Review of Frost/Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews (1977) by Alex R — 30 Jun 2013

Saw a movie, it seems, about the famous interview, yesterday. Apparently, President Nixon praised the Italian crafted shoes of Frost, not his double breasted jacket, very aptly tailored, comprising a suit, of an exquisite color, in the movie.

The tie was also prominent, but it didn't somehow suggest the Marylebone Cricket Club, neither a school tie, nor the Cambridge University, to me either. Really nice movie, and I thought that Nixon was perhaps the most politically correct politician, and he respected that he was presiding over the U.

S. administration as the figurehead. He went to China, not on his own calling. It appears, that he was just like the immediately former President Bush, and he was so interested in the political process, that he engaged with the Chinese govt.

, not knowing perhaps, how relevant China was, before he himself became President. I don't know, whether China was to Presidents before Nixon, what India and Pakistan were to President Bush, after he became President of the United States.

The movie suggests, that Nixon had a high regard for Frost, and he spoke to him as if he was empathizing with himself, in a warm, self appreciating manner. Frost appeared to take favor of the situation, appropriately.

It seems, President Nixon was seated opposite to the Chinese First lady, and Mrs. Nixon was also facing the Chinese Chairman, during public occasions in China, and it was the most sombre occasion, when the seating arrangement occurred.

Apparently, also, it wasn't sombre in exchange, but how the President felt, seated opposite the wife of the Chairman, and he could appreciate the humor in that instance, later, in the west, long after his presidency.