“Frost/Nixon” closes with the relatively accurate observation that after the interviews, President Richard Nixon “remained largely absent from official state functions until his death, of a stroke, in 1994.”
Yet Nixon lives on in the political mythology of our nation as a man who, despite the many accomplishments of his administration, “let the American people down,” as he confesses in that final interview.
By all measures, he lost the boxing match. David Frost, whose professional reputation soared as a result, may be considered the winner. But the real victory belongs in another realm, wherever truth and justice reside and continue to offer us hope that every now and then, the arrogance and dishonesty of the powerful will not prevail.
Michael V. Tueth, S.J., teaches film and media studies at Fordham University in New York.
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