconds before cameras roll on a 1977 televised struggle, disgraced former President Richard Nixon asks his interviewer, “Do any fornicating last night?”

His disarming comments and mind games rattle the British TV personality David Frost — until a drunk, slurring Nixon rants to Frost in a charged late-night call just before their last interview.

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